AIMBART AND THE PELTIER GRAVY TRAIN

Well, I just had a conversation with a person who was intent upon extolling the virtues of AIM and Peltier, how Peltier got hosed in his clemency petition and feel compelled now to make this a twofer blog Saturday.
Too many hard questions and so they opted out of the discussion.

The Peltier gravy train isn’t as sustainable as it once was, nor for that matter is AIM’s.

I say gravy train as that’s exactly what it became for a number of people and “organizations”, a device to solicit donations, to make a few bucks and garner some personal attention under the pretense of being a champion of indigenous rights.

In addition Peltier has been a long running diversionary tactic to persuade the public to look anywhere but at the criminal acts and nature of the misnamed American Indian Movement.

A tactic that facilitated murders committed by AIM as not actually being self serving or criminal by intent but merely an understandable reaction to a government induced “paranoia”.

A fear not motivated by conscience for the commission of murder and crimes but one born of discovery and accountability.

Peltier has provided a platform for AIM to deny responsibility by portraying him as an innocent “political prisoner”, who but for the grace of god and the fact that others who aren’t indigenous could find themselves in the same position.

The public has about as much chance of finding out how much money has been made off the Peltier myth as they do of ever seeing Trump’s tax returns.

There isn’t even an associated lie about being under audit, it’s just silence and a talk to the hand.

The entire AIM scheme has included offshore accounts and what is often referred to as an underground economy – something off the books, sort of a cash and carry proposition with money streaming in from such diverse sources as the CPUSA and repressive Middle East regimes.

The AIM/Peltier propaganda and conspiracy effort is rivaled only by Brietbart – AIM even has Ministry of Information, a title they may have snagged as a result of their association with the CPUSA.

An essential element in maintaining the myth has been the refusal of Peltier to sign off for the release of his parole board hearing and disciplinary records – a survival mechanism he has wholeheartedly embraced.

Myths can at times become entangled with reality, and when they do it becomes the venue of spin and revision, of propaganda and Ministries of Information.

Such was the case involving the interrogation of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash by Peltier, an interrogation it’s reasonable to assume was ordered by Dennis Bank$ since Peltier was Bank$ boy.

An interrogation that involved a threat to life by Peltier sticking a gun in Annie’s mouth.

Doesn’t sound good does it? Doesn’t sound like a “warrior” or how a man would go about expressing the “love” he had for a “sister” does it?

So enter AIMbart and the spin – after years of ongoing outright denials Peltier is compelled to address the issue.

He does so by admitting he did interrogate Annie but never made any threats verbally or physically, and in the process once again favored words like love and sister.

Annie’s decomposing body is discovered some time after having been abducted and murdered by John Graham aided and abetted by his cohorts Arlo Looking Cloud and Theda Nelson Clark.

On the West Coast Bank$ readily identifies the body as being that off Annie, this days, even weeks before anyone else can and without Bank$ actually viewing the remains.

In the lead up to this Peltier is on the lam from the shootout he instigated at Jumping Bull in which two federal agents were killed.

A period of time when Peltier has stated he was in and out of the country and in touch with “certain people”.

Once again reasonable to assume at least one of these certain people were in the AIM hierarchy.

And as a result of Peltier boasting to Annie of having murdered at least one of the agents, who by that time surely wouldn’t have harbored any sisterly feelings towards him, Peltier and AIM quickly came to view her as a potential threat – reason enough in their minds to issue an AIM fatwah.

And so the sideshow began and a myth was born.

Everything from AIM/Peltier apologists insisting Annie was seen alive after her murder to the creation of the political prisoner myth and “defense” of paranoia.

No clemency? Go figure. But an apparent clemency or rewriting of the statutory limitations for the murders AIM committed at Wounded Knee 2 – facilitated perhaps by the revelation that AIM con man and blowhard Russell Means had “assisted” law enforcement in developing cases.

Which in turn brings me to an opinion I hold, that the AIM leadership were at times the very snitches they accused others of being who fell into their disfavor.

Bank$ was recorded on wiretap ordering Chris Westerman to dispose of Perry Ray Robinson jr’s body – one of AIM’s multiple WK 2 victims.

Now maybe I’m wrong, but doesn’t that qualify as being an accessory? And if you’re an accessory to murder doesn’t the law state that you are as guilty as if you pulled the trigger yourself?

If I’m correct then how do you get to walk away if you aren’t a snitch?

That’s a question I’ve asked multiple times regarding Dave Hill, another resident AIM thug who was able to walk away from federal charges of bombing Mt. Rushmore and then upon release have state weapons charges dropped at the behest of guess who? The feds.

The more you know, the more you’re willing to do the math, the more the entire AIM/Peltier myth is seen for what it is, a house constructed of cards.

A house whose mortar and nails very well may have been predicated upon a leadership willing to inform.

