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Save "Tookie" Williams

by Marsha Feinland Friday, Nov. 18, 2005 at 5:51 AM
feinland@peaceandfreedom.org

Stanley "Tookie" Williams should not be executed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We must immediately abolish the death penalty and provide education, health care, and rehabilitation for those who have turned to crime.

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.

If you want more information, go to nodeathpenalty.org or savetookie.org.

Marsha Feinland

Peace and Freedom Party candidate,

U. S. Senate

Take it like a man Tookie

by Chinadoll Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005 at 3:46 AM

Man enough to kill; man enough to die.

But...

by Sheepdog Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005 at 6:09 AM

...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?

It is call Justice, lived by the sword

by 3deadAsains Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005 at 2:11 PM

dies by the sword. No Justice No Peace.

Grow up...

by Keshia Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 at 8:14 PM
xx_keshers_xx@yahoo.com

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.

Trash

by Tramp Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005 at 12:44 AM

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'???

It doesn't matter what he's done since then. It's time for his punishment.

If 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.

I like death

by Tramp Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005 at 1:12 AM

And I don't care if he had a kangaroo trial and is possibly innocent.

Saliva is dripping from my mouth. just from thinking about it.

I'm a fascist.

Nice try

by Tramp (the real Tramp) Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005 at 8:19 PM

Nice try at posing as me. So... If I think the guy should be punished according to the law I'm a "fascist", right?

You guys have milked the word "fascist" to death, and the whole time you've never used the term properly.

Thank you for proving that our government run schools are a failure.

from the source

by Tramp (the real Tramp) Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005 at 8:32 PM

Tramp (the real Tramp)

Nice 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 "fascist" ( 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?

You guys ( that's me) have milked the word "fascist" 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.

Thank you for proving that our government run schools are a failure.

Correction on "Fascism"

by johnk Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 at 1:01 PM

Yanked this from Wikipedia, referencing two dictionaries:

Merriam-Webster defines fascism as "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"[1]. The American Heritage Dictionary instead describes it as "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."[2]. The narrowest possible definition of fascism is the specific ideology of Mussolini's fascist state in Italy.

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If you support the death penalty, presumably, you support the authority of the state to kill people.

Tooke and Must and Will Die

by 3deadasians Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005 at 3:22 AM

The blood the innocent demands it.

Snoop Dog's Rap Music Lyrics "Death Row Killaz"

by Arnold Advisor Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005 at 12:41 PM

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 ;-)

Here are the published lyrics from Snoop Dog's Rap Music hit: "Death Row Killaz"

Don't Do The Crime (aka Death Row Killaz) Lyrics



[Chorus, Snoop singing]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Yeah

Don't do it

Fell off into a party in the CPT

Niggas looking at me strange

But I'm up on the game

I ain't ...ing with them niggas no mo

Shit, I feel the same way ya'll feel

Nigga, ... Death Row (ha ha)

I cut em loose, send em juice

With visine in their cup

Catch em slipping, all my homeys get em stuck

It's the tale of a whale locked in a cell

On the streets he was the heat cause cuz had major mail

Had his homeboys plugged, wearing gold chains

Hanging at the studio, splurging and thangs

Nigga ...ing off money, saving them hoes

...ed off some money of mine

And bought me a white rolls

Living on Wilshire in a penthouse suite

...ing bad bitches seven days a week

Colder than a mother...er but now I'm hot

Floss me a brand new suit from Dionne Scott

I guess I'm balling now

Money falling down

I can hear them movie star bitches calling me now

Doggy Dogg come and get with the PG

Mr. Calvin Broadus could you please come and see me

But I ain't tripping, I'm just Dogg Pound Cripping

Talking big shit and in a bulletproof dipping

Make my own beats, so ... ya'll too

And I'm down with the niggas from the you know who

We get to the point

Blaze the joint

Step into the party and holla at everybody

As long as the gin get mixed with juice

And the five on the crap game gon hit with deuce

Shit niggas gon be niggas so nigga nigga what

Just because I'm having paper don't mean ...

I once was in the same predicament you was

Thinking to myself "Damn should I kill cuz?"

But I know deep in my heart

Two wrongs ain't right

And it started from a fist fight

I only got one life to live

I'm trying to see a grandfather with some grandkids

You dig?

I'm trying to live long like my hair

Put the shit down, like Fred Estaire

I want to share my world

But how the ... can I share it

Everytime I throw you something

You look at mine and compare it

Man, it's a cold shame

But it's a cold game

I ain't make the rules to this game

Look, all I know and all I do

Is try to come through with something new

Banging for you

So whatever you do, you like it or not

Because when your shit play out

I be back on the dope spot

My grandpappy once sat me in his lap and he said

"Son get your money like that" (get your money, man)

I sit alone in the zone

Face of stone

Live the live of Al Capone

A Don Corleone

Casually casualties, fatalities

And all kind of funny looking niggas coming after me

Funny, it's got me dodging, dipping, slipping, and sliding

Eastside up, Eastsiders cause we riding (eastside up)

This is portable something to ... with your ear

Doggy Dogg will appear to make it sound so clear

I ...s it up, like I always do

And that's a trick

I'm saying some shit

To make the bitches want to suck my dick

See it's an everyday thang

Communicating to ya'll with the Dogg Pound Slang

Back up in the house and we just don't stop

Call ya mama, ... her fat, call the mother...ing cops

Hit roccs, yeah, you know what? You know what

They told me like this

[Refrain x 2]

Mr. VEE

by A.C. VEE Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005 at 5:54 AM
flyingvee1@yahoo.com

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 .

p. s. Is it midnight yet....?


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