LAND WARRIORS, HEROES, AND THUGS

“If you want to motivate people, you don’t rely on logic and reasoning. No, what
people need is a symbol. A slogan, a flag, the face of a hero to stick on a T-shirt.

So what do you do if the real world doesn’t provide you with something people can
rally around? You just make that shit up.”

 

 

“If you avoid breaking laws and do what you’re told and ignore the poor, the oppressed and the downtrodden – you probably won’t be bothered. “

The above quote is featured on the John Graham “promoting truth and justice” site.

There’s a certain truth in this, people understand that if you rise up to protest an injustice you’re inviting trouble, and yet in failing to the consent of silence is given.

Even in protest silence can be an element, and so it is and has been within AIM when it comes to the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash and perhaps more notably in the case of John Graham who was convicted for his participation in the murder of Annie.
Graham would have the public believe that a not only was he Annie’s dear friend but also a self described “land warrior”.

Baseless titles such as these validate the contents of an earlier blog titled “They Just Make That Shit Up”, the perceived need to elevate a person from the status of perpetrator to victim – a strategy employed in behalf of Leonard Peltier with greater success than Graham’s pathetic attempts even though the Peltier myth is unravelling.

Graham who in various interviews has admitted his presence from the moment Annie was abducted in California to her bound with rope return to AIM’s personally maintained gulag known as Pine Ridge even in the midst of protesting that he had responded to a call to help Annie relocate to a “safe house” and once having done so went about his way.

Graham’s presence with fellow cohorts Arlo Looking Cloud who has confessed and now serving a sentence in federal prison and Theda Nelson Clark pie patrol matriarch and relative of Russell Means at Means brothers house, Bill Means, where the call was taken to murder Annie doesn’t sound much like searching for a safe house.

Nor does the interrogation and physical abuse she endured at the WKLDC office carried out by additional Means relatives and legal in for a penny in for a pound mouthpiece Bruce Ellison.

Graham like Peltier currently resides in state prison while Peltier calls federal prison home – and Graham like Peltier has sought to create a comparable myth that he too is a “warrior” unjustly targeted for not ignoring the poor, the oppressed, and the downtrodden.

It’s as though the public has acknowledged the adage “fool me once shame on you – fool me twice shame on me” and refuse to be taken in by the claims of yet another bogus warrior.

If so then one could say it is a sign of progress much the same as the questions that have arisen related to Peltier’s claims and the exodus of those who have elected to do the math for themselves and accept the fact that two plus two actually does amount to four.

In an “opinion piece” during the Burns Refuge standoff Last Real Indians attempted to make a quasi case that perhaps as indigenous people we might somehow be obliged to support the all white militia type occupiers even though the Paiute whose hereditary land it is were vocal in denouncing the occupation and demanding their departure.

I admit to being initially startled by this, but only momentarily when recalling that Last Real Indians is also a site that champions common thugs like the AIM leadership, refuses to address the murder of Annie, Perry Ray Robinson jr. or the multiple graves of AIM victims at WK2, and in fact site owner Chase Iron Eyes who in envisioning himself as a real last ndn announced he would assume the mantle of attorney for Graham.

CIE may garner some attention, and ultimately that may be the impetus, but Graham is down for the count and he’s not going anywhere – maybe CIE could offer his services as defense counsel to the Burns occupiers.

Graham’s defense is no less a sham than that of Leonard Peltier – both filled with contradictions, verbal miscues, false claims, omissions, and an incredibly blatant selectivity when it comes to what points to address and what not to.

WKLDC and ILPDC have raked in a lot of money over time promoting Peltier’s “innocence” though they now repeatedly fail to realize fundraising goals.

Graham”s “defense committee” hasn’t fared as well, in fact they are doing so poorly they may need to adopt additional elements of the Peltier dog and pony show and begin claiming Graham is a “leader” of AIM or a “hero”.

