Posted on 11/23/2005 8:25:13 PM PST by doug from upland
Supporters of condemned killer angry at campaign Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:43 PM ET
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Supporters of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the street gang leader and convicted killer facing execution in three weeks, have filed a federal complaint against a Los Angeles radio station for a "Tookie Must Die" campaign by two talk-show hosts.
The Federal Communications Commission complaint, dated Tuesday, charges "racist and inflammatory statements" by KFI AM talk-show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou and comes amid an escalating political battle over Williams, who has been embraced by death-penalty activists and some celebrities.
Williams, 51, the Crips gang founder, is scheduled to die on December 13 unless granted clemency by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Williams was convicted of shooting Albert Lewis Owens to death during a February 27, 1979, convenience store holdup and of killing three members of Asian-American family while robbing their motel.
"If any other radio station set aside an hour as 'President Bush Must Die' and set forth in that hour to incite a riot among people and to call for the death of the president, that station would be in trouble," Williams supporter Jasmyne Cannick wrote to the FCC. "There is no difference with the 'Tookie Must Die/ Kill Tookie' hour on KFI 640 AM."
Cannick said Kobylt and Chiampou were being racially insensitive by calling for the execution of Williams, who is black, in a city that saw more than 50 people die in race riots after the 1992 acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers in the racially charged Rodney King case.
California has more than 600 people on death row and has executed 11 people, eight of them white men, since the death penalty was reinstated in the late 1970s
Williams maintains his innocence in the four 1979 murders that landed him on death row. He wrote a series of books urging children to reject violence.
Celebrities ranging from rapper Snoop Dogg to actors Mike Farrell and Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx have called for clemency. Foxx portrayed Williams in a sympathetic 2004 TV movie.
Kobylt shrugged off the FCC complaint. He said the "Tookie Must Die" hour was in response to what he sees as a dishonest campaign on Williams' behalf by anti- death penalty activists and a failure by the media to report the story accurately.
"(The complaint) is a complete waste of time because the FCC doesn't regulate these kinds of things," Kobylt told Reuters. "They might as well complain to the Animal Control Board."
He added: "The jury said Tookie must die. All the judges they've appealed to (since 1979) said Tookie must die. That's his sentence."
I guess if you've already convicted the President of multiple capital crimes and sentenced him to death then there is no difference. Let me know when Bush murders a family while robbing their motel room.
This is what I don't get it the dude is murderer the anti death penalty activists like him because he wrote Children novels OH PLEASEEE
I am glad that John and Ken doing this Tooki must died tour LOL!
Oh well, since B.J. Hunnicutt is pushing for clemency, by all means let him live.
We'll soon get to see if this approach works. Kill some people, get convicted, write a childrens book....and get off the hook.
Ken, you are staying after school. It was done a few days ago. I'll go bring it to this thread as well as the one from yesterday - BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
Tookie must die -- and while their at it, FRY MUMIA!
I meant, Keith, not Ken. As soon as I hit the button I saw it.
Goodbye, Tookie...Tookie, goodbye
Goodbye, Tookie...soon you will die
Tookie Williams is a lowlife slimeball, everyone knows
While free, he'd bring mayhem everywhere that he goes
Tookie wrote kids books...the left is in awe
It's clear that those fools have a brain deeply flawed
And so, let's sing it
Goodbye, Tookie...Tookie, goodbye
Goodbye, Tookie...soon you will die
You're gonna die...you're gonna die...you're gonna die...you're gonna die
(musical break)
Tookie will be led to a room where's he's getting a shot
And then we'll all be FReeping...but Tookie will not
So goodbye, Tookie...it's about time
Yes, goodbye, Tookie...you did the crime
So goodbye, Tookie...it's about time
Yes, goodbye, Tookie...you did the crime
It is overdue...long overdue
Take Mumia with you...yes, take him, too
We'll watch you choking, choking, Tookie...long overdue
Kids, if you murder, this is you...this will be you
Goodbye, Tookie...Tookie, goodbye
Murdering scum...murdering scum...murdering scum...murdering scum
Goodbye, Tookie...soon you will die
You're gonna die...you're gonna die...you're gonna die...you're gonna die
Goodbye, Tookie...Tookie, goodbye
Murdering scum...murdering scum...murdering scum...murdering scum
Goodbye, Tookie...soon you will die
Ha ha...ha ha...ha ha...ha ha...ha
missed that first time 'round... good one.
