i can name 10 more politcal prisoners in american prisons..
C.S. Lewis observed that the worse you mistreat someone, the more you hate them for the guilt they inspire in you.
The genocide of the native American is the true foundation of this country - there simply isn't one without the other. Consequently, the American Indian Movement was even more of a threat to our satisfied self-perception than the Black Panthers. They didn't just have to be destroyed - they had to be made into
an example. Hence, Peltier.
Oh, yeah - and despite dozens of requests, Clinton wouldn't pardon him - but he did find time to pardon Marc Rich. What a fucking scumbag.