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/

SIMPLE QUESTIONS AND DO THE MATH

“On December, 1975 ( which was to say, one week after Aquash was murdered)____advised that
an unidentified Indian female was_________Colorado. The three Indian members of AIM( all of
Denver, Colorado identified as ____(phonetic) and alledgedly_________…Source claims rumors
are that __who stays at ______the ____,Colorado and ___Colorado, committed the actual murder.
Others who may have knowledge of the murder are ____Colorado and ______, South Dakota.” FBI files
( comment: If there was no FBI complicity why wasn’t this addressed at this time? )

Viable questions arise from this , one I asked a couple of attorneys about, both said rumors of a murder are just that, rumors until a body is discovered, without any evidence, without  something physical to substantiate them. A possible exception being multiple witnesses.

And if you recall Annie’s body wasn’t discovered until  weeks later and then pre emptively identified by Dennis Bank$ from a few states away without ever having seen the body and before it was identified by anyone else.

While this raises questions as a rumor the questions for me are who was the “source” and once Annie’s remains were discovered why did it take years to bring charges and secure a conviction?

Consider that in the context of who knew of the plan and who were involved in the decision making end and carrying it out?

Did the direct participants, Theda Clark, John Graham, or Arlo Looking Cloud provide the information? Was it a snitch within the AIM leadership itself?

How about those who interrogated Annie at WKLODC office, among whom was a sister of Russell Means and attorney Bruce Ellison?

Theda Clark was also a relative of Means, since it’s been established Means didn’t mind “assisting” law enforcement does an implication exist in light of his blood relatives involvement including brother Bill where the call was taken to murder Annie Means decided he should pre emptively “assist” to gain a pass?

At the point this memo was crafted the identity of the victim apparently wasn’t even known, “an unidentified Indian female”. Apparently neither were the motive, the shooter, or the location where the body could be found.

So basically all that you have is a “rumor” that an “unidentified” woman was killed. Not much to go on is it?

Once Annie’s body was discovered it became or should have become an entirely different matter, something more than years of an “ongoing investigation” that culminated in a partial justice exclusive of those within the leadership who gave the order.

SB and his handlers love to drone on about the perps are never really to blame, it’s the ones who give the orders. If they truly believe that you’d think they be all for going after the ones who gave the order, and that would be the  leadership ….. which of course they aren’t.

Now in the context of agent Price telling Annie she’d be dead within a year there a number of interpretations that can be made. The one that works for AIM is that Price as an emissary of the feds was putting Annie on notice they would kill her – it’s convenient to the narrative they want to gain traction.

But let’s look at other possibilities – it could be the feds were aware of rumors being advanced by Crow Dog, Peltier, and others that Annie was a snitch and that could lead to her demise.

If that were the way of it it  brings to mind a similar event I’ve mentioned involving a friend of mine who had a serious problem with alcohol.

I visited him in the hospital and told him if he didn’t straighten his act up the next time I saw him would be in the morgue.

Was I threatening his life? Not at all. If he wound up dead should I have been a suspect?

Kind of hard to imagine I would have been, that is unless AIM had a vested interest in promoting me as one.

It could also be they intended to frighten Annie. Scaring a person is something AIM has been big on, and if you take into account the alibi related to Annie’s interrogation immediately prior to her murder that they only wanted to scare her it becomes sort of a commonplace tactic, though AIM’s intention has been proven to be about more than instilling a little fear.

Then too maybe the feds did want to kill Annie, but the feds had nothing to gain by killing her, especially if they held out any hope of cultivating her as an informant ( which they never did).

If anyone believes they did then they should enumerate the reasons why in a way that makes sense devoid of the myths and fairytales.

AIM on the other hand labored under the belief they had a great deal to gain by murdering her and raises the obvious question who are the viable suspects?

I haven’t any desire to relieve the feds from any responsibility that falls to them, nor do I have any desire to exonerate AIM through misdirection and issuing get out jail passes.

So ask yourself the simple questions, do the math. Flashcards won’t even be needed.

Forget for the moment that Claypoole said Price admitted it in court and then later said well, he actually didn’t admit it but it “felt” like he did – forget that SB immediately contradicted her in saying Price made no such admission and the result was you had a classic example of conflicting AIM centric variations on a theme. Not exactly confidence inspiring is it?

Take a commonsense approach and just do the math, ask yourself who had what to gain? In doing so you’ll discover a little commonsense goes a long way and you’ll be  taking the initial steps to being your own person.

MORATORIUM

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34317875

We of course will have to wait to see how this all plays out but the point is that seven decades later justice is still being sought – that there is no moratorium, no statute of limitations, when it comes to murder.

This apparently isn’t the case when it comes to the AIM leadership for their role in the murders of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, Perry Ray Robinson jr, or those who lay in unmarked graves at WK2.

The approach taken in the case of Oskar Groening or the woman mentioned in the linked article may be seem a little nebulous but an argument can be made in comparison that if for example an individual was employed by a company that was dumping toxic waste, had knowledge of it, and never stepped forward they are in point of fact complicit.

That may not be the best analogy as people are far from being toxic waste but should be an understandable one.

To say that there hasn’t been a moratorium on prosecuting the AIM leadership would the same as saying that water isn’t essential to life.

A moratorium that has willfully turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the calls for justice and closure emanating from the survivors of AIM victims and selectively abrogated applicable statutes of limitations.

