We also do not have the Native American's asking for his life to be spared.
Have to say, this guy really is batting 0. Nobody seems to think his life is worth saving. Yet, if he were black it would be a whole different issue.
Sucks to know how twisted folks can be over their views.
Personally, he did the crime now he must pay for it, in this case it is his life. I am at least consistent.
What the hell is the excuse of all the other's out there. Not a peep.
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Well this is suppose to be the leading publication on Native American issues. I suppose they do not think this guy's life is worth saving either.
In fairness I do not know where the editorial board sits on the death penalty but there is nobody on this guys' side.
Man I bet he wishes he were black right about now?
"We do not have the likes of the Hollywood elite asking to spare his life."
Perhaps he didn't kill enough people.
What does this guy's race have to do with his evil deeds and the price he will pay for them?
"Native American..."
So what?
-----I agree with you 100%. You said exactly what I was thinking!
Twenty-five years ago would have worked too, but if today is all you have, today will have to do.
What does this creep's indian ancestry have to do with the cold blooded killing of people and his well-deserved sentence of death? If that's they way he wants it, well, then...go to hell, Chief.
The guy has finally said something that makes me feel (a little) sorry for him because that is extremely lame. Maybe we can get Ward Churchill to switch places with him 'ala Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Ward should want to help a real Native American out of a jam, no?
The objectionable racial politics that made Tookie's execution a cause celeb and Mr Allen's death a nonevent are disgraceful. Its very sad that in 2006 we still have to deal with the same racial BS we were trying to overcome in 1965. The left doesn't bother with even platitudes about equality and justice anymore. When "separate but equal" is the defacto policy of the NAACP we have reached a sad day indeed.
Death penalty opponents undermine their cause by not opposing every execution with the same reasoned set of arguments. Tell me "we lower ourselves to thier level" and all that jazz and at least I'll respect your position. They need to stop turning certain "politically correct" murders into saints while ignoring people that don't tug the liberal heart strings. Anyone who want to Free Mumia! because he is a "political prisoner" has forfeited the right to be taken seriously.
Jessie Jackson played a smallish roll in Le Affair de Tookie because there was no one to shake down for $$$. He only put in a Special Guest Appearance in the last day or two when tons of free publicity was to be had.
I have no idea if race has anything to do with it, but, I have to tell you, it is mighty odd that the liberal left Hollywood folks have shown NO interest in this man's life. They are the ones' always yelling how wrong the death penalty is. FINE, but shouldn't they be out there for each person about to face their ultimate punishment.
Obviously they do not care about this man. Perhaps it is about his inability not to have a book out? That he wasn't a former gang member. That he ordered the murder's verses committing the murder's.
I actually wrote an essay (vanity) about this Tookie's fan club are fair weather death penalty foes? and it was picked up by a left leaning black paper where I used it to ask the same question where are those defending this man's life.
Evidently there is something that causes this man to NOT have any defender's. So in reality those opposed to the death penalty, who say it is not for us to choose who lives and dies has essentially said this man's life is worth nothing and have done nothing on his behalf. I would say they are putting the needle in his arm.
Finally what caught my eye, that this article was printed in a Native American publication. Yet, I do not see where they stand on the DP. I cannot find anyone defending his life in anything I have read on their website.
Sad that there's not a crime out there that Jesse and the gang will not support if a black person committed it. Murder, child molestation, etc.--none of it is too bad for Jesse.