Biden Should Grant Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier Now
Leonard Peltier is a 77-year-old Anishinabe-Lakota Native American activist imprisoned for 46 years for a crime he says he did not commit. Amnesty
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Leonard Peltier is a 77-year-old Anishinabe-Lakota Native American activist imprisoned for 46 years for a crime he says he did not commit. Amnesty
And again, this came after a lot of rangeling over who exactly only investigate but it took was going to attend these affirmative actions against the can you cluks clan, which various meetings. everybody was happy about, sds, as you pointed out, initially it communist party, socialist was just republican and the party, various groups. white house never asked to be a part of the meetings but and the church committee democrats cried foul saying they undertook an enormous you this get the information as investigation of them. well even though they don't the fbi under hoover was badly think there ...
Affairs. it questions how deserving dr. king was of the nobel peace prize he was awarded in 1964. it's long been known the fbi under hoover had an interesting in king's possible connections to communism and his personal life. he had investigators trail him and spy on him. so we should point out that it's not clear how or if they verified any of the information included. flift, claiborne carson, he's the director of the martin luther king jr. research institute, he spoke with anderson cooper. >> i think what's striking about this is that this was a file that would have -- that could have been r...
Homosexual homosexuals. >> and yes. this came in the backdrop of the communist and the scare of the gays, and in that time, it was one in the same. under hoover, he started the sexual deviate program which is instituting moles or spies throughout all of the branchs of the federal government in order to track down almost in a witch hunt style those individuals who were suspected of homosexual conduct, and once the fbi and the civil service did their investigations they brought in these individuals and often finding sparse evidence of homosexual conduct, but sufficient to terminate the employmen...
The democratic brand. if not obama himself. >> i think this is, let's just separate it also from the one administration versus another. this is about droemocracy and participatory democracy. citizen satisfaction, that doesn't make the challenge any less daunting, we should consider whether democracy itself is in danger of being discredited. politicians might usefully disentangle themselves from their power struggles long enough to take serious their responsibility to a noble idea and the systems that undergird it. >> the biggest threat to our democracy in the last century has been the fbi unde...