The AIM leadership is guilty of far more than counting money, though they scammed and stole enough of it,  they’re guilty of more than operating a radio, yet continue to enjoy a liberal coating of teflon and immunity.

AIM has sought public absolution in attempting to portray WK2 as an event of war while wistfully ignoring that all nations, all people, understand that even during war crimes are committed and those committing them are to be held to account.

Outright murder is a crime whether during “war” or peace time, murdering, raping, and looting a community of your own people isn’t an act of war, it is a criminal act and should be dealt with on that basis.

When it isn’t then the reasons why should become the focus – it is this lack of prosecution that speaks to some level of complicity.

Complicity by refusal if for no other reason than indifference, or perhaps a relationship with offenders.

My contention all along has been that at least one or more of the AIM leadership was an informant, if so and involved in any way in the murder of innocents complications arise.

If as in the case of Dave Hill he is allowed to walk after committing what the courts and government routinely refer to as an act of domestic terrorism (the bombing of Mt. Rushmore) and also involved in the murder of Perry Ray Robinson jr. it gets a little murky.

Even more so if placed at PR and said to have had some role in the events leading up to the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, it becomes reminiscent of that Double Indemnity scenario central to movie of the same name.

A train ride going in one direction in which neither party can disassociate themselves from the other.

Russell Means has been outed as an informant – the same man who initially pointed the finger at Vernon Bellecourt, claimed he knew nothing about Annie’s murder until years later, and then upon entering the twenty first century told Annie’s daughters that indeed he did know who the culprit was but had given his “word” not to reveal them until they had passed on, this inspite of the fact that Vernon had passed on years before and can only lead to the conclusion that someone other  than Vernon was responsible.

That’s a pretty bold statement to make, to say you know – it strikes me as an arrogance born of teflon, of knowing you’re in tight with the man and it’s all good.

Russell “knew” and “aided and assisted law enforcement” in building their case against John Graham and Thelma Rios. Are we to infer that in his “assisting” Means named names that were ignored?

So what is the implication here, is it that we are to believe John Graham, a newbie and hanger on clinging to Auntie Theda’s apron strings was not only the executioner but the mastermind as well?

That he took it upon himself at the age of eighteen or nineteen to abduct and murder Annie along with his cohorts Arlo Looking Cloud and pie patrol matriarch relative of Means, Theda Nelson Clark?

Does that even sound plausible?

AIM attempts to obscure realities by swearing the feds are responsible, the follow up question is if so why? If they wanted to take someone out why not someone in leadership, or one of their  informants if they were deemed a threat relying on the adage that dead men tell no tales?

Dennis Bank$ was able to identify Annie’s body while cruising in California before anyone else could without having seen her remains- Bank$, whose bromance buddy Russell Means  said Bank$ could make people disappear.

Bank$ recorded on a wiretap ordering Chris Westerman to dispose of Ray Robinson’s body and Means who boasted that nothing AIM related could happen on Pine Ridge without his explicit knowledge and consent.

All of this lack of prosecution merely a matter of forgiveness? A boys will be boys, or something more?

I say something more, and why I have never strayed from saying justice is served when any and all with any level of complicity are held to account – no one gets a free ride, no one gets to say they made me do it or were caught up in paranoia.

The victims were the victims, not the perpetrators, their minions, nor their handlers.

The feds did it – AIM’s stock in trade. The feds did a lot of things but they didn’t murder Annie or Ray, they didn’t murder those in unmarked graves at WK2, Johnny Moore or Roque Duenas.

Which brings me to another question related to Peltier’s escape from Lompoc – he claims the feds plotted to kill him in prison and he was compelled to escape. If so when he was captured a mere two or three days later and in possession of a rifle why didn’t they take him out then? A perfect opportunity presented by an escaped convict armed with a weapon they allegedly had plans to murder, an escape during which another life was lost.

Doesn’t wash does it? But then AIM and Peltier have never cared whether anything does or not relying on the indifference of their supporters, their willingness to accept whatever they’re spoon fed so they can be seen as a real last Indian or the non indigenous as a reverse apple.

What about Johnny Moore who was staying in an AIM flophouse and called to testify in a case against Shaimster Stanley Neptune and turned up dead – a “suicide” who employed the means of first slashing his face with a knife and then cutting his throat?

How many suicides by slashing your throat have you heard of? Think the feds went ninja, snuck into the flop and killed Moore?

When criminal acts are committed the penchant seems to always be to lay it at the door of another, create a scapegoat, for AIM it has always been the feds, for the feds it has always been AIM ….. the truth however lays somewhere in the middle, some of it obvious and known, the remainder  cloaked in layers of teflon, bullshit, and outright lies ….. they just keep making shit up and adding it to the pile.

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

A COMPASS OF SORTS

I’ve had this pdf in the “archives” for some time and have used it as something of a compass related to directions to look – I’ve done the same with a variety of documents and articles from those issued by AIM to Alan Stang.

My approach is to search and verify -to weed out the bs and lies – much of what is contained within this pdf is well known and verified over the years, well worth the read, and if the reader takes issue with any part then do as I have done and make the effort to prove or discredit- accept what you can verify and put the rest to the side.

I haven’t much familiarity with the site Federal Expressions other than to verify it exists and do a little rooting around related to it, been a while since I’ve checked it out but I understand the author has since passed on.

