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Gang founder's death row drama gains star support
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| 11/26/05
| LYNN ELBER
Posted on 11/26/2005 10:26:25 AM PST by Pikamax
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To: furquhart
I say that starting the crips in and of itself should warrant the death penalty.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:37:14 AM PST
by
bigsigh
To: All
Jesse Jackson, Mike Farrell, Bianca Jagger, Snoop Dogg....Harry Belafonte...
It strikes me that these folks are protesting the death penalty, and are not professing this fellow's innocence. Huge difference.
Having said that, I fully expect Schwarzenegger to grant clemency. If he doesn't, he'll be a pariah in Hollywood. Will he be prepared to deal with that?
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:38:14 AM PST
by
sofaman
("Get off the phone, you big dope!" Mark Levin.)
To: bigsigh
Well, quite.
But, look, if killing four people in cold blood doesn't warrant the death penalty, nothing does.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:38:58 AM PST
by
furquhart
(Gingrich '08)
To: Prime Choice
He will cave......fear of riots by gang members will suck him in.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:39:40 AM PST
by
calrighty
(. Troops BTTT)
To: ARCADIA
I see no reason to change the sentence. Nor I. I believe in forgiveness and I believe in redemption. I also believe that only God can look straight into a man's heart and know whether he has truly changed.
Considering that, even in the midst of his "transformation," Tookie planned to use dynamite and shotguns to kill his jailers and escape from prison, I cannot help but consider his "metamorphosis" to be a charade.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:41:23 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
To: Pikamax
Well, Tookie and I have something in common....we are both "unimpressed" with the celebrities speaking up for him.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:41:25 AM PST
by
Txsleuth
(9/11NEVER FORGET-NEVER SURRENDER, Sam Johnson, a REAL hero!)
To: Pikamax
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:42:19 AM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: RedStateRocker
the Republican party and the right in California is a tiny, tiny minority Huh? Minority, yes. But tiny, tiny?
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:42:54 AM PST
by
neodad
(My ex-wife is stuck on stupid.)
To: All
"If Stan Tookie Williams had been born in Connecticut in the same type of situation,
and was a white man, he would have been running a company," Foxx told the AP when the film aired last year on FX. "But, born a black man
who has the capability of having brute strength and the capability of being smart in the ways of the world, he's going to get into what he gets into."
This is a breathtaking statement.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:44:05 AM PST
by
sofaman
("Get off the phone, you big dope!" Mark Levin.)
To: Pikamax
Min. Farrakhan with Stanley 'Tookie' Williams.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:44:25 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pikamax
It seems to me the real problem is the time taken from judgment to execution. It causes a lot of problems and should not be so protracted.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:44:27 AM PST
by
vimto
(Life isn't a dry run)
To: Pikamax
I support the message which would be carried to today's youths -- by executing this killer.
He didn't spare the lives of his victims. Why spare his life?
I imagine his 4 murder victims' lives would have made more significant contributions to their respective families and friends than any contribution this coward could make in anyone's life.
This killer is simply an opportunist and a con man. He's talks a good game NOW, but he couldn't live it. Talk is cheap.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:45:49 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Houston, TX)
To: neodad
Heck, even what passes for a Republican in CA would be a moderate Democrat most elsewhere. There is somply no way that any TRUE Rebuplican or right of center legislation is getting any traction.
If anyone thinks Ah-nold is anything other than a RINO they need to step away from the crack pipe:-)
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:45:51 AM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
To: sofaman
It strikes me that these folks are protesting the death penalty, and are not professing this fellow's innocence. Huge difference. You're fooling yourself. You don't see them protesting Scott Peterson's death sentence. How about anyone else's scheduled execution?
And one thing you're overlooking: Snoop Dogg was a frickin' MEMBER of Tookie's gang. Funny how you gloss that over.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:46:30 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
To: Pikamax
Jamie Foxx is an idiot and I'm ashamed he's from Texas. Now go and die, Tookie.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:46:48 AM PST
by
manic4organic
(We won. Get over it.)
To: MizSterious
I've heard he might have killed a lot more--or ordered their deaths.
The fact that he founded the crips puts more blood on his hands than the four people he was convicted of murdering, for sure.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:47:19 AM PST
by
andyk
(Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
To: sofaman
I fully expect Schwarzenegger to grant clemency. If he doesn't, he'll be a pariah in Hollywood.
He has been a pariah in Hollywood since joining the GOP. What would change?
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:47:34 AM PST
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: furquhart
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:47:49 AM PST
by
bigsigh
To: Farmer Dean
If the lives of the people he gunned down mean anything,then he must die as scheduled.There are NO perps in CA, only VICTIMS responding involuntarily to society's inequities, on other VICTIMS.
IMO the "TOOK" will live long and prosper, while all of those that died by his hand rot in their graves while their loved ones mourn.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:48:05 AM PST
by
PISANO
(We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
To: calrighty
He will cave......fear of riots by gang members will suck him in. Yeah...and we all know how many rioting thugs voted for him.
And people want the Constitution altered to accommodate his running for President. Oy...
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:48:29 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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