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Now...About Tookie...
This is from an e-mail from the Citizens United Against the Death Penalty. I agree with all of it. You can find the archive of the list mailing here:
This does not mean that we don't want Tookie to get clemency. This only means that we want every case taken seriously - not just the celebrity ones. And I am guilty of giving more time to this case - partly because of the celebrity nature, but partly because it is in California and it hits closer to home. But Tookie is not the only person that is scheduled to be killed over the next two two months. There are two others:
The lives of these two are just as important as the life of Tookie Williams. It does not matter if a movie was made about them. It does not matter if they wrote children’s books. It does not matter if the were nominated for a Nobel Prize. What matters is that they are people - real live human beings. And the state wants to kill them. We can no longer support state sanctioned homicide - for anyone. Comments, Pingbacks:
Comment from: Roland [Visitor] 12/09/05 @ 22:42
And then I think of all the innumerable lives that were destroyed by the Crips and the damage done to, not just the ghetto in general, but society as a whole, and I think, "burn baby burn".
Funny...because that has nothing to do with why he is being killed.
dude, Roland you're such an arse. here you've been talking about fair trials and such and your statement is totally hypothetical. what of the bloods? what of mexican american rivalries? what about all the splinter groups from the black panthers? you seriously don't think absolutely nothing would've occurred had Tookie not existed? he's solely responsible for all of this? come on, that's just nonsense. you've latched onto a talking point which doesn't hold water and you can say it all you want but it doesn't necessarily make it true.
it's about granting a fair trial to any and all. unfortunately we can't seem to do that and i don't think it'll ever happen but until we can that's when we can resume utilizing the death penalty. *even still* it can't be given equitably and fairly. *even still* i've helped provide numbers that actually show the death penalty is counter productive and causes more harm than good. and you've nothing to show for it, no numbers, no facts, no stats, and just only rhetoric. remarkeably, i was essentially where you were at a couple of months ago... and amazingly i've changed my mind. and if i can change my mind and i admit i can sometimes be a stubborn mutha f**ka you certainly can. he needs, they all need a fair trial. i wrote arnie a couple of a weeks ago, suppose i should write again eh?
If we are going to remember December 13, 2005, because of Tookie’s Execution then please let us remember, “The Feb. 28, 1979 slayings” of Albert Owens. Tookie killed Mr. ALBERT OWENS during a robbery of a 7-Eleven store.
Let us also remember the massacre, which took place when Tookie unleashed his murderous spree on YEN-I YANG and THSAI-SHAIC YANG and their daughter YEE CHEN LIN 12 days later the Brookhaven Motel.
Katrina - you are right in that those are terrible days and terrible crimes.
But who said we were going to remember December 13 because of Tookie's execution? No one said we were going to make it a holiday. Don't get me wrong - I very much feel for the victims and the victims' families. But that does not mean that we create more victims, more violence, and more blood. Leave a comment:
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