As can be seen the leadership always went first class leaving others to sleep on floors in flop houses while they opted for the Holiday Inn or multiple level houses – something that has been well established even to the point of Russell Means stating he only flew first class – the bump in price from economy to first class would have fed a family of “his people” for a month.  provided some much needed propane during the winter, put shoes on a child’s feet or a jacket on their back in the winter.

Judge Nichols is often cited by AIM/Peltier defenders – apparently after wining and dining AIM in their home and his wife being issued an official AIM membership card she did as she promised and kept her husband, Judge Nichols, “in line”. Something else that has been established.

Doug Durham was a government informant and a sleeze – also established, but then he fit in quite well with the likes of Bank$, Means, Crow Dog, and the Bellecourts, he was a natural..

https://federalexpression.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/197509-american-indian-movement.pdf

EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE

“My love is expressed in my paintings for the whole Indian world,  but especially the future generations. We are the caretakers, we have to make a world worthy of them. The love of my people is why I was at Jumping Bull that day — to protect them.” Leonard Peltier

Always the selfless warrior, a manidoowag, something spiritual.

Who exactly was Peltier “protecting” his people from – was it that two man invasion armed with short range revolvers who were looking for Jimmy Eagle related to multiple felony warrants and didn’t even know Peltier was around?

Was he protecting his people when he interrogated Annie Mae Pictou Aquash at gunpoint and later undoubtedly signed off on her abduction murder?

Did he protect his people, more specifically women, one pregnant, when he fled leaving them to fend for themself during the Oregon RV stop?

Was he a protector when he interrogated Minnie Two Shoes a year earlier?

Or does it ultimately come down to the following statement by Peltier that he was shooting at the agents because they were coming to arrest HIM?

If Peltier as a “caretaker” is the definition and provides an example to follow then the nations are not only in serious trouble but decline as well.

Is he taking a “warriors” stance when he now “begs like a mfkr” for others not to allow him to die in prison?

“Especially in this system, I can’t tell the system I was shooting  at their police officers that WERE TRYING TO ARREST ME. They’ll hold  that against me. I’VE GOT BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT STUFF. ( Caps mine).

“WERE TRYING TO ARREST ME.” Nothing about they were trying to arrest “his people” – nothing about an imminent threat posed by two men against “his people”.

Nothing about an “invasion” …. a person would think it reasonable if that were the case Peltier would have said so from the get go. But no, all that  bs would come later in an attempt to obscure the fact that Peltier did indeed just as he said mistakenly believed they were coming to arrest him on a Wisconsin fugitive.

The truth is Peltier endangered “his people” –  among them elders, women, and children when he opted to “protect” himself from a perceived threat that didn’t exist.

I knew people who were doing legal work for the “defense committee” early on who left and told me years later when I met them they knew by the preponderance of what they were seeing and hearing that Peltier was in fact guilty – some of these people were of the nations and some were not, but they shared a common denominator, integrity, and chose to shake the dust from their feet and move on.

Their departure was more than a glitch, some bump in the road, it has been something of the norm over the years with insiders referring to Peltier as delusional and a egotistical loud mouth having come to believe the myth created for him and attacking anyone who doesn’t do his bidding or questions something he says.

You know, it’s too bad Peltier wasn’t arrested at some point prior to Jumping Bull, if he had of been this decades long dog and pony show would have never taken place, and those who lie in graves would have gone on to live their lives…..among them Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.

A few more years at most and the myth will implode as the truth will have been exposed, and having been shown to be the fools they were his supporters will begin to deny they ever were….or perhaps attempt to cobble together some follow up myth.

Allowances can be made when people are uninformed, possess an ignorance of the realities related to specific events through no fault of their own, not a one of us knows everything.

But the facts are available, the lies repeatedly exposed posed and transparent – ignoring them is “ignant”, and that’s an entirely different matter.

Peltier’s doing time for “his people”? Give me a break, he’s doing time for murder – it isn’t like he just stepped up out of the blue and for no reason said lock me up I want to “sundance” for my people.

Take a look at Peltier’s history as an AIM thug then somebody point out the expressions of love for me.

SLAIN REDUX

https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/slain/
from 7-1-2012

“A patriot sets himself apart in his own country under his own flag, sneers at other nations and keeps an army of uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries and keep them from grabbing slices of his. In the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for ‘the universal brotherhood of man’ – with his mouth.”

Mark Twain, excerpt from The Lowest Animal

Something that took me a while to accept is that truth is truth regardless of the language that speaks it-likewise wisdom and wit, whether it is acerbic, insightful, unconventional, or readily understood.

I thought, or maybe wanted to believe, no wisdom could be found outside of our own- I admit now I was wrong.

One of the more beneficial things I have done for myself was to begin to read, and I encourage all to adopt the habit.

Reading, learning, is a doorway, a portal to understanding- a tool to better equip ourselves to deal with the realities we must face-it surrenders nothing, it empowers.

Without the abilities it affords we would never have been able to make the advances we have, mount a legal challenge, understand the nuances, pitfalls, and carefully crafted inequities of agreements we as nations may enter into.

In this day and age the adage that knowledge is power has never been truer, never more necessary.

