>From: "LPDC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FBI continues to defame Peltier >Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:06:10 -0500 > >Dear Friends, > >The FBI is continuing their misinformation campaign against Leonard Peltier. >Their letters are still popping up in papers accross the country. However, >many of our responses and letters are being printed as well. Below is a >good rebuttal written in a Denver paper by Prof. Morris. Please continue to >keep an eye out for the FBI's letters and be sure to send us copies in the >mail. If the FBI has not submitted anything in your paper, you can still >submit a letter of your own before they do. > >Please keep up phone calls to the White House, Congress, and Reno. Don't >forget to organize phone banks to Janet Reno's office on June 9th and let us >know if a vigil is being planned on June 11 in your region. We cannot let >them obstuct Leonard's chances of receiving long overdue justice this year. >Thank you. > >Solidarity, >LPDC > > >Published Monday, May 15, 2000 in the Denver Rocky Mountain News: > >Speakout section > >Truth must lead to pardoning of Peltier >by Professor Glenn Morris > >In reporting the FBI's lates campaign to defame imprisoned American Indian >activist Leonard Peltier (April 22 article, "FBI fights to prevent a pardon >for Peltier"),the Denver Rocky Mountain News repeated several factual errors >and pieces of FBI disinformation that deserve correction. At the outset, it >should be stated that Leonard Peltier has now spent 23 years in federal >prison for crimes that he did not commit. His convictions on the charges >that he murdered two FBI agents were secured through perjured affidavits and >testimony, exculpatory evidence was concealed by the FBI, and a judiciary >has consistently ignored truth and justice in the case. >Peltier's case has been examined by some of the finest legal minds in the >world, with the respected human rights organization Amnesty International >(AI) concluding that Peltier should be released immediately. AI has been >joined in its plea for Peltier's freedom by millions of others, including >Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nelson Mandela, the late Mother Teresa, the Dala >i Lama, Rigoberta Menchu and Desmond Tutu. In the article reprinted in the >News. some of the scurrilous tactics of the FBI's smear campaign were >revealed when the FBI continued to suggest that Peltier had attempted to >kill other police officers in Milwaukee prior to the 1975 Pine Ridge Indian >Reservation shootout that left one Indian and two FBI agents dead. The FBI >omits the fact that Peltier was acquitted of all charges in the Milwaukee >case. It also neglects to mention that the case was fabricated by two >Milwaukee police officers who set Peltier up, in their own words, to catch >"a big one for the FBI." > >Today, given revelations in such cases as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the Los >Angeles police department's Rampart Division scandal, and Denver's own Mena >case, we know that the capacity of police agencies (including the FBI) to >railroad innocent individuals for political or racial purposes, is virtually >boundless. As documented in Peter Matthiessen's award-winning book, In the >Spirit of Crazy Horse, the FBI attempted to conceal its own ballistics >tests which excluded Peltier's purported gun as the one that killed the FBI >agents. Before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. prosecutor >admitted to the court that " we can't prove who shot those agents." Later, >on CBS' 60 Minutes, the same prosecutor, Lynn Crooks, defended his and the >FBI's conduct in the Peltier case, claiming that he didn't think that "we >did anything wrong, but I can tell you, it don't bother my conscience one >whit if we did." Such is the nature of "justice" in the Peltier case. > >Despite the FBI's attempts to spread lies about Peltier and his trial, >people of goodwill should examine the facts for themselves. Those who are >persuaded by truth and justice will join the international call for >presidential clemency for the most renowned political prisoner in the United >States, Leonard Peltier. >___________________________________ >Glenn Morris is a Professor of International Law and Politics at the >University of Colorado � Denver, a member of the American Indian Movement of >Colorado and an advisory board member of the Leonard Peltier Defense >Committee. > >Call the White House Comments Line Today >Demand Justice for Leonard Peltier! 202-456-1111 > >Leonard Peltier Defense Committee >PO Box 583 >Lawrence, KS 66044 >785-842-5774 >www.freepeltier.org >To subscribe, send a blank message to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To change your email address, send a message to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with your old address in the Subject line > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >To subscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change your email address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with your old address in the Subject: line > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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