Judge allows FBI to withhold some Peltier documents

Judge allows FBI to withhold some Peltier documents

CAROLYN THOMPSONAssociated PressBUFFALO, N.Y. -

The FBI can keep secret a handful of documents in the case of imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier in the interest of national security, a judge ruled, rejecting efforts by Peltier supporters for a glimpse at the 30-year-old records.U.S. District Judge William Skretny issued the decision after reviewing some of the pages in private as part of a Freedom of Information request by attorneys fighting to have Peltier's conviction overturned.

He was convicted in Fargo, N.D., in 1977, and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in the deaths of two FBI agents during a 1975 standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.Attorney Michael Kuzma said Monday he planned to appeal Skretny's ruling. "I'm disappointed but not shocked," Kuzma said.Peltier supporters have taken legal action to collect more than 100,000 pages of FBI documents from field offices nationwide which they say should have been turned over to Peltier lawyers at the time of his trial or following a Freedom of Information request filed soon after.

The FBI in Buffalo released nearly 800 pages of material in 2004, but withheld others, citing exemptions allowed under the Freedom of Information Act for national security concerns and to protect the identity of agents and confidential sources."Plaintiff has not established the existence of bad faith or provided any evidence contradicting (the FBI's) claim that the release of these documents would endanger national security or would impair this country's relationship with a foreign government," the judge wrote in his decision Friday."The pages we were most intrigued about revolved around a teletype from Buffalo ... a three-page document that seems to indicate that a confidential source was being advised by the FBI not to engage in conduct that would compromise attorney-client privilege," Kuzma said.

Supporters have said Peltier, who is imprisoned in Lewisburg, Pa., was treated unfairly because of his political activism.


Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

You are Invited to a Special Program!

Subject: Press Release: "Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story"
a film by Robert Redford

You are invited to a special program to Free Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier is a political Prisoner who has been held for 30 years for a crime that he did not commit.

There will be a screening of"Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story" a film by Robert
Redford.

When: Monday, March 6th at the Community Church,-New York City
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 40 East 35th Street between Park and Madison Avenues.

Monday evening's program includes a special message from Leonard Peltier.
There will also be speakers on the program including:
Ramsey Clark, Amy Goodman, Tiokasin Ghosthorse of First Voices Indigenous
Radio, Barry Bachrach and Mike Kuzma, Attorneys for Leonard Peltier, and
Toni Zeidan, Coordinator of Leonard Peltier Defense Committee.

Leonard is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota nations who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976, even though government attorneys and courts acknowledge that the government withheld evidence, fabricated evidence, and coerced witnesses to fraudulently convict him.

Leonard is recognized worldwide as a political prisoner and a symbol of resistance against the abuse and repression of Indigenous People. To many Indigenous Peoples, Leonard Peltier is a symbol of the long history of abuse and repression they have endured.

This year marks the 30th year anniversary of Leonard's imprisonment. Despite the fact that the government has admitted that the trial was a fraud, Leonard is still behind bars because the US doesn't want this vocal defender of Indigenous rights to be free.

Donation for this event is $5, and larger donations are encouraged.

For further information, contact the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
915-533-6655. www.leonardpeltier.org

also International Action Center 212-633-6646, www.iacenter.org

Thank you

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Click Here To Download a brochure on the event:

An American Indian's view of the cartoons, by Robert Robideau- Co Director Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Counterpunch
February 10,2008

An American Indian´s view of the cartoons, by Robert Robideau- Co Director Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Reading the first news reports about the cartoons depicting Muhammid as a terrorist reminded me of the unfriendly media that printed the then Attorney Gerneral of for South Dakota, William Janklows` vigilante order, "The only way to deal with the Indian problem in South Dakota is to put a gun to the AIM leaders heads and pull the trigger." Such ethnically hostile and abusive reporting by mainstream media was what helped to kill more than 60 American Indians and assult hundreds more during the federal governments reign of terror that occurred between 1973 and 1975 on the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota reservation.