But keep sending those cards and letters folks, and while you’re at it don’t forget to stuff some money down the rat hole.

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/

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/

THE A AND B SIDE

 

Been having a discussion with a sister about informants and provocateurs within AIM related to the below linked articles, and that always leads to speculation about who were they?

For my money Dave Hill is one among however many – Doug Durham was a known informant and real piece of work but does he fit the bill when it comes to acting as provocateur?

I think that’s open to discuss for a couple of reasons – one being in his “reports” he seems to have always attempted to keep things from escalating out of hand, if he were inciting as part of his job it doesn’t seem like he wouldn’t be taking credit for a job well done – so maybe, maybe not.

Hill is a no brainer, from the Custer Court House where he started the fight, to Mt. Rushmore, and PR when Annie was interrogated and murdered his physical presence is well established and yet he always walked away or remained in the background.

DeLuca/Blackhorse fills the bill as well with the dropping out of sight, but consider this, it has become something of the accepted story to say the feds commonly inserted informants in couples, a man and a woman – the A and B side.

I can’t say if that’s true or not but inclined to doubt it at least in this case and believe it is something AIM has promoted in an attempt to mitigate the murder of Annie – to find or create sympathizers who would say well she was a snitch so no big deal – she was either the A or B side.

A group who buying into it and wanting to protect AIM at all costs would choose to remain silent, be supportive, and act as a buffer.

Something I’ve always wondered about is in Durham the feds had a direct pipeline to Bank$ and would have known where he was and what he was up to at all times, so how was Bank$ able to operate in the manner he did?

Means has been exposed as a snitch and I believe the reason for snitching is to gain something, a personal advantage, or immunity – so where does Means fit into all of this?

Was it singularly about protecting the role of family members in the murder of Annie and protecting himself since he was fond of saying nothing AIM related could take place on PR without his knowledge and consent?

And if that is true then he must have authorized Annie being abducted and taken to PR where she was raped, interrogated, and murdered – and that makes him a major player in multiple related crimes.

An additional question is what and who did Means give up and over what period of time?

Russell’s aunt Theda Nelson Clark’s name routinely comes up when discussing informants, her lack of being indicted while in a nursing home suffering from dementia, and I believe Theda could very well have informed at some or point or another.

But I have a possible alternative theory about why and may require assuming dementia was a cover story, sort of a way to “disappear”, though I’m inclined to believe she actually was in a nursing home for health reasons.

Russell Means has been definitively proven to be an informant in building the case against John Graham and who knows what else, so is it possible that as an informant with a need to save his brother Bill whose house is where the call was taken to murder Annie, and save Theda as well he employed his snitch status to get some slack cut for them?

Think about that – here we have two principal players – Bill and Theda and neither are ever indicted, not to mention Russell.

Hill is the standout provocateur in my opinion – possibly A or B if such “assets” always operated in pairs, and that leaves the question who was the other or others, and in Hill’s or any other case was a woman involved?

Beyond credibility that it could have been Annie as he led her away to be interrogated and then murdered.

Could the A and B side have been Hill and Durham, Hill and DeLuca/Blackhorse, Hill and Theda, or Hill and someone in the leadership?

Or did Hill operate on his own?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2016/may/17/how-undercover-officers-disappear-without-a-trace

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2013/sep/06/undercover-police-and-policing-ukcrime

COCONSPIRATOR

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

coconspirator – a member of a conspiracy    

conspirator, machinator, plotter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If anyone is keeping track that’s strike one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

HIEROGLYPHICS AND OPINIONS REDUX

HIEROGLYPHICS AND OPINIONS
Posted by rezinate on April 6, 2014
https://rezinate.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/hieroglyphics-and-opinions/

http://stewmagnuson.blogspot.com/2013/03/more-questions-than-answers-about.html

I haven’t read Stew Magnuson’s book Wounded Knee 1973 : Still Bleeding, I can’t even say if it’s a “book” or “booklet”, but a related blog can be found at the above link.

Magnuson raises some questions about what he and others may assume was the first death at Wounded Knee 2, and although in previous blogs has expressed a skepticism about the number of AIM victims and made an attempt to remain middle of the road, I don’t believe Magnuson can for a certainty point to a specific individual and say they were the first to die, as AIM in it’s “paranoia” was in a killing mood.

In this case it is Frank Clearwater or Frank Clear depending on which side of the fence you are on as a dispute exists as to who Clearwater/Clear actually was and what his real name is.

A rhetorical question is asked was Clearwater an informant/infiltrator? Which in my opinion begs another question – if so, and accompanied by his pregnant wife doesn’t that stretch the limits of credibility?

Is it even remotely logical that a plant would drag their pregnant wife into the middle of a such a conflict? Personally I’m kind of doubting that, but in the world of journalistic speculation and what ifs I suppose such speculation amounts to something more than filler to increase the word count.