I have found that with what little I have come to know a greater appreciation for our people and ways has resulted-that the contrasts have become more obvious, shadows illuminated, and the value of our wisdom, our beliefs, enhanced.The needs more apparent.

Many of the topics we have discussed in this blog can be seen in Twain’s words-patriots and liberators who set themselves apart in their land and under their own banner.

Sneering not only at tribal convention but the traditional beliefs of their own people and that of the other nations.

They have had their “security” forces that were also assassins and heavy handed intimidators.

In the existence of various chapters they seek to make inroads into that of others while defending against like efforts, inroads into the sovereignty of nations other than their own-and they have for decades sought to wash the blood from their hands with their mouth, their words-this very same talk of brotherhood-yet the only brotherhood that has existed is one of silence, denial, greed, and deceit.

They are as Twain said-the lowest among us.

Makataimeshekiakiak – said essentially the same long before Twain: “How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.”

Little did he know it would have application for some among our own, and in doing so would speak to a greater avarice and greed, a greater betrayal.

That it is a standard, a metric, an indictment, that is not bound by ethnicity, nor the color of one’s skin, hair, eyes, nor the sound and cadence of the language they speak.

It is not Arapaho, Hopi, American, European, Cheyenne, Tewa, Dineh, Lakota, Comanche, Pima, Papago, Mexican, African, or singularly any nation-it is what is in the heart, or more pointedly what is lacking within it.

We have fallen and continue to fall-not in battle, not with honor, but at the hands of pillagers, murderers, and rapists-beguiled by words and our own pent up frustrations-a terrible need, a longing to strike back-to say we are a people not willing to endure more, no longer willing to have our children and aged live in poverty and the generational inequities of treaties and oppressive policies that determine our lives, mandate our rights and movement.

In this poverty, this frustration, we have turned upon ourselves, casting the very nature of who we are aside and replacing it with drugs and alcohol, rape and abuse, crime and corruption, when it is they we should have cast aside, driven from our midst…..and all the while they have found a way make a profit from every level of our misery.

We pace the confinement of the cage constructed for us-gnawing at our foot to free it from the steel trap that crushes it.

We found ourselves in a similar position to the German’s under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, and like them listened to the voices of men who spoke of pride and revival, only to be plunged into a greater abyss.

The destruction that was WK2 is evidence of that, a revival of Sherman’s scorched earth policy-their willingness to sacrifice any or all of us-they have prospered while we have suffered.

It is our homes, our families who have borne the brunt-ours who have done without while they and theirs have not. They vacation and fly about the country while we struggle to put food on the table and clothes on our children’s and elders back, shoes on their feet, and a blanket when the snow swirls and the wind howls.

We raise our voice in protest-we seek to help another with no expectation of compensation – yet they demand tribute, the pieces of silver, as though an entitlement, and determine the effort they bring based not on the merit of an issue but the size of the fee they will receive and the level of publicity.

They sell a brand, an over inflated name of canned goods-whose ingredients if read would be passed over for the toxins and artificial contents contained within.

Government issued canned meat and processed cheese rebranded and presented as liberator prime and the finest of aged cheddar. Autographed jars of syrup -dented, swollen cans filled with what they claim is the nutrition of their wit and wisdom- a little something to feed the soul while we await the deliverance that will come and somehow linked to their personal wealth.

What manner of men are these-and what manner of people is it who will listen to, defend, or follow such as they? Are we to continue being slain by the jawbones of asses?

TRUTH AS ” HATE SPEECH”

This is a fairly recognizable poster, it’s been around the internet for some time – the answer to the posed question of who will be indicted next is NO ONE.

The fix is in, it’s been in. That’s been made abundantly clear and the question that should accompany these photos is not who will be indicted next but who is the next snitch that will be exposed?

By employing AIM’s definition it is well established that both Russell Means and Dave Hill were.

A breakdown in the official wall of silence occurred when South Dakota AG Marty Jackley announced that Means had not only “assisted” him in developing a case against John Graham and Thelma Rios pertaining to the abduction murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash but also assisted other law enforcement agencies as well.

AIM’s word for that has always been “snitch” leaving them in the midst a conundrum of sorts, If they attempt to defend Means or deny his snitch status then they are obliged to do the same for those who have spoken against them, testified in any AIM related case, or provided information.

Left with a bare minimum of options, and none of the good from their viewpoint, they have elected to opt for the lesser of the perceived evils and remain silent.

No one, NO ONE, that I am aware of anywhere on the net or this blog has attempted such a defense. Ask yourself why?

AIM of course would rather exist on a diet of buffalo chips ( which is probably a dietary staple for them anyway) than address anything related to such troubling and high risk topics.

Curious isn’t it that an organization that has employed “paranoia”, moles, snitches, and provocateurs as the mea culpa of choice hasn’t anything to say about the venerable “statesmen” Means snitch status?

But then the perception may well be if they did people might then say maybe others were as well and begin following the bread crumbs.

Curious isn’t it as well that no mention is made on AIM satellite sites like LRI or the RoL as they go on about all the inequities and a sincere desire to address them?

With the talk of constructing a “library” to “honor” Means maybe some consideration should be given to making it an adjunct to the Hoover building or that monolith in Utah the NSA calls home.

Dave Hill was outed decades ago after bombing Mt. Rushmore and being allowed to walk away without a single indictment hanging over his head.