Perhaps Graham could take up painting or even author his own book, though I doubt it would do much good as the public has become somewhat jaded when it comes to the cliche of referencing thugs as warriors and have acquired an awareness that thugs are inclined to make shit up.

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/they-just-make-that-shit-up-2/

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON AIM

AIM has a history of accepting money from anyone, doesn’t matter who they are, what country it comes from, or what the ideology is.

The CPUSA, CPC, foreign oppressive governments, or even gangs involved in trafficking drugs and guns, it’s all good, it’s coin of the realm, and it all spends.

How much of this went to enhancing the lifestyles of the leadership may never be known, but it’s a save bet to say a good percentage of it did.

Now I believe it’s possible for the rich to have a genuine concern for the disenfranchised and poverty stricken or engage in philanthropy.

But I also believe there are those who do for less than purely charitable reasons – they do so with an eye to public relations and tax deductions.

Call me cynical but I honestly believe that and would say televangelists for one are a classic example.

It isn’t an anomaly for pride, arrogance, and greed to accompany the acquisition of any degree of wealth or stature, nor to devote an increased amount of time in the acquisition of more and concern about maintaining what has been acquired.

The AIM leadership always sought celebrity, it is what drove them above all else – and with that celebrity came the pursuit of the associated trappings.

The more celebrity an individual had, the higher up the ladder they were, the more bling from boasting of only flying first class to owning multiple residences.

A far cry from the reality of the poverty and need they pimped for personal gain.

I’ve never had any respect for the AIM leadership, and if it’s possible I have even less now – if the surviving members could miraculously do a one eighty it would be too little too late, the die was cast and the damage done long ago and then perpetuated.

Marching around waving banners for a thug convicted of murder doesn’t impress me, nor does murdering a diminutive woman by the name of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash or a civil rights worker by the name of Perry Ray Robinson jr.

I’m not impressed by the unmarked graves of AIM’s numerous victims or the sacking and looting that was Wounded Knee 2 regardless of how it is portrayed and not a stretch to liken it to the descent of Quantrill’s raiders upon Lawrence, Kansas though fortunately the body count wasn’t as high.

For all the for profit ruminations of tradition and ceremony the leadership one and all could serve as the equivalent of that old public service announcement of “this is your brain on drugs” requiring only a minor edit to say “this is your brain on colonization”, a philosophical colonization that placed the emphasis on acquisition over that of service…… but then I suppose “this is your brain on AIM” works also.

AGED TOOTHLESS PREDATOR REDUX

 

Since the initial posting of this blog on 9-24-11 Harry David Hill has emerged from  under the rock that serves as his home, had a bit part in a movie, and joined up with ILPDC for brief period as kind of a front man.

A brief stint touted by ILPDC as Hill’s mere presence would somehow ultimately lead to a clemency for fellow thug Leonard Peltier – I guess this was to be expected in way, the movie bit part and the brief tenure at ILPDOC considering Hill’s previous acting roles as the B grade Mr.X and hope to die AIM tough guy and “liberator”.

The “wisdom” of ILPDC embracing Hill in their full knowledge X was a lie escaped me and demonstrated they didn’t give a damn about the truth and even less when it came to perpetuating a lie, but apparently the light went on and Hill like Elvis left the building, although with noticeably less panache.

Below the original blog and link to comments made which are informative.

 

Hill’s name inevitably surfaces in any discussion concerning Annie or Ray-always a shadowy figure with what appears to be an inordinate amount of luck or friends in high places.

Not the sharpest tool in the shed I think with his laughable rendition of the mysterious Mr. X- Peltier’s wannabe fabricated homeboy coming to the rescue.  But like the line from Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits:

Harry doesn’t mind if he doesn’t make the scene- He’s got a daytime job, he’s doing alright………

Avoiding the scene has been a vocation-one he’s been adept at, no interviews, save the comical Mr. X skit, no bragging of deeds ala Peltier, no seeking the spotlight, movie career, or even a book.  Not so much as a whimper-just another aged toothless predator 
who must now lay in wait for something to pass by.

