Posted on 12/08/2005 5:47:25 AM PST by AliVeritas
Tonight in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to have a closed meeting with those trying to get Stanley (Tookie) Williams clemency and those in law enforcement who want Williams to meet his end on Tuesday. Williams, who was sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering four people in 1979, has the dubious honor of being one of the founders of the vicious street gang, the Crips.
Still, Williams is being held up as an example of redemption because he has supposedly turned his life around. He has written children's books that speak out against gang violence. But the actor and writer Joseph Phillips discovered that the highest selling children's book written by Williams has sold only 330 copies. Not exactly a universal audience. The murderer has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times. But almost anyone can nominate you. That does not prove universal acknowledgment of importance.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Which one was it? "It Takes a 'Hood to Bust a Cap on a Crip"
A fascinating detail about this author, which I don't recall anyone reporting until now.
Stanley Crouch deserves more postings here at FR. His point about anyone being able to nominate for a Nobel is also excellent.
When we see the NAACP, Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover and that paragon of public morality, Snoop Dogg, calling for Williams to receive clemency,.......
.....We know there is a room full of racists trying to save a murderer because it doesn't effect them personally one way or another. It speaks volumes about what these people think of the victims and their families. I, for one, think more about the lives he took and not about the POS that killed them.
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