{"article":{"id":140808,"heading":"Take Action to Save Tookie Williams NOW","author":"Jonah Zern","created":"2005-12-08 18:11:46","modified":"2005-12-14 00:52:28","last_modified":"Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:52:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Now is The Key Time to Act to Save Tookie Williams: <br>  <br>  www.savetookie.org <br>  <br>   <br>  <br>  1. Make your call TODAY (Schwarzenegger - 916.445.2841)  <br>  <br>    <br>  <br>  2. Rally for Clemency on Thursday, 10AM at the Capitol <br>  <br>  Building in Sacramento (other events at <br>  <br>  www.savetookie.org) <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> 3. Send a Letter to the Editor under 250 words, <br>  <br>  include your <br>  <br>  address and phone # to <a href=\"mailto:triblet@angnewspapers.com\">triblet@angnewspapers.com<\/a>, <br>  <br>  <a href=\"mailto:letters@sfchronicle.com\">letters@sfchronicle.com<\/a> and other papers  <br>  <br>  (samples at www.savetookie.org) <br>  <br>   <br>  <br>  ******************** <br>  <br>  Please make your call TODAY to save the life  <br>  <br>  of Stanly \"Tookie\" Williams.  Governor  <br>  <br>  Schwarzenegger will likely decide tomorrow  <br>  <br> or not to grant Tookie clemency.  Now is the  <br>  <br>  key time for action. <br>  <br>   <br>  <br>  1. Call AND e-mail Governor Schwarzenegger at <br>  <br>  916.445.2841 and <a href=\"mailto:governor@governor.ca.gov\">governor@governor.ca.gov<\/a> - Be <br>  <br> patient! It may be busy.  A petition and sample <br>  <br> letter at www.savetookie.com <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> *************** <br>  <br> RALLY TOMORROW (THURSDAY) AT THE CAPITOL BUILDING <br><br> On December 8th, Governor Schwarzenegger will hold a <br>  <br> clemency hearing for Stanley \"Tookie\" Williams with <br>  <br>  defense lawyers, Los Angeles County prosecutors and <br>  <br> other involved parties. The governor has set a <br>  <br> 30-minute time limit for each side to argue its <br>  <br>  position on clemency. Schwarzenegger has the authority <br>  <br>  to commute a death sentence to life without parole. <br>  <br>  The People's Clemency Hearing for Stanley Tookie <br>  <br>  Williams will take place on the steps of the State <br>  <br>  Capitol Building in Sacramento at 10:00am on December <br>  <br>  8th.  <br><br> The whole world will be watching! Let's be there in <br>  <br> force.  If you want to carpool with Jonah Zern give him a call <br>  <br> 510.225.8491 <br>  <br>   <br>  <br>  **************** <br>  <br> Sample Letter to the Editor... <br><br> Stanly \"Tookie\" Williams is scheduled to be executed <br>  <br>  by the State of California on December 13.   <br><br>  Tookie was one of the founders of the Crips gang in <br>  <br>  Los Angeles; he grew up in poverty, without <br>  <br> opportunity, and took his leadership skills in a <br>  <br>  negative direction.  A direction that, as a teacher, I <br>  <br> can see many of the youth that I meet going with their <br>  <br>  brilliance and creativity because our state and <br>  <br> country does not give them the support that they need <br>  <br> to come out of the violence and poverty that surrounds <br>  <br> them.   <br>  <br>   <br>  <br>  Since his activities with the Crips, Tookie has turned <br>  <br>  into a \"Peacemaker\".  He has been nominated five times <br>  <br>  for the Nobel Peace Prize and was given the 2005 <br>  <br> Presidential Call to Service Award for the powerful <br>  <br>  work he has done in writing and creating a film for <br>  <br>  inner-city youth about moving away from gang life and <br>  <br>  violence.  His work has lead to the transformation of <br>  <br>  the lives of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands <br>  <br>  of youth.  <br>  <br>   <br>  <br>  His death would be a travesty to  youth throughout <br>  <br> California growing up in poverty and violence as it <br>  <br> would show them that there is no hope in turning their <br>  <br> lives around, in getting out of their current <br>  <br> situation.  It would kill someone who means <br>  <br> life and hope to many of them. <br><br> In life we all make mistakes and go down wrong paths. <br>  <br>  It is the strongest and most brave of us who are able <br>  <br> to recognize a wrong direction and make things right.  <br>  <br> Let us make a decision to allow a man to live, to <br>  <br> continue a life inspiring others to live in a way of <br>  <br> peace and light, to help us believe in something <br>  <br> better. <br><br> To get involved in the struggle to save Tookie's life <br>  <br> go to www.savetookie.org . <br><br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"www.savetookie.