In addition to that immediately following his get out of jail free pass he was arrested on state charges of possessing a handgun the serial number had been filed off and then SD career politician, and drunken vehicular life taker Bill Janklow stepped in and the charges were dropped in the “public interest”. What definition of in the public interest was employed to dust Hill off, give him a cookie, and send him on his way?

John Trudell has gone on for years about an “agent provocateur” within the AIM ranks insisting the path to discovery begins at the Custer Court House – but like those fan dancers of Burlesque fame reveals only enough to leave his audience wanting more – the question that should be directed to Trudell since a contingent of the usual media attention seeking AIM leadership were there and Hill was the one to throw the first punch that began the fracus is he implying Hill is the provocateur? Seems logical to me that if you want to provoke a confrontation you would throw a punch.

Maybe Trudell would have us look not at Hill, a Dennis Banks invitee to join AIM and become a member of his personal cadre of security bumbling dolts and Keystone Cops, but at Means or one of the other “liberators”. Either way though the field of candidates is finite.

Something else that should be looked into is whether or not Hill had a previous history of criminal charges being dropped prior to joining AIM? If so the plot would thicken as they say.

Now I don’t know much about child support cases other than people can go to jail for non payment – Hill didn’t, and it would be interesting to see who intervened in his behalf or if he did in fact make good on any payments in arrears and kept them current following that.

Of the remaining individuals in the above rogues gallery it’s my opinion shared by others that at least the AIM leadership as a whole probably rolled over at one point or another if we look at  their ability to either walk from charges, never be charged, or being able to “plea bargain” their sentence down to a minimum as a convicted “major drug dealer”.

Dennis Banks is an interesting case in point. The man his bromance partner Russell Means said had  the ability to make people disappear – Annie Mae and Perry Ray Robinson Jr. are prime examples.

Banks having been tape recorded instructing Chris Westerman to dispose of Ray’s body makes him at the very least an accessory after the fact to murder.

This taped recording should have at a minimum led to an effort by law enforcement to conduct a search and recovery effort for Ray’s remains…..but didn’t, and everyone should be asking why?

In addition Banks ability to immediately identify Annie’s body upon discovery from a considerable distance, as in more than a thousand miles away, before anyone else could should raise a few eyebrows and questions, yet no charges have ever been brought against him related to either incident.

Consider the fact also that Westerman apparently enjoyed a measure of trickle down immunity from Banks as it would have been impossible to go after him and leave Banks unscathed. Sounds more than a little suspicious doesn’t it?

The way of it seems to be if you’re going to commit crimes you should also be an informant to insure a free hand, or at the most a slap on the wrist.

Dennis Banks, the “warrior” who fled the scene of the Oregon RV stop as did another “warrior” by the name of Leonard Peltier, both of who obviously felt it wasn’t “a good to die” but one to abandon women, one pregnant who gave birth during her detention.

Dennis Banks who undoubtedly stayed in contact with his “security” lap dog Leonard Peltier keeping him apprised of all events as Peltier by his own words wandered back and forth across the U.S./Canadian border.

In Banks having done so Peltier would have known about the “tribunal” that issued the fatwah for Annie.

I personally believe that if Peltier didn’t have a vote in the “tribunal”, which I suspect he did, he nonetheless knew, encouraged, and appreciated the decision that was made.

It’s also more than a little suspicious that the DOJ operating under the tenure of USAG Eric Holder has announced that yes, AIM did kill Annie and Ray, but they aren’t interested in pursuing such old cases.

This is about as close as the public will ever come to the particulars unless a whistleblower emerges.

The official position is the feds don’t give up an informant while they’re alive – Means no longer is and although it wasn’t the feds who gave him up he nonetheless was outed by law enforcement – Banks, Hill, and Clyde remain among the living so we shouldn’t expect much in the way of official announcements, nor do I think we can in their passing as it could open an entirely different can of worms that might very well  involve not only governmental agencies but also politicians in key positions related to the nations.

What has been established is that Means was an informant at least when it came to the case Jackley was building, what I’d like to know is what else did Means snitch about, for how long, and to whom?

I also would like to challenge anyone to describe Means snitch status to be something other than AIM’s definition of a snitch or as being in the spirit of Crazy Horse.

Murder is allegedly a crime without a statute of limitations, yet new statutes seem to have been written when it comes to the cigar store internet construct ndns of the AIM leadership and by extension select minions. Gun violence and Lives Matter? Really? Could have fooled me.

I’d like to think that somewhere in the government there is at least one lone individual who would prioritize truth and justice by stepping up and revealing the truth, all of it, but that’s probably as much a fantasy as believing AIM is a “spiritual organization” composed of liberators and patriots who operate in the spirit of Crazy Horse.

A feature of the leaderships survival mode is to stay lawyered up applying generous amounts of super glue to themselves and attorneys like Bruce “I’m taking the Fifth” Ellison and Charles Abourzek who inserted himself into Arlo Looking Cloud’s pre trial preparations in an effort to discover what testimony Arlo would give and how wide the loop might be employing a process of something referred to as “psycho drama”.

Strange isn’t it that inspite of Arlo’s statements that Abourezk was present at Bill Means house when the call came to murder Annie Arlo’s attorney would have allowed Abourezk any form of contact with Arlo?

