US executes death row activist, after high-profile campaign ["Tookie, My Hero" Gag Alert!]

AFP via Yahoo! ^ | December 13, 2005 | AFP

[Brilliant]

These reporters need their heads examined.

[Red Badger]

He was Tookienated.....by the Tookienator.......

[Paul_Denton]

Hehe good phrase there :)

[wideawake]

Actor Mike Farrell, of the television series MASH, accused Schwarzenegger of "leaving him (Williams) twisting in the wind for 97 hours" by waiting until Monday to deny clemency.

Uh-huh.

And if the Governor had immediately denied him clemency, Farrell would be whining about how the Governor made a knee-jerk decision without proper deliberation.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nobel Peace Prize ?

[edcoil]

These issues always reinforces my belief in God. Murder is such a terrible thing for a human to do to another - so much so we as humans cannot understand it.

I believe we do this to say to God, we don't know how to judge this person so we will take his body and give his soul back to you for judgment.

We do not want to share the world with such a person and will take his body and ask you to judge his soul for eternity..

[Kenton]

"It's over, but it's not," said civil rights leader Jesse Jackson,

An obvious reference to the tendency of certain members of Jesse's constituency to riot, burn and loot the stores of the misguided fools who still try to do business in their community at the slightest excuse.

No doubt there will be a lot of plasma TVs and expensive tennis shoes "liberated" in LA, or at least that's what's Jesse's trying to encourage with his rhetoric.

[brant]

Jesse thinks killing Tookie is wrong, but killing babies is just fine. Is there a disconnect here?

[samtheman]

"It's over, but it's not," said civil rights leader Jesse Jackson

Jesse's going to perform a resurrection?

[Brilliant]

The moral of the story is that if you murder 4 people, writing some children's books while on death row, and talking about nonviolence, is not going to win you clemency.

[Barney Gumble]

Think of this way. Tookie was an abortion in his 207th trimester. The collective mother CHOSE to terminate the fetus.

See how much better it sounds now? All libs must support it now! Not only was it choice, the 207th trimester fetus murdered 4 people in cold blood. That means he must be mentally handicapped, another reason to terminate the baby.

[KeyLargo]

Nancy Grace had a mother of a young man killed by the Crips gang on her program. As a black woman, the mother was upset at all of the media attention on Williams. She was for Williams being executed as soon as possible.

More family survivors of the victims of the Crips gang should be interviewed by the media, but we all know that will never happen.

http://www.courttv.com/anchors/nancy_grace.html

[BenLurkin]

"After Williams blasted a football-sized hole in Albert Owens' back as he lay face-down on the floor of the 7-Eleven where he worked, the gang leader laughed about the "gurgling" noises the 26-year-old divorced father of two made as he died, according to trial testimony.

"And after Williams gunned down Yen-I Yang, 76, his wife, Tsai-Shai, 63, and their daughter, Yee-Chen Lin, 43, when he robbed their family-run motel, he bragged of killing "Buddha-heads," according to his pals' testimony."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/369269p-314207c.html

[jiggyboy]

Jessie got blindsided during his grandstanding. Somebody asked him if he knew any of the names of the victims and he became a sputtering deer in a headlight. Same for Al Sharpton on Tucker Carlson's show a couple of hours later.

[KeyLargo]

Anyone can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Even other mass murderers like Tookie.

"Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1938! Leading the campaign for years was the renowned author, Gertrude Stein.

As early as 1934, she told a reporter that Hitler should be awarded the Nobel peace prize. "I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany" (New York Times Magazine, May 6, 1934).

While Gertrude Stein's reputation may have declined, authors round the world, and as close to home as New Jersey, continue to promote her view that peace will be won by 'driving out the Jews'."

http://www.doctor-horsefeathers.com/archives/000054.php

[The South Texan]

"US authorities have executed convicted killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams after one of the biggest anti-death penalty campaigns in the country for decades. "


Notice they used "US Authorities" to make it look like Bush had something to do with this. No, it was California authorities you stupid French press agency.

[AbeKrieger]

That's my air he's no longer breathing.

Now if we could just dispatch the other cause celebre, Mumia. Then justice will be done.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I didn't notice that it was "the biggest" anything.

[goldstategop]

Sure Barbara Becknel thinks Williams was an innocent lamb. Gee, where have we heard it before?? sniff>

(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.")

[paudio]

"I am a woman on a mission. I am going to prove that Stan was innocent and governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a cold blooded murderer."

I don't get it. Ah-nuld is only one out of many parties that either decided Tookie's punishment or declined to reconsider. Including in these parties are CA Supreme Court, the 9th circuit, and US Supreme Court.