Electronic Petition for Justice/Peltier Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Please consider clicking on this webpage and adding your name to this petition. Please email this link to your freinds and co-workers. http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=127992 Justice for Leonard Peltier! THE TEXT OF PETITION Leonard Peltier has been incarcerated now for twenty-three years of two life sentences despite the fact that the government has conceded on numerous occasions that they do not know who is responsible for the deaths of the FBI agents murdered on June 26, 1975, or what part Leonard Peltier may have had in them. In this incident, a Native American was also shot and killed, and there was no investigation into his death. Leonard had been previously identified as an AIM (American Indian Movement)leader by the FBI and targeted by their notorious COINTELPRO program. The U.S. government today admits that they have no idea who killed the agents. In December 1995, US prosecutor Lynn Crooks admitted that no evidence exists against Peltier, and that if Peltier were retried, the government could not reconvict. As a child Leonard stepped on a nail and got tetanus. This caused him to get lockjaw and he has had problems with his jaw ever since. He also broke his jaw once and it never healed correctly. This is why he was transferred to Springfield for surgery in 1996, where he received botched surgery that almost killed him. Dr. Keller, a specialist at the Mayo Clinic has agreed to do the surgery but the prison will not transfer him there. Leonard will not sign any transfer papers unless they specifically state that he is going to the Mayo Clinic for treatment for fear of being transferred back to Springfield. We, the undersigned, demand that Leonard Peltier be transfered to the Mayo Clinic immediately, and that his unjustly obtained convictions be overturned! http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=127992 Please click on link above to add your name. Leonard Peltier Defense Committee PO Box 583 Lawrence, KS 66044 785-842-5774 To subscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-on@mail-list.com > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to < lpdc-off@mail-list.com > To change your email address, send a message to < lpdc-change@mail-list.com with your old address in the Subject line ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytrc-04.24.99-12:08:32-2667