[Ppnews] Cynthia McKinney: President Obama, Free Leonard Peltier

Wed Jan 28 16:51:55 EST 2009

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:29:58 -0500
From: HQ <hq2600 at gmail.com>

Today, I sent this message to the President:

"Mr. President, Justice delayed is justice denied. Leonard Peltier's 
family report that he has been brutally beaten while in custody. 
Peltier should be released. He has become a global symbol of 
injustice and prison abuse. Imprisoned in the late 1970s, Peltier has 
never been given a fair trial. Yet he has been a model prisoner. In 
April he wrote: "Given the choice of lying down to die or standing up 
to live, we chose to live." Let Peltier live. Please free Leonard Peltier now."

It's easy to send a message to President Obama to help him deliver on 
the hope and change he promised.  Now is the time for us to act.

Unfortunately, the President has already signed an order allowing the 
continued bombing of Pakistan and his promised Afghanistan surge is 
underway.  What that means for all of us is more war.

If we are to have true and lasting peace, it should be clear by now 
that we won't get it by confining our electoral choices to only the 
ones presented to us in sophisticated, highly managed public 
relations campaigns.  True and lasting peace will come only with 
justice.  Freeing our political prisoners, including Peltier, Mumia, 
Sundiata, Mutulu, Imam El-Amin, our Puerto Rican political prisoners, 
and so many more is but a down payment on the path of justice and 
reconciliation that our country so sorely needs.

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