Scumbag killer…yo, Mumia…in your pants you’re…gonna pee-a
You’ll meet Sparky…he’s electric…of your writing he cares not that it’s eclectic
In your cause your…fans are mired…but 5 bullets…you had fired
It’s the truth they…cannot handle…for the officer they never held a candle
By the liberals…you’re admired…they think every-…one conspired
By your tactics…they’re deluded…they should join you and should all be executed
You fooled Whoopi…you fooled Woody…each of them is…quite a goodie
They exhibit…fuzzy thinking…most positions that they take are really stinking
With the crime that you committed…your own life you have forfeited
It’s your choice…and it’s long overdue that they are silencing your voice
Tell Ed Asner he can stick …though he’ll demonstrate and picket
His best days… had left him long ago and this is how he plays
Wait a minute…an appeal…come on judges…let’s get real
For your exit…we are yearning…in the bargain we may get to see you burning
There’s one chance to…show compassion…there’s a plan that…we could fashion
We might spare your…worthless bottom…by arranging you trade places with Ms. Rodham
You can get KFI on the internet. I try to listen to these guys everyday and don't live anywhere close. They acutally get something done and don't back down on their interviews.
The irony of making charges such as this is lost upon the chargers.
Posted on 11/22/2005 9:50:57 PM PST by doug from upland
December thirteenth, the year's two thousand five
The last day Tookie Williams will be on this earth alive
The scum had killed four people and it's finally time to pay
If you're writing children's books we will not let you get away
They strapped him down and he's rolled in on the gurney
He doesn't seem as tough as he had been awhile ago
For Tookie this will be the final journey
And through his body pretty soon the chemicals will flow
A vet he had killed to leave no witnesses behind
In the register was only 60 dollars he would find
A white guy he shot, about that he was pleased to shout
If you stand in his way, you're gonna die without a doubt
They strapped him down and he's rolled in on the gurney
He doesn't seem as tough as he had been awhile ago
For Tookie this will be the final journey
And through his body pretty soon the chemicals will flow
A motel was next and he had found three people there
Then he killed the whole Yang family before they were aware
He laughed and partied, he was so proud of his crimes
Hey, you know, Gov Terminator, it is terminatin' time
They strapped him down and he's rolled in on the gurney
He doesn't seem as tough as he had been awhile ago
For Tookie this will be the final journey
And through his body pretty soon the chemicals will flow
Now, outside of the prison Mike Farrell's complainin'
He does not have the brains God gave him when he had been born
The death sentence he hopes he'll be containin'
In your posterior that guy is much worse than a thorn
Mike's joined by Bianca, there's a real piece of work
You would really overestimate her calling her a jerk
And now Snoop Dog is there and he turns on his gangster charm
He is another scumbag who should get it in the arm
They strapped him down and he's rolled in on the gurney
He doesn't seem as tough as he had been awhile ago
For Tookie this will be the final journey
And through his body pretty soon the chemicals will flow
Now, outside of the prison Mike Farrell's complainin'
He does not have the brains God gave him when he had been born
The death sentence he hopes he'll be containin'
In your posterior that guy is much worse than a thorn
"If any other radio station set aside an hour as 'President Bush Must Die' and set forth in that hour to incite a riot among people and to call for the death of the president, that station would be in trouble," Williams supporter Jasmyne Cannick wrote to the FCC. "There is no difference with the 'Tookie Must Die/ Kill Tookie' hour on KFI 640 AM."
Jasmyne is a world class nitwit.
Other than the fact (as others have already pointed out) that "Tookie" is a stone murderer, there's a problem with the Federal law that makes a crime to threaten a President.
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