Well now. Isn't that something. Despite the disaster that is The Biden, protecting Fauci, allowing Ukraine to toss missiles into Russia etc, he does something most excellent in letting Peltier go home after all these years. Welp... there ya go.
These criminals always throw us a bone as they scamper out the door. Bush Jr. set aside some environmental sanctuaries right before he left. It feels bittersweet, but I’m happy for Peltier.
A token act of doing a good deed to gain the appreciation of the last of the truly liberal Dems who actually care about such relics as peace, freedom, truth and justice. But unlike so many of us who walked away from the party and all of its hypocrisy and corruption, these hold outs vote Blue no matter who. You might see them strolling around your local market wearing two face masks 😷
Pathetic specimens of a thoroughly subjugated and cowardly humanity (yes...I am judgmental towards people who wanted to keep us - the non compliant - locked up in our dwellings and eliminate all of our fundamental rights).
AGREED! The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
How can the Biden "team" pardon people like Fauci, Liz Cheney, etc, who haven't been indicted or found guilty and sentenced? How can this be legal, how does it make legal sense? I knew the legal system was more twisted than a pretzel, but this would be the equivalent of granting parole to a person who has never seen a day in court, it is completely absurd, illogical, beside being an admission of guilt.
Furthermore, I wonder how legal it is to have a man who's pretty obviously senile (who scrupulously avoids being diagnosed as such) signing all of these legal documents? My Dad, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a year ago last August is no longer allowed to make changes to his will or his estate, etc.
Should anyone be allowed to sign legal documents who REFUSES to be evaluated for dementia? If that's not a law, it should be. Some old granny with a string of fender benders shouldn't be able to refuse a psych eval just to avoid losing her license - that would represent a danger to everyone around her.
If Biden is deemed mentally unsound, then at least in theory, ALL of his pardons should be null and void.
Is it a high crime to leave our borders open to allow and encourage even a criminal element, known, to be welcomed in? Democrats should have stopped him with impeachment but I recall that both parties made an agreement as to when that removal process could be used.
In 1997 I solo cycled across the United States, from New York City to San Francisco. As I was reaching Missouri, it dawned on me that being an attorney I could stop in Fort Leavenworth and see Tommy Manning, a political prisoner I had met in New York when he was held there before his “Ohio 7” sedition trial in Springfield, Massachusetts. So with my attorney card I entered Leavenworth and dropped in on Tommy unexpectedly who of course was delighted.
There were only about a half dozen other inmates in the visiting room that morning. Suddenly my eyes popped out when who do I see walk into the room? Leonard Peltier! Even though I had had his picture on my desk for ten years I had totally forgotten he was in Leavenworth. He immediately observed me sitting with another political prisoner and to my amazement he walked right up to me and shook my hand! He wasn’t supposed to make contact with me because I was not his official visitor, but every time he passed us on his way to the vending machine, he stopped momentarily to talk to us. That handshake fueled me on my bike all the way to California!
I actually have read quite a lot about Leonard and this incident. He was was railroaded by the FBI. Tremendous miscarriage of justice and a primer in how to fake evidence. Another black eye for them. There are many of course. Something good from that traitor Biden. there are few of them of course.
It is my opinion that Alzheimer's joe, as you infer, was a Front Man. The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Thank you Tessa for the documentary: Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier.
"Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you have only a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range." ----Chief Dan George.
"Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?"
It is my opinion that somehow The Tribes, behind the scenes were able to make this happen. Leonard was NEVER forgotten! "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
Thanks so much for sharing this good news. So much wrong has been done and is still being done all over the world. What a breath of fresh air do read about this right decision.
When Leonard Peltier had a chance, when he was in Canada, he should have gone to the far north and hidden near some obscure and out of the way reserve in the wilderness. There was plenty of room in Canada to disappear, at the time. A part of him must have mistakenly believed in the justice system after seeing Russell Means and other AIM members win in court, otherwise he wouldn't have surrendered to the "authorities".
PRISON WRITINGS: My Life Is My Sun Dance by, Leonard Peltier-United States Prisoner #89637-132. Edited by Harvey Arden. Introduction by, Chief Avrol Looking Horse. Preface by, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
"Listen to this fresh, brave voice, then inform yourself about the shameful case of Leonard Peltier."----Peter Matthiessen.
"It would be inadequate to describe Leonard Peltier's PRISON WRITINGS as a classic of prison literature, although it is that. It is also a cry for help, an accusation against monstrous injustice, a beautiful expression of a man's Soul, demanding release."----Howard Zinn.
done for all the wrong reasons methinks (the indian archetype doesn't have a carbon footprint, wink wink) but it's good to have an innocent guy out of jail
It was done to keep the Indigenous people voting democrat...giving them a symbolic crumb, releasing a political prisoner at the very end of his life after decades of injustice and suffering. Unfortunately, too many Indigenous people still believe in a system and a civilization that have mistreated and betrayed them for centuries, and imagine that one political party is better than the other.