No, the inimitable Hill prefers anonymity, and like Brando in On The Waterfront believes he could have been somebody-he could have  been a contender.

If there is any comfort to be found in the midst of this lament perhaps solace will be present in the knowledge that he is somebody-a  person of interest in ongoing and newly re-opened investigations.

Chin up “Mr. X”,  the spotlight awaits, and along with the original audience a new generation is eager to hear the taking of the Fifth- but it ain’t over til it’s over. The Fifth, that device which to me so clearly speaks to and defines a multitude of things.

No Janklow this time to grant absolution-little if any wiggle room-wiggle room that can only be purchased at the expense of another, not for anything as mundane as thirty pieces of silver, rather testimony to indict others to save ones own sorry ass in that process 
known as immunity- an immunity from prosecution that replaces the communion wafer and leaves only the admonition to go and sin no  more,  lending credibility to the concept that indeed crime does pay at times.

I understand this process of bartering information for immunity, I understand that it is often an essential ingredient, a necessary evil- but I loathe the necessity of it. I loathe the fact that all it requires to escape justice is to assist in visiting it upon another  regardless of how well deserved it might be.

A necessity created by the unwillingness of bit players, or good people stepping up to do the right thing- The right thing, once a standard,  a tradition- now a tradition lost not all that long ago and facilitated by the beast AIM became, the rogues that populated it, and individuals  like Harry David Hill, aka Mr.X. who ran in predatory packs that separated the vulnerable, taking them down while nipping at the heels  and intimidating others into silence.

Silence IS consent, or as it is said in Latin, Qui tacet consentire videtur- a legal term that translates to giving consent to this thing. This thing of murder, of abduction, of rape, of burnings and bombings, looting, and outright theft and destruction.  Of shooting an unarmed man and leaving him to die in a desperate rictus of indifference and being alone.

Silence has led to decades of grief and misery, murders, destruction and abuses on an epic scale-time to end that, time for all the people to remember who they are, where they came from, what it means, and above all to withhold consent, and in so doing resurrect honor and dignity.

How dead must a heart and spirit be to ignore, condone, or excuse such things as these? What degree of detachment, how great a fear, what code?

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/aged-toothless-predator/

HIPS DON’T LIE REDUX

“Banks was recorded on a Federal wire in or around 2002 saying that he had Cris Westerman, the brother of Floyd bury him by Wounded Knee Creek after he died in the Wounded Knee Clinic. Robinson’s death is recorded in other testimony and interviews with KaMaook Nichols and Bernie Lafferty who observed conversations by Banks, Carter Camp and David Hill while Ray Robinson lay outside the building across from the clinic . According to an interview by Serle Chapman with Madonna Gilbert, (Russell&Bill Means sister), and according to Minnie Two Shoes, Gilbert slapped Annie Mae Aquash around at the WNKLDOC legal offices of Atty Bruce Ellison, wanting to know what she (Aquash) knew about Robinson’s death in WK 73. . -Nfic Paul DeMain-


 

As anyone who is even vaguely familiar with this blog knows I have stated my belief that an “accommodation” has
 been reached at some point with Bank’s and others in the AIM hierarchy that provided immunity from prosecution to them.


As the date of this recorded conversation is 2002 then such an accommodation had to have been reached at least ten years ago.


But I suspect it predates the year 2002 by an appreciable amount, and in view of the crimes they have committed it is logical to further assume that whatever information they provided must have been of  great value in order for them to escape prosecution.

Presumably this information would exist in the much sought after FOI’s -information not only the Justice Department would have but Obama as well, and why I have said earlier it’s something the Peltierites should be thinking about, unless in their arrogance and celebrity fueled concerts  they assume they know absolutely everything there is to know.


My belief is that all within the top echelon of AIM rolled over at some point or another, I’ve speculated it could be related to Peltier-that they gave him up and the cover is their support for him, as all informants have a cover story.