Abourezk has portrayed his contact with Arlo as being ex parte, a sort of friend of the court whose sole purpose was to facilitate Arlo’s defense, apparently with the belief that no one would notice the law firm owned by both and he his father not only represented various AIM members but had a long history of doing so – a clear conflict of interest.

The very law firm where Russell Means spent his day release under the guise of water rights expert during his one year sentence for his Custer conviction. Really? Russell was better versed in the legal ins and out of such rights, had a greater access to case law, his knowledge and understanding were so encyclopedic his assistance was essential?

And what about those water rights and the combined effort of the Abourezk and Means collaboration? Anyone want to tell me what benefit to the nations was secured?

I’ll conclude this post with an additional question – why was it necessary to abduct Annie from California and return her to Pine Ridge if it was simply about an interrogation? That would be PR where Means said nothing AIM related could take place without his knowledge and consent.

PR, where the participation of various Means family members and AIM friendly attorney Bruce Ellison in Annie’s interrogation took place at the WKLDC office.

PR, where the call came to murder her was taken at Russell’s brother Bill’s house and where she was buried in a hurried faux traditional ceremony by a bunch of pretenders who neither knew anything about tradition, cared about, or respected them.

In consideration of location, those involved, motive, and Mean’s proclaimed warlord status anyone doubting Means was unaware until 1999 as he claimed is either a fool, owned outright by AIM, or both.

I’d be interested in knowing if Jackley and Means ever discussed the AIM murder of Perry Ray Robinson jr. at WK2, or the multiple unmarked graves, if so what did Means have to say about that? Who did Means point the finger at to divert attention away from himself and family members?

AIM has attempted for decades to portray any who speak the truth against them as “haters” – I submit the opposite is true, they hate the truth.

ANYONE CARE TO OFFER AN EXPLANATION ?

I’m given to wonder about things at times, to look for motivations, or an existing logic if one exists.

Here’s a few things to ponder – in view of America’s long running “war on drugs” and the approach that’s been taken even to extraditing Foreign Nationals to be tried in this country as major drug dealers how is it an individual with the same classification could be arrested, convicted, and serve only a couple of years?

Does a different standard apply to home grown major drug dealers? I don’t believe court records would show they do unless there were mitigating circumstances like the detainee “co operating”, which is a euphemism for rolling over, commonly referred to as snitching.

I think there exists little doubt that among the AIM leadership and associates at least Russell Means and Dave Hill snitched – I’d also say it isn’t doubtful to take a look at Clyde Bellecourt – that’s right, Clyde Bellecourt, the self styled oracle of the 7th generation.

How so you might ask?

Well to begin with Clyde was busted for dealing drugs and classified a major drug dealer. Even more heinous under state and federal guidelines he dealt out of a school in addition to the Little Earth housing project, doesn’t matter that he said he did for it AIM…that “spiritually” based organization.

So you’ve got a major drug dealer dealing out of a school and he only does less than two years.

Now with the alleged animosity that existed between state and federal law enforcement and AIM plus the fact Clyde was already an ex con two years seems suspiciously lenient doesn’t it?

On the other hand if Clyde did roll over and saved himself from a much stiffer sentence it wouldn’t hardly do to grant probation and turn him loose would it?

if that had of been the case red flags would have gone up all over the place, after all  in view of the classification, location, and conviction appearances had to be maintained.

Clyde was able to “plea bargain” his way down to lesser charges, the question in my mind is what was the nature of the “bargain” considering Clyde got busted selling to an undercover cop and was found to be in possession of something like a $125,000 worth of drugs.

Another question is where did the seed money come from for Clyde to begin his drug business?

Did various AIM chapter/fiefdoms and petty warlords kick in? Did it come from donation scams or redirected grant money? From the CPUSA or foreign despots they cozied up to? After all it wasn’t like any of these guys actually worked for a living, they were “compensating” themselves with organizational money in their appointed positions as CEOs.

I don’t know what the exact figure would be but I imagine $125,000 in mid eighties money would probably be the equivalent of four or five hundred thousand dollars today.

I understand these are difficult and possibly embarrassing questions for the Oracle and his followers , and I don’t expect any sort of rebuttal to be forthcoming – and really, there’ s no need to go to through the drama and extravagance of one of those Mall floor flops.

I mean what’s going on here? Dave Hill commits an act of domestic terrorism in bombing Mt. Rushmore and walks from the charges – Russell Means most certainly must have been involved in the decision making process to abduct Annie and transport her to PR where she was murdered based upon his own words that PR was his personal fiefdom where nothing AIM related took place without his knowledge and consent and the known involvement of his family members at various stages, yet the prosecutor who handled the trial of Annie’s shooter says Russell was clean and in fact assisted the investigation.

Dennis Banks was recorded on a wiretap instructing Chris Westerman to bury AIM murder victim Perry Ray Robinson jr. and is able to identify Annie’s body to his cohorts before anyone else can and he’s never charged with anything related to either murder.

Then you have Clyde Bellecourt the major drug dealer, an ex con who gets a pittance of a five year sentence and does less than two years of it.

The Cosa Nostra and the Mafia wish they could lead such a charmed life, receive a comparable preferential treatment.

So, we’ve got Dave Hill offering to roll over, an official denial that he did inspite of walking away scot free, Russell Means boasting to Annie’s daughter that he knew who had murdered her mother but gave his “word” not to reveal the name and Dennis Banks who should have been arrested and charged on the basis of more evidence than others have historically been charged and convicted upon, and a major drug dealer receiving what amounted to a slap on the wrist.

