Posted on 12/20/2005 6:35:59 PM PST by Rabid Dog
Posthumously yours, Stanley Williams* By David Howard December 20, 2005
NOTE: David Howard, of Ojai, is a peace activist and writer who held a candle for Williams at the Ventura County Government Center on the night of the execution.
Dear Arnold Schwarzenegger, I've been dead for a few days now. You've probably already forgotten about me and moved on to more important matters like condemning gay marriage, helping the Minutemen keep Mexicans out of California, and preparing another diatribe to deny clemency to Clarence Allen, the 75-year-old blind Choctaw Indian you'll execute Jan. 17.
Still, I beseech you -- once again -- to take a moment from your busy schedule. I have something important to tell you: I forgive you for murdering me. Here's why:
First, I forgive you because I realize it's not personal. You're just a ventriloquist's puppet for special interests that couldn't care less about individual lives like mine or those of the at-risk youth I would have continued to help had I lived.
You, Arnold, are beholden to the military-industrial-prison gang that has turned the United States into the per-capita incarceration capital of the world, a country only outdone in executions by Iran, China and Vietnam.
Second, I forgive you because I understand that shallow, unprincipled politicians can't really be blamed for lashing out as you did.
Jesus said, "Forgive them; they know not what they do." You know not what you do. You don't get what's wrong with state-sanctioned ritual murder. You don't get why rehabilitation and redemption are better than blood vengeance. And you don't get why so many people thought my trial was hopelessly tainted by racism.
Third, I forgive you because it's not for me to judge. Ultimately, Arnold, you don't answer to Stanley Williams. You answer to history. My legacy is a series of beautiful children's books and a peace treaty between violent street gangs. What's yours?
Fourth, I forgive you because I, too, must take responsibility for your empowerment. There's some wisdom in the proverb, "People get the government they deserve." Our apathy, despair, lack of organization and appetite for simple-minded diversion helped elect you and your brutalizing political agenda.
Fifth, I forgive you because I refuse to seek revenge on my fellow human beings. After my redemption, I lived for reconciliation, healing and justice. I took a vow never to hurt anyone.
Sixth, I forgive you because I never give up hope. I hope and pray you may still learn to do the right thing. Trust me, there are always opportunities for redemption, even for you. It's never too late to renounce violence and injustice.
Finally, I forgive you because I have compassion for you. I know that deep down inside you, there is a goodness that suffers because you killed me. I no longer have time to figure out how you became the wounded narcissist that you are, but I know it's not the real you. You're better than that, Arnold. May God have mercy on your soul.
* Stanley Tookie Williams was channeled by David Howard, of Ojai, a peace activist and writer who held a candle for Williams at the Ventura County Government Center on the night of the execution.
Bwahahahaha!
That was CLASSIC!
I've been doing some channeling of my own and all I'm able to receive is the sheer, frantic terror from Tookie's four innocent victims at the moment they realized they were really going to die at the hands of true evil in human form.
Ojai seems to be out of range of the innocent, victimized dead. Channelers there seem only able to tune in signals from sadistic, twisted, malignant unrepentant killers.
Truth be known I'm not a fan of the death penalty for some of the reasons Howard lists. I think life imprisonment without possibility of parole might be a worse punishment than death. But I am a fan of the law. The law imposed the death penalty in this case. The Governor made the right decision.
ego sum mortuus ergo sum.
Ditto with the "conservative" Arnoldbots who hated Davis. What exactly did Davis do to piss them off so much? Arnold appoints Davis' own people to RUN his adminstration and they don't care a whim.
Not in my house he ain't...
One hopes that the saintly Mr. Howard will be so kind as to channel Albert Owens and see how he felt about being gutted by Tookie's shotgun. But it isn't likely.
But it certainly is convenient to do so after extinguishing the lives of 4 human beings.
and "E's just nappin!"
My bad.
A verbal sleight-of-hand. The Greeks really had a way with words.
Tell us how you really feel!!!
LOL!!!
I think this is a perfect place for an old Eastern Oregon expression. That article is enough to gag a maggot.
The other that comes to mind is this fellow is clearly suffering from a cranial rectal inversion.
Other than that, words fail . . .
There is one Tookie, and David Howard is his prophet.
Seriously, after reading that... I think we should all have a nice group hug.
And the way I understand it, Jesse tried to talk to 'Tookie' a couple two three times and was rebuffed.
Now that's what I call nerve and no compassion, harrassing a person about to die, all in the name of publicity.
Sounds ripe for an SNL skit.
They publish this cr@p? Amazing.
Now that would be fun. Where is he buried?
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