Posted on 11/21/2005 8:04:00 AM PST by SmithL
Williams, who was a hard-bodied weight lifter as well as a notorious gang member, recounted the brief encounter in a book published last year: Arnold Schwarzenegger was so impressed with Williams' physique, he noted that Williams' biceps were as big as thighs.
Nearly 30 years later, the two men are again crossing paths.
With the world watching, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger must decide in the next few weeks whether Williams will live or die.
Williams, 51, the co-founder of the Crips gang and a four-time murderer who has become an anti-gang crusader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin State Prison on Dec. 13.
With court appeals nearly exhausted, Williams has pointed to the children's books and gang-peace initiatives he has produced from behind prison walls as proof he is a reformed man and worthy of clemency. Sunday was the last day of a weeklong "Tookie Williams Teach-in" that included a rally outside the gates of San Quentin on Saturday featuring the rapper Snoop Dogg.
Prosecutors argue that a man responsible for four shotgun murders who was involved in nearly a dozen violent incidents in his first decade in prison -- before he changed his ways -- deserves the sentence a jury recommended.
After a year of plummeting popularity and squabbles with Democrats and labor unions over sometimes-arcane ideas about ways to change government, Schwarzenegger now turns to a more basic and far more gut-wrenching task.
He must contemplate crime and punishment, redemption and race.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Word.
He's been in a lot of liberal, too.
Sleeping with a liberal, and Ted (the swimmer) in the family...
Semper Fi
ROTFLMAO!!!
So what is the problem? Just pull the damn switch!
Switch????
Gimme immunity, and 2 minutes with him and a loaded gun - Tookie will cease to be a concern for anyone.
Governor dreading decision on life or death [Tookie Williams]
----Arnold, he is a convicted murderer. If he had killed Maria , your wife or one of your children, would there be any decision to make? He killed SOMEBODYS' family members, Arnold. Execute him.
With the world watching, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger must decide in the next few weeks whether Williams will live or die.
>>>>>>>>>>.
The writer says the world is watching. I've heard of this guy because it's been a topic of discussion on talk radio, I didn't realize the whole world is aware of this case. Sheesh, what an exaggeration, but then, that's the media for you.
"and 2 minutes with him and a loaded gun -"
Heck, let me have my escrima sticks, 1 minute and a set of jumpercables with an AC outlet nearby.
(Tooks "big pipes" don't match up well with escrima)
He is being executed for the crimes he committed. How do his acts after being incarcerated correct the original crimes? They don't. Those people are still dead.
I don't care if a murderer becomes the world's greatest living saint and finds a cure for cancer and manages to eradicate homosexuality while in prison, that murderer still deserves to die.
Crispy this crip
Ahnolds advisors, seeing his failures at the polls, will want to immediately begin to re-position him to appeal to more liberals at the next election. This is just one of those steps. Maybe I'm just being cynical.
Prime the needle, load the gun, rev up the generator, tie the rope, get your stones, and eliminate him like so much excrament. Shoulda been done a long time ago. Damn gangs. I suppose though that it is my fault b/c I would not give enough of my money to them so they could be happy.
Lockyer, the CA. AG, and the Chief of Police of LA and the Sheriff of LA Co. have said this guy should die. I do think Arnold will turn the lights out on this scum bag.
(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.")
The liberals aren't going to support Arnold anyway....
Time to round up a big rusty needle full of poison and pop it into Tookie, and throw his remains in the Pacific.
Yeah, let's let Tookie live out his days in prison. Three hots and a cot, cable TV, liberal media/Hollywood adoration, etc. while his victim's relatives suffer some more.
Arnold will probably not be re-elected; but if he is, given that conservatives bailed on his ballot initiatives - he might commute this sentence to gain support from the african american community.
If so, then Arnold's a fool. The libs will never support him no matter what.
If he does this then we might as well outlaw capital punishment. Funny, but I don't remember the Left getting hysterical when Governor XXXlinton approved the execution of Ricky Ray Rector.
Of course not. But then again, Ricky's date with Justice sadly fell in the same week that the Gennifer Flowers news hit the stands. He and his advisors flew back to town to review his case, but from what was later revealed, they spent the week deciding how to handle the Flowers story, and putting together the small group of people who would handle the Bimbo Eruptions for the rest of his political career.
(let me apoligize for the tone of my response. My questions were for Ahnold more than for you. Upon second reading it comes across as somehwat harsh. Sorry about that.)
Comes from working with prisoners and having a not exactly all-American youth yourself. No matter how hard-nosed you start you get a little mushy after a while. Besides, it all sounded like gang-land stuff to me. If it was child rape-murder I don't think I'd have commented.
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