Title couldn’t say it all
America’s longest-serving political prisoner Native American activist Leonard Peltier should be released from federal prison.
“His trial was also happening as the FBI was trying to suppress the activities of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a grassroots group of activists focused on drawing attention to federal treaty rights violations, discrimination and police brutality targeting Native Americans...”
Uh oh, it's been a couple hours since CJKunt last fished for attention.
federal treaty rights violations, discrimination and police brutality targeting Native Americans...”
I was going to say Tommy Silverstein but it appears he died in 2019. If Tommy had been non-white dies anyone think the system would have done this to him?
They kept a bare light bulb on in Tommy's cell for decades. He never had a change in light or dark or saw the outside world for 36 years. Does any human, or even an animal, deserve this kind torture?
This is why it is so important that all suspects get a fair and uncompromised trial. Otherwise there is no way of knowing their guilt or innocence. I think what Peltier got was highly compromised.
SJG
He was a freedom fighter and political prisoner.
^ We don't have political prisoners dummy, if he broke the law maybe because of his beliefs they were harsher on him, but no one in a United States prison cell is there because of their political beliefs.
^ @25
FYI
“There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept of “Political Prisioners”,
although numerous similar definitions have been proposed by various organizations and scholars, and there is a general consensus among scholars that:
"individuals have been sanctioned by legal systems and imprisoned by political regimes not for their violation of codified laws but for their thoughts and ideas that have fundamentally challenged existing power relations"
Everyone knows about people being framed by the Federales and the boys in blue, and of course the CIA, and many of the secret police and black ops...
Leonard Peltier is a sick, disgusting murderer who killed 2 FBI agents in cold blood, has had plenty of shots at getting it over turned and has failed each time. The only disgrace is that this piece of shit wasn't hung in the 70s. Activists back then on the left, like now, think their killing of others is fine. Fuck him, let him die slowly then burn in hell; with all of his supporters.