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The FBI is trying to justify the unjustifiable. What is most insulting to those of us who survived the FBI reign-of-terror, is that these sick foreigners think they can dismiss the deaths of a person, a relation, with a mere sentence in their almighty legalese. They dare set their conquerors foot upon the homeland and attempt to wash their hands of the blood of fallen martyrs of the People.

What did they say about Frank Clearwater? That he was killed in a shootout or that somehow his murder was justified? The truth is that the Cherokee patriot, Frank Clearwater, was murdered by indiscriminate FBI gunfire into a church in the community of Wounded Knee.

Of the thousands of high-powered rifle slugs the FBI was raining down upon the families of Wounded Knee, one burst through the wall of the church and tore into the back of a resting Frank Clearwaters' head. When he fell, his comrades tried to carry him down to the medic hooch, Strawberry held in place a big square of Frank Clearwaters skull while Lance, Blackhorse, Tiger and several others carried his stretcher through a hail of FBI gunfire despite their white flag. They stopped at the big church while I tried frantically to get the FBI to cease firing at the strecher-bearers, the FBI continued firing, there was no time, the warriors once again carried his stretcher while cowardly FBI snipers dotted the ground with their full metal jackets.

Over the radio I was using, I could hear the cheers of those who shot Frank Clearwater, echoing down the ravine of the 1890 massacre, I ran outside to relieve the carriers and put my hand in place of Strawberry's hand, we were holding the brain of Frank Clearwater in his head as we stumbled into the medics rooms, we wanted to save him but he slipped away from us. That is how Frank Clearwater died, that is how the FBI killed him, they didn't know him, they were shooting at the COMMUNITY!

They wanted to kill the community because we were a community who dared challenge FBI power over our people. And that is also how the FBI murdered so many of us, they used others to carry out the dirtiest of their work so they could put out their three sentences of denial as they attempt to deny the undeniable to the families of those they murdered.

Here is what we must remember my relations; their far too late far too little, attempt to justify themselves is not being done out of concern for NDN people or a desire for justice. The FBI has a burning desire to keep at least ONE leader of the resistance in a cage. They need Leonard Peltier in a cage as a warning to all Red Nations that resistance will not be tolerated. Just like the sudden concern for my sister Anna Mae during Peltier month, the pig is saying these things now to counteract the righteous demands of the Nations to free Leonard Peltier. They intend to keep up their anti-NDN, anti-AIM tirades in a racist panic to stop true justice from being done in Peltier's case.

The world is crying out for freedom and justice for Leonard Peltier, the FBI is scared, the truth is coming out and they know the truth will free our People.