JOHN GRAHAM – LAND, LAUNDRY, OR KITCHEN WARRIOR?

To say the John Graham Defense Committee has fallen on hard times is to ignore the fact that it never actually got off the ground in the first place.

Graham the so called “land warrior” convicted in the abduction, rape, and murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash has done his best to portray himself as an innocent wrongly convicted merely on the basis of being an “activist” for indigenous rights.

Sounds familiar doesn’t it? It is almost a verbatim copy of another so called “wrongly convicted warrior” by the name of Leonard Peltier.

As fellow convicts Graham and Peltier pled each others case, exchanged verbal friendship rings, and publicly commiserated about the injustice of actually being held accountable for their actions.

A sweetheart deal short in duration as public sentiment turned and a body of evidence began to lead to questions as Peltier’s sonnets for Graham became tainted when Peltier’s own cousin and one time upper echelon member of LPDOC Robert Robideau declared the evidence related to Graham’s guilt was undeniable and he personally would be glad to see Graham extradited from Canada and tried in court, going so far in his denunciation to make multiple demands of Graham’s site that they drop all references to Peltier.

Robideau along with a large number of others got their wish – Graham was extradited, tried, found guilty, and is now serving a life sentence.

Additionally the AIM leadership understood they would be spreading themselves thin if they lined up behind Graham in the same manner they did Peltier.

Defending Peltier served a purpose as a smoke screen to divert attention from themselves and as another potential money making scam.

Graham on the other hand had nothing to offer as they scrambled to profess their love for Annie, in the end they gave Graham up acknowledging that he did in fact murder Annie.

Peltier having seen which way the wind was blowing made a u turn and notably pedaled away divesting himself of his previous claim that he didn’t want to see or be involved in the “wrongful conviction” of another indigenous man.

The subtext obviously being that he, Peltier, was one such man and no less a lie than Graham’s similar claims.

Additionally the Peltier camp may have thought donations going to Peltier could be impacted if Graham was included.

The obstacle for Graham, AIM, and Peltier is that they can never stay on the same page – revisions are routinely made by one or the other without prior notification or consultation which then requires a clean up crew.

Graham’s defense has been for the most part cartoonish from first denying any knowledge to having transported an unbound Annie at her request from California where she was abducted by himself, Arlo Looking Cloud, and Theda Nelson Clark to a “safe house” in of all places Pine Ridge where she was murdered, to the really childishly imaginative taking of a DNA sample by the feds from a park bench where the “land warrior” sat following an interview as a means to set him up.

Even more bizarre is there are those who have seized on the “Lies of John Graham” as absolute truth and propagated them.

Among the self styled sleuths and quasi apologists who have made an effort to either mitigate or absolve Graham has been an attempt to make Graham’s age a factor when he committed his crimes, as though abduction, rape, and murder only have consequences at some specific time in a persons life.

I’ve often wondered what this age of accountability should be? Is it the legal majority of 18, 21, or later in life – maybe 30 or 40?

If a person is old enough to abduct, rape, and murder then they’re old enough to face the consequences.

I would have phrased the above sentence differently by using the word man rather than person but I’ve never considered Graham to be a man in any meaningful sense of the word.

A part of the misbegotten contrived defense such as it is and has been is that Graham was just a young “foot soldier” being led around by the nose by adoptive aunt Theda Clark – I don’t interpret that as much of defense for Graham being the trigger man and it wasn’t a theory advanced during his trial.

In addition to the array of 23 witnesses at Graham’s trial has been the paucity of donations to the defense fund for wrongly accused political prisoners – Peltier cornered that venue long ago and there’s only so much to go around leaving Graham in the position of a foundling temporarily taken in not truly accepted and then cast aside.

I don’t know what Graham’s up to now, he may be a prison laundry or kitchen warrior having sought and found his particular niche in life, but one thing I do know is Graham never was a land warrior nor a political prisoner.

And like Peltier was never a founder, leader, or voice of any consequence within AIM – but like Peltier an unknown thrust into the spotlight following murder.

