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(Tookie) Supporters of executed man want ‘statesman’s’ funeral
chronicle journal ^ | 12-14-05

Posted on 12/14/2005 9:48:21 AM PST by doug from upland

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To: doug from upland

"with supporters announcing they would give him a funeral “befitting a statesman."

They meant a "statesman wannabe". These people are sick.


21 posted on 12/14/2005 9:59:02 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: doug from upland


It's so good that the left cares so much about crooks in our society.


22 posted on 12/14/2005 9:59:03 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: doug from upland
SAN FRANCISCO — The argument over whether convicted killer Stanley (Tookie) Williams was a man of peace or a death-row con artist raged on after his execution Tuesday, with supporters announcing they would give him a funeral “befitting a statesman.”

Here's MY "salute to Tookie!

...............

That's the proper salute to a Muredering Gang Thug!

23 posted on 12/14/2005 9:59:24 AM PST by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

You know, that old Steppenwolf song from about 1968-69, "Tookie-Tookie"


24 posted on 12/14/2005 9:59:27 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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To: doug from upland

If I were running the FBI, I would be really carefully watching and wiretapping anyone who would hold or attend a "statesman's" funeral for this guy, because there's a high likelihood that they're racketeers and organized criminals.


25 posted on 12/14/2005 10:00:00 AM PST by jpl
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To: doug from upland

"...a funeral “befitting a statesman.”

I'm sure that's what the Yang's, Yang Lin, and Owens want him to have. Oh, that's right, he blew them away. Never mind.


26 posted on 12/14/2005 10:00:25 AM PST by gate2wire
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To: Churchillspirit
Sure, but I wouldn't want a sedative even if I was nervous. You'd want to be awake and alert as long as possible.
27 posted on 12/14/2005 10:00:33 AM PST by wideawake
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To: doug from upland

Then the supporters should pay for all of it, and reimburse the state of California for the jail and trial costs.


28 posted on 12/14/2005 10:00:40 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: jpl

I propose a 21 gun salute. Preferably pointed at snoop dogg, mike farrel, jesse jackson, and the rest of those racist criminal enablers.


29 posted on 12/14/2005 10:00:56 AM PST by manglor
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I'll remember him. I just won't remember him the way his supporters want me to remember him.

I'll remember him as a murder who callously took the lives of at least four others. I'll remember him as someone who chose his own fate and had to face the consequences of that choice.

I hope he truely did repent of his sins. I hope God forgave him of those sins and that Tookie is now in heaven.

God is all knowing. God is merciful. God is forgiving.

However, we are not all knowing. We cannot simply let someone that committed multiple murders on more than one occasion walk free.

We also don't have the responsibility to support him in a life of incarceration when he willingly took the lives of others.

We cannot have a society without punishing crimes.

Our society did not rush to punich Tookie. He was found guilty in a court of law where the burden of proof was on the prosecution.

He was given ample opportunities to show that he was not given a fair trial.

He was given ample oppertunities to repent his sins to God.

In the end justice was served.


30 posted on 12/14/2005 10:02:48 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: Itzlzha; doug from upland
I still haven't been able to get an answer as to why The Tookster was allowed to wear his ear bling on death row...curious.

32 posted on 12/14/2005 10:02:58 AM PST by ErnBatavia (403-3)
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To: Red Badger
You know, that old Steppenwolf song from about 1968-69, "Tookie-Tookie"

Then there was that song that spun off from the old TV series "Seventy Seven Sunset Strip"

"Tookie, Tookie, lend me your comb"

33 posted on 12/14/2005 10:04:55 AM PST by ErnBatavia (403-3)
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To: jpl

That was my first thought. What an opportunity for arrests. It is like those police stings in which they tell criminals they've won and prize, and they should come to a certain location to collect it.


34 posted on 12/14/2005 10:06:51 AM PST by doug from upland (Hasta la vista, Tookie)
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To: doug from upland; All

I knew it.. lol

see post 1017 - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538914/posts?page=1017#1017


35 posted on 12/14/2005 10:07:04 AM PST by Dubya-M-Dees (Mary Mapes was the first in the MSM that had to participate in an election by the people... she lost)
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To: doug from upland

They can do whatever they want as long as the American taxpayers don't pay for it. Enough stench is enough!


36 posted on 12/14/2005 10:07:37 AM PST by lilylangtree
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JOHN AND KEN MUST COVER THIS LIVE ON THE AIR!
37 posted on 12/14/2005 10:07:40 AM PST by doug from upland (Hasta la vista, Tookie)
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To: doug from upland

I propose that from now on, instead of saying "I need to take a crap", people should say "I'm going to drop tookie off at the pool." Now, that is a fitting legacy.


38 posted on 12/14/2005 10:09:55 AM PST by gate2wire
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To: doug from upland

I supported the execution, because justice must be done on vicious murderers. But I don't think the law says anything about dishonoring the body of an executed criminal. I believe the usual procedure is to turn the dead body over to the next to kin, to give it whatever kind of funeral ceremony they see fit. If there are no next of kin, then it depends on his last will and testament, statements he made before the execution, or the best judgment of the authorities as to who represents him or is closest to him.

Let Hollywood and the Crips give him a fancy funeral if they like. I think it will be about as useful for their propaganda purposes as Paul Wellstone's funeral. In other words, most people will see it as grotesque, and it will backfire against any stars who participate in it.


39 posted on 12/14/2005 10:10:17 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: doug from upland
“If they think they succeeded by killing him in getting people to forget about him, they have done just the opposite,”

the media has pretty much forgetten him already...

40 posted on 12/14/2005 10:12:39 AM PST by latina4dubya
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