Death Squads And The Price Of Justice In America  

February 17, 2024

By Mark Adams

Leonard Peltier is the crown jewel of American injustice. He is 79 years old and has been locked in prison for almost 50 years for crimes which the government admits it cannot prove he committed. Today he is afflicted with diabetes and a worrisome aortic aneurysm. As an advocate for the American Indian Movement (AIM) Peltier was well known to the FBI in the early 1970s.

Following a controversial trial Peltier was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two FBI agents (Ron Williams and Jack Coler) in a June 26, 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

AIM was founded in Minneapolis in 1968, its activism reached an apex on February 27, 1973 when approximately 200 AIM followers seized and took control of the town Wounded Knee, S.D. From the onset the FBI, vehemently opposed to the AIM, chose to use a paramilitary group of vigilantes known as the GOON squad as a proxy to wage internecine warfare on the AIM members, their supporters, and relatives. It turns out that the vigilante right-wing paramilitary GOON squad was in fact funded by the U.S. government.

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf – Page 16

In the wake of Wounded Knee the GOON squad did its grisly work with total impunity including ambush murders, fire bombings and extremely violent physical assaults using baseball bats and tire irons. “More than 50 AIM members and allies died through violence – bodies were found along roadsides or deposited in areas immediately adjacent to the Reservation.”

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Pages 18-19

FBI agents had supplied GOONs with armor-piercing bullets, grenades, and even plastic explosives to use against the AIM members.

https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/7738/10_3YaleJL_Lib83_1992_.pdf Page 91

Between March 1, 1973 and March 1, 1976, the per capita murder rate on Pine Ridge was 170 per 100,000. By comparison, Detroit, Michigan (at the time, considered the murder capital of the United States) had a rate of 20.2 per 100,000. For that period of time Pine Ridge most likely was the murder capital of the entire world.

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Page 18

Against this background of inflamed violence the FBI was increasing manpower in the region not to help or protect the AIM members but to be prepared to engage in an all out paramilitary assault against them. Among the outrageous lies publicized by the FBI was that various AIM centers were fortified with hardened bunkers.

On June 5, 1975, three weeks before the firefight, an FBI Document titled “Law Enforcement on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation” described “[P]ockets of Indian population which consist almost exclusively of AIM members … It is significant that in some of these AIM centers the residents have built bunkers which would literally require military assault forces if it were necessary to overcome resistance emanating from the bunkers.”

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Page 19 (Emphasis added.)

On July 9,1975 William Muldrow of the United States Commission on Civil Rights issued a memorandum declaring that the “bunkers” were nothing more than aged root cellars and that the “trench fortifications described by the FBI to the press did not exist.”

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Page 20 (Emphasis added.)

Ten days before the firefight erupted the FBI was vastly increasing personnel in the region. “On June 16, 1975, the FBI increased its manpower by ordering additional Special Agents into South Dakota for a temporary 60-day period. This build up and the presence of SWAT units that appeared to be collaborating with Wilson’s GOON Squad added to an already very tense situation. In this hostile environment, violent assaults, murders and drive-by shootings were common.”

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Page 20 (Emphasis added.)

As described by William Muldrow of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights the entire reservation, roughly the size of Connecticut – was a tinderbox about to explode. “It was in this climate of fear and tension in 1975 that the two FBI agents, in unmarked cars and clad in civilian clothes, we’re shot in a firefight.”

William Muldrow Director (Retired) Rocky Mountain Regional Office U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 11/1/1999

http://web.archive.org/web/20021113132433/www.freepeltier.org/peltier11.htm#top

To this day it is still disputed how the shooting started and who shot first. FBI media liaison Tom Coll wasted no time claiming that the agents were “lured” into a “‘carefully prepared ambush’ where they were ‘fired upon with automatic weapons’ from a ‘sophisticated bunker complex’, ‘riddled with fifteen to twenty bullets apiece’; ‘dragged from their cars’; and ‘stripped’; and – in one version – ‘scalped’.”

https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/7738/10_3YaleJL_Lib83_1992_.pdf Page 94

By the government’s own estimates there were over 40 Native Americans present at Pine Ridge during the firefight and many were shooting.

