He even looks like a leftist weenie
Posted on 12/03/2005 9:49:45 AM PST by Spiff
I've been wondering about this for weeks. Every time the leftist media brings up the upcoming execution and possible clemency for Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, they always preface his name with the words "Nobel Peace Prize Nominee." Basically anyone can nominate anyone for the prize, so I don't know why anyone with more than a couple of brain cells thinks that it matters whether the murderous thug was nominated.
I've been wanting to do some research and find out who actually nominated the thug, but I haven't really had the time beyond a couple of Google searches. But when you search for Tookie and Nobel Peace Prize, you get the same old stuff because almost every article that mentions Tookie also mentions that he was nominated for the Nobel.
At work they have CNN Headline News running 24x7 and I happened to catch it when they had the idiot who nominated Tookie. His name is Phil Gasper and he is a professor of philosophy at a university in California. In fact, he is the Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religion at the Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California.
Who is Phil Gasper? I can Google as good as anyone else, so I'm not going to pretend that I'm going to be able to provide complete information about him. In fact, I hope that we can use this thread to look for and compile information about this moron.
Phil Gasper has a Blog at http://traprockpeace.org/phil_gasper_blog/. Every article in the Blog is about Tookie. Gasper reveals his strong opposition to the death penalty on his Blog. Could this be the real reason he nominated the mass murderer for a Nobel Peace Prize? Simply that he could use that worthless nomination as a tool to gain public sympathy (from the gullible) for Tookie? I think so.
What more can we find out about Gasper? Well, he wrote an unbelievably callous and offense article in response to the death of President Ronald Reagan entitled "Reagan, Goodbye and Good Riddance."
He is cited as a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. In fact, he is the editor of a new edition of the Communist Manifesto called "A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document" which was published last month.
Given that he is, apparently, a communist, it is not surprising at all that he would want to save a mass murderer. Communism and its mass murderer proponents are responsible for over 100 million murders throughout modern history. No wonder that Tookie's violent killings of 4 innocent people would not even register on Gasper's radar.
He is cited also as a member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty as well as International Socialist Organization and the Professors for Peace.
He is also a frequent post on the University of California Berkeley "Stop the War" Yahoo Group. Speaking of Berkeley, Gasper was a presenter at the Uniting the Fight Against Bush - Bay Area Socialist Conference held at Berkeley in 2001. He has been a presenter at verious Socialist Conferences numerous times.
So, this Gasper guy is a turd - a communist turd. And he is the one who has nominated the mass murdering thug Tookie Williams for a Nobel Peace Prize for the last 4 years.
So, what is the nomination process for the Nobel Prize?
According to the Nobel Peace Prize website there are NO qualifications to be nominated for the prize. Simply, a qualified nominator just has to put in your nomination.
The nominator qualifiecations for the Peace Prize are at http://nobelprize.org/peace/nomination/nominators.html. Here it is:
The Nominators – Peace
Right to submit proposals for the Nobel Peace Prize, based on the principle of competence and universality, shall by statute be enjoyed by:
1. Members of national assemblies and governments of states;
2. Members of international courts;
3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;
4. Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
5. Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
6. Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1) and
7. Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
The Nobel Peace Prize may also be awarded to institutions and associations.
Hell, even irreputable Professor of Ethnic Studies Ward Churchill could use his position to nominate anyone he wants to in order to promote his idiot leftist cause. This is precisely what it appears that Gasper has done. A nomination only means that some professor somewhere has filled out the paperwork and submitted it to the Nobel organization.
Gasper publically lists his email address as pgasper@ndnu.edu
Great work! I kept hearing that phrase, "Nobel Peace Prize Nominee". But even if he had won the prize, so what? Arafat won it too. It means nothing.
National Review Online and others have been covering this issue. Tookie has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by several anti-death penalty activist professors as part of a concerted effort to keep him from getting what he deserves. Another idiot nominated him for the Nobel Prize for Literature for the same reason.
Maybe Phil is sweet on tookie? Ya never know :)
Is this the same guy who nominated Jimmah Carter?
Do you have a link to any of the articles?
He even looks like a leftist weenie
The Nobel peace Prize became insignificant and lost most of its credibility when they gave it to that murdering terrorist, Yassir Arafat. It lost the rest of it when they awarded it to Jimmy Carter.
Sean Hannity had on that loud mouth attorney Leo Terrell the other night talking about this case...
Hannity kept asking him WHY Tookie should get any mercy...and all Terrell would say, over and over...was the Tookie is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee...
As if that was the ONLY reason necessary...LOL
2nd look at Bush service award White House panel unaware honoree was on Death Row
Snip
A White House council on volunteerism said Friday it's taking another look at how the President's Call to Service Award -- accompanied by a laudatory letter from President Bush -- was issued to Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a California Death Row inmate who has written a series of books warning young people against the gang life.
A spokesman for the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation said that neither the council nor Bush had any way of knowing that the person they were honoring was a condemned multiple murderer.
: The presidential citation, which arrived last week, was a lifetime award for more than 4,000 hours of volunteer service. Williams was nominated by William Harrison, an archbishop in the Old Catholic Orthodox Church in West Monroe, La.
The letter signed by Bush said, in part, "Through service to others, you demonstrate the outstanding character of America and help strengthen our country. ... Americans continue to serve and are part of the gathering momentum of millions of acts of kindness and decency that are changing America, one heart and soul at a time. Your actions contribute to this change."
LOL. This is hilarious. My guess is they were self-published because a publisher wouldn't touch this track record with a ten-foot pole. It costs a lot of money to self-publish .... I wonder where he got the money.
Just about anybody could have. Just as anybody can nominate Bobbby Rydell to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Oh, Bobby!
You can nominate a ham sandwich for the Nobel Peace prize as long as somebody has choked and died on a piece of the ham. Nobel prizes are just another Commie joke on humanity.
Email sent.
No, not apparently to me. Let's call 'em as we see 'em.... He[Gasper], no doubt, is a card-carrying, walking/talking COMMUNIST.
And I hope Tookie dies a slow, painful death, and I hope he "gurgles" just like his vicitm did in the 7-11 execution, as he drowned in his own blood.
Tookie thought that gurgling sound was "funny?" I'd show him FUNNY!
What I don't understand about the "Save Tookie" crowd, is they all say he has atoned for his past mistakes, and is truly sorry. But from all I have read he has never admitted to the murders he was convicted of, in fact he has never admitted to any crimes at all, except the fact that he founded the crips. IMHO, his pleas for clemency would carry a lot more weight if he would admit to ALL his crimes, apologize to his victims and be truly contrite about his life. It's just another liberal Janet Reno, saying the buck stops here, but not admitting there was anything with Waco.
From what I have heard, Tookie is "sorry" for having been a co-founder of the Crips and his books are "proof" of his repentance. He still maintains his innocence when it comes to the murders.
A S. Calif. congressman just nominated KFI's Bill Handel as a joke. The nominator is kept secret for 50 years. My guess would be Maxine Waters.
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