Who knows, maybe if Graham outlasts Peltier his “political” fortunes will take an upturn – but I kinda of doubt it as I tend to to believe the political prisoner thing has been overdone and people aren’t necessarily as gullible as they once were.

http://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/graham.htmlhttp://indigenouswomenforjustice.org/graham.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/05/18/the-murder-of-our-mother-anna-mae-pictou-aquash/

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/

CREDENTIALS

“There’s only one Committee. The ILPDC is planning/managing the only official freedom campaign for Leonard Peltier (in concert with Leonard and his attorneys). You may see public or Internet-based fundraising efforts not endorsed or managed by the ILPDC. Beware. These are not approved actions and the fundraising isn’t being done on behalf of the Committee. Only credentialed chapters of the ILPDC and selected partners are authorized to raise funds in Leonard’s name. Therefore, we encourage donors to always ask for a fundraiser’s credentials and/or check with the ILPDC as to the legitimacy of any fundraising effort conducted by an individual or organization other than the ILPDC. Thank You.”

Asking for credentials, the above quote from the ILPDC’s latest fundraising attempt.

Not a bad idea when donating money to any cause or charity. But should it end there, or should there be some sort of transparency and accountability?

I’d say the obvious answer is yes, yet we all know that really isn’t often the case and a donation should be the result of faith – an understanding that it will go directly to the expressed purpose.

Charities and fundraising are big business with literally millions of dollars accumulated annually and when digging a little deeper people are often shocked to discover that the majority of money goes to “overhead”.

A kind of metaphor for salaries, what amount to perks, and even questionable activities.

The Peltier fund raising machine has been called upon for literally decades to open the books, to display regard so for those who have contributed by doing so, to give a full accounting, and yet that hasn’t been the case.

During the combined history of the LPDOC and ILPDC issues have been raised about whether either qualified as a “charity” and donations were in fact tax deductible.

I believe the charity and tax deductible approach has found a work around by collecting it through the so called Indigenous Rights Center as a legal and educational fund.

Secrecy has been a hallmark of Peltier, a lot of talk and accusations about conspiracies and foul play.

Among those accusations have been Peltier’s treatment as a “political prisoner” while incarcerated – that it has been unjust and Peltier is routinely targeted by his keepers either when it comes to disciplinary actions or medical needs.

If such claims are valid verifying them to some extent or another would in theory be possible by Peltier signing off on the release of both his disciplinary and parole board hearing records – yet secrecy seems to have dictated that he does not and the question should arise why is it so difficult to merely affix one’s signature to a piece of paper?

Comparatively it could be asked why was it so difficult to abandon the Mr.X did it story? The obvious answer is in doing so other questions arose and it could well be the same with transparency related to fund raising and those records Peltier refuses to sign off on.

Peltier’s approach has taken another turn – he now says what transpired at Jumping Bull was tragic, that it never should have taken place, that he feels a certain amount of remorse – but what he’s saying is the bottom line is not whether you believe he is innocent or guilty only that he has spent forty years behind bars, and even if you believe he is guilty he deserves to be set free on the basis of that alone.

Peltier is in the eleventh hour of life now, time is running out and there is little left to salvage – he can either come clean and in doing so secure his position of having been little more than a thug all of his life or he can stay the course in the hope of being remembered as the “warrior” he never was.

I have no sympathy for Peltier, he made the bed he’s been lying in and unlike his victims his bed has been above ground.

I further believe Annie Mae Pictou Aquash can be added to list of Peltier victims whether he pulled the trigger or not – had it not of been for his boasting in front of her and others that he indeed shot at point blank range at least one federal agent after previously branding her an informant, interrogating her at gunpoint, and bemoaning the fact that he didn’t have truth serum to administer, not to mention the coercion of Annie by he and Dave Hill in the making of bombs she might well be alive today – a grandmother doting on her grandchildren and regaling them with stories of when she was a little girl.

Peltier has spent forty years in prison for murder(s) he committed, call it karma, justice, a travesty, or whatever you like – but what do you call the same forty years of Peltier spitting on the graves of victims, trashing the nations traditions, and pretending to be something he is not?

What do you call the grief of children growing up without their parent or the grief of spouses and family?

The real question is what exactly are Leonard Peltier’s credentials?

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/

LEONARD PELTIER AND ” I WILL “

The denial of Leonard Peltier’s parole goes far beyond tales of being a political prisoner or some heroic figure fighting off a planned invasion with the Jumping Bull area being the beach head.

The heart of the matter begins with the crimes committed, the abortive escape attempt when another life was lost, and the attempt by Peltier to have it both ways – stymied by the facts and his very own words, including those of fellow compatriots like Dino Butler who exposed the Mr.X lie for being what it was.

