by Mary W Maxwell
It was many and many a year ago that I read the COINTELPRO papers, edited by Ward Churchill. This was the first major revelation about the FBI’s free-lance work in harming black people in America. To the extent that the Feebs even bothered to cover their tracks, they pointed to any “problem group ” they could name (e.g., Black Panthers) to justify their own mayhem.
“As a matter of business”, the FBI would set out to harass and intimidate, causing whole communities to live in fear. When you think of it now, you would say “Why didn’t the citizenry put a stop to it then and there?”
The nation needs to vaporize this horrible, horrible organization.
One of the tricks revealed in the COINTELPRO papers, was that the FBI letter-boxed “white” neighborhoods with offensive letters purportedly written by some black radicals. Had we any sense we’d have realized that whether or not there were any bad, bad, or even super-bad blacks running around (apparently there weren’t), that wouldn’t justify letter-boxing.
Think about it. Malicious misinformation delivered to the letterboxes of the public. By the so-called Federal Bureau of “Investigation.”
Note: there is somehow an assumption that an”investigator” of wrongdoing carries inherent authority to punish same. Hell, if that’s the case please tell me as I am busy investigating the crimes of the FBI.
Leonard Peltier
At the moment emails are being sent out by a group of supporters of Leonard Peltier. They ask us to write to him in prison, as he is sick and injured and the only way he can keep his brain going in solitary – fathom it, solitary! — is to read your words. They say “Just tell him whatever is going on in your neck of the woods.” His address is Coleman Prison, 846 NE 54th Terrace, Wildwood, FL 34785, USA.
I am no expert on the Peltier case. I know he has been in prison for decades for – allegedly – killing two Feebs. He admits to shooting at them, in self-defense, but not to having delivered the fatal shots. (The occasion of that shooting was a confrontation entirely provoked by the Feebs on an Indian Reservation.)
I’m quoting a Mother Jones article written for the 40th anniversary – if you could call it that – of Leonard’s incarceration:
Peltier’s version of the story is presented in detail in his petition. He maintains that after the FBI agents came on to the private property, “I heard shooting, grabbed my rifle, and ran towards a residence where there were women and children, but quickly ran in another direction because my presence had attracted additional gunfire to the area.” He says the area was surrounded by more than 100 FBI agents, SWAT team members, Bureau of Indian Affairs police, and members of the GOON squad.
“Along with many other American Indians who were present that day, I fired shots in the direction of men whom I later learned were federal agents,” Peltier notes in the petition. “At the end of extended gunfire, three men lay dead: Special Agents Jack R. Williams and Robert A. Coler, and American Indian Joe Stuntz.”
Wait a minute — FBI men getting killed in a situation where they were almost bound to have their life ended, could that have been an Inside Joberoo? Gumshoe readers like to ruminate about the number of ASIO deaths that occurred at Port Arthur in 1996 — almost seems like an in-house purge had been planned. And ask me about a kill-off of four young RCMPs at a farmhouse in western Canada in 2005.
Leonard Peltier had joined the AIM – American Indian Movement . I am not here to defend AIM as I am ignorant of their work, but it looks to me, from other events, that the US government has a policy of stirring up – and hurting – the indigenous population as well as the African American population.
Isn’t that unbelievable? For whom do they work? Who pays the FBI salaries? If is it the US government doing this business, how can it POSSIBLY have a policy to hurt Americans?
The world is upside-down.
Oh, and I hardly need to tell you that the court has thousands of documents under seal.
Tied to Chairs, If You Please
I’m getting sick of this. The prosecution of Peltier has such a familiar ring to it.
Three men were charged with the Wounded Knee killings. First, two of those accused were tried; Peltier’s trial was a bit delayed.
One of the witness at the two-accused’s trial, who recanted her testimony, said the witnesses were tied to chairs and threatened until they cooperated. THIS IS THE AMERICAN WAY, FOLKS. Ask the Tsarnaevs. Granted, in Boston in 2013 the witnesses were not tied to chairs (as far as I know) — they were just thrown in prison. Ta-da!
Regarding Wounded Knee, the federal judge in the two-accused case acquitted them. Then, a different judge in the Peltier trial refused to allow data from that earlier trial, regarding the FBI’s having tampered with witnesses and evidence.
WHAT!
Empty Your Pockets, O Paralegal
And now a note from one of Peltier’s defenders
Dear Friends, Supporters and Family;
I had planned to send out our bi-weekly newsletter Saturday after I had my legal visit with Leonard. However, I didn’t get to visit Leonard as after filing my papers and stating I was there for a legal visit I was asked to turn my pockets out and be tested for illegal substances. I didn’t think anything about the request and the machine indicated a positive response! I said it must be a mistake as I had just washed and pressed my pants for the visit. The officer said he would clear the machine and re-swab my pockets, and again it indicated a positive response.
