#MrLeonardPeltier is going HOME! Leonard did it!
🚨We never gave up because Leonard never gave up.
My wife knew I had been working on this draft video through the night, focusing and layering on the 47th Trump Administration for Leonard fight. But before I could finish it and publish it tonight… for my BROTHER… Leonard did it.
A lifetime of inspiration—and especially since 2019—Leonard’s strength has motivated me, a Nation, and the world.
✔️Utmost respect to @KevinHSharp, @DanScavino, and the hundreds of people I’ve met and fought alongside with them… they all humbled me.
Here’s the unfinished video I created. My other videos over the years can be found on accounts like @BullWalksOnFire, @PeltierHQ, and @TRUMPjustic.
Cc: @TimJarvisAM@CaptPaulWatson@OmarTodd
(🚨 We never gave up because Leonard never gave up.
✔️THIS IS MY LAST “#FreeLeonardPeltier”✔️
WOW— Leonard can get home to his FAMILY❤️)
Leonard Peltier had Nothing to do with Anna Mae's death! Lots of Indians are getting worked up over the Government's Lies once again. Everybody knows Leonard is innocent of All the lies the Government told about him. Yet these "Indians" will believe the same Government that lies.
What a long judicial fight for Leonard Peltier. In spirit, his mom (Alvina) and dad (Leo) motivated me to fight peacefully and fight and fight THE GOOD FIGHT...
HONORED AND RECOGNIZED BY JAPAN
Japan Recognizes and thus Honors Captain Paul Watson at the Highest Level in the Japanese government.
It is extremely gratifying that the Japanese government regards me as an influential adversary and acknowledges the effectiveness of our campaigns against their illegal whaling operations since 2005 until they retreated from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in 2019.
Our victory and our exposure of their criminal whaling enterprise was a humiliation that Japan considers to be insulting. Added to this insult is Japan’s failure to capture me by abusing and utilizing the Interpol Red Notice. They were unsuccessful in capturing me in Germany in 2012 and again in Greenland in 2024.
On January 10th Mr. Iwaya Takeshi, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs met Mr. Jarl Kåre Frijs-Madsen, Ambassador-Designate of Denmark to express Japan’s disapproval with Denmark’s decision to release me and to refuse to extradite me to Japan.
I have to admit it is quite an honor to have our campaign successes being discussed at the highest levels in the Japanese government.
My detention in a Greenlandic prison served as an opportunity to continue to focus international attention on Japan’s illegal commercial whaling operations. Imprisonment was in itself a successful campaign in not only exposing Japanese criminal whaling activity but in defeating Japan’s extraordinary measures to extradite and apprehend me.
My actions have been discussed and criticized by every Japanese Prime Minister since Yoshihiko Noda in 2011 through Shinzo Abe in 2012-2020, through Yoshihide Suga in 2012 through Fumio Kishida in 2021-2024 to Shigeru Ishiba.
Through five Prime Ministers Japan has failed to capture me although it looks like they will continue to try.
And I will continue to oppose, expose and intervene against their unlawful activities as judged in 2014 by the International Court of Justice.
Thank you to @Surfer for their detailed feature. “I’ve never been angry at anything in my life, really. It’s just not an emotion I utilize. Persecution for being an activist is just part of the job. I mean, you have to expect that you’re not going to make change without taking risks and without making sacrifices. You need to turn that into a story to dramatize the issue and get people’s attention. I’ve been arrested and put in jail many, many times, but I’ve never been convicted of a crime. I’ve also never injured a single person in my entire career over the last 50 years. In 1977, I developed a strategy that I call aggressive nonviolence. We would aggressively intervene, but we aren’t going to hurt anybody and we have to operate within the boundaries of both the law and practicality. “ - Captain Paul Watson.
Read the full story online.
The fight for Native rights continues. Native Nations' sovereignty predates the U.S., recognized in the Constitution, Treaties & federal law. The Association remains independent to challenge policies that threaten sovereignty. ✊ #NativeRights#CulturalSovereignty#WeAreStillHere
After nearly fifty years of unjust imprisonment, Leonard Peltier has been granted clemency. This moment marks a historic victory for Indian Country and all who have come together in solidarity for justice. Read NCAI's full statement below.
🔗 https://t.co/ayxpeDAzyd
#MrLeonardPeltier is going HOME! Leonard did it!
🚨We never gave up because Leonard never gave up.
My wife knew I had been working on this draft video through the night, focusing and layering on the 47th Trump Administration for Leonard fight. But before I could finish it and publish it tonight… for my BROTHER… Leonard did it.
A lifetime of inspiration—and especially since 2019—Leonard’s strength has motivated me, a Nation, and the world.
✔️Utmost respect to @KevinHSharp, @DanScavino, and the hundreds of people I’ve met and fought alongside with them… they all humbled me.
Here’s the unfinished video I created. My other videos over the years can be found on accounts like @BullWalksOnFire, @PeltierHQ, and @TRUMPjustic.
Cc: @TimJarvisAM@CaptPaulWatson@OmarTodd
(🚨 We never gave up because Leonard never gave up.
✔️THIS IS MY LAST “#FreeLeonardPeltier”✔️
WOW— Leonard can get home to his FAMILY❤️)
Leonard Peltier is now free
After near 50 years he can go home
Pilamayaye/Thank you to all our followers & non followers who have supported our decades long push to see him free
It has meant so much to us to have your support
#INDIGENOUS#TAIRP
I am beyond words about the commutation of Leonard Peltier. His release from prison signifies a measure of justice that has long evaded so many Native Americans for so many decades. I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for this action and understanding what this means to Indian Country. https://t.co/wzM5a2ZOGV