They were one of the worst when it came to compliance. Even President Nez of the Navajo Nation would ignore the early evidence that HBOT was effective for the symptoms presented. Pueblos shut down all access and went and got their entire populations shot up and boosted. Still hoping this isn't going to see a mass depopulation. Many died already in 2021.
The US and Canadian governments will not stop until the Indigenous people are gone from their resources-rich lands and have become just another acculturated minority living in city ghettos, or worse, living in suburbia.
I supported the Council of Canadians until covid, when they pushed an aggressive "right to be vaccinated" campaign on First Nation territories with a 'protect the elders' slogan. Mark Crispin Miller's list is painful to witness. Especially the young ones, the babies.
Very true. I was shocked when a full blood, Indigenous activist friend of mine, who likes to say "they are all thieves and liars" ("they" meaning the "pale faces" and more specifically the government), got the vaccine and boosters for himself and his entire family.
But then again he, like many people in his community, has the big screen TV going on all day long, sunrise to sunset. Programming overrides logic and actual generational knowledge, it is that effective.
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.
Yes, Jefferson's idea that the lands west would be Indian lands went to hell once gold was discovered. You originally had to get a passport in St. Louis just to enter the Louisiana Purchase.
Civilization is an ogre that devours everything and will ultimately consume itself, because its economic systems are based on endless growth. The 18th and 19th centuries were not different in this regard. Custer was sent to the Black Hills (sovereign Indian lands by treaty) to find gold because the US were suffering a bad economic depression and were on the verge of a collapse and of a second revolution at the time (this historical fact is not often mentioned).
The fairy tale that teaches children that Columbus went out to find a trade route is hogwash. The truth is that Spain had emptied its coffers fighting Britain and needed gold to keep fighting the English and to attempt to dominate Europe and the oceans. Again, the motivation was endless growth.
It is not politics that ruin everything, but civilization itself, because its model of endless growth is unsustainable and absurd, now based on a completely irrational faith in science and especially technology, in technological "progress" (which is a progress towards a very deep and deadly abyss, in which all societies and nations will fall sooner than later).
Well now. Isn't that something. Despite the disaster that is The Biden, protecting Fauci, allowing Ukraine to toss missiles into Russia etc, he does something most excellent in letting Peltier go home after all these years. Welp... there ya go.
These criminals always throw us a bone as they scamper out the door. Bush Jr. set aside some environmental sanctuaries right before he left. It feels bittersweet, but I’m happy for Peltier.
A token act of doing a good deed to gain the appreciation of the last of the truly liberal Dems who actually care about such relics as peace, freedom, truth and justice. But unlike so many of us who walked away from the party and all of its hypocrisy and corruption, these hold outs vote Blue no matter who. You might see them strolling around your local market wearing two face masks 😷
Three and still doing 6 foot safe and cackling, "Trust the science...Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci...ack ack"
Pathetic specimens of a thoroughly subjugated and cowardly humanity (yes...I am judgmental towards people who wanted to keep us - the non compliant - locked up in our dwellings and eliminate all of our fundamental rights).
AGREED! The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
Well Said!
How can the Biden "team" pardon people like Fauci, Liz Cheney, etc, who haven't been indicted or found guilty and sentenced? How can this be legal, how does it make legal sense? I knew the legal system was more twisted than a pretzel, but this would be the equivalent of granting parole to a person who has never seen a day in court, it is completely absurd, illogical, beside being an admission of guilt.
Furthermore, I wonder how legal it is to have a man who's pretty obviously senile (who scrupulously avoids being diagnosed as such) signing all of these legal documents? My Dad, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a year ago last August is no longer allowed to make changes to his will or his estate, etc.
Should anyone be allowed to sign legal documents who REFUSES to be evaluated for dementia? If that's not a law, it should be. Some old granny with a string of fender benders shouldn't be able to refuse a psych eval just to avoid losing her license - that would represent a danger to everyone around her.
If Biden is deemed mentally unsound, then at least in theory, ALL of his pardons should be null and void.
Is it a high crime to leave our borders open to allow and encourage even a criminal element, known, to be welcomed in? Democrats should have stopped him with impeachment but I recall that both parties made an agreement as to when that removal process could be used.
In 1997 I solo cycled across the United States, from New York City to San Francisco. As I was reaching Missouri, it dawned on me that being an attorney I could stop in Fort Leavenworth and see Tommy Manning, a political prisoner I had met in New York when he was held there before his “Ohio 7” sedition trial in Springfield, Massachusetts. So with my attorney card I entered Leavenworth and dropped in on Tommy unexpectedly who of course was delighted.
There were only about a half dozen other inmates in the visiting room that morning. Suddenly my eyes popped out when who do I see walk into the room? Leonard Peltier! Even though I had had his picture on my desk for ten years I had totally forgotten he was in Leavenworth. He immediately observed me sitting with another political prisoner and to my amazement he walked right up to me and shook my hand! He wasn’t supposed to make contact with me because I was not his official visitor, but every time he passed us on his way to the vending machine, he stopped momentarily to talk to us. That handshake fueled me on my bike all the way to California!