Could be one or more provided critical evidence against John Graham-something more than the public version Russell gave in ’99 and his B grade performance of being overwhelmed by emotion in the news to him that the call to execute Annie was received at of all places, his brother’s house. The vagaries of life huh?


If any of this is true then it speaks clearly of deals made and collusion between the authorities and AIM, something neither side would want known-also something not all on both sides of the fence would necessarily have knowledge of.


What I consider to be an anomaly is the BIA takeover-a federal building taken hostage, government property destroyed and stolen, and the response was to pay a ransom,  a pat on the head and to say run along home now?


Doesn’t even sound plausible does it? Then factor in that the AIM leadership laid up in hotel rooms partying and it makes even less sense- no one was picked off as they evacuated as was the case at WK2.


Trudell loves to go on about an “operative” within the movement that created such events-who better than an honest to goodness “warrior(s)”within the hierarchy itself-one or more of those SAC’s -Special Aimsters in Charge-who would be more perceived as being above suspicion?

Who better to point the finger at others to befuddle and deflect the heat-what greater example of their commitment, purity, and dedication to the cause than to order the executions of alleged informants?


When you look at the four plus decades of events that mark AIM’s existence there are a lot of things they could have provided information about-not only that but once having done so could go “rogue” as  they may well of felt secure in knowing that to prosecute them would  run the risk of exposing deals made.


A sense of security based on and enhanced by the years of brainwashing that everything was about COINTEL-and anything negative said about them, or attempt to hold them accountable was proof of that.


Crafty-but the problem that has arisen is that much of this other than the indictment prosecution aspect has been taken out of their hands,  it is now in the hands of people who want the truth, and whether they escape the judicial courts or not they cannot escape the court of public opinion and what is known.

By this recorded conversation Banks, by his own words is guilty of at least obstruction and aiding and abetting in his participation to any degree felony murder as well I would think.


Shakira sings a song by the name of Hips Don’t Lie, a catchy tune that seems to set women to dancing as well. We are told to believe that the eyes and words of Banks don’t lie either-I think that’s been show to be a fallacy countless times.

Interesting comments in the original blog if you follow the link.

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/hips-dont-lie/

NOT AS SWEET AS SYRUP REDUX

 

The passage of a few short years since this blog was posted hasn’t served to dampen down suspicions that the AIM leadership “snitched” as they like to say about the shooter of agents Williams and Coler, and no doubt other things as well.

Currently this belief can only be ascribed to suspicions, but if you walk around it a little examining events as they’ve played out the word strong should be add to suspicions for a number of reasons.

The heat was on and there were plenty of reasons to go after the AIM leadership – any number of reasons from wiretaps to co operating witnesses and assuredly under the federal RICO statutes routinely employed against criminal enterprises.

And yet nothing save for the low hanging and obvious fruit, and even that took years, decades. Nothing as in an “official” announcement by then soon to be outgoing USAG Holder that yes in fact AIM did kill Annie and Ray but the DOJ wasn’t really interested in “old cases”.

Vernon Bellecourt rushing to the feds with what he construed to be death threat shouldn’t surprise anyone, any more than the fact that Dave Hill was willing to make a deal and in fact got both federal and state charges dropped pertaining to an act of domestic terrorism in the bombing of Mt. Rushmore and a state weapons charge.

Are these guys just lucky or what? I think the or what is what it has really been about.

Then we also have Vernon’s younger brother Clyde getting busted as a major drug dealer, gets a light sentence and walks after a couple of years.

Clyde’s defense such as it was is that he did it for AIM – maybe that mollified the prosecutor and court ……. I mean after all it was for AIM and apparently didn’t matter how many lives were destroyed or how many addiction related crimes were committed.

It sure as hell didn’t matter to Clyde or AIM.

Now think about that for a moment – if you or I got busted for the same charge we’d have wound up busting rocks for years if not decades.

