One of the things that pisses me off about Clinton was he left Peltier in prison.

Just last week even some DUers were pouring on the outrage over a nominee representing 'cop killer' Mumia Abu Jamal years ago

..or (short of that) giving him a conditional pardon or clemency. What can the GOP do at that point?

This place is infested for sure.

put in a good word for Don Siegelman.

This is a wrong that needs to be corrected. I taught his niece when I was teaching in northern Minnesota. Wonderful family.

It's time to stop punishing people who have not harmed or endangered anyone.

I hope some day he will be free.

Bill was giving the impression that he was leaning towards pardoning Leonard, but instead chose to pardon Marc Rich.

I refuse to get my hopes up that Peltier will ever see the outside of a federal prison. He has been tortured for decades by the US Dept of Justice. He has been jerked around from prison to prison without his family and attorney being notified. He's been left sick in his cell for days without attention. He's had illness and injury ignored by facility doctors. Leonard is a casualty of the war against the Native American.

Obama will never pardon Peltier and he will ultimately die in a federal prison.

..by the way, I have a Hillary Clinton avatar. Hillary wasn't legally empowered to pardon anyone.

You may be right about Obama, but I will cite a case that might give you cause to think. On November 1, 1950, Oscar Collazo was part of an assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman that killed White House policeman Leslie Coffelt, and injured others. Jimmy Carter commuted his sentence in 1979 and allowed him to return to Puerto Rico -- a decision that, frankly, didn't thrill me, as one of my relatives-by-marriage was among the casualties that day. But I digress -- OK, you can refuse to get your hopes up, but that isn't reason to give up hope. Hope and Change, after all, is what we voted for - yes?

I, too, have a soft spot for the Marlins -- but Miami got rooked on that stadium deal.

I did read In the Spirit of Crazy Horse and one thing bothered me. Somebody killed those agents. Whoever it was got away with murdering them.

I agree. Somebody killed the agents. Maybe it was Peltier, maybe it wasn't. The case against him is not clear cut, IMO. That said, it was a different time and place, and those events need to be put in some historical context. As I said in another post:

Wrongs were done by the AIM, but those wrongs pale in comparison to the wrongs done to the Oglala Sioux by the US Government. Meanwhile, Russell Means is gone, and before he left, he was a respected citizen and noted Native American actor. Peltier is an old guy who will not harm anyone at this point. Let's put the wounds of the 70s to rest, and let Leonard go home to spend his last chapter among his people.

It seemed clear the FBI put the case together out of whole cloth. Probably frustrated, since no one would witness what had actually happened and who was actually guilty. They did wrong, but so did those who protected the killers. But that's a risk of our system. You don't have to talk. I would just say it was morally wrong to let the killers get off and let one person take the rap.

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The odds, however, are very low that he was the killer.