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Some interesting infos - I think. Hugs and kisses. Bernard Blanc, from
France.
Subject:
Native PPs: FBI Revelations May Justify New Look At Peltier
Case
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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:55:51 -0700
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Subject: [ARA] FBI revelations may justify new look at Peltier case
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Published: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
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FBI revelations may justify new look at Peltier case
Tim Giago
>Syndicated Columnist Let's face it: The FBI was not very popular on the
>Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970s. Because they are the outside law
>enforcement agency responsible for addressing federal crimes on Indian
>lands, their lack of popularity is understandable.
>On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents were shot to death near Oglala on the Pine
>Ridge Reservation. Ronald Williams, 27, and Jack R. Coler, 28, lost their
>lives in a shootout with the members of the American Indian Movement.
>Eventually, Leonard Peltier, an Ojibwe, was charged with the crime and
>convicted. He is still imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth Federal Prison in
Kansas.
>Agent Coler was married with two children. Williams was a bachelor. Both
>had been born and raised in Southern California. Caught in a cross fire
>between two houses and pinned down near their vehicle, they exchanged fire
>with their assailants before being wounded and eventually killed.
>
>Both had been executed with shots to the head. A large-caliber bullet
>pierced one agent's hand as he apparently lifted it to protect his head.
>It was this final, callous act against the wounded officers that brought
>the ire of the FBI and federal justice system down on the heads of those
>involved.
>Everyone on the Pine Ridge Reservation was pretty fed up with the
>strong-arm tactics of the FBI and federal marshals by then.
>1975 had been a particularly tough year for residents of the reservation.
>Caught between the violent actions of two opposing factions, most of the
>people just wanted the reservation to return to the peace they had known
>for years.
>The FBI and other federal officers had not endeared themselves to the
>people. More often than not they knew little or nothing about the culture,
>traditions or spirituality of the people they were assigned to police.
>They had been accused more than once of unlawfully breaking into the homes
>of innocent people and terrorizing them. They flashed their badges and used
>threats to intimidate.
>Most Pine Ridge residents just wondered when this nightmare would end.
>Does that excuse those who took it upon themselves to brutally murder
>agents Williams and Coler? Of course not. But given the volatile situation
>that existed on the reservation at the time, it was bound to happen.
>It was almost as if a state of war existed between the feds, AIM and other
>innocent Indian people living on the reservation. There was anger, hatred
>and fear to be found in abundance everywhere on the reservation.
>The latest revelations about the conduct and suppression of evidence by the
>FBI in the Waco standoff with the Branch Davidians, when incendiary
>tear-gas grenades were lobbed into the compound and may have caused the
>horrible fire that killed so many innocent men, women and children, an
>action kept secret by the agency for six years, does nothing to build on
>its credibility.
>Years ago I wrote that if, as many believe, Peltier was not given a fair
>trial, then for goodness' sakes, give him another trial. In light of so
>many discrepancies becoming evident in many cases and issues involving the
>FBI, it is entirely possible that Peltier was a victim of an overzealous
>FBI campaign to find and convict someone, anyone, for the death of their
>comrades.
>The Lakota people have tried to heal the wounds. Now it is time for the
>justice system and the FBI also to heal the wounds. The war is over. Let
>the people find peace and get on with their lives.
>Giago is the publisher of Giago Book Publishing LLC in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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>Rapid City, S.D. 57702. Distributed by KRT (Knight-Ridder) News Service.
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