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26 July, 2012 – Break The Chains

“NorthWest Aim, circa 1972”
donated by Robert Robideau (rip)
LONG RIDE HOME:

PELTIER/BLACK HORSE LAWSUIT STALLED

July 25, 2012
by antoinette nora claypoole
South Texas. July 23, 2012. The secret to a human psyche, the truth of corrupt and global powers, are as elusive as peace in a world gone violent. As brutal as a people gone cloud cuckoo with desire to enslave once wild. Beauty. Women. People of “color” (is white a color), children, the “poor” and those living connected to the land: hippies, counter culture and traditional First Nations: we are all in this dirge on the River Styx, together.

The efforts to be released, into some semblance of justice and chances to rebirth freedom become plagued by not enough gold coins on our eyes.
On July 20, 2012, Judge McCarthy in Buffalo NY, ruled he could find “no public documents” in the 900+ FBI files, in the “Black Horse case”: Michael Kuzma vs. Dept of Justice. Subsequently releasing not one page. To Kuzma and his legal team. Kuzma and the hopeful supporters of Leonard Peltier “lost” this round. But there are more rabbits to pull out of the black hat of fate. Kuzma’s counsel, Daire Brian Irwin, explains a “more complex response to all this” is pending. Meaning, that he will “persist in challenging subsequent FOIA requests” if/as they are corrupted, or denied. As well as “framing the FOIA differently”. And Kuzma says “new FOIA request (s) have already been filed” with the Federal Courts. Requests. Regarding the alleged shooting of an FBI Agent Fitzgerald, by “Frank Black Horse” back in the 1970’s. Where that ride takes us, still begs a map. Maybe a “wanted” poster. As Black Horse is not ‘officially” known to be “dead or live” and privacy acts for the living, prevail. Irwin suggests “Black Horse” give them a call. Why not. Irwin says. “Let us know if he is alive. if he has nothing to hide he can let us know he is alive. And waive the FBI privacy act”.

Yes. The current “loss” in court was perhaps anticipated.
Yet. Irwin reassures the effort by insisting “we will not stop until Leonard is free”.
Current affairs warrant, as always, another peek into the complexities of this historical, brutal mess.

MORE TAR, MORE FEATHERS

Trying again, various long time Leonard Peltier/ American Indian Movement (AIM) supporters are rallying this summer. And Fall. The effort includes a revived Clemency effort, the current Black Horse lawsuit and FOIA requests filed by Peltier’s FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) lawyers, Kuzma. What initially seemed a fine and perhaps “expedited” Court ruling, is now potentially become long and drawn out affair. Down the river, with a couple lost paddies. That initial effort, demanding FOIA information about potential operatives in AIM, which may impact Peltier’s status as prisoner, has been quashed. All along it seemed there were slim chances for a significant, favorable ruling And. Most in Indian Country were/are prepared for the Black Horse case to simply drag on.

Like a tar and feathered crook busted in a local 1890’s saloon.

The May 2012 request for Black Horse files was at best. A wild card suit filed, a belated effort to nail the FBI to their own cheating ways. Kuzma had tried for a few years to simply have access to “anything of public source” about Frank Black Horse, now a verified “operative or informant” for the FBI during the 1970’s. Black Horse had infiltrated the American Indian Movement, and could possibly be implicated in the murder of Anna Mae Aquash, if ANY information about him, is made visible. But the request was compromised from the onset, as Kuzma had narrowed his request for files, to mere “public documents”, news clippings, anything sourced from outside the FBI. …more