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Page 21

Four men — Leonard Peltier, James Eagle, Robert Robideau and Darelle Butler — were charged with killing the agents. In the summer of 1976, with Peltier seeking political asylum and fighting extradition from Canada, the government tried Butler and Robideau. If Peltier had not escaped to Canada but was tried together with Butler and Robideau he too would have been found not guilty.

“The jury agreed with the defense contention that an atmosphere of fear and violence exists on the reservation,” the jury foreman said, “and that the defendants arguably could have been shooting in self-defense.” https://famous-trials.com/leonardpeltier/748-home

Richard W. Held was Special Agent-in-Charge of the San Francisco FBI Office 1985-1993. Held’s work contributed to the framing of Leonard Peltier, and to covering up the truth about the agents’ deaths and the still unsolved killings of 70 AIM supporters on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Credit

Peltier who fled for Canada was captured and subsequently extradited to the United States, albeit illegally.

“Mr. Peltier’s extradition to the U.S. was achieved based on false affidavits—obtained by the government through coercion and deceit, and known by the government to be false. The false affidavits had been signed by Myrtle Poor Bear, a Native American woman known to have serious mental health problems.”

https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/to-the-washington-times-et-al-leonard-peltier-was-wrongfully-convicted/

As later explained in a legal filing on behalf of Peltier, using the false testimony of Myrtle Poor Bear by the FBI was abusive:

“The use of the affidavits of Myrtle Poor Bear in the extradition proceedings was, to say the least, a clear abuse of the investigative process by the F.B.I.” — Hon. Donald Ross, in conjunction with United States v. Peltier, 585 F.2d 314, 335 n.18 (8th Cir. 1978).

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Page 1

Peltier’s murder trial was typical of the Stalin show trials of the 1930s. For instance, a damaged AR-15 (allegedly Peltier’s) was “matched” to a bullet casing supposedly found in the trunk of Coler’s car. Four years later, the FBI released a cache of documents including a teletype describing a more conclusive ballistics test that determined Peltier’s AR-15 could not have fired the fatal shots. Prosecutors called the .223 shell casing the “most critical” piece of evidence against Peltier and urged the jury to conclude that the matching shell casing proved that Peltier fired the fatal shots into the heads of the two federal agents – in “cold blood”

http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/LEGAL/uploads/2016clemencyapp.pdf Page 31

So there you have it, the government’s “most critical” evidence was a total fabrication and without it its impossible to prove who killed FBI agents Coler and Williams.

“Judge Gerald Heaney reminded [Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn] Crooks that in his summation at the Fargo trial he had pointed at Peltier as ‘the man who came down and killed those agents in cold blood.’ Pressed on this point by Judge Donald Ross, Crooks blurted in frustration, “But we can’t prove who shot those agents!”

Peter Mattheissen author of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000/07/20/united-states-v-leonard-peltier/ (Emphasis added.)

In April 2022 the FBI released a statement regarding Leonard Peltier:

“The FBI remains resolute against the commutation of Leonard Peltier’s sentence for murdering FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. We must never forget or put aside that Peltier intentionally and mercilessly murdered these two young men and has never expressed remorse for his ruthless actions.”

“Peltier’s conviction, rightly and fairly obtained …”

The FBI stated this outrageous lie in a letter to the Huffington Post which they published in an article subtitled “The imprisoned Native American rights activist ‘intentionally and mercilessly murdered’ FBI agents, the bureau told Huffington Post. Except that’s not true.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-leonard-peltier-clemency-biden_n_62473d07e4b0587dee695e6e

In 2000 former FBI Director Louie Freeh wrote, “There is no dissent within our agency, only the widespread belief that the criminal justice system of the United States rightly convicted and repeatedly affirmed that Peltier was nothing other than a cold-blooded killer.”

https://www.argusleader.com/story/blogs/jonathanellis/2016/07/27/fbi-leader-thanked-janklow-peltier-matter/87626144/ (Emphasis added.)