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":" Now is The Key Time to Act to Save Tookie Williams:\r\n www.savetookie.org\r\n \r\n 1. Make your call TODAY (Schwarzenegger - 916.445.2841) \r\n  \r\n 2. Rally for Clemency on Thursday, 10AM at the Capitol\r\n Building in Sacramento (other events at\r\n www.savetookie.org)\r\n \r\n3. Send a Letter to the Editor under 250 words,\r\n include your\r\n address and phone # to triblet@angnewspapers.com,\r\n letters@sfchronicle.com and other papers \r\n (samples at www.savetookie.org)","numcomment":14,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/12\/140808.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":140828,"heading":"Why?","article":"Stanley &quot;Tookie&quot; Williams, has a legacy of killing four innocent people, starting the Crips gang -- a gang responsible for more murders, and writing a children's book.\r\n\r\n Why do 'they' want him dead?\r\n\r\n Would he sell more books if he lived?\r\n\r\nWhat about the price, of his book, on Ebay, the day after he is dead?\r\n\r\n","author":"Border Raven","parent_id":140808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-12-08 21:40:41","modified":"2005-12-08 21:40:41","fileurl":""},{"id":140897,"heading":"See Tookie's Victims","article":"Check out this cool link and see what Tookie's shotgun blasts did to the innocent disarmed victimes whom he murdered.   \r\n\r\nWhat a cool guy!  What a great example and role model for the &quot;black&quot; community. \r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/bareknucklepolitics.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=178","author":"Obsserver","parent_id":140808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-12-09 12:34:49","modified":"2005-12-09 12:34:49","fileurl":""},{"id":140906,"heading":"more to the point","article":"How about a link to the forensic evidence like finger prints, paraffin tests or any other material evidence.\r\n\r\nHow about the court transcripts?\r\n\r\nHa.","author":"Corrector","parent_id":140808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-12-09 18:48:10","modified":"2005-12-09 18:48:10","fileurl":""},{"id":140952,"heading":"To the Pro Death Camp","article":"Some Anti Death Penalty quotes to be found on my website.  Submissions remain anonymous.  (The Pro Death Camp can make their appeal on their own websites.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cIt seems mentally ill to think laws that disrespect life should attempt to shape an orderly democratic society.  Who sides with this Al Qaeda type of punishment that we call capital?\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cWhere are the real honest Jesus Christians today?  Are they unable to come together, here?  Where are those [who will vote no on the death sentence], which their own savior opposed?  God, tell me there are more of them than the Eye Foreign Eye Gang.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cWe Are Anti Death Penalty - Pro Recycling of Salvageable Society.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cKeeping Stanley \u2018Tookie\u2019 Williams in prison for life is a lesser evil than the danger of the state repeating the murders of innocent people in the future.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cDon\u2019t worry yourself thinking that by keeping him alive, he (Tookie) might secretly be running crime from state prison, unless you believe in Charles Manson\u2019s prophecies.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cWho will adhere to the loving testimony of Jesus, and who will adhere to the savagery that tortured and murdered him?  What would Jesus do?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cThis death penalty question must be answered, and my true brothers and sisters will remain against it, even more, if I were assassinated for saying so.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cPersonally, I think that the death penalty is even more criminal when it is used in conjunction with the crime of scape-goating, which is done by the Pharisees of our day.  The act of murder should be considered one\u2019s ticket to being locked away for life to help a specific ministry of society, so that those who wish to minister can do so without killing.\u201d\r\n","author":"ricky","parent_id":140808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-12-10 03:02:53","modified":"2013-11-11 00:36:57","fileurl":""},{"id":141082,"heading":"Tookie and The Crips are responsible for the deaths of more blacks","article":"than the KKK>","author":"threedeadbuddahhead","parent_id":140808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-12-11 06:46:21","modified":"2005-12-11 06:46:21","fileurl":""},{"id":141083,"heading":"80% of Californians and 50% of blacks think Tookie gotta die","article":"Gov ain't gonna mess with numbers like that.","author":"shotgunblast","parent_id":140808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-12-11 06:52:16","modified":"2005-12-11 06:52:16","fileurl":""}]}