Gregory Geboski:
> No real evidence has been presented to establish this, even at his trial.
> ...
It would not be surprising to find that Peltier had received an unfair trial, as Mumia Abu-Jamal certainly did, regardless of what he may have actually done. The cops would see to that. Such cases are guaranteed to excite them with or without the facts.
However, a thing I find curious in these two cases and in some others is that, in selecting poster children for its causes, many on the Left seem to prefer people associated with violence to others. I refer not only to the above but to many other cases, going back many years; Eldridge Cleaver the presidential candidate, for instance, previously a rapist and subsequently a Republican. There are other cases I need not name. Meanwhile the non-violent labor on uncelebrated in their accustomed obscurity. Theoreticians and agitproppers, is this the best way to accomplish our common purposes? This is not necessarily a rhetorical question.