LEONARD PELTIER... Then and Now Over one hundred years ago, a tract of land, a pig and a woman would become central to the Hatfield and McCoy’s feud; quite senseless if you were to ask me. Equally non-sensical is the wrongful incarceration of a man and subsequent systemic cover-up because of-- “…two FBI agents looking for a young Indian man wanted in connection of a stolen pair of cowboy boots!” Who would have ever thought a pair of boots would create such a firestorm—known today as the Leonard Peltier, wrongful incarceration debacle? These are the kind of cases that law students dissect in undergrad. If you know someone currently enrolled in law school, PLEASE make sure they review, Incident at Oglala, a film produced and narrated by Robert Redford. Incident at Oglala is yet ‘another’ story of unimaginable manufactured and convoluted evidence, coercion, exploitation of ethics, and misuse of power—against, one, LEONARD PELTIER who, was in 1972, wrongfully convicted of killing two FBI agents on an Indian reservation. This ‘story’ reeks, of everything gone wrong in our legal system. And while I’m not an attorney Im DISGUSTED by the evidence and facts provided in this film! Times were different back in 1972 but ‘railroading’ continues to this day… and I personally believe Mr. Peltiers railroading was done in retaliation for the not guilty verdict of Peltier’s two young Indian colleagues in a separate but related legal case. WATCH Redford’s film, Incident at Oglala [bit.ly/1nHMfyR] and see if you don’t agree. We have really got to fix the issue of wrongful convictions and the overt MISUSE OF POWER in the World. At issue here is integrity and how some have meandered off the course of what it means to be human. -Debra J. Gordon (djgTheMediaLady)
Posted on: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:19:28 +0000
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