If you or I were complicit in the multiple murders AIM committed we would be pursued to the ends of the earth and it wouldn’t matter how long it took.

But not those fearless last real ndn “liberators” and “patriots.”

As crude as it may sound I had a friend who would say it isn’t know who but who you blow when an inequity defied explanation – in this instance it seems to have been who any in the leadership were willing to blow off, as in give up.

The AIM leadership has always been long on talk when it came to “colonization” and “colonial law” even while embracing every aspect of both from the drugs and alcohol, the scams and thefts, and of course “taking the fifth”.

I’ve offered the opinion on more than one occasion that I believe the strategy has been to allow the attrition of time to catch up with the leadership – that in their passing there won’t be anything left to do, no one to prosecute, case emphatically closed – looks to me like that’s the way it’s playing out.

Below the original post and link to comments:
Hell of a note for a man to have his pots stolen as has been reported on the net regarding Banks and his syrup venture. Don’t know what the world’s coming to.
I thought for sure justice would be pursued in the “traditional way”as the call was floated to do so in the case of Annie Mae-but I must have been delusional to think so.
Bank’s has offered a thousand dollar reward and demanded a full investigation-I guess maybe it can be spun as progress that an indigenous person has the where with all to be able to offer a reward in the first place, but since a similar offer has never been made regarding information concerning the murder of the woman he loved so much, Annie Mae, it doesn’t strike me as being sweet. A couple of pots are replaceable-the same can’t be said for Annie.

 

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/not-exactly-sweet-like-syrup/

AN OBVIOUS REFERENCE REDUX

I would draw the readers attention to the five thirty four mark in the below video where Minnie Two Shoes in discussing the interrogation of Annie Mae Aquash by Leonard Peltier clearly states that she and Iris ThunderCloud had been likewise interrogated “by the same people”.

The obvious reference is to Peltier, Robideau, and Butler, Annie’s antagonists.

Minnie’s statement is inclusive, though she doesn’t specify who was the lead interrogator,  but it seems reasonable to me to assume it was Peltier, who seemed to enjoy bullying women.

It is yet another example of how fraudulent the effort is to portray Peltier as something other than what he is, and that is mostly notably a proven liar, an errand boy, and a cheap thug.

I had the good fortune to meet Minnie a few times and engage in conversations with her. She was one of kind- a rapier like wit that could literally have you rolling on the floor accompanied by a depth of understanding and commitment that would rivet your attention-she was a good woman worthy of respect, a woman who cared deeply and not given to lying.

Occasionally someone will appear in what is known as blackface, a cosmetic application mimicking African Americans, a display assured to raise a hue and cry- I submit that the same hue and cry should be raised over the cosmetic makeover to portray Leonard Peltier as being a warrior or in any way representative of the beliefs of, or who the nations are.

Peltier has assumed a role, and had decades of coaching and rehearsal- it is a shabby performance at best riddled with his own miscues archived in interviews and videos across the internet and in the public domain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pm1Ic9A4aU

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/an-obvious-reference/

WHETHER IT’S ABOUT AIM POLITICS OR JUSTICE AND EQUITY REDUX

Close to year ago I posted what became a three part blog entitled Whether It’s About AIM Politics or Justice And Equity – nothing much has changed since then so I’ve decided to repost this trilogy beginning with part one as follows and kind of begs the question – How’s that working out for you and Graham Chase – any new conspiracy theories to float, newly discover DNA evidence, or fundraising campaigns?

Kind of curious too, is this a pro bono effort?

 

Part 1:

Another move to silence , Chase Iron Eyes, he of the endless selfies lauding himself announced not long ago he was going to represent John Graham – that would be John Graham “the land warrior” who can’t keep his story straight and presently is serving time following a conviction for his participation in the abduction murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.

It seems the first order of business is one taken from the AIM manifesto, that is to seek a gag order.

A gag order? Really Chase, isn’t that basically the same as one of those denied or redacted FOIs everyone complains about?

