Help free Leonard Peltier

by Leslie Feinberg

American Indian Movement Warrior Leonard Peltier has been in prison since 
1976, convicted for the shooting deaths of two FBI agents during a US 
Government siege on the Pine Ridge Reservation the year before.

FBI higher-ups, court rulings and government officials have confessed they 
have no idea who shot the agents. Here are just a couple of these 
admissions:

"[W]e can't prove who shot those agents." — US Prosecutor Lynn Crooks 
(Eight Circuit 1985, Oral Arguments)

"The killing of FBI agents at Pine Ridge was reprehensible, but the 
government now admits that it cannot prove that Mr Peltier killed the 
agents." — Congressman Don Edwards, former FBI Agent

"There is a possibility that the jury would have acquitted Leonard Peltier 
had the records and data improperly withheld from the defence been 
available to him in order to better exploit and reinforce the 
inconsistencies casting strong doubts upon the government's case." — 
Eighth Circuit Opinion, 1986.

Millions around the world charge that the government framed Peltier. He has 
been officially declared a political prisoner by Amnesty International, the 
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Congress of American 
Indians, the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Archbishop 
Desmond Tutu, the Rev Jesse Jackson and many others.

So why is Peltier still behind bars? Ask his parole board.

Peltier's next interim parole hearing is on July 1. Letters of support are 
urgently needed. The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee says, "Please send 
your letters to the LPDC so that we can track how many were submitted and 
compile them for presentation to the Parole Commission."

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For more information, or for a sample letter,
contact the LPDC: P O 
Box 583, Lawrence, KS 66044. Phone + 785 842-5774 Fax + 785 842-5796
e-
mail: lpdc@freepeltier.org.