Speculation should also take into account AIM’s penchant to label those who endured their disfavor to routinely be labeled as informants.

Did the feds have informants within WK2? Only a fool would think they didn’t. But I consider it a grave oversight to exclude the possibility of informants within the upper echelon other than the obvious one of Doug Durham, and as stated previously I believe one or more in the leadership rolled over when it served them.

Magnuson’s work is filled with an overtly apparent dislike of the Trimbach’s, he cuts the elder some slack with the proposition that due to advanced years maybe his memory isn’t what it once was or should be, but shows no such inclination when it comes to the son.

I don’t have a problem with that as it is about opinions, the right of each to hold them, and what I assume is the right of discussion.

My belief is that the Trimbach’s book American Indian Mafia has a value, one being that it labels the “movement” under the leadership of the likes of Dennis Banks, Russell Means, the Bellecourts, etal exactly what it was – their version of a criminal organization, the Mafia, that the public is well aware of.

I also believe it exposed a lot of facts that the cowboys and Indians scenario loving mainstream media studiously avoided, but I won’t go so far as to say it is the absolute definitive work, that it is free of any bias, no more than I would say books authored by Banks or Means are, which are predominately filled with lies and self promotion.

A part of my reasons are that something of a dispute arose between the younger Trimbach and myself regarding an issue related to Dave Hill, whether or not as every indication suggests had Hill rolled over for the feds?

Trimbach went to some length to assert that such wasn’t the case and based this primarily on a discussion he had with a federal agent by the name of Zigrossi – seems as though this defense was based on Trimbach’s perception of the “sincerity” with which Zigrossi denied such a possibility while leaving a carrot dangling that the feds don’t give up informants while they are alive.

That being the case how much water does such a denial hold?

When asking that basic question I was instructed to consider a Sherlock Holmesian approach, the expectation I assume was that in doing so I too would be impressed by “sincerity”.

Well, Holmes was a fictional character given powers of deduction beyond the rest of us normal frail human beings, so I’m probably not to up to such a task. But Holmes if he wasn’t capable of anything else was noted for observing minutia, and as you read of his exploits invariably it is the minutia that allows Holmes to triumph over whatever evil he contends against.

The fact that Hill walked from bombing a national federally designated and protected “monument” strikes me as more than minutia, the additional fact that he also was able to walk from a State of South Dakota weapons charge kind of stirs the pot.

If an obscure minutia exists in any of this it is that verbal codicil, a possible slip of the tongue, or perhaps even a verbal wink that a tale was being told in denying such a possibility….that we don’t give ‘em up when they’re still alive thing – and unless Hill has passed on and has a stand in double he remains very much alive.

Rumors often enough do become accepted for fact as Magnuson rightly points out, but as he also points out often enough they are based on a reality – a reality that AIM did in fact invade and destroy the community of Wounded Knee, that they did commit murder and rape, that they did via their own propaganda machine and the proxy of others spread a variety of rumors and false information.

AL AND WHITEY KNEW THAT…………

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye is the title of book about JFK, it is also an Irish ballad – I suppose anyone’s name could be substituted though.

But depending on the person whose name it is the lyrics would have to be revised…..like Charlie (Abourezk) we know you all too well.

I haven’t tried singing the song with such a revision as I haven’t much of a singing voice – rumors abound that when I do sing women and children flee,and dogs howl. So in deference to each I avoid doing so.

But Charlies a pretty transparent figure cast in the same mold as his father James Abourezk – if they got any closer to AIM and it’s leadership they’d be behind them instead of fronting for them – but then maybe they already are behind them, as in AIM’s hip pocket.

Charlie in case any have forgotten is the one who inserted himself into Arlo Looking Cloud’s defense as an expert practitioner of some mystical thing known as Pyschodrama.

Nice cover, but it ultimately allowed Charlie to get a feel for what Arlo might have to say during his trial and then report back to AIM.

Of course Charlie portrayed his involvement as being ex parte, sort of a friend of the court and seeker of truth.

Seems to me that he would have had at least a general idea as he was at Bill Mean’s house when the AIM fatwah to murder Annie was received via telephone.

But then that very fact probably compelled the need to gain  pre trail access to Arlo without actually representing him – could  have gotten a little ugly if Charlie were co counsel and Arlo testified he was at Bill’s.

Arlo said at one point that Charlie upon completion of the psychodrama either lingered or found a reason to return and let Arlo know in a manner of speaking that he should be careful what he said.

That’s par for the course when it comes to AIM and their minions, threats and intimidation directed at men or women, even their children.

Arlo has had some issues with alcohol and drugs during his life, an opportunity AIM has seized upon to insinuate Arlo exists in a perpetual state of confusion – but if past issues with such things imply such an involvement can only lead to some type of mental issues then the same must be said of the AIM leadership as well whose own history of alcohol and substance abuse is well known.