The old adage that was populized in Hollywood westerns," White man speaks with forked tongue" had a special meaning. It denoted the deceit of European settlers who often lied to North American Indian people as they stole coveted lands and nearly decimated them as a people. The recent split tongue approach used in defending Danish racist cartoons as freedom of speech must be loudly condemned as just more attacks on the rights of Muslims to defend their lands, culture and self determination.

Most European and North American newspapers support the editor of, Jyllands-Posten, the first paper to publish the offensively racist cartoons, expressed position, "we cannot apologise for freedom of expression."

The word "but" is a favorite transition of hypocrites who would have us believe on one hand that freedom of speech is a democratic principle to be defended at all cost, while on the other hand are quick to condemn when it attacks and incites hatred toward them and those they wish to protect.

Many "Democratic" European countries have laws against anti-Semitism, which are exclusive; they do not protect other cultures from racial attacks. You can insult the prophet of Islam with offensive cartoon messages that deface his image, to create an atmosphere of hatred for Muslims, but dare not tread on the special rights and protections they have formed laws around to protect anti-Semitism.

For years Abu Hamza al-Masri, an Egyptian Muslim, had exercised his right to free speech at his Finsbury Park mosque in London. The British authorities attempted to revoke his citizenship and for years never brought criminal charges against him. With the new atmosphere created around the global war on terrorism (GWT) an English tribunal recently convicted and sentenced Hamza to seven years in prison for allegedly "directly and deliberately stirring up hatred against Jewish people and encouraging murder of those he referred to as non-believers." Certainly the same could be said of the cartoonist.

Dispite the fact that more then 10 people have died as a result of the Danish cartoons there has been no criminal charge laid against the offending papers nor the Danish cartoonist. Some countries say that they are looking for ways to prosecute.The cartoons, which many Danish and Scandinavian newspaper editors defended in the name "radical Islam" predictably, resulted in stirring the anger of the Muslim world, rightly so. In defense, they have taken to the streets in unified protests that will, I hope, send shock waves throughout the European Union for sometime to come.

With all the comparisons that have been made and continue to be made between the struggles of Muslim people and North American Indian people, it did not come as a surprise to find similar cartoons historically used to create racism, hatred and war against American Indians. Portraying the popular sentiment about Indians in the 1800`s. A cartoon by Grant Hamilton, called the, "The Nation's Ward" portrayed the Indian as a savage snake constricting a pioneer family. It shows further the American Indian being fed by Uncle Sam while the pioneers' home burns. This cartoon and others like it protested the U.S. treaty promise of giving out food rations to Indians through hard winters. Political propaganda fed through various printed media has helped to create the mentality that allowed wholesale, systematic and frenetic killings of Indian men, women and children. One example of such an atrocity took place at Sand Creek when U.S. soldiers were given permission to butcher women and children and to hang their sexual body parts on public display at the Denver opera house. Such atrocities have occurred in today’s modern wars currently being waged against Muslim people under Bush’s doctrine of ´preemptive strike´ that has killed more civilians then fighters.

More recently, the United States federal government began using the FBI as a national political police force to put down legitimate protest movements of the 1960´s. A program called the counter intelligence program (cointelpro) was developed to assist the FBI. This program used offensive cartoons as a method to fan the flames of racism that had been spoon-fed to the Euro-American public through newspapers, books, cartoons and Hollywood westerns became part of their standard bag of dirty treaks in putting down peaceful protest.

Today, the FBI, with a mad infinity for maintining the imprisonment of now world famious American Indian activist, Leonard Peltier, not to long ago, used a cartoon possing him as an Indian terrorist killing their fellow agents. This cartoon is still today on their website, dispite the fact that even prosecutors who tried the case admit they "do not know who killed the two FBI agents" during the Pine Ridge reign of terror on June 26, 1976. Leonard Peltier has been confined 30 years in federal prisons as a result of FBI manufactured evidence, much of which the federal government has since admitted to.

There is no question that sports teams who use Indian Mascots, cartoons that portray inaccurate images, symbols insulting to American Indians. One professor speaking out against the use of Chief Illiniwek by the U of I football team in the late 1990s, said," "I've often visited Germany and speaking to younger people there, they all feel great pain when they consider the recent past. Not one university in Germany would contemplate having a rabbi as a mascot."

