Post by blackcrowheart on Jan 19, 2006 10:54:46 GMT -5
Official Misconduct in Indian Country
lpdctexas.blogspot.com/2006/01/official-misconduct-in-indian-country.html
Official Misconduct in Indian Country
Sunday, January 15, 2006
As late as November, 2003, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
acknowledged that Much of the government's behavior at the Pine Ridge
Reservation and in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be condemned. The
government withheld evidence. It intimidated witnesses. These facts are not
disputed!
Human rights organizations worldwide have long called for hearings into the use
of the criminal justice system by the FBI for political purposes.
Amnesty International has called for his immediate release on the grounds that
Peltier does not have adequate recourse to justice.
In March 2004, the Peltier legal team submitted another formal request to the
U.S. Congress for an investigation into the actions against Peltier and the
American Indian Movement during the 1970s. This request calls on legislators to
fully investigate the FBI's role in the violence on the Pine Ridge Indian
reservation in South Dakota from 1973 to 1976, and the now documented official
misconduct against members of AIM during that period.
In September 2005, a government report was released showing that the FBI
continues to be in noncompliance with its own guidelines concerning its use of
informants. More recently, counter Intelligence program abuses have been
legitimized by the tweaking of the Patriot Act. Almost daily, we hear of more
instances where personal liberties are ignored in favor of national security
interests the catch-all phrase for which the guidelines are broad and
indiscriminate opening the door for abuses far beyond what the people of America
would accept or even condone in the land of the Free!
How you can Help?
Please sign an on-line petition asking Congress to investigate official
misconduct in Indian Country.
www.petitiononline.com/balpsg01/petition.html
(See our website @ www.leonardpeltier.org/ See-Section- The Case)
If you prefer, write a letter asking Congress to investigate official misconduct
in Indian Country.
Sample letter:
Honorable Tom Davis, Chairman
Committee on Government Reform
U.S. House of Representatives
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(Insert date)
Dear Congressman Davis:
For decades, claims of official misconduct have been levied against the FBI by
U.S. citizens with no response from Congress. For example, for 30 years Congress
has never fully investigated the reign of Terror on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in the South Dakota during the 1970s. It has failed to investigate
the now documented FBI misconduct in the case of American Indian activist
Leonard Peltier.
In the Peltier case, the FBI was shown to have: violated international law by
using a false affidavit from an incompetent witness to obtain Mr. Peltier's
extradition from Canada; it withheld critical evidence; it fabricated other
evidence; it intimidated witnesses; it hand picked the trail judge; it
prejudiced the jury against the American Indian Movement, in general, and Mr.
Peltier in particular. The FBI did all this to ensure that Leonard Peltier, an
innocent man, would pay the collective price for the deaths of two FBI agents in
1975. It was an act of vengeance and a shameful perversion of our constitution.
Leonard Peltier has served 30 years in maximum security prisons. Is that not
enough?
Congressman, Please conduct a full investigation into the FBI misconduct on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the circumstances surrounding the case of
Leonard Peltier and help secure his release.
This is a simple matter of justice!
lpdctexas.blogspot.com/2006/01/official-misconduct-in-indian-country.html
Official Misconduct in Indian Country
Sunday, January 15, 2006
As late as November, 2003, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
acknowledged that Much of the government's behavior at the Pine Ridge
Reservation and in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be condemned. The
government withheld evidence. It intimidated witnesses. These facts are not
disputed!
Human rights organizations worldwide have long called for hearings into the use
of the criminal justice system by the FBI for political purposes.
Amnesty International has called for his immediate release on the grounds that
Peltier does not have adequate recourse to justice.
In March 2004, the Peltier legal team submitted another formal request to the
U.S. Congress for an investigation into the actions against Peltier and the
American Indian Movement during the 1970s. This request calls on legislators to
fully investigate the FBI's role in the violence on the Pine Ridge Indian
reservation in South Dakota from 1973 to 1976, and the now documented official
misconduct against members of AIM during that period.
In September 2005, a government report was released showing that the FBI
continues to be in noncompliance with its own guidelines concerning its use of
informants. More recently, counter Intelligence program abuses have been
legitimized by the tweaking of the Patriot Act. Almost daily, we hear of more
instances where personal liberties are ignored in favor of national security
interests the catch-all phrase for which the guidelines are broad and
indiscriminate opening the door for abuses far beyond what the people of America
would accept or even condone in the land of the Free!
How you can Help?
Please sign an on-line petition asking Congress to investigate official
misconduct in Indian Country.
www.petitiononline.com/balpsg01/petition.html
(See our website @ www.leonardpeltier.org/ See-Section- The Case)
If you prefer, write a letter asking Congress to investigate official misconduct
in Indian Country.
Sample letter:
Honorable Tom Davis, Chairman
Committee on Government Reform
U.S. House of Representatives
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(Insert date)
Dear Congressman Davis:
For decades, claims of official misconduct have been levied against the FBI by
U.S. citizens with no response from Congress. For example, for 30 years Congress
has never fully investigated the reign of Terror on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in the South Dakota during the 1970s. It has failed to investigate
the now documented FBI misconduct in the case of American Indian activist
Leonard Peltier.
In the Peltier case, the FBI was shown to have: violated international law by
using a false affidavit from an incompetent witness to obtain Mr. Peltier's
extradition from Canada; it withheld critical evidence; it fabricated other
evidence; it intimidated witnesses; it hand picked the trail judge; it
prejudiced the jury against the American Indian Movement, in general, and Mr.
Peltier in particular. The FBI did all this to ensure that Leonard Peltier, an
innocent man, would pay the collective price for the deaths of two FBI agents in
1975. It was an act of vengeance and a shameful perversion of our constitution.
Leonard Peltier has served 30 years in maximum security prisons. Is that not
enough?
Congressman, Please conduct a full investigation into the FBI misconduct on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the circumstances surrounding the case of
Leonard Peltier and help secure his release.
This is a simple matter of justice!