Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.

After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

As detailed by “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”, Peltier’s trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.

On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier’s application for clemency.

“You must understand…I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn’t modesty. This is fact. Maybe you’re ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary.”

  • Leonard Peltier

An Interview with Leonard Peltier

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Let Leonard Peltier Go Free

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  • RoomAndBored [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How essential is kayfabe to modern wrestling fandom? The wiki article on it is miles long. When you talk with other fans do you still observe it? Do some fans police it?

    • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is a fun question. Long gone are the days if grandmas spitting on heels and men pulling guns in the back alleys. Kayfabe, as we knew it throughout the 50s to the 80s, is dead. Terry Funk told me himself that, while kayfabe is dead, the emotions are still real. Meta-kayfabe, like when Kevin Owens was teasing a Mount Rushmore reunion before he re-signed, is a great example of modern kayfabe. While the smart marks got the lingo and the dirt sheets, we’re still marks at the end of the day. When it comes to policing it from a fanbase, there’s a big smuglord component from the online fandom, but everyone i hear at actual shows is ready to eat that shit up.