Interesting debate, as I can make cogent arguments for each side.
At the end of the day, as someone who studied the Wounded Knee standoff when I was a student at the University of Iowa, I consider Peltier to be more like a POW than a common criminal.
I view the Wounded Knee occupation as the last gasp of the resistance of native americans to the federal government rounding them up, putting them on reservations and the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
This is an exceptionally good reporting job on a startling new development in a murder case that shocked & horrified the nation nearly 50 years ago. Thank you, Pat Kinney.
Should the President even have these extraordinary powers of pardon and commutation and clemency? Just another example of how USA never really threw off monarchy….
Interesting debate, as I can make cogent arguments for each side.
At the end of the day, as someone who studied the Wounded Knee standoff when I was a student at the University of Iowa, I consider Peltier to be more like a POW than a common criminal.
I view the Wounded Knee occupation as the last gasp of the resistance of native americans to the federal government rounding them up, putting them on reservations and the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
Don't forget the boarding schools.
This is an exceptionally good reporting job on a startling new development in a murder case that shocked & horrified the nation nearly 50 years ago. Thank you, Pat Kinney.
Should the President even have these extraordinary powers of pardon and commutation and clemency? Just another example of how USA never really threw off monarchy….
Wonder what Hultman thinks of Trumps J6 pardons??? Pbly ok w that.
Agree with Chuck. Good interview with Hultman. Even-handed treatment of the facts in a tragic case. No winners anywhere.