Convicted murderer and leader of the American Indian Movement, Leonard Peltier is suing the state of Washington over the removal of four of his paintings from an art show of Native American works on display at the state’s Department of Labor and Industries. The work had been shown since November 2015 and after being taken down from the lobby of the state building were loaned out to a local food cooperative.
Indian sovereignty, the first stupid act of American politicians. Sympathizing with the enemy for 250 years.
He is not regarded as a political prisoner, he is regarded as a murderer of two federal agents. That’s why he’s in jail!
The state of Washington will fold on this. His paintings will probably be more prominently displayed after they apologize and replace them.
tell him to be quiet and go back to his cell or they will take away his paints just like they did to the bird man of Alcatraz and his birds. He is lucky to have that ability to paint and not to kill or sue.
Maybe I’m missing something, but how is a state obligated to show an individuals artwork? Most assuredly you have a right to free expression. You do not, however, have a right to a forum.
Washington State?
Let him be a prison football coach, put his penis in a bun and call it art.
Elizabeth Warren will put the paintings in the national capitol now. Just wait.
Buy the paintings and build a big bonfire.
Washington state should be called a northern sub-division
of calipornia.
There’s a reason President Obama rejected inmate Peltier’s clemency petition – he remains a guilty, lying unrepentant cop killer. Even in his sworn petition, Peltier lied about running to save “the women and children.” As the courts repeatedly established, the only thing Peltier ran to was a large tree for cover as he sprayed the federal agents’ cars with over a hundred rounds, and a few minutes later, after both agents were seriously wounded, finished them off at point-blank range. You know where he can put his art.