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.
Excellent observations. You know the folks in the media should also be called on the carpet for not going after this as a story.
Seems quite legit to ask the tough questions of "where are you" because to the common folks it looks like "race" and a white man isn't good enough to save.