In 2017 the Chicago Tribune published an editorial titled “Clemency for Leonard Peltier? Never.” In response to that editorial, James Reynolds, the United States attorney who supervised the prosecution of Leonard Peltier penned his response stating in part: “It is a gross overstatement to label Peltier a ‘cold-blooded murderer.’”

https://www.b12partners.net/wp/2017/01/18/leonard-peltier-should-be-released-in-the-interest-of-justice/

Former U.S. Attorney James Reynolds speaks on behalf of Leonard Peltier at the American Indian Movement’s Grand Governing Council’s Walk to Freedom on Sunday, November 13 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Darren Thompson for Native News Online). Credit

In July 2021 Reynolds wrote a letter to President Biden stating in part: “We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leonard-peltier-prison-clemency-biden_n_618049f3e4b059d0bfc19e5c

For over 50 years Leonard Peltier has steadfastly denied accusations that he killed the two FBI agents. By all appearances, the FBI out of pure spite and revenge wants Leonard Peltier to die in prison while serving two life sentences for crimes they admit they cannot prove he committed.

Top image credit: Flickr/ Sheila Steele

Source:   https://www.activistpost.com/2024/02/death-squads-and-the-price-of-justice-in-america.html

“Fake Covid-19 Emergency”: Nuremberg Codex – Why Is It Ignored Today, and Nothing Happens

“Fake Covid-19 Emergency”: Nuremberg Codex – Why Is It Ignored Today, and Nothing Happens

By Peter Koenig

Global Research, August 30, 2022

Theme: Crimes against Humanity, History, Law and Justice

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European Union countries are in a state of emergency “due to Covid” – see this Statement by unelected European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen.

Accent is on “unelected”. Because the elected European Parliament, has hardly any teeth in the decision-making process of the European Union. Why is this not more often debated, or brought to the open? Or is it, but it doesn’t get media coverage – thus, it becomes simply a rule by habit and attrition. People are getting used to the growing dictatorship of the EU monster, controlling and coercing close to 500 million people.

Madame Von der Leyen is also a Member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum (WEF); see this.

Why is this important?

The Nuremberg Codex, like any Human Rights Law, any law that infringes on the Great Reset and the UN Agenda 2030, are disabled in times of National Emergencies.

For the significance of the Nuremberg Code, see this.

That is why every government is getting away with murder, literally with murder.

Injecting deadly poisons into human bodies, under the pretext of “covid vaccinations” are medical trials. They are to determine, what toxic substances have the greatest effects on the human body and under what circumstances. They are medical trials without human consent.

Other violations of the Nuremberg Codex are the Cult-inspired showering of lies, fear and other psychological instruments to keep the people “down”, in check, and easily manipulable. So, they will be afraid not to do the bidding of their governments, or if necessary – increasingly the case – of the military-supported dictatorial rules, often sanitary rules, falsely justified for health protection.

When in fact just the contrary is true: these rules negatively affect people’s health and wellbeing – wearing of masks, social distancing, lockdowns, working from home as a means of separating people from each other – breaking up society. These are measures provenly affecting human health in negative ways.

All these infractions are punishable under the Nuremberg Codex.

It is cleverly done with the state of emergency; the Global North has elegantly sanctioned the most heinous crimes on humanity – organized eugenics, and the consequential submission of the survivors – that history has ever known. The Third Reich under Hitler, carried out massive eugenics’ programs on people of all races with physical and mental illnesses. But Hitler’s atrocities, while horrendous, are small fry compared to what the eugenists are doing today to the world population.

And we are only at the beginning.

The Great Reset, the UN Agenda 2030 and the 2010 Rockefeller Report are talking about a ten-year period, the decade of 2020-2030. Or, as WHO declared already in 2014, “The twenties will be the decade of vaccination.”

The atrocities of the Hitler Regime were judged by the Nuremberg trials, carried out from Nov 20, 1945 – Oct 1, 1946.

On the basis of these Nuremberg trials, the Nuremberg Codex came into existence.

It forbids any medical and psychological trials on humans without their previous consent. “Consent” means that the person(s), who is(are) being administered such medical trials must understand and be conscious about what these trials are and what they may cause.

 

This has not been the case with the Covid measures, imposed on humanity since the onset of “Covid-19” at the beginning of 2020, but especially since 11 March 2020, when the Director General of WHO, Dr. Tedros, declared Covid-19 a pandemic.

“The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 [83 PCR positive cases outside China], and a pandemic on 11 March 2020 [44,279 cases outside China for a population of 6.4 billion].”

See this for details on the WHO Press Conference of 11 March 2020, when the apparent worldwide covid dead count was insignificant, as compared to other mass diseases. This is reflected by this statement by DG Tedros, “There are now more than 118,000 cases [including China] in 114 countries, and 4,291 people have lost their lives.”

