The following is from Peter Worthington's article in the Sunday Sun Nov/6/2011.
And is another example of why the American Empire continues to collapse.
"To some, it is the most controversial American court case in the past 50 years that, until recently, seemed hopelessly marred in prejudice, perjury and bureaucratic vindictiveness.
That's a view expressed by researcher Dan Battaglia and filmmaker Preston Randolph in "Wind Chases the Sun", a new documentary being made about Leonard Peltier, now in his 36th year in prison. Peltier is serving two life sentences for the 1975 death of two FBI agents in a range war on the Pine Ridge Ogala-Sioux Indian reserve in South Dakota, after the troubles at Wounded Knee". He goes on to state, that if Peltier hadn't fled to Canada, he would have been found not guilty, as it was a case of self-defence. Furthermore it was later disclosed that - and admitted - the five witness's had all been coerced by the FBI and police into lying, as it was imperative that someone be found guilty in the highly political atmosphere of the times. Battaglia and Randolph have turned up new evidence that Peltier was being railroaded, anyone that investigates the case has long since discovered.
Peltier was transferred 4 times and is now in the maximum security prison in Coleman Florida. The likes of Desmond Tuto, Nelson Mandela, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dalai Lama, the European parliament and 50 Canadian MP's are amongst those who have urged his release.
Twenty years ago Robert Redford made "Incident at Ogala" about his case, and now Randolph's Cactus Productions created new ground with "Wind Chases the Sun".
Peltier has been mis-treated in prison, a Scottish women who had mailed him a twenty pound note which was confiscated when he tried to send it to his defence committee, as a result he was sent to solitary confinement for three months. He was again sent to solitary for 3 months when an electric cord was found under the mattress of the top bunk, he had the bottom bunk. "Wind Chases the Sun" exposes the harassment Peltier suffered in the prison system.
Testimony by former prison guards deploring the harsh unwarranted treatment of him in these two cases as well as his 36 years in prison are revealing government mis-treatment of him throughout his incarceration. He couldn't get medical treatment for his jaw which seemed to be atrophying, and he could barely open his mouth. He also has diabetes and now early signs of prostate cancer.
Throughout his trial key evidence was withheld from his jury, including ballistics evidence debunking the prosecutions theory. Over 135,000 pages of information were withheld from Peltier's defense, and still thousands of pages are not being released.
Forgotten in the on-going vendetta against Peltier is the mood in America at the time of Pine Ridge and Wounded knee - a time of political unease, with the American Indian Movement deemed a terrorist group, when it was simply for Indian rights. Peltier is not a criminal. He was an Indian rights activist, he should have long ago been freed or granted amnesty. He has paid the price.
That is why this film is important. "Wind Chases the Sun" may be Peltier's last chance for freedom. Even though his spirit remains strong, his health, at age 67, is deteriorating...On this day Peter
worthington spoke with words of Iron. You can find more on www.leonardpeltier.net/theman.htm
To unfold the truth,about us and about the conflict, division and violence left in our wake, and to separate the wheat from the chaff, to reveal the conscious and unconscious origin of conflict, division and violence shared by all of us. To disprove the fallacy that truth has a trap door.
The long and winding road
The Road Ahead ?
Welcome to Secrets of Conflict, Division and Violence Revealed
The Stumbling Block
We hope to search for the truth about us humans, and hope to amass enough evidence to prove, that no amount of laws, transparency, disclosure and legislation is sufficient to alter our destructive and corrupted behavior except temporarily. Our love of polarity empowers our self image and activates our 400 million year old reptilian brain! Our reasoning part of the brain, which enabled us to advance and create this material paradise, is of little use in taming our conflict, division and violence.
Witness the death of the "Social Contract", between nations and even next door neighbors," you don't bother me and I won't bother you"!, just doesn't work for reasons we will search out.
The following should convince sceptics, that our overall intelligence, is losing the most important characteristic, that all life forms except man, posess.
Every living creature has a built in need to survive, no matter what the threat to it is, it will do everything in it's power to avoid it's demise. Bacteria will eventually overcome an anti-biotic that once killed it. All living creatures will adapt, change to the best of their abilities when their survival is threatened, even though their cognitive {reasoning}, abilities are meagre compared to mans.
Man with the most complicated and highest functioning cognitive process, seems unable in most cases to avoid putting himself un-necessarily in the line of fire.
All this is due to the control the negative aspects of his psychological self has on his behaviour, cognition, reasoning and actions.
Lets call the interference - the stumbling block - the negative aspects of the "software of the mind", those things that prevent him exercising intelligently and creatively his will to survive.
They include but are not limited to the following.
His desperate need for identity and belonging, which is a double edged sword, when what you identify with or belong to has a destructive or negative narrative...Our need to be right in our own eyes, see Proverbs 21: 2...When we identify with a certain belief (one leaf) and it becomes, for most, something we would defend no matter what the cost...our love of scapegoating others when they do something wrong, but when we do the same we rationalize it...our strongest natural characteristic is mimemis, {imitation} whithout which we couldn't have created culture or even learned language, but imitation is again a double edged sword, depending on who or what we imitate...the tendency for close friends to desire the same object {mimetic desire} and if it cannot be shared we often become rivals, unleashing negative envy, jealousy and often ending in conflict, division and violence, often turning good friends into bitter enemies...our increasingly selfish greed...extreme ambition and competition...those who become extremely narcissistic and egoistic.
Most of the negative aspects of the above lead to conflict, division and violence and are an impediment to survival, which I put under the umbrella of the satanic constellation and which Jesus called scandalon in the Bible.
So it seems our own negative side of human nature our neg. psychology is taking us down the river without a paddle...
This is the basic contradiction that is preventing mankind from doing the right thing, and living in the garden of eden, and experiencing an overall joyous life. It's also preventing us from solving or even dealing with the real problems facing us. It's obvious that society as whole is unadjusted or worst, and unless we realize that we've been wrong about a lot of things, chaos, like violence, can only escalate to extremes.
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