Posted on 03/09/2010 2:44:36 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala asked jurors to spare him the death penalty Tuesday, concluding his defense by playing a portion of “Alice’s Restaurant,” the rambling 18-minute Vietnam War protest song by folk singer Arlo Guthrie.
By assigning the death penalty, “you become a wannabe killer in waiting,” Alcala told jurors before playing a section of the 1960s-era song in which a man being drafted for war tells a military psychiatrist:
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Weird.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
“This is probably the most important decision you will ever make,” Alcala told the jury. “Choose wisely.””
And easiest. I’d vote to hang that scumbag in a NY minute, especially after playing that frigging song.
What if they don’t like Arlo Guthrie?
Ummm. Never mind...
Fry ‘im
Alice’s Restaurant Group W Bench
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0a6iWHSWbA&feature=related
wow, somebody needs to post those lyrics... “I want to kill. I want to have veins in my teeth, etc.” scary fry him.
Weirder still I remember a Mobil tv show from the early 70s about a or perhaps The Alice’s restaurant. It was in Greenfield, MA and a few years later I saw it while travelling to my boarding school in Deerfield, MA. It was closed for business but still had the sign up.
David Bromberg song should be the theme....Electric chair blues...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN92uSUgoVM&feature=related
Judge, judge, good kind judge,
You can send me to the ‘lectric chair,
Judge, judge, hear my plea,
You can fry me ‘cause I don’t care.
I cut him with my Barlow,
Stabbed him in the side,
Stood there watchin’ over him,
While he wobbled ‘round and died,
Judge, judge good kind judge,
Please send me to the ‘lectric chair.
Weird is right.
Did this guy go off the deep end after listening to Alices Restaurant?
I’m waiting for this guy to be labeled “right wing”
That's much older than Dave Bromberg. Bessie Smith sang it in the 1920s, and I don't think she was the first.
My favorite verse:
I ain't got no bondsman to go my bail
I don't wanna spend no 99 years in jail
So judge, o judge,
Good kind judge
Won't you send me to the 'lectric chair!
Yeppers-— Bessie Smith and also Blind Lemon Jefferson too.
I first heard the song from David Bromberg so it stuck in my head all these years but he didn’t write it! Thanks...
““This is probably the most important decision you will ever make,” Alcala told the jury. “Choose wisely.”””
He oculd have thought that before he killed someone. Just my point of view.
You are failing to understand his view point. He was abused or oppressed or whatever.
hee hee... good one
Yeah, that’s right...we wanna be killers...bang! you dead sucka!
EGADS! If I was on the jury I’d have voted to kill him jut for making me sit through that song!
Lots of people are abused and oppressed. That’s the same reasoning the Manson killers gave. They had bad childhoods, blah blah blah... As if millions of others haven’t endured the same thing.
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