Supporters, detractors clash over what Williams' legacy will be

Contra Costa Times ^ | 12/14/5 | Kiley Russell

[SmithL]

I read on another thread that Tookie hasn't committed any crimes since his execution.

[EagleUSA]

I read on another thread that Tookie hasn't committed any crimes since his execution.
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Yes, and while he is at it, he can send the California taxpayers a check for 26 years of room and board.

[AmishDude]

He was only a cause celebre because he was famous enough to draw out the usual death penalty crowd, lead by Mike Farrell. He'll be forgotten by the time of the next high-profile execution.

[teenyelliott]

I heard one time that the recidivism rate for executed felons was zero.

[LIConFem]

His legacy????? He died an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer. Who gives a rat's tush about his legacy?

Frikkin' idiots...

[G.Mason]

Williams' legacy"

How about less than a semen stain on a blue dress?

[eureka!]

What's a "Tookie?" Anything like a "Sheehan?" Time marches on. Hehehehe....

[Puppage]

"All day long he was talking about the children,"

Yeah, when he wasn't busy murdering innocent people.

[econjack]

"I nominated him for the Nobel Peace Pri(z)e (after) finding out more about what he had done and meeting many of the people who had been influenced by his writings," Gasper said.

I wonder if Gasper voted Republican?

[Billthedrill]

On one side are those who believe in Williams' redemption and the good he did through his anti-gang speeches and children's books.

...Which sold the sum total of 300 copies. What a crock!

I notice the "on the other side" part got mighty short shritf in this puff piece. There wasn't one victim in all this, there were four, and Mookie wasn't one of them.

[cloud8]

Legacy: more and swifter executions. DNA will make it possible.

[ozoneliar]

this man ... personifies redemption

Yeah, right!

[commonguymd]

http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/tookiewilliamsvictims.html

[funkywbr]

What to argue over? He's a executed mass murderer.

[purpleland]

Stanley "Tookie" Williams is not a bonafide BLACK martyr.
Glorifying Tookie to mythic proportions is REALLY an insult to American Blacks and TRUE MARTYRS of racism.

It seems a deliberate joke by perverse leftists to elevate a less than lesser cause to a cause celebre status. It is clear to rational persons that leftists indulge in evil manipulations to express their contempt for truth and for the truth of the matter.

[Klatuu]

to obtain justice for Stanley 'Tookie' Williams by proving beyond a shadow of a doubt his innocence,

Maybe she can get O.J. to help her find the real murderer.

[Dallas59]

I like Rocky...

[Logical me]

I took me one seconds to figure what his legacy should be. "Murderer"

[Chewie84]

I agree with that policeman, Michael Booker. Most people, especially youths, won't remember Williams as an anti- gang activist, or the writer of a few children's' books: They'll remember him as the founder of a gang which was responsible for countless brutal murders all across our country for over 30 years, which in turn led to the creation of numerous other street gangs which caused almost as much trouble and destruction as the Crips.

[IronJack]

He will have no legacy. He was just a murderer. Nothing more. Now he's a DEAD murderer. Nothing more. Ten years from now, nobody will remember his name.