Freedom of speech and of the press has been used as a weapon against oppressed people for decades. It has been nothing more than a smokescreen to justify the actions of a few but in reality incite religious and ethnic hatred. The editors knew these cartoons were clearly drawn as deadly propaganda tools, created with malice and forethought, to neutralize Muslim groups in struggle and deny them "respectability" in the world community. Who now should be charged for inciting a riot? Who now should be held accountable to the Muslim communities for these slanderous, racist cartoons that has forced communities to take sides against each other? How can we share this world, respecting the diversity of ethnic origins if the powers on hand continue to pump the public with hate filled propaganda! It is time for the media to step up to the plate accepting responsibility for their actions and what better place is there to start than in Denmark!

Robert Robideau
Co-director Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
February 9, 2006

Update on Court Hearing on Feb 13, 2006

To: Leonard Peltier Supporters
From: Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Subject: Update on Court Hearing on Feb 13, 2006
Location: 111 S. 10th Street
Southeast Courtroom 27th Floor
St. Louis, Missouri

In a "Standing Room" only courtroom filled with Leonard Peltier supporters, Leonard’s attorneys argued Leonard’s appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, relative to the District Court's denial of Leonard's to correct his Illegal Sentence. The Court greeted both Leonard's Attorneys and the Government Attorney with many questions concerning the key issues raised. Leonard's attorneys raised many strong points in response to the Court's questions and we ask that Leonard's supporters pray that the Court make the just and right decision. After listening to the parties' arguments, the Court took the case under advisement and a decision will most likely be rendered within the next three months.
After the argument, Leonard's supporters, with the coordination of Lisa Reinhold, held a luncheon to thank those supporters who came to seek justice for Leonard. Attorney Barry Bachrach, and Toni Zeidan, LPDC Coordinator, spoke briefly to thank the supporters and update them on Leonard's circumstances. Attorney Michael Kuzma also spoke to alert the audience to the significant actions he is taking relative to acquiring further documents which are being withheld by the Government. Your support is necessary to enable Attorney Kuzma and the LPDC research team get the information necessary to establish Leonard's freedom.

The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee would like to thank everyone who joined us on Feb 13, 2006 in prayers, thoughts and support!
Special thanks to the following individuals for their help and support in organizing events, and prayer vigil for Leonard Peltier in St. Louis Missouri:
Lisa Reinhold, with Oglala Commemoration
Julie, Keith and Jonas - Amnesty Student Group -St. Louis University
Canon Fenner from the Christ Church Cathedral
Jill and Dennis Runninghawk. Les Burris, Joan Travis, Delores Santha
Drum - Eagle Wind Singers
( Note: The court hearing was held on the 27th floor and the drum could be heard throughout the court hearing. The prayer vigil was held at the Court House Plaza directly across the street from the court house. Thank you Eagle Wind Singers!)

Urgent- Call to Action!-Please Write or Fax Letters!

From: THE LEONARD PELTIER DEFENSE COMMITTEE
To: LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORTERS
Subject: CALL TO ACTION PLEASE WRITE OR FAX LETTERS!
For Immediate Release - Please distribute!

Dear Supporters,
The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee recently returned from St. Louis,Missouri where we attended a court hearing regarding Leonard Peltier's illegal sentencing. We will be sending an update on the court hearing soon. At this time we are asking supporters to Write or Fax letters of support for Leonard Peltier. We are enclosing a sample letter and are encouraging you to use the sample letter in your fax or letters to the Courthouse. (Please see sample letter) We are also providing you with the mailing and fax information and Case Number. Thank you!
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Call to Action !Please WRITE or FAX letters to :
Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse
111 South 10th Street St. Louis MO - 63102
FAX # 314-244-2605FAX- 314-244-2635 Automation



Sample Letter :

Reference: Leonard Peltier Case # 05-3194
To :Honorable Judges:
George Fagg
Morris Arnold
Roger Wollman

