Tookie Williams

[Dabblerobb]

Oh God . Please Kill Tookie painfully and make it a long and painful death. Let him suffer like all the families he has hurt. I don't give a shit about his nobel peace prize B.S If he is guilty let him die a painful death. Let him feel what these family's have felt for soooooo long. Revenge is sweet. DEATH TO TOOKIE BYE BYE OL' EVIL SOUL I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL! TELL THE DEVIL I SAID HI AND WILL BE JOINING YOU SOON

[Anubis]

Well, he is co-founder of probably the most ruthless street gang the west coast has ever known!!
Let's face it, the Crips have done many a bad thing, He was their leader. His hands have been in more crime than you can imagine. If a family member of yours had been killed by the Crips you would sing a different tune. Then perhaps maybe someone could send you one of his books??

...and he was the leader of this murderous gang during their most notorious period (the eighties). In fact, I remember reading some time ago that murdering someone was one of their initiation rites! Yet he, miraculously somehow, never got blood on his hands? Gimme a break.

[robtronik]

http://baldilocks.typepad.com/baldilock ... its_o.html

one women's pov who lives in south central on Tookie and the claims of those who think he should have got clemency.

rob.

[Machinate]

http://baldilocks.typepad.com/baldilock ... its_o.html

one women's pov who lives in south central on Tookie and the claims of those who think he should have got clemency.

rob.

Just as an aside, and really not a good one, the word "terrorism" or derivatives thereof appear 24 times on that single page. But then again there's also a handy-dandy link to Central Command where we can look at all the brave soldiers in tanks...

I don't feel sorry for Tookie, I don't claim to know hoodunnit, I feel sorry for any nation that reverts to the tried and tested medieval eye-for-an-eye approach. That's really going a bit too old-skool for me.

[chewy]

I really like Arnold S. (governor of California) he's made some awesome movies, you may remember such classics as Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, The Terminator 1,2 and 3, Total Recall and The Last Action Hero

but the oh how the mighty have fallen in my book - he's refusing Tookie Williams - the co-founder of the Crips who will be executed tonight after midnight for the alleged killings of some people a long time ago - plea to not be executed and change his sentence to life in prison.

Personally it comes down to politics and race on this one.

Tookie Williams has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in literature several times for his writtings in childrens books to stay away from trouble


It just makes me sad (honestly) that we still live in a society that governs with death than justice - our justice system is built for the rich, the lighter skinned and the powerful...had Tookie been a white guy nominated for a Nobel Peace prize, he would probably be walkign around downtown LA right now...but no this is the Co-Founder of a street gang - people in their white bread neighborhoods would love to see this nogger get his justice! And Arnold S - considered a nigger in some parts of the country is giving into this bullshit


whatever - I'm pissed, sad and can't wait to get the fuck out of this lame as country - move to a island with Spanish speaking hotties, write beats and DJ at the local discotech for the rest of life - raises my kids somewhere that isn't dominated by the pure ignorance and hatred that is instilled on all of us from birth

fuck this place - I'm moving to Ibizia and living with Carl Cox

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I hear ya man, I live in Victoria, BC, Canada (not too far from you). I used to visit the US at least 3 times a year or more (Vegas, Cali, Seattle). I can honestly say that I haven't been across the border now for over 3 years. The thought of even spending a weekend in the US makes me cringe!

~chewy

[rikhyray]

I read them all.

This is my point: How does a fascist get elected in a democracy, practice according to law, promote democratic processes, and then get accused of being a fascist?

Do your history check please: Hitler was democraticly elected, he built autobahns, and lots of other good deeds for the Germans. And what.... does that sanctify him, gives absolution ? He was insane, does it make him innocent ? Your governor is intellectually challanged does it make him less responsible ?
It is very sad that the human, humanitarian values lost, even the common sense. Arguable death penalty as preventive measure- didnt apply in this case. Just plane, crude, sensless revange.
The dream of democracy and the land of the free turned into totalitarian , brainless, sensless, ruthless nightmare.
Well, if there are people who consider A.S. actor, even good one, the propaganda of sensless violence, brainless, testless, primitive that ruled his films- good enterteinment- good luck, you are getting what you want and like.
Another defeat for the great American nation, led from one disaster to other by the leaders that majority chosen. Is democracy just the opression of minority by majority ?

[buzzcock]

let me get this striaght, rikhyray. In one breath you defend Singapore when they execute someone for drug smuggling, and in the next, you condemn America for executing a convicted murderer?

[hambone1]

I'm glad to see it carried through.

IMO, getting tough on "gangstas in da hood" may help to eliminate the violent and selfish street culture that Williams represented that makes me embarassed to be an American. Kudos on him, though, for his bookwriting and attempts to sway others away from this evil. Hopefully his death will be a further deterrent to others.

My opinion only.

[nz]

Why is it that whenever something happens that involves a person of color that it is race that is somehow involved? Doesn't personal accountablility and responsibility for one's actions account for anything? I am so #$%^& sick of people (black AND white) hiding behind the race issue. While it would be false to say that racism in our society doesn't exist, there comes a point that we have to just stop this excuse that is far from true.

[hambone1]

Unfortunately, it's not only race that generates unfair discrimination.