If representing Graham is about gaining attention seems as though CIE could garner more of that lending his expertise to Peltier.

But it’s abundantly clear the Peltier defense is winding down and a generally recognized lost cause so why run the risk.

Graham on the other hand is something relatively new, and although the Free Graham site languishes in comparison to Peltier’s when it comes to raising money and support there’s still time to retool the approach.

With the right adman Graham too can become a “leader” of AIM, one of those high ranking  members as the fable goes kind of like Peltier. Maybe even write a book or do the art thing.

My Life Is A Sundance has already been taken, in view of Graham’s age when he signed on to the abduction and murder of Annie and his inability to keep his alibi straight, not to mention coherent, he might want to consider going with My Life Is A Duncedance.

When Peltier passes on Graham could become the only show in town as an honest to goodness cross my heart and hope to die “political prisoner”.

Former Peltier attorney Kuzma had the integrity to call the Mr. X story what it was, a lie – which in turn led to yet another LPDOC party purge….exit Kuzma, too much of that “bravado” Claypoole memorialized, too much integrity.

I’m wondering if Chase will exhibit the same integrity when it comes to Graham’s invention of DNA samples being taken from a park bench or table and announce that it too is bullshit, or those oft changing and convoluted tales of “safe houses” and the where and when of things so specific to Graham’s guilt amount to the same?……I’m kind of  doubting it but I guess we’ll see.

I don’t know if Chase is a defense attorney or if this is merely an opportunity that has arisen – one of those things a “last real Indian” would feel compelled to do, but I suspect there is an undercurrent of understanding that Graham is indeed guilty and as a result of that yet another lost cause irregardless of the ebb and flow of the attentionometer or number of selfies posted. Little more than an attention seeking device?


In blowing off Annie Mae Pictou Aquash’s daughter Denise during a phone conversation when Denise was chapter and versing CIE  about the realities of her mother’s murder Chase apparently couldn’t be bothered and announced his focus was on the youth of our  nations, then withdrew from the conversation.

I’m a little curious about that as I would think it’s important for our youth to understand no one should turn their back when it comes to the murder or abuse of any of our women. No one should remain silent.


Being an attorney and an individual with their selfless unwavering finger on the pulse of the nations Chase should be well aware of the results from a statistical viewpoint if nothing else when that is the approach.

An approach I might add that led to an almost complete lack of prosecution by the feds for the crime of rape perpetrated against indigenous women, among many who would qualify as being of our youth, but more than that created a situation where our women became the statistical demographic leader for victims of rape  and physical abuse.

Chase has said he doesn’t belong to AIM, but has family members who do – whether he does or not or merely acts in the capacity of a proxy is secondary to whether the AIM manifesto is to be the game book .

Whether it’s about AIM politics or justice and equity.

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/whether-its-about-aim-politics-or-justice-and-equity/

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE

There’s a saying that goes along the lines of “with friends like these who needs enemies” that seems to sum up a good number of Annie’s so called “friends” within AIM.

Another would be to refer to them as “fair weather friends”.

Friendships in AIM in the majority appear to have been predicated upon who might have been in favor at the moment and who wasn’t, and that having to do with the leadership.

The rez has also been something of a closed society, and as such gossip has found a place, add to that a gestapo like organization that ruled by force, innuendo, and rumor such as AIM did and there isn’t a lot of room for diversity of thought or expression.

That’s changed to an appreciable degree as the AIM leadership attempts to remain relevant in an increasingly futile effort to take ownership of issues such as the environment and culture in lieu of murder and mayhem.

Too little too late as the history they created continues to haunt them and the bully boys have aged finding comfort only  in the lies and propaganda they fomented sharing among themselves and talking about the good ol’ days – perhaps those padded Depends provide an element of comfort as well as they twist and squirm in their chairs when the hard questions that they have no answers for come as they’ve surely been incontinent verbally and physically for decades.

Relevance, part of a triad that included money and power – as the relevance has declined the focus has been to concentrate on commercialism.

