{"article":{"id":139470,"heading":"Save &quot;Tookie&quot; Williams","author":"Marsha Feinland","created":"2005-11-18 05:51:22","modified":"2005-12-14 05:54:42","last_modified":"Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:54:42","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Unless Governor Schwarzenegger grants clemency or there is some unforeseen court intervention, the state of California will judicially murder Stanley \"Tookie\" Williams on December 13. <br><br> I join in the call to stop the execution of Stanley \"Tookie\" Williams. The death penalty is wrong. Many death penalty abolitionists and prisoners' rights advocates condemn what they call the \"cycle of violence.\" I see violence in our society as a straight line, from the top down. <br><br> Wealthy people own corporations, middle class managers strive to produce profits, and workers toil long hours, frequently in dangerous conditions, for falling wages and poor health care. Corporations strip the earth of its resources and foul the air, water and land. Native animal and plant species die out and people are robbed of their health and livelihoods. <br><br> Our economy exists to provide profits for the rich. The stresses of overwork and unemployment tear apart family and community life. Young people turn to gangs and crime because they are at the receiving end of a punishing system. African Americans are most often at the bottom of the economic ladder and most likely to be on death row. <br><br> We must immediately abolish the death penalty and provide education, health care, and rehabilitation for those who have turned to crime. <br><br> But to end the trajectory of violence, we must join together to take control of our own labor and claim what belongs to all of us. We can truly exercise our humanity when we can work in common for the good of our society and our earth. <br><br> If you want more information, go to nodeathpenalty.org or savetookie.org. <br><br> Marsha Feinland <br>  <br> Peace and Freedom Party candidate, <br>  <br> U. S. Senate<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"feinland@peaceandfreedom.org","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Stanley &quot;Tookie&quot; Williams should not be executed.","numcomment":14,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/11\/139470.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":139605,"heading":"Take it like a man Tookie","article":"Man enough to kill; man enough to die.","author":"Chinadoll","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-20 03:46:21","modified":"2005-11-20 03:46:21","fileurl":""},{"id":139611,"heading":"But...","article":"...are you 'man' enough to even read about the case or expound on your god like ability to write or even think such things with out anything but your itch to see death occur again, to excuse your lame homicidal post?","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-20 06:09:48","modified":"2005-11-20 06:09:48","fileurl":""},{"id":139618,"heading":"It is call Justice, lived by the sword","article":"dies by the sword. No Justice No Peace.","author":"3deadAsains","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-20 14:11:11","modified":"2005-11-20 14:11:11","fileurl":""},{"id":139758,"heading":"Grow up...","article":"I believe Tookie should be saved.  He shouldn't have to go through the death penalty.  He may have commited a crime, but people don't get life in prison for murder all the time anymore, the judges are more leinient.  I've read Tookie's books, and watched his movie.  He may have committed a crime in 1979, but he is proving to so many people he isn't the same.  He's not running the Crips, and he is helping get the word out for kids to not be in gangs, and telling them what's the bad about gangs.  Now if he truely doesn't mean what he's telling all these young children, then why would he spend all these years getting information out to young children?  I believe he should be saved.","author":"Keshia","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-22 20:14:06","modified":"2005-11-22 20:14:06","fileurl":""},{"id":139779,"heading":"Trash","article":"He is the founder of one of the worst gangs in history, a gang that has terrorized thousands, and then he kills 4 people.... and he needs 'health care and rehabilitation'???   \r\n\r\nIt doesn't matter what he's done since then.    It's time for his punishment.  \r\n\r\nIf you want him to be free then let him stay at your house.  You'll find out what a teddy bear he is.  For the rest of us, we'd rather see him punished as the law prescribed.   I'm only sad that it took this long.","author":"Tramp","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-23 00:44:41","modified":"2005-11-23 00:44:41","fileurl":""},{"id":139782,"heading":"I like death","article":"And I don't care if he had a kangaroo trial and is possibly innocent.\r\nSaliva is dripping from my mouth. just from thinking about it.\r\nI'm a fascist.","author":"Tramp","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-23 01:12:34","modified":"2005-11-23 01:12:34","fileurl":""},{"id":139837,"heading":"Nice try","article":"Nice try at posing as me.  So...  If I think the guy should be punished according to the law I'm a &quot;fascist&quot;, right?\r\n\r\nYou guys have milked the word &quot;fascist&quot; to death, and the whole time you've never used the term properly.    \r\n\r\nThank you for proving that our government run schools are a failure.","author":"Tramp (the real Tramp)","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-23 20:19:39","modified":"2005-11-23 20:19:39","fileurl":""},{"id":139840,"heading":"from the source","article":"Tramp (the real Tramp) \r\n\r\nNice try at posing as me. So... If I think the guy should be punished according to the law ( didn't slavery used to be legal?) I'm a &quot;fascist&quot; ( that being I believe in the total power of law enforcement even when the crime is questionable in a kangaroo court, like the trials for the Hitler judges and I like the idea of someone else dying), right? \r\n\r\nYou guys ( that's me) have milked the word &quot;fascist&quot; to death, and the whole time you've never used the term ( belief in the state as the authority rather than the will of the people and the idea of corporate supremacy) properly. \r\n\r\nThank you for proving that our government run schools are a failure.","author":"Tramp (the real Tramp)","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-23 20:32:31","modified":"2005-11-23 20:32:31","fileurl":""},{"id":139964,"heading":"Correction on &quot;Fascism&quot;","article":"Yanked this from Wikipedia, referencing two dictionaries:\r\n\r\nMerriam-Webster defines fascism as &quot;a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition&quot;[1]. The American Heritage Dictionary instead describes it as &quot;A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.&quot;[2]. The narrowest possible definition of fascism is the specific ideology of Mussolini's fascist state in Italy.\r\n\r\n-------\r\n\r\nIf you support the death penalty, presumably, you support the authority of the state to kill people.","author":"johnk","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-26 13:01:28","modified":"2005-11-26 13:01:28","fileurl":""},{"id":139988,"heading":"Tooke and Must and Will Die","article":"The blood the innocent demands it.","author":"3deadasians","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-27 03:22:04","modified":"2005-11-27 03:22:04","fileurl":""},{"id":139995,"heading":"Snoop Dog's Rap Music Lyrics &quot;Death Row Killaz&quot;","article":"Calvin Broadus (AKA: Snoop Dog) is out there demonstrating and trying to tell Governor Arnold what to do. I'm sure Governor Arnold can't wait to get his valuable input. Broadus is just the perfect guy to give policy advice ;-)\r\n\r\nHere are the published lyrics from Snoop Dog's Rap Music hit: &quot;Death Row Killaz&quot; \r\n\r\nDon't Do The Crime (aka Death Row Killaz) Lyrics\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus, Snoop singing]\r\nDon't do the crime if you can't do the time\r\nYeah\r\nDon't do it\r\n\r\nFell off into a party in the CPT\r\nNiggas looking at me strange\r\nBut I'm up on the game\r\nI ain't ...ing with them niggas no mo\r\nShit, I feel the same way ya'll feel\r\nNigga, ... Death Row (ha ha)\r\nI cut em loose, send em juice\r\nWith visine in their cup\r\nCatch em slipping, all my homeys get em stuck\r\nIt's the tale of a whale locked in a cell\r\nOn the streets he was the heat cause cuz had major mail\r\nHad his homeboys plugged, wearing gold chains\r\nHanging at the studio, splurging and thangs\r\nNigga ...ing off money, saving them hoes\r\n...ed off some money of mine\r\nAnd bought me a white rolls\r\nLiving on Wilshire in a penthouse suite\r\n...ing bad bitches seven days a week\r\nColder than a mother...er but now I'm hot\r\nFloss me a brand new suit from Dionne Scott\r\nI guess I'm balling now\r\nMoney falling down\r\nI can hear them movie star bitches calling me now\r\nDoggy Dogg come and get with the PG\r\nMr. Calvin Broadus could you please come and see me\r\nBut I ain't tripping, I'm just Dogg Pound Cripping\r\nTalking big shit and in a bulletproof dipping\r\nMake my own beats, so ... ya'll too\r\nAnd I'm down with the niggas from the you know who\r\nWe get to the point\r\nBlaze the joint\r\nStep into the party and holla at everybody\r\nAs long as the gin get mixed with juice\r\nAnd the five on the crap game gon hit with deuce\r\nShit niggas gon be niggas so nigga nigga what\r\nJust because I'm having paper don't mean ...\r\nI once was in the same predicament you was\r\nThinking to myself &quot;Damn should I kill cuz?&quot;\r\nBut I know deep in my heart\r\nTwo wrongs ain't right\r\nAnd it started from a fist fight\r\nI only got one life to live\r\nI'm trying to see a grandfather with some grandkids\r\nYou dig?\r\nI'm trying to live long like my hair\r\nPut the shit down, like Fred Estaire\r\nI want to share my world\r\nBut how the ... can I share it\r\nEverytime I throw you something\r\nYou look at mine and compare it\r\nMan, it's a cold shame\r\nBut it's a cold game\r\nI ain't make the rules to this game\r\nLook, all I know and all I do\r\nIs try to come through with something new\r\nBanging for you\r\nSo whatever you do, you like it or not\r\nBecause when your shit play out\r\nI be back on the dope spot\r\nMy grandpappy once sat me in his lap and he said\r\n&quot;Son get your money like that&quot; (get your money, man)\r\nI sit alone in the zone\r\nFace of stone\r\nLive the live of Al Capone\r\nA Don Corleone\r\nCasually casualties, fatalities\r\nAnd all kind of funny looking niggas coming after me\r\nFunny, it's got me dodging, dipping, slipping, and sliding\r\nEastside up, Eastsiders cause we riding (eastside up)\r\nThis is portable something to ... with your ear\r\nDoggy Dogg will appear to make it sound so clear\r\nI ...s it up, like I always do\r\nAnd that's a trick\r\nI'm saying some shit\r\nTo make the bitches want to suck my dick\r\nSee it's an everyday thang\r\nCommunicating to ya'll with the Dogg Pound Slang\r\nBack up in the house and we just don't stop\r\nCall ya mama, ... her fat, call the mother...ing cops\r\nHit roccs, yeah, you know what? You know what\r\nThey told me like this\r\n\r\n[Refrain x 2]","author":"Arnold Advisor","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-11-27 12:41:04","modified":"2005-11-27 12:41:04","fileurl":""},{"id":141505,"heading":"Mr. VEE","article":"     No mercy for murderers. Tookie  Williams has taken human life and must now pay for it with his own...... no  lost sleep here....I'll pray for the victims families .\r\n\r\n    p. s.       Is it midnight yet....?","author":"A.C. VEE","parent_id":139470,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-12-14 05:54:42","modified":"2005-12-14 05:54:42","fileurl":""}]}