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UPDATED JANUARY 21, 2001
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What Next?
Written by Storm Reyes
Senior Staff
Native News Online
In my home, on the telephone and across the web today,
I keep hearing, 'what do we do next for Leonard's freedom?' I sure
don't have any kind of answer to that, so I answered a different question
for myself. What can I do next for Leonard?
Frankly, I don't care if he is guilty or innocent.
It was war. I'm 51 (in
3 weeks) and I remember those times, and it was war.
I knew Leonard before he was 'the' Leonard Peltier. I didn't know
him well, nor for a long period of time, but I knew the young, committed
dog solider. When he first went to prison, we corresponded for some
time..and then my life went on and his did not, and the letters and cards
I sent were fewer, sent at longer intervals.
That is my personal shame.
I don't care about Leonard as the hero, as the symbol.
I care about Leonard as the man, as the brother, as the dog solider whose
life ended that day just as surely as the agents. He is a casualty
of war, a prisoner of war and that's the simplest truth of all. He's
watched the world go by and watched himself become a martyr, something
he certainly never planned on. He sits alone in a prison cell that
has been home for so long that the memory of standing in the green grass,
feeling the breeze on his face must be fading from his mind.
"What next" for me is letting him know that Leonard,
the man, is not
forgotten. Once again I will write him letters,
cards, send what little
comforts he can have inside. And this time,
I won't shame myself.
I don't know the 'why' of him being there, the action
to take to get him
out. All I know is my brother is locked inside
a cage while I am standing
in the green grass feeling the breeze on my face.
Leonard Peltier
#89637-132
PO Box 1000
Leavenworth, KS 66048
Storm
Leonard
Peltier: What Next?
For
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FRONT PAGE FEATURES JANUARY
20, 2001
Time
running out for Peltier to win pardon
Clinton
Administration Delays in Issuing Pardons
Clinton
delays pardon announcements until Saturday morning
from
the LPDC: Peltier Update
AZ:
Group starts fasting in push for pardons
Clinton
Postpones Action on Pardons
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Set to Grant Pardons
Commentary:
Pardon Leonard Peltier
From: NiyaEagle@aol.com
This is a letter that I wrote last june upon waiting
for Leonard's Parole
hearing. It seems to again be appropriate as we wait
now and I have been
asked to once again send it out. The sentiments are
the same..perhaps a bit sadder in the wait..but never less resolved in
what we must do every day that Leonard is imprisoned.I have not written
much..because I find no words these days..only the need for the smoke of
the sage. Niay Wi
READ IT...
Leonard's
Pardon not Among those listed
1977:
Leonard Peltier's Sentencing Statement
Washington
Post: Pardons & Commutations
Clinton
Pardons McDougal, Cisneros..Peltier not Pardoned
from
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Ain't
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