The spirit of Stanley Tookie Williams prevails: The death penalty for Michael Morales has been postponed indefinitely! Victory, Victory is our Cry! The Class Struggle is the Reason Why!
The death penalty is first and foremost a class weapon of terror by the capitalist class against the workingclass. In the US, it is also a racist weapon, a legacy of the enslavement of Africans. Its existence is always a sign that labor is weak. The fact that we finally obtained an indefinite postponement of the death penalty means the workingclass has flexed its muscle, a little. More must be done.
A special round of thanks to the young people who stood in the freezing cold protesting 3 executions as this is probably your first clear victory, and it is your future for which we all fight.
A round of applause to everyone around the world who called the governor demanding clemency for Stan Williams and to everyone who signed the death penalty moratorium petition at
http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=sign%20petition Another round of applause to Austria, which finally rejected its native son, Nazi Schwarzenegger, for perpetrating the death penalty, which is banned from Europe, most of Latin America, Australia, South Africa, Senegal and Ivory Coast, among others. The death penalty is finally, after 20 centuries, viewed as barbarism, which it always was.
The legal questioning of the "medical" procedure, the refusal of medical personnel to commit the state murder, and the persistent legal appeals, all backed by our loud protest everywhere, helped make this milestone possible.
We must continue the struggle to abolish the death penalty, abolish prisons, and demand full rehabilitation of all people who actually commit the crimes of which they are accused so they are productive members of society within 5 years of conviction. We must also demand the legalization of all drugs so as to get the drugs off the street since they will no longer have street value, and thereby eliminating the entire prison-industrial complex, which is propped up with the war on the poor also known as the war on drugs. Punishment by the state must be illegal; rehabilitation must be mandatory including full education, medical care and job training for decent paying jobs.