A  commercialism that has offered up traditions, culture, and ceremonies.

There have even been the equivalent of most favored trade partners like Japan and European nations where a romantic interest in all things “ndn” has created an easily exploited market.

To facilitate this global marketing endeavor I suspect there are more chiefs, medicine men/women, more headdresses and titles than during the combined history of all our nations – and let’s not forget the Star Knowledge crowd that has blended a variety of ingredients into what amounts to the GMO product they promote for fun and profit.

In a way you can’t help but feel a little sorry for the marks the grifters have targeted but then they have the same access to the truth via the net if nothing else that others do, so in the end all you can say is its on them.

A great deal of this has been fueled by various AIM centric sites that have conducted themselves like the three monkeys of hear no, speak no, and see no evil – they’d rather eat their shoe than break ranks and acknowledge what stares them in the face.

Some of these sites present themselves as indigenous media, and while they may perform a credible journalistic job when it comes to reporting news it’s as though they are corporate owned like the mainstream media and will only report what ownership wants when it comes to AIM, the fix is in and has been for decades.

You can only be a last real Indian if you buy into the AIM/Peltier  bullshit, if not then be grateful it isn’t two or three decades ago or you’d be well on your way to becoming an AIM target.

You could wind up in an unmarked grave with Crow Dog keeping an eye on things, or your throat slashed in an AIM flop house.

Bank$ and cronies could issue one of their fatwahs.

Maybe have your office or home set on fire, your family and children threatened, or wind up with a bullet in the back of your head while kneeling and praying for your children as Annie Mae Pictou Aquash did after being abducted, raped, and brutalized.

 A really bizarre meme related to all this, “in the spirit of Crazy Horse”, as though Crazy Horse would have engaged in such things.

Yet we have the word of the leadership and “dumb as dirt” Peltier that indeed he would have, not only that but Crazy Horse will be waiting for them when they pass on to honor them with an eagle feather and welcome them into the fraternity of legendary warriors.

I find it difficult to imagine they actually believe that, but if they do I suspect they’re in for a rude awakening, and that too will be on them.

COCONSPIRATOR

Here’s a definition of coconspirator from the Free Dictionary:

coconspirator – a member of a conspiracy    

conspirator, machinator, plotter

Think about that for moment – a member of or plotter in a conspiracy.

The murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash by AIM began as a conspiracy to commit murder, a conspiracy composed of “plotters”.

The first question should be why would anyone conspire to murder her? What was the motivation?

Murder is committed most commonly I believe due to rage, in the midst of a crime, for personal gain, or a fear that criminal activity will be exposed.

Of these the most obvious in the case of Annie is fear of exposure , exposing the criminal activities of AIM and the multiple murders they had committed.

Add to that the murders of agents Williams and Coler by no less than one of Dennis Bank$ entourage, Leonard Peltier, and the stakes increase.

Prior to Annie’s abduction and murder she had become basically a captive being watched over by thugs like Peltier who had previously interrogated her at gunpoint and later expressed a desire to subject her to “truth serum”.

If anyone is keeping track that’s strike one.

Strike two could be said to be Peltier and Dave Hill forcing Annie to make bombs with them.

But the third strike could only be that Peltier boasted to a woman, Annie, who was already under false suspicion of being an informant that while standing over one of the wounded agents that he “begged like a mfkr” but Peltier shot him anyway.

Far from brilliant and goes a considerable distance in explaining Peltier’s nick name of “Dumb as Dirt”, which now has equal application to his supporters.

In this single event, this single statement, there is a suggestion to me that the decision to murder Annie had already been made – that too goes a considerable distance in explaining the arrogance and confidence of Peltier in making such a statement to someone he had already accused of being an informant and also serves to ramp up the perceived necessity.

During Peltier’s time on the run from charges resulting from the murders of those federal agents Peltier by his own words was not only back and  forth across the Canadian border but in contact with “certain people”.