Their involvement even included drugs and alcohol at ceremonies, and at least for Clyde Bellecourt selling them on such a scale as to be classified as a major dealer.

Having lawyers and politicians as co conspirators and groupies is undeniably advantageous – Al Capone knew that, Whitey Bulger as well.

AIM SISTERHOOD OF SILENCE

No one should take this as anything other than what it is…. FACT – it isn’t bashing women or attempting to denigrate them, but the reality is we usually only hear about a “brotherhood” when it comes to AIM – more specifically a “brotherhood of silence”, a FACT in it’s own right.

The reality of which is yet another undeniable FACT, undeniable as in the reality of a “sisterhood of silence” populated by women like Madonna Gilbert Thunderhawk, Lorelei Decora Means, and now deceased Pie Patrol matriarch Theda Nelson Clark.

Antagonists and participants in the events that led to the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.

Women, not men – Women, the gender the nations have always referred to as life givers, not life takers.

Women such as these are aberrations representing nothing more than camp followers, anathema to women of the nations and the contributions they have made – their efforts to insure our survival as a people.

A sisterhood of women so lacking a sense of self, of personal identity, they sought both in the company of murderers, rapists, and thieves.

I was raised to respect women, to recognize, celebrate, and support the differences between women and men,  I believe I have lived my life in such a way.

But I was also taught that beyond a basic respect it becomes something either earned or withheld, and a responsibility lays with each individual to give or withhold as circumstances warrant.

I think that’s a precept, a life lesson many within AIM, their supporters, and the Peltierites have willfully chosen to ignore.

Ignore to what end? To gain what, a sense of self, of personal identity through association with murderers, rapists, and thieves?

If so what possible argument sustains this? Is it the one that the feds didn’t play fair and while we talk about being cut from a different cloth we do the same thing?

If a fed killed one our own should we then do likewise and kill one of our own?

What kind of madness is this? What part of tradition?

What woman, what life giver, supports, participates, or joins a sisterhood of silence in a situation such as this? What kind of woman heaps praise upon murderers, rapists, and thieves?

The answer? A woman not worthy of respect.

In today’s climate it may not be deemed to be “politically correct” to speak in a such a manner, but it is what it is and that’s the only thing that matters to me.

IRIS, MINNIE, AND ANNIE

Kamook Ecoffey and Paul DeMain are frequently portrayed in the same manner by AIM, that’s to expected though as they’ve both outed AIM and Peltier in their own fashion.

Russell Means co opted Bob Branscombe’s press conference in ’99 in an effort to exonerate not only himself but his entire family of any knowledge or involvement in the abduction murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.

A couple of years later in 2001 Kamook approached DeMain with the rest of the story, a part of which served to validate the words of Minnie Two Shoes related to a conversation she had with Iris Thundercloud, now Iris Cleveland, at the Land of the Menominee Pow wow in ’94 or ’95 in regard to Annie and Iris going from Minneapolis to Farmington, New Mexico together in 1975 where Annie was interrogated by Peltier at gunpoint.

Bob Robideau confirmed the interrogation in a program CBS presented in 2001-forcing Peltier to admit it just as he was forced to admit his presence at the actual site where Williams and Coler lay after being ambushed and executed after Robideau outed him about that also.

Of course Peltier attempted to portray his interrogation of Annie in a friendly way, sort of a brother and sister conversation from which he came away thoroughly convinced his “love” for his “sister” wasn’t misplaced.

Interrogating women seems to have been something AIM specialized in, as Iris and Minnie had both been interrogated by none other than Means family member Theda Nelson Clark in January or February of 1975 prior to Annie’s experience.

Theda is said to have done so at the behest of Ted Means wife, Lorelie Decora Means, Madonna Thunderhawk Gilbert, Russell Means sister, and Ken Tilsen’s wife Rachel.

Interesting attribute of these AIM “warriors”- sending women to do their dirty work-maybe they thought if it hit the fan they could hide behind their skirts.

Predictably Vernon, Banks, and Peltier, along with others denied it for years-Banks clings to professing a complete ignorance about it much the same as he does everything else-but perhaps his eyes despite their furtive casting about speak to a guilt a fan of his attempted to say were mirrors of his innocence in all related matters-maybe that and the bumps on his head.

Iris and Minnie were interrogated during the takeover of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate, an event AIM was not asked to participate in and yet chose to for the media attention it would generate.

This is concurrent with the time Doug Durham was outed after a wiretap was discovered in his van and supposedly a check stub from the government.

I don’t doubt the wiretap but I think the check stub is an invention, something to add a little flavor. I don’t think Durham in his position would have been carrying around federal check stubs.

If he was then the nick name of Dumb as Dirt given to Peltier  would be appropriate for Durham as well.