I was very upset and explained that I did not do drugs. In about 40 minutes the Lt. came out and said due to a double positive I would be denied visitation with Leonard for 30 days. I told him what I had told the officer and the Lt. said Oh we don’t think you do drugs nor are we implying that you do. But you could have come in contact with some dirty money of been in a gas station or someplace where drugs might have been.
Our lawyer Mr. Frankel is very concerned as this is the second time (Jan. 21, 2018) in 3 months that this has happened when I went to see Leonard on a legal visit. Frankel feels I am being targeted as way to disrupt communication between Leonard and his legal team.
Don’t you love it?
Parole So He Can Touch His Grandchildren
Leonard’s initial right to a hearing for parole occurred in 1993. He did not make the grade. Oh and by the way there was an escape from prison, by him, in which he was provided with a rifle – Hello? – that added another 7 years to his sentence. It’s amazing he wasn’t shot dead while escaping.
Oh wait, that wouldn’t be good for morale. I mean the morale of the weirdo’s who think it IS A GOOD THING FOR ALL OF US TO FEEL BAD UPON KNOWING THAT THERE ARE POLITICAL PRISONERS AND OTHER SUFFERERS IN JAIL.
By the way, I forgot to say that White House occupant Bill Clinton was considering clemency for Leonard. Can’t bring myself to say “President” Clinton, knowing what we now know about Haiti. Hey, there’s an idea, maybe we could retroactively strip some presidents of their title. Sort of “clean up the White House legacy” type thing.
Dolley Madison’s Inauguration gown is on display at a Washington DC museum. Maybe she’ll be allowed to stay, but maybe not every First Lady.
You do get the picture about Haiti, right?
Pardoning Is Also an Option
A new hearing for Leonard Peltier is due soon. He is 73 years old. He could be acquitted, pardoned, clemency-ized, paroled or whatever YOU THE PUBLIC WANT. At the moment Leonard’s support group offers for sale his art work, pretty nice, to help pay for the new court appearance. Please see it at whoisleonardpeltier.info.
Speaking of pardons, don’t get me started on Troy Davis who was judicially murdered by the US Supreme Court on September 21, 2011 (a high holy day of the occult).
Troy’s family – with the “help” of Amnesty International – was trying to get a pardon or at least clemency, i.e., transfer from Death Row to Lifer. Guess the number of citizens who signed a petition – in addition to 3,000 clergymen:
Reportedly 660,000.
Such a number.
Genug ist genug already. We never should have let things proceed this far. And we can’t fail to attend to it now. The idiots have become a major, major danger to life on the planet.
Anyone who would like to join me in mounting a civil RICO case against the criminal FBI, please contact me, asap. An example of a make-believe RICO case, drafted by me about the Atlanta child murders, appears in my 2015 book Fraud Upon the Court, which is a free download.
Dear POTUS,
Today being the Fourth of July, Peltier’s supporters are calling for a twitter blast to be sent to the White House and they recommend these tweets for your use:
@POTUS Time is right to send Leonard Peltier home to his family! #FreeLeonardPeltier
@POTUS Free Leonard Peltier! End FBI double standard #FreeLeonardPeltier
@POTUS Free Leonard Peltier! End FBI misconduct #FreeLeonardPeltier
@POTUS Free Leonard Peltier and Stand with the people #FreeLeonardPeltier
@POTUS Compassion starts with Freeing Leonard Peltier! #FreeLeonardPeltier
— Mary Maxwell awaits your RICO support call at mary.maxwell @ alumni.adelaide.edu.au
When he was younger:
Mary, thanks for reminding me that it is the 4th July, Independence Day. The date that America made itself independent from Britain. I wonder when we, the Sovereign People of Australia will claim independence from the US and also “true” independence from Britain.
Not while we listen to the parasites in Canberra who look forward to their knighthoods, earned by grovelling to the Royals and the City of London Banksters in the UK and perpetually providing gun fodder to the “must-have”, wars of the US.
Mal, I do believe that there is no story on any subject that you could not use as an entree for hitting Canberra.
“And there’s never a leaf or blade too mean to be some happy creature’s place.”
Anyway I’m sure the man of the hour would be glad to read your stuff. Thank you.
A British case with similar undertones: http://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/2018/07/richplanet-tv-mi5-framing-of-innocent.html
Thank you, Timothy. I am lifting this from your website:
“The question to be asked is how is it possible in modern Britain that every principle and assumed protection against such a thing can be flouted so flagrantly, by a range of institutions and professions ostensibly committed to preventing it.
“It acts as a warning to all of us, that in practice, if you are unfortunate enough to be targeted by the British State for any reason, all the theoretical protections in such documents as ‘Habeas Corpus’, ‘The Bill of Rights’ and the more recent ‘European Convention on Human Rights’, prove illusionary and powerless to prevent extreme abuse of this sort.”
