Site Update
January 15, 2008

Welcome to the Official NPPA Web site

PURPOSE

No Parole Peltier Association (NPPA)

The stated purpose of the NPPA is to respond to the erroneous statements and allegations made by the International Office of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC)*. The NPPA will forego political rhetoric and name-calling and concentrate on the record of the events reviewed. Its central focus will be to review and analyze public statements made by Leonard Peltier which further indicate his guilt, and to provide interested readers and researchers with a another view, long missing from the public debate, of this very serious matter. The NPPA opposes parole or clemency for Leonard Peltier.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is critically important for any concerned reader and researcher to review the Court Decisions regarding Peltier's conviction and appeals. It is within those decisions that each and every issue and allegation raised by Peltier, and repeated by the LPDC, has been addressed and resolved .

Correcting Wrongs of the Past
Anyone who has even a basic understanding of the history and plight of Native Americans recognizes their terrible treatment at the hands of the U.S. Government. That history cannot be altered. Nothing can change the broken promises and treaties and subjugation of the first peoples to inhabit this continent. It is easy to understand how and why The Spirit of Crazy Horse, fostered by four hundred years of distrust, prevails. Viewing an event like the shooting at Pine Ridge on June 26, 1975, from these divergent perspectives, provides dissimilar accounts of what exactly may have happened. It is crucially important to carefully measure the words and deeds of those involved to form an accurate composite of the event. It is in this spirit, searching for that factual common ground, that the June 26, 1975 incident is presented to the concerned reader to engender an understanding of that day.

Clemency and Parole
Concerted efforts by Leonard Peltier and the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee to secure Executive Clemency and a pardon from the President of the United States have been unsuccessful.

Peltier is entitled to a full public parole hearing sometime around May/June 2008 at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The purpose of the parole review is to determine whether there are any mitigating or new circumstances since the last review that the parole authorities should consider. Until that time he will be afforded a parole review hearing in approximately May June of 2002, 2004 and 2006:

The July 9, 2002 hearing was held and parole was denied.

Peltier waived his 2004 parole hearing.

*For the concerned reader and researcher, the LPDC can be found at www.whoisleonardpeltier.info. The FBI's review of the Peltier case can be found at http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/history_peltier.htm. (It is noted that Darrelle (Dino) Butler has not been listed as director/advisor of the LPDC. Robert Robideau has been in and out of the organization several times.)

"People are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts."

---Vincent Bugliosi