Next question would be who were these “certain people’?

And the answer can only be AIM people. Would that be rank and file AIM people who wouldn’t be in a position to order someone to be killed or would it be those in leadership positions like Bank$ who Peltier had aligned himself with?

Bank$ at the very least knew of the murder of Perry Ray Robinson Jr. at WK2 – he was recorded on a wiretap ordering Chris Westerman to get rid of the body.

Bank$ was also up to his knees in the guns and drugs of AIM, courtesy of his pals in the CPUSA – and if as his bud Russell Means said was the kind of person who could make people disappear then at the least had full knowledge of other AIM murders and probably had a hand in issuing more than one AIM fatwah.

Now I don’t believe Peltier had a direct physical participation in the murder of Annie but I don’t doubt for a minute he was in the loop as a conspirator/plotter.

So when someone wants to go on about his rights have been violated because his “art” was removed from a display honoring indigenous arts ask yourself about the rights of his and AIM’s victims to continue living.

 

AND SO I SAY AS I ALWAYS HAVE

I get asked at times what my opinion is about the feds at WK2, do I think they acquitted themselves in an entirely lawful manner?

My response is always the same – no I don’t, but I also won’t allow that to turn my attention away from the murders AIM committed.

The feds lost credibility the minute they opted to back Dick Wilson and his corrupt tribal government.

I’ve heard an argument that they were constrained to as Wilson’s was the “legally” and “duly elected administration”.

Maybe in the strictest of interpretations that’s an argument that can be advanced – the problem in doing so is that precedents exist where the feds have gone after corrupt politicians and Wilson and his administration were undeniably corrupt.

But as is always the case politics make strange bedfellows, especially when a shared “enemy” and common goals exist.

I usually ask in such a conversation if the individual I’m talking with lives in D.C. or in the Hoover building, when they reply no I then follow up with if a murder or murders is committed in either location or in their own neighborhood/ community which would they prioritize?

Inevitably the answer is in their own backyard – I tend to think that’s a response just about anyone would give.

That’s just about anyone, the exceptions would be those who have an agenda …. enter the AIM/ Peltier supporters.

Their goal is to convince everyone to look anywhere but their own backyard, and no lie too blatant to advance toward that end.

I think people need to be concerned not only about local, regional, and national issues but global ones as well.

And that concern needs to begin in the immediacy of where they are and what will impact them within that location.

Climate change and pollution affect everyone regardless of where they are – obviously that should be a concern.

Crime does as well, but it hits home if it occurs in proximity rather than across town, across the state, or across the nation.

People don’t want murderers, thieves, rapists, and liars in their communities, something easy to understand – but if as an indigenous person you say the same while pointing your finger at AIM and or Peltier then for some the dynamic somehow changes and you’re a sellout or fed.

Labels such as these don’t phase me, because as I say they are agenda driven, and a pretty transparent agenda at that.

The manner in which I live my life is my validation, not flying AIM’s rag banner or sticking a feather in my hair and calling myself a warrior.

I am validated by family, friends, and the ancestry that define me – not the words of drones, trolls, or wannabe warriors.

I don’t expect that to resonate with everyone but it isn’t as though I actually care if it does or not.

And so I say as I always have – everyone with any measure of complicity in the sum total of crimes committed at WK2 needs to be held to account, and I don’t give damn what nation they are from, what persona they’ve cultivated, or any government agency they may represent.

The feds had informants within AIM, some among the hierarchy, but I don’t believe for a moment they authorized the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, Perry Ray Robinson jr., Buddy Lamont, or any of the WK2 victims laying in unmarked graves – the AIM leadership is responsible for that and they need to be held to account unless a person thinks cold blooded murder is acceptable or can present a single shred of evidence that “the feds did it”.

I don’t believe there was a “planned invasion” of Jumping Bull consisting of two men armed with short range revolvers, in fact I believe anyone who does is a fool.

If anyone can prove otherwise I’m listening.