Posted on 12/13/2005 10:11:12 AM PST by NotchJohnson
WHEN I'M WRONG, I'M WRONG It looks like I missed on two predictions yesterday. First, Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't grant clemency to the murderous Tookie Williams. He was put to a much-deserved death last night.. It only took the State of California 24 years to carry out a sentence entered in 1981. Williams should have been shot-gunned to death, the same way his victims did. Second, there was no rioting in Los Angeles. Everyone's flat-screen TV and Ibox seems to be safe, for now. Someone correctly opined yesterday that it was too cold in Los Angeles for riots right now. The Rodney King Riots were in late April of 1992, when things were a lot warmer in Southern California. The infamous Watts riots were in August of 1965. Thirty-four people died in those riots, and the temperatures were high. Whatever the excuse, I got both predictions wrong. We'll add these errors to my prediction that The Poodle was going to win the presidential election last year. I'm standing by my victory for Hillary prediction ... for now.
By the way, did you notice some of the protest signs outside San Quentin yesterday? Some of the sponsoring organizations were International A.N.S.W.E.R. and the Socialist Worker's Party. Two peas in a pod. I'm glad they were disappointed.
This morning CNN was asking the question "What did we gain by Tookie William's execution?" The CNN anchor says the coverage of the execution was "gripping." She talked about Tookie looking up in frustration because they couldn't get the IV into his arm. Somehow the anchor didn't mention the look in the eyes of the couple that Williams shot while they were laying on their stomachs in a back room of their small hotel. After about 30 minutes of CNN's "all Tookie all the time" it was time to switch to Fox.
OK ... I'll tell you what was gained by the execution. First, Tookie Williams is no more. Second, the sentence of a court of law has been carried out. We have a government of law, and when the government follows that law, as it did in this execution, our entire society benefits.
In the midst of this media orgy of sympathy for Tookie, a short review of just some of his criminal history might be in order:
Since the press won't bring you up to date, perhaps we can help out. Tookie was convicted of murdering 7-11 clerk Albert Owens by shooting him twice in the back with a shotgun. Tookie bragged to his friends afterward that "you should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him," and then laughed about doing it. Then there was the Yang family. Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang, and their daughter, Yee Chen Lin were immigrants from Taiwan...and they ran a motel in South Central Los Angeles. That was, until Tookie came on the scene. On March 11, 1979, Tookie kicked down the door to the motel office and shot all three and killed them, again with a shotgun.
So off Tookie went to death row. But if you listen to the media, we're supposed to believe Tookie became an angel in prison, right? Wrong...let's take a look at the Tookster's prison record and his "conversion." But wait...if you listen to the Hollywood left, we're supposed to believe Tookie was a model prisoner...he's reformed! He's renounced his killing ways! Not if you look at the facts.
In 1981, Williams was caught beating up an other inmate with his fists, and ignored orders to stop. In 1982, Williams refused to an order to line up...and told a guard "you'll get yours boy, I can do anything now because I know what the gunmen will do...one of these days I'll trick you boy." Twice that same year, Tookie attacked guards with chemical substances. In 1984, Tookie was back to beating up another inmate...and didn't stop until a guard fired a warning shot. Also in 1984, Williams was caught making out with a female visitor. He told the guard then "you are looking around too much and that's not your job. I have dusted many officers on the street, one more would not make any difference." Sounds reformed to me. But there's more...1986...he beat up another inmate. 1988..he was stabbed in retaliation for a stabbing he ordered of another inmate. 1991...Tookie was again caught beating up another inmate. Same thing again in 1993. Get the idea?
It's nice to be wrong once in a while.
The left purposely chooses these cases.
Notice the same anti-death people were not en masse protesting for Karla Faye Tucker.
Why? She had become an evangelical Christian. And she was white. And she had killed white people.
Anyone there for McVeigh? Gacy? Bundy? I'm sure a few hardcore anti-death penalty people were there, but nothing like this.
They choose these people BECAUSE they are not innocent. Trust me on this one. Add up the Mumias and Williamses and compare that to the cause celebres involving people that actually HAVE A CASE for innocence. You'll see whose side they're on.
Dunno...Barry Goldwater is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before my time.
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