Doesn’t help that attorneys have come and gone through the revolving LPDOC/ILPDC doors and now assist others seeking closure for the murder of Perry Ray Robinson jr or support the survivors of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.

Didn’t help that a one time director of LPDOC and Peltier cousin, Robert Robideau, said he’d had enough, quit his position, and moved to Spain.

It doesn’t help either that a man who claims to be all things but what he is while authoring numerous complaints about his treatment in federal prison refuses to release both his parole board and disciplinary hearing records.

All things considered if what emanates from Peltier, ILPDC, and his supporters has any validity at all you’d think they’d be in favor of such a release.

But they aren’t, and for the same reasons Peltier isn’t – they understand it could knock the wheels off the medicine show wagon – no more elixir to sell, no more donations, and for certain the abandonment of calls for clemency by more than a few.

A number of celebrities have signed on in an “I will” promotion, meaning they will support clemency, but I wonder how many would step up and say I will when support is asked for Peltier to sign off and release what every supporter has a right to know?

It’s an exercise in futility to ask a Pelterite to offer their opinion in this blog about why he won’t or why he shouldn’t if they don’t feel he should – nonetheless the comment section is open if they care to.

I suspect that somewhere in those parole hearing records the name of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash is to be found – and while I make no claim, nor does anyone else I am aware of, that Peltier had a physical presence when she was abducted, raped, and murdered I haven’t a single doubt he was aware of the events from front to back and had input into the decision.

Though not a celebrity I say I won’t.

A LEGAL WAY

Well, to all the Peltierites here’s your boy and an inescapable truth – the “warrior” who would have you believe he lives his life in the spirit of Crazy Horse.

I wonder if any of his supporters are actually familiar with Crazy Horse, the kind of man he was – if so they would believe as I do that Peltier couldn’t carry Crazy Horse’s jock strap had he ever worn one, nor could a single one of the AIM leadership.

“Dumb as Dirt” as his associates nicknamed him, nothing more than a thug and gofer for Dennis Bank$, a “man” who wouldn’t hesitate to threaten a woman, and a “man” who undoubtedly had knowledge of and input in the decision to murder Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.

A “warrior” in the midst of boasting and saying he’d do it all again who now whimpers and pleads for others not to allow him to die in prison. 

P.T. Barnum would have loved this guy, not the “man” but the sheer hucksterism, the smoke and mirrors as misdirection to separate the rubes and marks from their money – to convince them that the freak show is the real article.

I’m given to understand a legal way exists if Peltier is released to access his parole board and disciplinary records, if so the myth will come to a screeching halt and culminate with a whimper.

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?

GENENTICALLY MODIFIED TRUTH REDUX

From 3-31-13
https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/genetically-modified-truth/

There’s a sort of trend on television now about reconstruction,a personal reconstruction where participants lose weight ( a good thing), remodel their homes, or undergo what is referred to as a makeover that involves hair styling, cosmetics, and the manner in which they dress.

No harm in any of this-especially if it leads to being healthier or a better self image-but I sometimes wonder if people really believe it’s all external, change what is visible and that’s good enough.

Television and movies are fixated on what works at the moment-a successful series will immediately spawn clones. A successful movie will become what is referred to as a franchise and sequels are the norm.

This is pretty much a fact of life-the mechanics of greed.

Ever notice how if a gas station appears on a corner it isn’t long before a rival appears on the opposite corner, or how the same holds true of fast food vendors?

I’ve often wondered what that’s about, but guess there’s a formula that works or they wouldn’t do it. Maybe it’s to create the illusion of choice-the reality is though whichever is selected isn’t really a healthy choice, and a part of the promotion is “convenience”-that’s why it’s referred to as fast.

But life isn’t about clones or sequels, it is the ultimate reality show . A show populated with heroes and villains, ne’er do wells, and good people striving to do their best.

AIM and the Peltierites have the longest running makeover show, despite the fact it’s never been nominated for an Emmy or Oscar. It’s been on the air for over four decades-kind of a wedding of various formats including soap operas. And like other programs have those who ritually tune in and won’t miss an episode.

They seemingly don’t care if the main characters emote like some pay per view wrestler or cultivate a certain persona, they actually believe it’s real-nothing scripted, and will carry the placards or adorn themselves with paraphenalia they can purchase that illustrates the depth of their commitment-they believe.

They want to believe. Maybe on some level even need to believe.

The AIM/Peltier vendors offer fast one stop shopping, and you can have it your way-it’s all prepackaged and doesn’t require any real effort-you just drive through, purchase what they’re selling, and you’re on your way.