A hearing was held on February 13, 2006 to correct the illegal sentencing that occurred in Leonard Peltier's case. The basis for this motion is that the United States District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the statutes upon which Mr. Peltier was convicted and sentenced. The history of the constitution, and the statues implicated, unequivocally establish that Mr. Peltier was not convicted under the Indian Crimes Act, which is the only possible authority under which the government could have tried and convicted Mr. Peltier. Leonard Peltier is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976. To many Indigenous Peoples, Leonard Peltier is a symbol of the long history of abuse and repression they have endured. Following a trial in which many documents were withheld by the prosecution from defense attorneys, witness intimidation, false testimony,and other irregularities, Mr. Peltier was tried and convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the deaths of two FBI agents, which occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975. Mr. Peltier was convicted on a two-count indictment for first-degree murder, even though the acts at issue all occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In a 2003 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit stated that the behavior of the government in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier should be condemned. This year marks the 30th year of Mr. Peltier's unjust imprisonment.

I respectfully request that you keep the aforementioned facts in mind when rendering a decision in Mr. Peltier's case.

Thank you for your kind consideration in this matter.

Signature : Printed Name:

Join us Feb. 13@ 8am -Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse

Join us on February 13th, 2006 - 8am at the Thomas Eagleton Federal Court House
111. South 10th St.
St. Louis, MO.

APPEAL HEARING TO ADDRESS THE LAKOTA NATION S0VEREIGNTY

A Hearing has been scheduled for February 13, 2006 to correct the illegal sentencing that occurred in Leonard Peltier's case. The basis for this motion is that the United States District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the statutes upon which Mr. Peltier was convicted and sentenced . While the attorneys are inside the court we will be gathered at the Courthouse Plaza holding a prayer vigil. Join in prayers with traditional Drum and we pray and show our support for Mr. Peltier.
Directions-

From the West - Take Hwy 40 (64) in to St. Louis to the Market Street exit, follow Market Street to turn right on 10th St. (KSDK-TV at the corner) go down one block and the Court House is a large building on your right with a domed roof, the Court House Plaza is directly across the street. We will be directly in front of the enterence across the street.

From the East – Cross the Poplar Street Bridge ( all highways join together to cross the bridge at the Missouri / Illinois border) Take Hwy 40 west to Market St/ 21st Street exit # 39A. Proceed straight down Market Street, make a right on 10th , go one block, court house is on right, Plaza is on your left.

Parking- there is meter parking along market and side streets, (a quarter for every 20 minutes)
No parking allowed around the courthouse streets, for security purposes. There is a parking garage at 9th St and Walnut – West Stadium Parking Garage for $5 a day. There is also a parking lot straight down 10th St, don't know the cost, but the area didn't look real safe to me.


Please remember this is a Federal Courthouse, office of the US Marshall's, we have the US Marshall's permission to gather here. We are there to represent Leonard, not ourselves.
Absolutly NO DRUGS, NO ALOCOHOL , nor under the influnces of either.

More events to be held surrounding this gathering to be posted as soon as they become finalized.

This event is being co-ordinated by the St. Louis Support of the Oglala Commemoration Committee and Leonard Peltier Support Group of Southwest Missouri.

For contact information :
LPDC – 915-203-6358
St. Louis Support – 314-602-9281
SW Support – 417-345-9984 or 309-369-6549

LEONARD PELTIER APPEAL HEARING ON FEB. 13, 2006

LEONARD PELTIER APPEAL HEARING SCHEDULED ON FEB 13, 2006 at ST. LOUIS MISSOURI TO ADDRESS LAKOTA NATION SOVEREIGNTY

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee For Immediate Release
Feb. 8, 2006

Peltier appeals to correct illegal sentence.

On February 13, in St. Louis, Missouri, attorney Barry Bachrach will argue before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that American Indian activist Leonard Peltier has been illegally imprisoned for over 30 years.

