Leonard Peltier As a Cause

I confess that I do not know enough about the specific facts of the Peltier case to form from them an educated opinion about his guilt.  If Peltier were indeed innocent, then his thirty plus years in prison are surely a great injustice.  But someone executed two FBI agents, and if was not Peltier, then he surely knows who it was.  By keeping silent about that, he is part of a conspiracy that includes the guilty party and anyone else who could identify the real killers, a conspiracy to keep himself in prison all these years.

I will allow myself to say that this story fits an all too familiar pattern.  Over the last century the Left in America and elsewhere fell in love with a series of terrorists and traitors, and spent decades raising them to sainthood.  Sacco and Vanzetti, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Alger Hiss, all got the innocent martyrs persecuted by Amerika treatment.  But in fact Sacco, at least, was guilty of the murder for which the pair were executed.  Julius Rosenberg committed treason on behalf of the second most murderous regime in human history (Maoist China being number one), as did Hiss. 
If Mrs. Rosenberg was not an active participant in her husband's treason, she cooperated in keeping quite about it. 

It is the responsibility of both left and right to point out the character flaws in the other.  This is my contribution.  If Peltier is indeed innocent, well, that would be a first.