None of that drudgery associated with actually doing any of the work yourself-they’ve done it all for you and you can take their word that it’s healthy and nutritious-that what they advertise as ingredients is the real deal.

Problem is what they offer is a GMT-a genetically modified truth, not even a GMO, which is a genetically modified organism.

Organism being the key word-as it speaks to something alive-and what AIM and Peltier offer was stillborn from the beginning and should be contested in the courts as adamantly as GMO’s are.

MacAim, MacLPDOC, MacPeltier – nothing digestible, kind of has a ring to it doesn’t it?

The next time they don their clown costumes and cosmetics as any drive by maybe they ought to toot the horn, but instead of waving it might be better, more to the point, to give them the finger.

Why not? They’ve been doing the same to everyone else for decades.

Every time I pass a McDonalds I think of Mary’s comment in the original post of a McCrapwich and can’t help but smile.

ROQUE DUENAS REDUX

Posted by rezinate on February 23, 2013
https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/roque-duenas/

Roque Duenas was of the Yaqui nation-not as well know a tribe as others but with a history of their own. They were not federally recognized as a distinct nation until 1978.

A little less than two years after Peltier’s escape from Lompoc Federal prison Roque Duenas and his nephew Henry Davis are murdered from what appears to be blows to their heads.

Davis’ body is found in 1981 along with a capsized boat they were fishing in-it isn’t until 1994 that Duenas body is discovered and identified.

A few stories have been floated about who the killer was and the motivation- one being a crazed fellow fisherman and the fact that Vernon Bellecourt considered Duenas to be an informant-another example of AIM’s musical chairs informant lottery.

It has been said that Duenas was involved with Peltier’s escape-I have no way of knowing if that has any validity or not, and it’s difficult to sift through the red herrings AIM and the Peltierites are noted for tossing out.

But a singular fact remains and stands out -Duenas had been labelled an informant by Vernon and AIM had issued a statement of giving a thirty day amnesty for any who were or suspected of being to step forward and identify themselves.

That statement was issued with a codicil that upon the expiration of the amnesty period AIM would take care it of themselves.

A bold statement issued as a death threat with no apparent legal consequence.

Interesting that Vernon made the comment on several occasions that he believed Annie and Roque to be the infamous informants known as A and B.

Another singular fact remains-Annie was also labelled an informant and likewise wound up dead.

“The Creator made ocean animals and allowed some to emerge onto land. Some evolved into a short human form: the Surem. These are the early ancestors of the Yaquis. The Surem lived in a time out of mind and were a peace-loving, gentle people who had no need for government. Life in the Sonoran desert was a harmonious perfection for the Surem until God spoke through a little tree and prophesied about new horticultural techniques, Christianity, savage invaders, and disunity. The Surem became frightened about parts of this message and transformed into taller, defensive farming people called Yaquis (Hiakim) or Yo’emem (The People)”

The People-the nations have always referred to themselves as the people, or human beings-yet since the arrival of Columbus have seldom been treated as though we are. We are The People, human beings-it is imperative we remember that and act as such.

http://www.lasculturas.com/aa/vs_EdithYaqui.htm

A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL REDUX

A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL
Posted by rezinate on November 16, 2012

There’s also Peter Matthiessen’s unwitting indictment, firmly placing Peltier inside the murder window, standing over the bodies of two federal agents with their heads blown off:

“I seen Joe when he pulled it out of the trunk and I looked at him when he put it on, and he gave me a smile.”.

Peltier commenting on Joe Stuntz, wearing Jack Coler’s FBI jacket, as quoted from Matthiessen’s, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

Until the 1999 CNN interview, inmate Peltier swore he had never gone down to where the injured FBI agents were, by their bureau cars. How many lies does it take before Peltier supporters get a clue?

The above from Leonard Peltier Still Guilty.

An interesting coincidence as within the last week in conversations with friends we had been discussing ITSOCH and this very incident as related in the book.

I’ve taken a break from blogging about Peltier during the last few blogs, but time to mount up again

ITSOCH is always referenced as a source in these defense attempts, but the book itself is riddled with indictments that contradicts much of what it says, and does so using Peltier’s own words.

For decades Peltier claimed he never went to Williams and Coler’s car, never saw the aftermath, and didn’t take part in what amounted to the looting of it.