Anyone care to offer an explanation or opinion how all this could be?

RUSSELL MEANS – SNITCH REDUX

uh huh, “might help solve other cold cases from Wounded Knee” – an assumption based on what, that a federal interest actually exists to do so?

If so somebody in the DOJ needs to verify that rather than the USAG issuing statements they have no interest in pursuing cases forty years old.

“Jackley said, however, that he got to know Means over many years and believes he had nothing to do with the criminal conspiracy to kill Aquash, although Jackley said Means had been involved in an earlier murder and other crimes.”

Really? Not withstanding the fact that Annie was taken to and murdered on the Pine Ridge reservation, or that a variety of family members were directly involved? That she was interrogated at the wkldc office with his bud attorney Bruce Ellison and family members present?

Doesn’t matter that the call to murder her was taken at his Brother Bill’s?

All this went on behind the man’s back who said nothing AIM related could take place on PR without his express knowledge and consent? BULLSHIT!!!!!

” Means also aided Jackley and others in law enforcement in the case, Jackley said.”

Means “aided” law enforcement? By his and AIM’s standard that makes him a snitch, a fed, rat, and all the other titles they’re so willing to bestow on anyone who speaks against them.

Couple this with being an “informant” and the acknowledgment that Means was involved in other murders and crimes and it suddenly begins to look like good ol’ Russ got a pass doesn’t it? A little of that immunity.

Maybe if the question of whether he was were to be asked the response might be similar to the one given about Dave “Mr. X” Hill, though a variation on not giving up an informant while they’re alive would be necessary.

Yeah, a library needs to be erected in his honor, and he should always be referred to as “a great statesman”. And let’s not forget he was a modern day Crazy Horse, liberator, and patriot….again, BULLSHIT!!!!!

If you haven’t read the below linked article you should, if you already have you should again and ask yourself a few questions.

I’ve stated repeatedly my long held belief is that one or more of the AIM leadership rolled over if and when it served them.

Point undeniably proven now related to Means….now what about the rest of them?

http://www.capjournal.com/news/jackley-aquash-case-might-help-solve-other-cold-cases-from/article_4d07ab1c-c164-11e4-8994-2f1bd10207aa.html

YUP….AIM KILLED ‘EM

You know, what kind of piques my interest are various statements that have been made over the years related to what appears to be AIM’s teflon coating when it comes to prosecuting them for the assorted murders they committed.

One such example would be the murder of Perry Ray Robinson Jr at what has become known as Wounded Knee 2.

There are multiple AIM versions related to this that depend on whose fronting for AIM at the moment and which lie they elect to advance, the more  egregious versions coming from Carter Camp who seemed to have a new adaptation every time he addressed the subject.

The DOJ not long ago actually admitted that indeed Robinson was killed by AIM at WK2. Kind of a bold admission you might think but not necessarily so as they also announced they aren’t interested in pursuing cases forty years or more old.

This of course served to strengthen the conviction and contention of many who believe the feds have some form of complicity not in the actual murder itself but related to an informant they had within the ranks that might have been involved in the shooting of Ray.

An hypothesis at best as there isn’t much to verify it as it remains unproven save for an abundance of circumstantial evidence – nonetheless it is a scenario, perhaps the only one that makes any sense, that explains the hands off approach and winnows the field of suspects.

Dave Hill who was not only present in his capacity as gofer and security team member for Dennis Banks has been said to be the shooter by more than one person, and if the past is prologue seems to wear the informant label as comfortably as an old pair of jeans from the Custer Court House incident to the bombing of Mt. Rushmore and the interrogation of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash at the WKLDC office on Pine Ridge following her abduction from California prior to her murder.

Among Hill’s various capacities within AIM was that of resident bomb maker, reasonable to assume that would include  incendiary devices and acts of arson – part of AIMs methodology.

Hill along with the other half of dumb and dumber, Leonard Peltier, coerced Annie into participating in the making of bombs once she had been labelled a snitch by AIM’s resident witch doctor and wannabe youtube televangelist clone Leonard Crow Dog – the same person whose performances included being wrapped and bound in a blacked out room to then be freed by spirits he called upon – kind of a B grade imitation of Houdini.

Those spirit helpers might have been a little hard of hearing as sometimes it took hours to achieve the desired results and wow the handpicked audience……but hey, Crow Dog is the self proclaimed “chief of chiefs”, “professor of the University of the Universe” whatever that is, and a believer of the “prosperity doctrine”… a personalized version related to the selling of ceremonies.

A convert being Dennis Banks who will sell anything related to the nations that isn’t tied down.

But back to Hill, the man whose one time woman Thelma Rios said was a cop and always had been. Thelma Rios who after Annie’s arrival at PR said it was Hill who escorted her to the interrogation beating at the WKLDC office where Means relatives and bud attorney Bruce Ellison were awaiting her.

 Hill, who let it be known that if AIM didn’t spring him from jail following his arrest for bombing Rushmore he’d start talking – the man who was released sans charges for that very bombing, then immediately arrested on a state weapons charge which were then dropped in the “interest of the public”.

Seems reasonable to assume Hill carried through with his threat, began talking, and a deal was cut.

