Thanks for sending this my way Vere.
Cheers!
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge--even to ourselves--that we've been so credulous.
Carl Sagan



This is from the newly re-issued newsletter, "In the
Spirit of Crazy Horse", available online at:

www.leonardpeltier.org/crazyhorse.htm

Aho my relations,

As I approach the end of my 30th year deprived of
freedom, I write to you
from the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, PA,
after a grueling
transfer odyssey that put me in solitary confinement
for six weeks. I am here to appease a
vengeful government agency that came into my land to
back a puppet government that was
betraying the Lakota nation in the most despicable
way, giving away our land, murdering ,and
torturing our people.

It took the corruption of two
countries (Canada and the U.S) to obtain
my extradition, conviction, and imprisonment. Today
the U.S. government protects a real terrorist,
Luis Posada Carriles, from extradition to Venezuela.
Posada is one of the masterminds
of a car bomb that assassinated a former foreign
minister of Chile, Orlando Letelier, in Washington
DC, a crime that has been called the worst act of
foreign terrorism on American soil
before 9/11.

He is also responsible for the bombing in
Venezuela of a Cubana Airlines flight
with the resulting murder of 73 people on board, and
many more acts of narco-terrorism. In
spite of the incessant claims of this being a country
of laws and the example to the world of
justice, freedom, and democracy, it is obvious that
this government protects whoever it wants
and imprisons and kills whoever it wants.

The US government keeps getting more oppressive and
tyrannical, everybody's rights are being
eroded, fears are heightened as a tool to keep the war
machine, alive and increase the destruction
of Mother Earth, innocent people are dying all over
the world in the name of
"democracy and freedom," the prisoner population in
this country is increasing exponentially,
approximately ten percent of all prisoners are here
for life, most of us are people of color.

Those of us who dare stand up to injustice get locked
up or assassinated.

The US government
is not pretending anymore, they overtly murdered
Filiberto Ojeda Rios, an elder and leader for
the freedom of Puerto Rico, and government allies are
on national television openly calling for
the assassination of courageous champions of justice
like President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
who has offered our poor communities and myself a
hand.

Chavez is the first President in this
continent, and probably the world, who is returning
land to the indigenous people, making
them part of the governing institutions, and
recognizing and protecting indigenous culture. It is
time we all unite to stop the madness threatening the
whole planet, and stand together with
those who go beyond words and deliver on the promise
of freedom and justice, and against
those guided by greed, arrogance, and prejudice.

Stay true, work in unity, confront the traitors,
don't be afraid, and don't let our struggle die.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Leonard Peltier

www.leonardpeltier.org

Another site with Peltier's story