Calling out the Gumshoe posse!
International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee …
https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
I’m not familiar with the case either, however I’m well aware that the problem with most “alternative” coverage of most high profile cases is an overarching assumption that there’s something unusual about the way things were or weren’t done.
It all boils down to the fact that most people haven’t got a clue about what’s going on in their own neighbourhood and that engaging in any sort of combat in an emotional state is counter-productive.
Berry:
“that there’s something unusual about the way things were or weren’t done.”
My point is that it’s all too usual. What the FBI does in one case is probably (I say ‘probably’ as I haven’t looked at 100 cases) their normal procedure.
From years of tedious reading — and by the way my tedium is only from reading, yours is much more at the coalface — I conclude that the FBI is not really a government force.
They really exist for someone else, a private group whose crimes they must conceal. Geez.
And also they are “guns for hire” when it comes to stirring up racial conflict or, since 1970s, “terrorism.” Gumshoe has been parading examples for 4 years, the Boston Marathon being simply a personal fave of mine.
How do young guys in the FBI manage to look in the mirror? Do they really believe the false stories? Let’s say they believe Peltier shot two men dead (other than in self defense). Well, OK, if they were told that, they would initially have no reason to doubt it. But then they read, say, that the paralegal went to visit him and was wrongly sent away “for evidence of drugs in her pocket.”
At that point they would have to think “Hmmm.” They would necessarily know that it’s essential to keep visitors away from certain key prisoners, as they themselves would have been trained to do things like that.
One man in America, Jahar Tsarnaev, and one man in Australia, Martin Bryant, cannot talk to anyone. THAT FACT ALONE is enough to assure that concealment is essential for the true guilty parties.
“Government” doesn’t mean anything more than that which governs; the mummy/daddy concept is seriously misconceived.
The idea that the FBI only targets Black and Red activism is also long overdue for an overhaul:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-22/who-behind-riots-charlotte-police-says-70-arrested-protesters-had-out-state-ids
In my view white separatism is ill-founded to say the least, ditto Islam That doesn’t mean the respective recruits deserve to be terrorised or stitched up for crimes they did not commit. Two wrongs don’t make a right as memorialised by the U.S. civil war.
As I’m more personally identified with what took place at Ruby Ridge I’m more inclined to focus on where Randy & Vicki Weaver went wrong/ how such an atrocity might have been avoided:
That’s about as much as anyone can do; bringing the Instigators to justice is simply not humanly possible
Berry, you say “Most people haven’t got a clue about what’s going on in their own neighbourhood and that engaging in any sort of combat in an emotional state is counter-productive.”
I would have agreed with that until recently. I now think it is mainly the emotional bit that causes people to pitch in to help solve a problem. There would be no ILPDC for Peltier if readers did not twig on the fact that here is an elderly man whose life has been (probably unfairly) taken away from him for 40 years.
And why shouldn’t he get to hug his grandchildren before he dies? That is all emotional stuff but it is what matters. My friends who were MK-Ultra’d are always telling me that “love is the answer.” Somehow their humanity is larger than that of the average bloke or Sheila. Have you read Wendy Hoffman’s “Enslaved Queen”? It proves that point.
Wendy is far more awake to love than I am. (And I’m not exactly what you’d call a cold fish…)
If you want to see some emotional stuff about Tsarnaev, go here:
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https://writingthewrongforjahar.com/2018/07/03/youve-got-mail-21/
Perfect love sure does cast out all fear/hate;that’s the whole point
Any sort of feeling of discomfit is a warning that all is not well so the emotions are an invaluable sentinel But that value stops short of the fact that a whole range of conditions can manifest in symptoms that are virtually identical.
And as there’s a million invisible stitch-ups for every high-profile case Peltier/Tsarnaev/ Bryant zealotry strikes me as being a form of pain-killer addiction.
I hope i’m not the ant eater. I think love is the answer to endurance, to stay the course, at the least(thats big). The repetitive nature as the story above, is endless, even recent events. I think it did jot me, because of self preservation of me and mine, to a alert state, to feebly think. I struggle, I point out things(in front of your eye things) to smart people who accept them, but just will not ask why. I’m sure I’m ten steps behind, hopefully not eleven, but what is it that, causes such different perceptions, even in ourselves, at least I feel I travel in a better direction than before.
I think I will leave you all alone for a while. Haven’t seen Ned for awhile, outrage being positive, a needed ingredient for perception change in me anyways.
It appears that the rate of Indian incarceration in the U. S. is a huge but largely unacknowledged issue:
https://qz.com/392342/native-americans-are-the-unseen-victims-of-a-broken-us-justice-system/