Doesn’t help much that when asked federal agent Zigrossi replied that Hill had offered his services but didn’t really have anything to offer and was declined, then threw the denial into question by saying the feds don’t give up an informant while they’re alive – ergo. they wouldn’t tell you if he was.

Hill didn’t have much to offer being an AIM insider residing in the Banks camp as part of Banks personal entourage? Right, and Bugs Bunny never says “what’s up doc?”

All of which brings us back to the matter of complicity, how that is interpreted and to what degree an individual or agency is complicit.

If Hill was indeed an informant then the feds are complicit in two ways – one being the lack of prosecution and the other being what amounts to a coverup and by strict interpretation the obstruction of justice.

They would have found themselves in the same position as the AIM leadership did when Peltier murdered at least one of the agents at Jumping Bull – neither the feds nor the AIM leadership were direct  participants, but being as Peltier and Hill were their respective boys shit as they say runs downhill and posed at the very least a public relations threat for both.

One of their boys had crossed the line and kicking him to the curb would involve some serious risk, what ensued has an air of predictability about it.

AIM bites the bullet and makes their flunky Peltier (commonly referred to as Dumb as Dirt) the poster boy for every affront the nations have ever endured while the feds conduct an “ongoing investigation” for decades that culminates in yup, AIM killed ’em but it’s an old case and were not going to pursue it.

Now this isn’t a novel opinion I’ve recently arrived it, rather one I’ve held for a long time as have others including indigenous journalists and investigative reporters who had greater access than I.

Complicity if it exists doesn’t change my focus though as the priority is our backyard, what goes on in it and who among our own are responsible, who actually pulls the trigger, lights the fire, or steals “donations” for their own personal use is and always been the priority metric in any culture that has ever existed, and I can see no reason to change that now to accommodate a gang of thugs.

The problem with layering criminals with teflon is once that occurs the adage of in for a penny in for a pound becomes the way it, both sides become entangled in the same web – if they continue committing crimes the identical threat that existed originally remains, only amplified, and that apparently becomes the determining factor.

It’s kind of like a form a reciprocal blackmail or extortion, a game of if you tell on me I’ll tell on you – jail for one and exposure and possible civil litigation for the other.

Nothing novel about another often mentioned belief of mine that the AIM leadership in addition to being a nest of vipers may well have been home to and the cover story for multiple “snitches” as it personally served their best interests – that’s the leadership, not just flunkies and gofers.

That belief has been validated in part by South Dakota Attorney General Jackley when he stated Russell Means “assisted” various law enforcement agencies.

Attention should be paid to the word various, as in more than one – but then Means always loved an audience and willing to go wherever one could be found. Once having begun speaking Means could drone on for hours such was his infatuation with his own voice and has led me to think of him as the Rush Limbaugh of the nations.

Now that’s an FOIA document I’d really to see, the file on Charles Russell Means, and a little surprised that the survivors of the “great statesman” haven’t taken public issue with such a revelation by Jackley, or at least attempted to spin it if it has no basis in fact…if Russell wasn’t a “snitch” by the same standard AIM has labelled others with.

Obviously one of those hot potatoes that if acknowledged in any manner might impact the myth created to cover the flim flam man and the ongoing effort to cash in on it.

I’m curious about just how long Means carried that honorary badge, did the reserve cop slash Doug Durham thing?

Did it begin in ’99 when Robert Branscombe a relative of Annie’s appeared on the scene digging and poking around, sort of of a loose cannon presenting the threat of exposure and Means felt compelled to co opt the press conference to point fingers away from himself and family members, or was he already working both sides of the fence prior to that?

Did he segue into that undercover position during his tenure at the Abourezk law firm guided by their legal advice, or was it instinctual as a matter of self preservation?

I suppose Means felt obliged to since multiple members of his family were involved in the abduction, beating, and murder of Annie Mae.

If we are to speak of complicity Means cannot be left out of the equation as no one can really be dumb enough to believe the man who said nothing AIM related could happen on PR without his knowledge and approval wasn’t in the loop one way or another….Pine Ridge, where Annie was taken and murdered, where Perry Ray Robinson Jr. and those in wk2 unmarked graves were likewise murdered.

I also wonder if during his tenure as informant if the subject of the murder of Perry Ray Robinson Jr. ever came up, if so what did Means divulge about that, who did he point the finger at?

There are those who link Durham to the death of Jancita Eagle Deer, not murdering her but having beaten and abandoning her on a darkened road where she was struck and killed by a car – a linkage in the form of a contributing factor.

Yet these same people would rather cut their tongue out than even hint of complicity on the part of Means related to the murder of Annie Mae or Ray – that’s standard operating procedure for Shaimsters though.

I imagine that members of the leadership are kept apprised of what is said in this blog and other venues, though not a leader I imagine Hill is as well – in view of that I invite any or all of them to submit a rebuttal and we can take it from there….that would be the grand personages themselves, those “chiefs, liberators, and warriors”.

Not an underling or flunky…. though if any who fall into that category care to comment have at it if they are capable of answering a direct question.

In doing so the prerequisite will be responding to the question was Russell Means a snitch by the very standard AIM as employed to label others?

As to being kept informed I know Peltier is due to the efforts of his faithful companion SB, sort of a Pinky and The Brain thing – though it might be more accurate to say Pinky and The Brainless.