Leonard Peltier Receives a Commutation of His Life Sentence

On January 20, outgoing President Joseph Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who is age 80. See this story.

Peltier was the presidential nominee of the Peace & Freedom Party in 2004. The party nominated him to make a statement that he had been unjustly convicted. Pelter was also the original vice-presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 2020. That party similarly wanted to highlight the injustice of his treatment. He resigned from the 2020 ticket, allegedly for health reasons, but actually because his attorneys believed his candidacy would damage his chances of leniency from President Trump.


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Leonard Peltier Receives a Commutation of His Life Sentence — 20 Comments

  1. Biden is such a disgrace. He also pardoned his whole crime family and the abominable traitor fauci.

  2. If you were better informed about Leonard Peltier, you would have a different opinion.

  3. Biden did a good thing. Peltier spent almost 50 years as a political prisoner with both Democratic and Republican administrations complicit in injustice. The FBI and the entire Department of Justice being used as a weapon didn’t begin recently. It has been standard operating procedure of the United States government for over a century.

  4. Richard Winger and Robert K Stock (along with his pseudonyms SocraticGadfly among others) openly support a murder. Nice to know.

  5. @Helpful — no, by the URL, I can tell there’s not actual facts there.

    Here’s the facts, per “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse”

    In trials related to the events in and around Pine Ridge, FBI agents repeatedly intimidated witnesses into changing testimony, coached witnesses, sprung last-minute surprise witnesses at trials (which is against the law, if you didn’t know), suborned perjury and otherwise made a mockery of justice.

    Things reached a climax June 26, 1975 when two FBI agents approached the Jumping Bull property on the Pine Ridge Reservation, ostensibly looking for Jimmy Eagle on a weapons charge. According to all Indian accounts, the two agents began opening fire on the property.

    Both were eventually shot in a return of fire. They were later killed at close range.

    After three other AIM leaders at the site were all acquitted of murder charges in the FBI agents’ deaths, the FBI appeared determined to hang the case on Peltier by any legal or illegal means possible.

    https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/479781423

  6. George: Assertions are not proof. Are you the same person with a different name who comments slightly before or after you? No you are not, and neither am I.

  7. George: I don’t know how to add a link in my comments. If there is a link in the comment then that cannot possibly be me.

  8. The above comment is an imposter. I am not SocraticGadfly. I NEVER use a pseudonym and I NEVER apologize for any comments I make.

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