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TOOKIE WILLIAMS EXECUTED AS SNOOP CAMPAIGN FAILS TO CHANGE ARNIE'S MIND
The BBC is reporting that Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, the gang-leader turned Nobel Peace nominee, has been executed in California. Despite (perhaps because of) a campaign featuring the likes of Snoop Dogg, California's comedy governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused pleas for clemency and allowed his State to kill Williams.
Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang, was convicted of four murders he committed in 1979 - in one case, he shot three members of the same family at a Los Angeles motel.
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The argument is that Tookie failed to show remorse for a particularly crime that he refused to admit he did.
However, surely his whole existance for the past two decades has been one of actions, not merely words? Speaking out against gang life and writing books on the subject. This is a man who managed to arrange a ceasefire in the gang war between the bloods and the crips. This is a man who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times. This is the man who has been murdered by the state.
Goerge W Bush can break the law and show remorse and become president and start a war. Tookie refused to admit to a crime, but totally reformed his ways and actively campaigned for peace and the good of humanity. He is the victim of state-endorsed murder.
Thanks Arnie, politically under pressure after making appointments that republicans didn't approve of, a man is sacrificed for your political ends. Ta.
I love humanity
Without coming down on one side or the other on death penalty, I have to say that while "deeds not words" is a good rule, I have a difficult time with "I didn't do it but anyway I've reformed."
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