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Climate Crusader

(170 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2025, 02:09 PM Jan 2025

Peltier!!!!!

We were protesting for his release when I was an undergraduate in 1981!!!!

Thank you President Biden!

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Peltier!!!!! (Original Post) Climate Crusader Jan 2025 OP

So long overdue....Thank you President Biden! walkingman Jan 2025 #1

Wonder why he waited until the last day ? MichMan Jan 2025 #2

There you go again. W_HAMILTON Jan 2025 #4

Geez. A complaint from the, "It's not perfect so we should not celebrate the good" crowd. Climate Crusader Jan 2025 #8

Has anyone heard mention of this on MSNBC? yorkster Jan 2025 #3

I am so happy for this ismnotwasm Jan 2025 #5

Sentence commuted to home confinement, not a pardon. But still good. niyad Jan 2025 #6

I wonder how long the prison authorities will drag it out. niyad Jan 2025 #7

walkingman

(11,157 posts)

1. So long overdue....Thank you President Biden!

Reply to Climate Crusader (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 02:18 PM

Jan 2025

MichMan

(17,393 posts)

2. Wonder why he waited until the last day ?

Reply to Climate Crusader (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 02:51 PM

Jan 2025

Nothing has changed. Had his sentence been commuted 4 years ago when President Biden took office, Peltier would have been released when he was 76 years old instead of 80.

W_HAMILTON

(10,438 posts)

4. There you go again.

Reply to MichMan (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:46 PM

Jan 2025

Climate Crusader

(170 posts)

8. Geez. A complaint from the, "It's not perfect so we should not celebrate the good" crowd.

Reply to MichMan (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 05:06 PM

Jan 2025

From Michigan, home of the Uncommitted movement.

Yawn.

But, he can refuse the Commutation, I guess. You know, principle over freedon and all that...

yorkster

(3,951 posts)

3. Has anyone heard mention of this on MSNBC?

Reply to Climate Crusader (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:07 PM

Jan 2025

Haven't heard anything so far. Pretty important and long overdue step by Joe Biden. It's possible that I missed it.

ismnotwasm

(42,674 posts)

5. I am so happy for this

Reply to Climate Crusader (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:55 PM

Jan 2025

It’s about time

niyad

(134,034 posts)

6. Sentence commuted to home confinement, not a pardon. But still good.

Reply to Climate Crusader (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 04:43 PM

Jan 2025

niyad

(134,034 posts)

7. I wonder how long the prison authorities will drag it out.

Reply to Climate Crusader (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 04:44 PM

Jan 2025

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