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Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.

After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

As detailed by "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse", Peltier's trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.

On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier's application for clemency.

"You must understand...I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn't modesty. This is fact. Maybe you're ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary."

  • Leonard Peltier

An Interview with Leonard Peltier

Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”

Let Leonard Peltier Go Free

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hmmm 4+ hour wait to be seen in the emergency room (luckily not me)

Good thing COVID is a thing of the past amirite?

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

should i wait for the new megathread to post? should i post in this megathread? should i post about posting?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this is my account for posting about aliens

because i want to belive :dax: :dax-stoked:

but also i doont belive a at all

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

As we cut to President Trump's campaign stop here in Iowa we can hear that the President has added The Most Wanted Person In The United States by 100 gecs to his campaign playlist trump-kubrick-stare a-little-trolling

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So trueanon is now located in New York? Was there some podcaster exchange program between California and New York where they traded brace-watching and liz-society for matt-jokerfied and thinky-felix

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ACtually what happened is baby-matt and felix-trash have caused a schism in orthodox podcasting; they have denied the holy seat of Brooklyn and are forming their own West Coast eschatology.

TrueAnon are simply recent converts to the Orthodoxy.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Currently reading 'The East is Still Red'. As a second gen Chinese immigrant it's great and it's supplemented my already existing knowledge. I'd recommend you guys read it, if you're interested, especially those 'China bad' folks.

I also swore to my imaginary waifu I would not play any vic3 today. No, I won't elaborate.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wait wtf. I got distracted and took a short break from this show when it came out and it has 3 seasons now? Like dope but also wtf is time doing

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I'm bored, anyone have some pro wrestling questions for me?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

squeezing my refritos out of a plastic sleeve has a certain toothpaste-squeeze pleasure but i really wish they didn't sell these in plastic, you can't get all the beans out and its nonrecyclable sadness genuinely the best brand available tho, and affordable!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

when you forget to post mili Monday 02 powercry-2

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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Muslims got lucky the earth is an ellipsoid. Greatly simplifies the differential geometry involved in the qibla.

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