Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.
After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
As detailed by "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse", Peltier's trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.
On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier's application for clemency.
"You must understand...I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn't modesty. This is fact. Maybe you're ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary."
- Leonard Peltier
An Interview with Leonard Peltier
Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”
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Apparently I received unwise advice from my ear doctors about using pressure equalization to hear better and long story short, my left ear has too much air in it? And that has somehow detached my ear drum from the hearing bone prosthesis its supposed to be attached to and thats why my hearing is inexplicably fucked up for no apparent reason.
The letter telling me this made sure to describe it as "very unusual" and I cant even find any info online about this cause it doesnt seem like this should ever be a concern unless you are a diver.
This is a looney tunes ass fucking health problem I swear to god like their literal explanation is that I blew too much air into my head and now my ear drum is like a balloon, this is so stupid do I need to be watching out for airborne anvils and grand pianos now?