POSTER BOYS-LPDOC AND FREE GRAHAM

I think it’s fairly obvious why the LPDOC and Free Graham insist on attempting to link themselves to the pursuit of justice for Annie Mae despite being told repeatedly to take the dog and pony show elsewhere.
Apparently it is intended to be a smokescreen and make people think they really are on to something about the innocence of the sorry specimens they advocate for. Another more mercenary motivation may have to do with donations to the “fund”, as I’m of the opinion if they had to rely solely on Peltier and Graham as poster boys they might well be eating lunch at the soup kitchen.
What really interests me is knowing how much has been generated over the years and exactly where it has gone. I’m assuming they operate as a 501c and if this is so then I further assume they are subject to some form of oversight and audit.
Are there salaries, expense accounts, per diems? If so who benefits from that and why? Are there career considerations in this advocacy-is it a job to be held onto in this time of financial chaos? Are there perks like benefits packages containing health insurance, vacations, and accrued time off? Is the structure modeled after AIM with titles? Maybe something along the lines  Minister of Defense, the Office of Procurement, Director
of Propaganda, Overseer of Off Shore Accounts?
Another thing I wonder about is are there any indigenous attorneys, any tribal attorneys, who lead the defense in the court rooms? If not I wonder why-are they not perceived as being qualified, intelligent enough, or do they merely wish to associate themselves with valid causes?
The state of Peltier’s health is made mention of often, if we are to believe it to be factual minus exaggeration I would say no person should be denied proper treatment just as no man or woman should be murdered in cold blood.
If any entity, local, state, or federal, assumes and exercises the authority to imprison a person there is an inherent responsibility in doing so in a humane way that insures  that proper living conditions and health care are provided. If  they do not they have the same liability as does any individual who fails to do so and can claim no moral ascendency.
It is not cruel and unusual punishment to imprison someone for the cruelty of cold blooded murder, it is if this imprisonment fails to execute it’s duty. Thirty plus years is a long time behind bars, but then it’s along time as well to lie moldering in the ground and those you loved to suffer.
This thirty plus years is often presented as a grave injustice but I submit it is not, that the real injustice is the identical time the victims were denied to live their lives and the joys and experiences it could have brought them.
This was a double murder that received two consecutive life sentences-that’s consecutive, one to follow the other, and these thirty plus years though often touted as some sort of record are not. Robert Stroud, also known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, spent a total of 54 years in federal prisons until his death in 1963 I believe it was. He shared many of the characteristics and violent history of Peltier, and like Peltier a movie was made portraying him as something other than what he was.
This is a man who was on the run from charges of attempted murder in Wisconsin, add to that Williams and Coler, the charges in Oregon, and the episode involving the interrogation of Annie Mae where he stuck a gun in her mouth and what is left? Are we all to assume Peltier has been a perennial victim his entire life, that the powers that be just didn’t like this poor soul? That’s bs and we all know it- it’s time for the pocket books to close and the money tree to wither for it surely is stuffing money down a rat hole that could actually help those more deserving. More than that it’s time for Peltier to be a man.
And Graham, what of Graham? Another loser who can’t maintain either his story or his alibi over time. A bottom feeder who was little more than a gofer and a pawn for those who didn’t have the guts to do their own dirty work.
This pathetic caricature of a man, this miserable woman beating, rapist, murderer who has the ignorance and audacity to speak about his rights when he denied Annie Mae the most fundamental of her own-the right to live.
The saddest of commentaries is that any woman would advocate for this piece of trash. My sympathies lie not with him but with his family-they are the ones who will need help, and they suffer the injustice he makes claim to.

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