Williams should've gotten the same needle they should've used on OJ.

[pilcrow]

The thought of even spending a weekend in the US makes me cringe!

~chewy

Oh, one weekend won't do you any harm. Just don't start a drug-dealing gang or kill several people, and you'll pretty much be left alone.

Don't they punish criminals in Canada?

[forge]

.....
t is very sad that the human, humanitarian values lost, even the common sense. Arguable death penalty as preventive measure- didnt apply in this case. Just plane, crude, sensless revange.
The dream of democracy and the land of the free turned into totalitarian , brainless, sensless, ruthless nightmare.
Well, if there are people who consider A.S. actor, even good one, the propaganda of sensless violence, brainless, testless, primitive that ruled his films- good enterteinment- good luck, you are getting what you want and like.

seldom does any kind of utopian "dream" like democracy work in reality. Too many humans act instinctively and not very "enlightenend"

Just read "the communist manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, that is a utopian vision, but what did it become?? Communism. China and the former Soviet union have been the Big ones who took it on, although Marx himself imagined it to be Germany, Britain, USA - highly industrialised nations (it was written in 1850s...) So Communism only really exists any more in China on a large scale and there it seems they are more capitalist than communist now days.

It is the same for all cultures on this Earth that there is someone who is suffering an injustice, because in any kind of "majority rules" situation, there will always be someone who is not represented.

We are as humans capable of a really good level of compasion, but we are still only animals and selfish at heart. so what?? It is a human trait to revere selfLESSness and encourage it always, but then that is socialisation.

So this guy did wrong but then went good right? He one a nobel prize so his "right" must have been looked at fairly thoroughly.

Does that "redeem" him from his past wrongs?? Depends if as a society we are at all interested in people still being able to offer something after they have already been judged for something else. Really, that's it. Is there any reason to not just get them out of sight, out of mind? Kill em, get em out the way then talk of it no more?? Or keep them in Baddie school/Jail?

Nazis...

hitler, democratically elected but insane? That is how history judges him, but history is written by the winners, so the atrocities commited by "allied" countries or their allies or trade partners are overlooked.....I would argue most people who WANT to run for government shouldnt be allowed to.

If you want power, you shouldnt be allowed to have it because you must be insane. Of course hiteler must have been crazy, but George W Bush??? Are you fairly telling me any world leader has been honest or sane? Sure tell me that, but it will always be a matter of opinion still....

So what do we do? Do we just give up and do some whittlin? Whittle some nice pegs out of sticks and go fishin. Fuck them all, fuck everyone, we cant do anything and the worlds fucked!

Or do we just accept our lot, be decent and not judge other people in their decisions on what's right unless it fucks with everyone elses rights?

Personally I think "do what thou wilt but harm none" should be the whole law in 21st Century, post Christian/Religious Earth.

Lets just say for one second that all religions are wrong. Darwin was right and evolution is right. Where does that leave our systems of justice??

If none of these religious texts can be regarded as fairly "the word of god" then they are worth nothing judicially and so it is therefore completely unfair to force ANY living thing to abide by one particular faith.

So "do what you like BUT HARM NONE" if the whole focus of the law is to prove what constitiutes "HARM" and whether one has violated that right in another, then if one is found to "harm" another it is decided how they are dealt with.

I think in this day and age it is reasonable for any intelligent being to expect that level of sanity.

So maybe death penalty is too close to the state harming an individual, but if they dont it costs the tax payer money to keep them in prison and they mix with other "harmers" so it "harms" society to allow this to happen.......and so on, ad infinitum.

I dont know, You tell me, what do we do??

[hambone1]

There is no right answer.

I personally believe in the deterrent power of capital punishment. It won't cleanse the US of all evil parasites nor prevent the spawning of new ones, but it would be a start. And if these individuals are genetically predisposed to psychopathic violence and deterrence doesn't work, natural selection will then take them out of the gene pool to the benefit of our future society.

Spend the prison money saved on inner-city education and opportunities to eliminate that as an excuse/cause.

My opinion only, which is unsubstantiated by facts.

[spiderprod]

there is something i don't understand ,
bush is supposed to be a christian , usa is seen by the world as a christian country , i mean they portray themself as a christian country .
so why don't they respect the 6th commandment :
"thou shalt not kill"

[forge]

There is no right answer.

I personally believe in the deterrent power of capital punishment. It won't cleanse the US of all evil parasites nor prevent the spawning of new ones, but it would be a start. And if these individuals are genetically predisposed to psychopathic violence and deterrence doesn't work, natural selection will then take them out of the gene pool to the benefit of our future society.

Spend the prison money saved on inner-city education and opportunities to eliminate that as an excuse/cause.

My opinion only, which is unsubstantiated by facts.

see that's the weird thing...

we got given some pet rats and I've been reading about them, including a bit about breeding them....

reading about how if you breed from an animal with a good nature and nice fur you have a good chance of getting the same etc...

there are a few basic things like that and it has made me really think about the fact that we're no different. Maybe a bit more sophisticated, but still we're not as advanced as we'd like to think...

so are we "bred" in the same ways?

Are the undesirables with underpriviledged upbringings a bad breed?

how far do we go?