Wow, what a story!! Amazing
I actually have read quite a lot about Leonard and this incident. He was was railroaded by the FBI. Tremendous miscarriage of justice and a primer in how to fake evidence. Another black eye for them. There are many of course. Something good from that traitor Biden. there are few of them of course.
Spot On! Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.
Lavrentiy Beria
Finally, "Joe Biden" did a good thing!
;-(
Yep, and I endorse the use of quotes in your comment.
It is my opinion that Alzheimer's joe, as you infer, was a Front Man. The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter
They must have pulled out the “decent” Biden suit for the first time. Unfortunately the 50 years can’t be returned.
Waaay overdue.
Yes, overlooked.
Thank you Tessa for the documentary: Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier.
"Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you have only a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range." ----Chief Dan George.
"Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?"
----Ohiyesa.
Very happy for Leonard Peltier even though I know he can’t get those years back, he will still be a free man.
It is my opinion that somehow The Tribes, behind the scenes were able to make this happen. Leonard was NEVER forgotten! "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
John F. Kennedy
Thanks so much for sharing this good news. So much wrong has been done and is still being done all over the world. What a breath of fresh air do read about this right decision.
When Leonard Peltier had a chance, when he was in Canada, he should have gone to the far north and hidden near some obscure and out of the way reserve in the wilderness. There was plenty of room in Canada to disappear, at the time. A part of him must have mistakenly believed in the justice system after seeing Russell Means and other AIM members win in court, otherwise he wouldn't have surrendered to the "authorities".
PRISON WRITINGS: My Life Is My Sun Dance by, Leonard Peltier-United States Prisoner #89637-132. Edited by Harvey Arden. Introduction by, Chief Avrol Looking Horse. Preface by, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
"Listen to this fresh, brave voice, then inform yourself about the shameful case of Leonard Peltier."----Peter Matthiessen.
"It would be inadequate to describe Leonard Peltier's PRISON WRITINGS as a classic of prison literature, although it is that. It is also a cry for help, an accusation against monstrous injustice, a beautiful expression of a man's Soul, demanding release."----Howard Zinn.
St. Martin's Press 1999.
great news, thanks Tessa
done for all the wrong reasons methinks (the indian archetype doesn't have a carbon footprint, wink wink) but it's good to have an innocent guy out of jail
now let's get the j6ers out!
It was done to keep the Indigenous people voting democrat...giving them a symbolic crumb, releasing a political prisoner at the very end of his life after decades of injustice and suffering. Unfortunately, too many Indigenous people still believe in a system and a civilization that have mistreated and betrayed them for centuries, and imagine that one political party is better than the other.
They were one of the worst when it came to compliance. Even President Nez of the Navajo Nation would ignore the early evidence that HBOT was effective for the symptoms presented. Pueblos shut down all access and went and got their entire populations shot up and boosted. Still hoping this isn't going to see a mass depopulation. Many died already in 2021.
same in canada. the indigenous are overrepresented in mark crispin miller's weekly died-suddenly necrologies
The US and Canadian governments will not stop until the Indigenous people are gone from their resources-rich lands and have become just another acculturated minority living in city ghettos, or worse, living in suburbia.
I supported the Council of Canadians until covid, when they pushed an aggressive "right to be vaccinated" campaign on First Nation territories with a 'protect the elders' slogan. Mark Crispin Miller's list is painful to witness. Especially the young ones, the babies.
Very true. I was shocked when a full blood, Indigenous activist friend of mine, who likes to say "they are all thieves and liars" ("they" meaning the "pale faces" and more specifically the government), got the vaccine and boosters for himself and his entire family.
But then again he, like many people in his community, has the big screen TV going on all day long, sunrise to sunset. Programming overrides logic and actual generational knowledge, it is that effective.
Sad.
And Indian Health Services agencies seemed to go in lockstep. I don't know if they are even monitoring.
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
Edward Bernays
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.
Gore Vidal
Wish he had freed Mumia as welll!
Yes, Jefferson's idea that the lands west would be Indian lands went to hell once gold was discovered. You originally had to get a passport in St. Louis just to enter the Louisiana Purchase.
Civilization is an ogre that devours everything and will ultimately consume itself, because its economic systems are based on endless growth. The 18th and 19th centuries were not different in this regard. Custer was sent to the Black Hills (sovereign Indian lands by treaty) to find gold because the US were suffering a bad economic depression and were on the verge of a collapse and of a second revolution at the time (this historical fact is not often mentioned).
The fairy tale that teaches children that Columbus went out to find a trade route is hogwash. The truth is that Spain had emptied its coffers fighting Britain and needed gold to keep fighting the English and to attempt to dominate Europe and the oceans. Again, the motivation was endless growth.
It is not politics that ruin everything, but civilization itself, because its model of endless growth is unsustainable and absurd, now based on a completely irrational faith in science and especially technology, in technological "progress" (which is a progress towards a very deep and deadly abyss, in which all societies and nations will fall sooner than later).