With this, under the guidance of the World Economic Forum (WEF), WHO gave the green light for the unelected European Commission (EC) to declare a Health Emergency, which was to be followed by all EU members. The Global North which also includes the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea all followed the same “rule”. They declared a Health state of emergency, thereby wiping out the “Rule of Law”, as we know it.

The new “rule” (state of emergency) was quietly passed, either through countries’ parliaments or by decree. This event was not published, nor covered by the media. Therefore, most of the public does not know, that they are living in a state of emergency which, by its nature, disables all Rule of Law – and in most cases suspends the country’s Constitution.

In Switzerland the state of emergency has been installed until mid-2031, well covering the UN Agenda 2030, easily extendable, if necessary.

That is why any legal basis to apply the Nuremberg Codex – as well as any other law that counters the nefarious objectives of the dark Cult-Elite – has been wiped out in anticipation, by declaring Covid as a health emergency. Anti-globalization moves, as well as actions to preserve national sovereignty and local autonomies, can be shamelessly oppressed by military power.

Therefore, and in expectation of riots further down the road, starting possibly this fall with artificially created food and energy shortages – grave infractions on the Nuremberg Codex – the military of many EU countries, especially Germany and France, are preparing for urban warfare, to stem against potential riots. See this.

We may talk about legal actions against the eugenists, the deadly perpetrators on human society – it won’t happen. No judge is going to touch a Nuremberg Codex case, or any case that may contradict the Cult’s agenda. The judges’ and lawyers’ lives might be in danger.

What to do about it?

First, inform as many people as possible of their condition – that they live in a state of emergency, when legality as we know it, has little or no meaning. In extreme cases, the police can break into your home, without explanation, and search, harass or even arrest you, whatever is convenient.

This is not said to create fear. To the contrary, informed citizens know how to prepare for “worst case scenarios”.

Second, we have to organize; think-alike people have to find each other – organize in groups or communities of togetherness – as in resistance, non-violent resistance.

Third, we must never lose hope, never give up, and never hate “them”, as hate fosters negative vibes, keeps us “down” on their level and they feed on our negative energy.

Sounds esoteric? Maybe. But you are welcome to read up on a quantum science, hidden in the western world, but omnipresent in the east, in eastern philosophies, i.e., Hinduism and Buddhism.

Be always conscious that not only are we many and they are few, but we strive for the sun, for the light – and light will overcome darkness.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and  co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing

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WTF Actually Hell….Sullivan Appointed Prosecutor Allowed to Call Witness and Fact Find. Sick Perversion of Justice Here

May 19, 2020 by sundance

 

This is so far outside the bounds of traditional judicial activity it is unprecedented.  In the case against Michael Flynn the court appointed amicus curiae, essentially a court appointed outside lawyer enlisted to prosecute the case despite the DOJ withdrawal motion, John Gleeson has now filed a motion requesting: (1) a briefing schedule, (2) oral arguments; and (3) the possibility of interviewing witnesses.
Within Mr. Gleeson’s motion (link here) he will file his amicus brief on June 10th, and asks Judge Sullivan to set up a briefing schedule and allow him to make oral arguments.



Why would John Gleeson get the chance for a hearing to make an oral argument within the court, yet Flynn’s defense team couldn’t get a hearing scheduled on his original motion to withdraw his plea?  This is ridiculous.

In the traditional sense, to the extent that traditional applications can be considered in this bizarre situation, the amicus would present a written briefing to the court for the judge to consider; and that’s it.   However, Mr. Gleeson appears to be requesting his amicus status to be elevated to the position of intervening authority where he replaces the prosecution.
A request for a briefing schedule?  The only purpose of Judge Sullivan allowing a briefing schedule would be to drag this case out as long as possible.  Perhaps that is the goal; we shall see in his decision on this ridiculous request.
“Any additional factual development” would seem to imply Mr. Gleeson is planning to spend time investigating facts that are not currently before the court; including the possibility of Mr. Gleeson interviewing witnesses.
If Judge Emett Sullivan grants anything even close to the requests within this motion he will be operating so far outside of judicial boundaries an appellate court must intervene. Seriously, this is Lawfare madness in the extreme.

Source:  https://theconservativetreehouse.com

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