On June 26, 1975, two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Mr. Peltier was charged in a two-count federal indictment. He was tried and convicted on both counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

In 2005, Peltier filed a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence. The Motion was denied by the United States District Court in Fargo, North Dakota. "The federal jurisdiction conferred by the statutes under which my client was convicted and sentenced depended on the location of the alleged crime, not against whom the crime was allegedly committed," lead counsel Bachrach explains. The statutes required that the acts in question take place "within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States." Because the acts occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which Bachrach argues is neither "within the special maritime [or] territorial jurisdiction of the United States," Mr. Peltier claims he was convicted and sentenced for crimes over which the U.S. District Court had no jurisdiction.

Peltier is calling on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure in effect at the time of his sentencing – specifically, Rule 35(a) – that provided that the Court could correct an illegal sentence at any time.

"This rule applies to any offense committed before November 1, 1997," Bachrach said.

"The appellate courts have recognized the undisputed misconduct in Peltier's case – fabricated and suppressed evidence, as well as coerced testimony – yet have refused to take corrective action for over three decades. This is clearly an abuse of the legal standards of American justice. It is our belief that this appeal should ultimately lead to Mr. Peltier’s release."

Designated as a political prisoner by Amnesty International, which has called for his immediate and unconditional release, Peltier is imprisoned at the U.S. penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

The hearing will be held on Feb 13, 2006 at 9 am CSTThomas F. Eagleton CourthouseSoutheast Courtroom 27th Floor111 S. 10th StreetSt Louis, Missouri

For more information please contact:
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Telephone: 915 - 533-6655
E-mail: info@leonardpeltier.org

Barry Bachrach, Attorney
Telephone: 508-926-3403
E-mail: bbachrach@bowditch.com

Spirit of Crazy Horse Newsletter Feb 2006

The Spirit of Crazy Horse Newsletter February 2006 is now online for all to download.
Please see section Newsroom/Spirit of Crazy Horse Newsletter- February 2006, via our website@www.leonardpeltier.org. The Spirit of Crazy Horse is the official newsletter of the LPDC and is published quarterly. If you find the reading worthwhile and appreciate our efforts to keep it going please send your donations to the LPDC. Any amount will be greatly appreciated. Supporters who do not have access to the internet can receive a copy of the newsletter for an annual fee of $15.00. Please send your newsletter mailing request to info@leonardpeltier.org or the LPDC. The LPDC offers the newsletter to inmates at a reduced subscription annual fee of $10.00. Please send your subscription fee and/or donations to the LPDC at the following address:
LPDC
2626 N. Mesa # 132
El Paso, Texas 79902

We hope you enjoy our February 2006 Spirit of Crazy Horse Newsletter.

Thank you,
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Condolences to Coretta Scott's family

The following is a statement by Leonard Peltier on the loss of Coretta Scott King:

"It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Coretta Scott King. She dedicated her life to the fight for social justice. Coretta Scott King was a human rights champion and supported me in my struggle to secure justice and freedom. My heartfelt condolences go to Coretta Scott King’s family and friends. "

Palestine and Native America

Palestine and Native America
by Robert Robideau


http://www.counterpunch.org/robideau02012006.html

February 1, 2006
"God Given Right"

Palestine and Native America
By ROBERT ROBIDEAU

The recent election windfall victory of Hamas has sent shock waves through the United States and the European Union. They swiftly announced their threat to withhold $400 million in aide if Hamas refused to recognize the state of Israel and disarm.Hamas, which has promoted itself as a militant alternative to the discredited Fatah government, now has to live up to its own rhetoric of providing an alternative to the long suffering Palestinian people.

Mr Zahar, the leader of Hamas who rose to power in 1989, reportedly said, "Spies and thieves must fear us," and "thieves are those who steal our land". As a member of the American Indian Movement, I know full well that the roads into the Americas were paved by thieves. It was A government spy sent to create internal disruption, who set the stage for the execution of Anna Mae Aquash, an icon in Indian country; and while over 150 government police terrorized communities on the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota reservation in the summer of 1975, the federal government stole one eighth of the Pine Ridge reservation land.