This despite after the Oregon RV fiasco where both he and Banks fled like scared rabbits leaving women behind to fend for themselves and one of the agents handguns was found with Peltier’s print on it.

Of course Peltier maintained that story until confronted with Robideau’s own words which squarely placed him there during an interview where he made a stumbling, mumbling, near incoherent admission.

But for those who have read ITSOCH Peltier’s presence is clearly described in quoting his own words as follows:

“I SEEN JOE WHEN HE PULLED IT OUT OF THE TRUNK AND I LOOKED AT HIM WHEN HE PUT IT ON, AND HE GAVE ME A SMILE.”

Peltier doesn’t say he saw Stuntz put on the jacket later in a different location- he says very clearly he saw Stuntz pull it out of the trunk and put it on, and that can only mean he, Peltier, was there.

So what can Peltier and the Peltierites offer as a defense or an attempt to deny? Not much I think.

They either have to say it is a lie and the book is inaccurate, thus raising doubts about the accuracy of every word written, or they can admit Peltier lied for all those years-not an enviable position.

But I suspect they will do as they have always done and choose to ignore yet another example of Peltier indicting himself and respond with another lie about such things as shell casings.

Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if those old days of CIA association Mathiessen had compelled him to drop a crumb here and there thinking others might notice it and follow the trail?

One thing I do know is that if the nations had a dollar for every lie told by Peltier and AIM poverty would be non-existent.

Peltier has tripped himself up repeatedly over the years, some of the quotes in earlier blogs attest to that, but as we see in the evolution that has taken place as more becomes known the defense emphasis, such as it is as, morphed from total innocence to that of judicial impropriety.

A tacit admission that has been as difficult to extract as a bad tooth. This is an age of lies and what people either want to believe or are led to believe.

We see this as being so in every level of society, from politics to wannabe anarchists. Conspiracy theories go hand in hand with this type of thing and some actually believe that the mere mention of them is a proof.

What is overlooked in fabricating one is that often the time line or sequence of events is altered, a point is ignored as being an inconvenient truth, but in doing so it can be likened to wearing a pair of mismatched socks-the difference is obvious, and only the blind would fail to notice.

No more based on Peltier’s own words can any say he was out of the country when Annie was murdered.

“I’d been in and out of Canada a half dozen times already. This is why this shit about me, this stuff about me fleeing into Canada and using that as a reason for conviction, fleeing to Canada and all this shit, that’s not true.”

No more can it be said that the motivation for killing Williams and Coler was anything other than Peltier believed they were coming after him for the Wisconsin warrant-nor can it be said by Peltier or anyone that as he has said he only shot in a direction where no one could be hit.

“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).

No more can it be said that he only found out about Annie’s murder while in jail in Canada.

“I think it was around that December when I heard that Anna Mae was dead. I was in that jail over there in Canada right around whenever they exposed who she really was and what she died from, but I believe I didn’t hear about it until December. When people say that she tried to contact me, that’s a lie. If she’d have tried to contact me then she would have been with me, and there’s no doubt in my mind because the Indian people knew where I was; certain people knew where I was at. “

The problem with this statement is that he wasn’t in jail in Canada until February of the following year-1976. And by his own admission that he was in and out of the country the question arises was he around in December of ’75? And if so what was he doing and who was he in contact with?

A mainstay, feeble as it is, has been that AIM was over run with informants and became paranoid-so somehow that justifies the murders they committed-yet Peltier takes issue with that in the below quote.

“THERE WEREN’T THAT MANY INFORMANTS, THERE WASN’T.”

In doing so he narrows the field for the motivation in killing Annie, and I say the biggest reason was his ignorant loudmouthed bragging in her presence that he “shot the mfer”-for surely AIM saw the risks involved Peltier’s guilt and association meant for them.

Their intent wasn’t to save Peltier but to save themselves-and in view of their history I think Peltier is fortunate the RCMP got to him before AIM did, or he too could be laying in an unmarked grave somewhere, or his lifeless body handed over.

What has resulted is the proverbial marriage made in hell-AIM and Peltier eternally linked as disgruntled spouses incapable of endangering the other without endangering themself, and staying together for the “benefit” of the their offspring….gangs and criminals.

In separating there would be no division of property, the only “asset” to be shared would be the guilt and the legal ramifications-a price neither side is willing to pay.

So they publicly display a domestic bliss that doesn’t exist and find themselves confined to the same bed they jointly made…. in a marriage made in hell.