Leonard Peltier, is the oldest political prisoner in the world (65 years) and it takes longer (32 years) one of the dungeons of the country is covered with the mantle of "democracy" to the powerful: the United States. The prisoner does not belong to large arms industry lobbies, the oil or pharmaceutical companies.
Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist and people belonging to the Anishinabe and Dakota / Lakota of South Dakota. In 1977, he was convicted and sentenced (without proof), to defend its territory, to two consecutive life sentences for the alleged "murder" of two FBI agents who died during a shootout in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, sacred territories Anishinabe Village / Lakota.
In the 70's, the federal government secretly prepared a campaign of theft and plunder of the Black Hills and Pine Yield Reserve because these stocks containing huge deposits of uranium, an important element for building nuclear weapons. The authors of the book "Agents of Repression" denounced the government's plans in that area. "In general, the industrialization plans of the Black Hills are amazing. The project has a huge industrial park two dozen plants over 10,000 megawatts coal-fired, a dozen nuclear reactors, large coal slurry pipeline that used millions of gallons of water, and at least 14 major uranium mines. "
Also, Robert Redford, producer and world-renowned artist filmed a documentary Incident at Oglala title on the events in the reserve in 1975." See: ( http://www.youtube.com / watch? v = tZsQzepS5MQ )
Leonard Peltier, the American judicial system that condemns the fact of being indigenous, living above the resources that the system needs to continue to impose its imperial power and to defend their territory Pine Ridge. In these events killed more than 50 people from the town Anishinabe and Dakota / Lakota by paramilitaries trained by the FBI and whose crimes have not been investigated. For indigenous peoples, Peltier is a symbol of abuse and repression they have had to endure for so long from the State based on the industry of war, terror and violation of human rights. Personalities like
Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, John Paul II and Nelson Mandela intervened to several U.S. presidents unsuccessfully to get clemency for Leonard Peltier and blind and old lies in one of the prisons in the United States. Hopefully, the current President Barak Obama, have mercy and understand that democracy and justice bundle up each and all of its citizens.
For a hundred years, Wounded Knee was a symbol of the horrible massacres perpetrated by the U.S. Cavalry against indigenous peoples in U.S. But in 1973, Wounded Knee became a symbol of something very different. A symbol of resistance and liberated territory. After thirty six years, this historic Lakota occupation remains a powerful symbol of hope for the struggle of our indigenous peoples for their freedom and territory within the bowels of the most powerful empire but weak in mercy.
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