Snoop Dogg: Crips Founder Shouldn't Be Executed

ClickonDetroit ^ | November 19, 2005

[ShadowDancer]

Snoop Dogg: Crips Founder Shouldn't Be Executed

POSTED: 10:20 pm EST November 19, 2005

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -- Rapper Snoop Dogg is urging California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to a gang founder who is scheduled to be executed next month.

Snoop Dogg said Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams inspired him to work with young people.

The rapper and former Crips member spoke to about 1,000 people outside San Quentin, where Williams awaits execution on Dec. 13 for the murders of four people in 1979.

Williams has exhausted his appeals and is seeking clemency from Schwarzenegger. The governor has said he is "dreading" the decision.

Williams founded the Crips in 1971 in Los Angeles. In the following years, the gang battled with its rival, the Bloods, for territory and control of the drug trade.

In prison, however, Williams has gained international acclaim for writing children's books about the dangers of gang life. An award-winning television movie starring Jamie Foxx, "Redemption," was based on his life.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

The more idiotic intellectuals urge murderers be spared

Snoop Dizzle for shizzle?

[billbears]

unless you want to count the degradation of polite American societal standards a crime.

I believe that's been going on for quite some time, far before the early 1990s. Should everyone in the national scene that contributed to this degradation face the same judgement?

Mr. Dogg has been involved of plenty of mischief...big time

So he should be executed? Even since he hasn't been convicted of a crime? Nice...

[varyouga]

"For the life of me, I will NEVER understand why the thugs, criminals, and murderers in the black community are looked upon as heroes and subject to praise and accolades."

It's similar to the fascination people have for the Mafia. Countless books and movies are out there glorifying the mob. When a mob boss dies, there are usually thousands of "fans" that go to the funeral. They are seen as Robin Hoods.

[BunnySlippers]

He writes books that "crime doesn't pay". By dying he will have fulfilled that saying and prove that crime really doesn't pay. If he manages to survive, it will only prove that there are loopholes.

My guess is that Arnold will not grant clemency.

[BunnySlippers]

I know what you mean, but I don't think so. He can't afford to appear to go wobbly on crime. It would be the absolute end of Arnold.

[FerdieMurphy]

Should everyone in the national scene that contributed to this degradation face the same judgement?

Actually, upon reflection Mr. Dogg, along with the others could merely have a public caning adminstered by a martial arts expert using a rattan cane soaked in salt brine.

50 or so whacks should do the trick.

In fact, the results may be so noticeably good that that particular punishment could be administered for a number of crimes against society.

Face it Bill, these (along with many others) are indeed crimes against society, especially society's youth.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No one using such a name who was not born with it, could have anything useful to hear.

Joseph Conrad? Mahatma Ghandi? Tony Bennett?

[goldstategop]

I think of high brow celebrities and artistes as part of the thinking world. Very few of them are literate in civics. Much of what they say for public consumption seems meant to offend their lessers. They are exactly the people Laura Ingraham wrote who need to shut up and sing. People like Snoop Dogg.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[montag813]

Didn't "Snoop" kill someone too? this is about as hilarious as O.J. whining about "double jeopardy" for Blake.

[Taxman]

Burn, Tookie, burn!

[sgtbono2002]

If Tookie inspired Snoop Dogg he deserves to be executed.

[KC_Conspirator]

"O Brave New World, with such people in it!"

The left has such great community leaders.

[Vision]

I will never understand how a criminal- who openly talking about whoring and beating women, drug use, etc- has become a media darling and does voices for animated childrens movies

[Mike Bates]

Before deciding, I'll have to wait for Bono to pronounce what's morally correct in this matter.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[sgtbono2002]

If Tookie was such a bad ass when he ran the Crips , why is he whining like a bitch now?

He should be shouting . "Top o' the world Ma."

[apackof2]

The more idiotic intellectuals urge murderers

Snopp Dogg is an intellectual???

On what planet?

[SauronOfMordor]

Who are those women dressed in some kind of nun-like garb?

They look like they're from "Nation of Islam"

[goldstategop]

The term is used to refer to the creative cultural class. Which obviously encompasses any one who can speak or write that shapes cultural discourse. It includes musicians, poets and singers. Interestingly enough, Plato distrusted intellectuals and advocated censorship. The people most bent on subverting utopia are those big on ideas, not all of them necessarily wise or beneficial to the overall well-being of society.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[SauronOfMordor]

For the life of me, I will NEVER understand why the thugs, criminals, and murderers in the black community are looked upon as heroes and subject to praise and accolades.

They are looked upon as the warrior-class of the black community. Blacks think they are the only reason the Klan doesn't venture in