FBI accuses AIM of killing Civil Rights activist in 1973 Wounded Knee occupation

[rug]

20. Having been at Wounded Knee, I will.

There is one thing in this report that rings true, the growing level of paranoia as the place was surrounded and rapidly militarized.

I went out with a carful of people from the Fellowship for Reconciliation, an explicitly pacifist group. The plan was to backpack food and supplies into Wounded Knee. There is no underestimating the military presence surrounding that small place.

We arrived in Porcupine on the reservation, which served as a sort of staging area about 8 miles from Wounded Knee. The next day we were all given rifles and asked if we needed training. I gave mine back, as did the others, and told them we were there to bring in food, not to have a firefight.

Long story short, we were all treated suspiciously after that and were told we could help out in Porcupine or leave. We were not allowed anywhere else in Pine Ridge.

We stayed until it was over. When Buddy Lamont was shot (not by AIM) there was a service in Porcupine that started in a sweat lodge with peyote soup and ended on a hillside after sunset.

This story, with mysterious, anonymous sources and one named but deceased source, is self-contradictory and utter bullshit. Given the number of agents, APCs and weapons deployed, the only question I have is how only three people were killed.