ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE

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She said, “My uncle Stanley Hollow Horn-we called him Billy-he used to sit outside and cry before he passed in ’98. When he’d get like that,he’d say that Ray Robinson, the colored man, was in the bunker with him, and the colored man didn’t like the fact that they were using force. He said it should have been a peaceful demonstration.

Billy said it was Carter Camp that took him, and Lester Davis (a pseudonym) and Leonard Crow Dog.  Billy heard them say that they’d heard Ray talking on a radio to the feds-which how could he do that? He was always around other people. Then my uncle heard a shot. After that he never saw him again. He said, “I know they killed him and buried him”.

“He said the AIM leaders threatened him. They said if he ever talked about Ray Robinson they would come and get him and all his children. So he said he’d take it to his grave. A lot of people tell me, “There’s a bullet waiting for you if you open your big mouth”. But when I heard this year that Cheryl Robinson was looking for her husband, it made me want to cry. I thought, “Oh God, he’s lying right out here in Wounded Knee.”

Spoken by Marlette Thunder Horse and excerpted from Steve Hendrick’s The Unquiet Grave – page 342.

Despite Carter Camp’s oft revised versions related to this event and what he feels is the obligatory he’s Carter Camp, Ponca, and what he speaks is the truth, it’s readily apparent that Camp like the rest of the AIM hierarchy wouldn’t know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the ass, much less be capable of speaking it.

There’s no great mystery related to Ray’s murder thanks to people like Thunder Horse and others-thanks to people like Paul DeMain, Richard LaCourse, and other indigenous journalists.

What is also known is the extreme lack of interest federal law enforcement, federal courts, and federal prosecutors have exhibited in failing to pursue and prosecute this case.

A failure that only be characterized as deliberate,  and raises the question why?

For me it mandates a return to the actual event itself and who among those involved was their boy. I don’t doubt for a single moment someone in the group that confronted Ray was -nor do I believe they were acting upon orders.

Among those was Dave Hill -the teflon man who could walk away from state and federal charges-the one Zigrossi says they turned down as an operative because he had nothing to offer.

To turn someone down they first have to ask for something, and it’s been said Hill let it be known if AIM didn’t move quickly to secure his release he would begin talking-maybe they didn’t.

Nothing to offer, despite being one of Banks security boys, despite having bombed Mount Rushmore presumedly on orders from higher up Hill had nothing to offer-sure he didn’t-maybe dumb and dumber would believe that but no person with an IQ above ten would.

When asked about Hill Zigrossi following his denial adds that the feds don’t give up anybody as long as they’re alive.

Well, Hill is still alive along with a few others-so it all just kinda makes you wonder doesn’t it? Wonder about Hill, wonder about the feds, wonder about the whole sorry mess.

The problem as I see it is dual in nature-for either side to admit to a single lie, a single questionable or criminal act will open a Pandora’s box and seriously impact every other thing they’ve had to say.

That’s not an enviable position to be in, but it’s what justice requires- it’s what the “law” requires.

Bottom line is the courts and prosecutors rule-they can indict and issue warrants  at the stroke of a pen and then innocent or guilty let it all play out in court.

People have been indicted with less witness statements, less evidence, and that’s something to wonder about as well.

Time plays tricks, it tends to muddle things, lends itself to propaganda, lies, and half truths that become urban legend.

A reality both sides are aware of and often enough facilitated by books,  sealed testimony, and redacted or refused FOI’s.

Shakespeare said all the world is a stage and each person has their role to play, some assuming many roles.

We’ve certainly been watching a long running performance with various players portraying multiple roles.

From liberators, patriots, murderers, rapists, thieves, and leaders of a “peoples” movement to public servants, champions of the law, protectors of the innocent, the scourge of evil doers, and knight’s in shining armor.

The show hasn’t been and never was worth the price of admission-a price measured in murder, mayhem, and deceit.

Anybody can present something that makes the point they want-the one they believe best serves them-but the truth is told in the aggregate, the compilation of all that is related, not selectively-it is this aggregate that is missing.

The protagonists in this long running play are featured in one of two roles-either-We didn’t do anything but if we did they made us do it, or, “ongoing investigation.”

Pass the popcorn please.

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