Our laws must be respected and obeyed or the penalty must be pad. The punishment must also fit the crime - and it does here. Mr. President, since Leonard Peltier couldn't fool the federal courts, he is now trying to fool you and the public. He is shading and hiding the facts - and playing on sympathy. Don't let him get away with it, Mr. President.
Sympathy is appropriate only for the dead heroes and their surviving families.
Don't let their sacrifice be forgotten. The other concealments that they went through are unbelievable. The FBI laboratory, is the subject of a whole series of reports that condemn it for fabricating evidence, for falsifying evidence, for incompetence in evaluation of evidence. Yet the extenuated nature of the only evidence against Leonard Peltier is so absurd that if it were a good laboratory, it wouldn't be worth anything. It's an adaptation of the standard Army M-16 rifle.