The state of Israel sets on land that was originally Palestinian but Zionist movements in Europe and the United States claimed that the "land was given to them by God" and their belief that their race possessed some "natural superiority". Euro- Americas pray to "god and country" and teach their future generations to pray homage to the gangsters, outlaws and thieves who stole the country from Indian nations in god's name.

The European idea that they possessed a "God given superiority" not only had brought them into conflict with the Palestinian people, but also North American Indian Nations in the 1800s.
In contrast, Euro-Americans and Europeans began their westward expansion of North America under the banner of manifest destiny. A belief that they had a "divinely inspired mission" to expand. Euro-American expansion meant the thief and occupation of Native American Indian lands. A big part of William Henry Harrison´s responsibility, who as the Territorial Governor of Indiana, was to obtain title to American Indian lands so that white settlement could expand in the area, asked the Indiana legislature: "Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined, by the Creator, to give support to a large population, and to be the sea of civilization, of science, and true religion?" Isn't this the Zionist attitude toward Palestine?

The United States continued the European practice of recognizing only limited land rights of Native American Indians who they regarded as "savages" who stood in the way of Euro-American expansion. The same mentality has prevailed with Israel people in their dealings with the Palestinian people.

In the time of Manifest Destiny, this idea was clear and simple, "Indian Removal". The "Indian wars" between Native Indian Nations and Euro-American armies, which are now well recorded, ended in more then 300 treaties that won some tribes large sections of land, but today these lands have all but melted away into the hands of Euro-Americans.

Euro-American's believed that Native American Indians were "destined to melt and vanish before the advancing waves of Anglo-American power..." but the large land sessions won by the Tribes through treaty in fact allowed future generations to survive, even as their lands continued to be lost through one passage after another of Congressional Acts that swindled tribes out of millions of acres of land.

Today Native lands have become checker boarded with Euro-American ownership and continue to be subject to Congressional Acts to defraud Native people of even more land and the natural resources.

The Palestinian people continue to struggle through various groups like Hamas in self defense of their sovereignty and to keep their remaining lands. So too, has North American Indian people continued to struggle to keep what is left of their lands and recover stolen lands.

The Federal Government offers the Lakota Nations 100´s of millions for their sacred Black Hills, but the Lakota people have refused the federal paper dollars, firmly stating, "Our sacred land is not for sale!"

Of the numerous Native American Indian groups that have historically formed to confront the continued Euro-American intrusions into our lives and sovereign rights, the American Indian Movement (AIM) has become best known. Like the PLO, Hamas and other Palestinian liberation groups, we too were criminalized by the invaders and thieves who attempt to undermine our rights as a liberation group with aggression, violence and name calling. As with the Palestinians, we too will not be denied, through threats of violence, our right of self defense.
On September 2005 the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a three day aerial attacks killing and wounding Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip. An action by the Israel government to demoralize Palestinian victims through acts of terror are common tactics used by occupying forces.

For 30 years Congress has failed to fully investigate their law enforcement agency the FBI´s role in the "Reign of Terror" on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota that resulted in 240 assaults and 60 murders in a 3 year period. It also failed to investigate the gross misconduct of the FBI in the case of Leonard Peltier, a member activist of the American Indian Movement who has now spent 30 years in federal prisons for defending the lives of his people against the violent and aggressive attacks of the FBI. The order to eliminate Mr. Peltier was apparently authorized by the federal government.

If the United States and the European Union fail to buy Mr. Zahar out with "aid money", we can expect that they will use military units with similar powers given to law enforcement agencies here in the United States under the old Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) or the one now known as the Patriot Act to eliminate him in the name of God.

United States history attest to the genocide of North American Indians and most educated Euro Americans and Europeans would agree that a genocide has been committed on this continent in the name of God and riches, but when it comes to the Muslim world the racism is disgusting.

The "Gods" must be crazy to think that their programs of racism and genocide will stop freedom fighters around the world from carrying on with their struggles for liberation and self defense.

ROBERT ROBIDEAU is co-director of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. He can be reached at: americanindianm@telefonica.net