December 12, 2005
TOOKIEMETER®
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UPDATE: The Governator comes thru!
GUESS SHE CAN CALM DOWN NOW: "I'm more worried that white people are going to start a riot when he's given clemency." Robin Toma, executive director, Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission
"Tookie Williams is a tragic example of a wasted life brought by irreversibly poor choices. His life should be remembered as a waste & not extolled in martyrdom & legend." Mychal Massie, Project 21 black leadership project
WTF Alert: "To execute one of the nation's most effective spokesmen against gang violence is to effectively condemn hundreds more poor, black youth to the same fate." Ajamu Baraka, executive director of something called U.S. Human Rights Network (ED: but not if they don't cap anyone)
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP: Campaign to End the Death Penalty will protest Tookie's 'legal lynching' outside the Justice Department in D.C. tonight. Note to CEDP: since capital crimes are referred to in the 5th Amendment, if you want to end the death penalty, you'll have to amend the Constitution.
IF THIS DOESN'T RISE TO THE LEVEL OF SELF-PARODY, WHAT DOES? "Troy Goodwin brought his 2 children, 12-year-old Trayva & 11-year-old Tevin [?], to the prison gates on what he said was a reality-check field trip. 'I want them to see the pros & cons behind this issue up close & personal,' Goodwin said. 'The message is that no matter how good you become, they still crush you.' Protester Carolyn King was crying: 'If he doesn't rise to the level of clemency, then what does?'"
Posted by Jeff at December 12, 2005 12:16 AM
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Comments
I'm pleased as punch to say I was wrong, wrong, wrong!
Posted by: Preston Taylor Holmes at December 12, 2005 01:13 PM
Too bad we don't have the chair in CA. Then we can say, "The Took, the Took, the Took is on fire!"
Posted by: TF6S at December 12, 2005 01:14 PM
I didn't think Arnold had it in him either! Took Took Tookie goodbye!
Posted by: beautifulatrocities ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 12, 2005 01:15 PM
I'm sending Arnold a message of support (www.govmail.ca.gov). I think he'll need it. The Left will turn this murderous thug into another of their martyrs and make Schwarzenegger into the Nazi Lord of Hell.
Posted by: EssEm at December 12, 2005 01:35 PM
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Posted by: Russell Wardlow at December 12, 2005 02:02 PM
Dang.
Posted by: sadie at December 12, 2005 02:06 PM
Oh wait. You really meant "Governator Comes Thru" in a good way.
Excellent.
Posted by: sadie at December 12, 2005 02:07 PM
Sadie, just calm down & take your medicine. Go read Barbra Streisand's site till you feel centered
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at December 12, 2005 02:08 PM
I'm not the sort of person who would ever stand outside the prison and cheer that someone was being executed. I think it's a horrible, but necessary thing. That being said, I've come up with a little song.
Took, Took, Tookie, goodbye!
Took, Took, Tookie, don't cry.
Posted by: Patrick at December 12, 2005 02:15 PM
good bye tookie - rot in hell.
Posted by: mojoey at December 12, 2005 02:52 PM
Predictions:
* Tomorrow's SF Chronicle headline: "TERMINATED" * An op-ed bemoaning the loss of a redeemed inmate.
* A counterpoint op-ed praising the delivery of justice after the exhaustion of the appeals process.
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 12, 2005 03:12 PM
And from Malkin's site, the actual reach of his books:
"The portrayal of Williams as some pied piper of peace for the gang community also holds very little water. A quick review of Book Scan shows the Tookie series of books have hardly been blockbusters. His top seller, "Gangs and Violence" has sold 330 books. Another book "Gangs and Wanting to Belong" sold exactly two copies."
Posted by: Patricia at December 12, 2005 03:22 PM
Pathetic! I could do better than that, & I wasn't even nominated for the Nobel Prize!!!
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at December 12, 2005 03:37 PM
I oppose the death penalty.
Tookie is making me reconsider that position
Posted by: Don Surber at December 12, 2005 04:11 PM
YOU SEE!! HE'S DOING SOMETHING USEFUL!!
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at December 12, 2005 04:13 PM
Tookie long enough.
Posted by: Martin at Blogbat at December 12, 2005 05:17 PM
huuum..lets see 1 minute after midnight.
Have A Happy Tuesday Tookie!
Posted by: Rubin at December 12, 2005 05:35 PM
This is a smart move by the Governor, with the large Mormon youth population in LA, well let's just say it was a tinderbox.
Posted by: Pile On® at December 12, 2005 05:38 PM
Well, Jeff, if your sales stall, just start popping the late shift 7/11 folks! Oh, and then feel bad about it.
Posted by: Patricia at December 12, 2005 06:24 PM
I saw Greta Von Horseface choke up when they delivered the news that even SCOTUS didn't want to save this pile of human fecal matter.
They cut away quickly so that her makeup artist could wipe away her tears and apply visine.
Posted by: Preston Taylor Holmes at December 12, 2005 07:18 PM
To the liberals who oppose the death penalty: Tookie's execution is just an abortion, conservative style.
Posted by: Gary at December 12, 2005 07:31 PM
Hmm, haven't heard of Sean Penn hanging 'round outside the joint. Even though it's only down the road from his own house. And even though he could teach the dead man walking a thing or two about how to at least ACT remorseful. Hmm, no Susan Sarandon either.
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 12, 2005 07:35 PM
Oscar Prediction: Hollywood heavies throw together a Tookie documentary that will be in the running for an award next year. It'll be a Tookiementary.
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 12, 2005 08:21 PM
Gary, I like the way you think. Call it post-natal abortion; it's never too late for his mama to choose.
Posted by: Martin at Blogbat at December 12, 2005 08:41 PM
Isn't this where Julia Roberts drives a bulldozer through the prison walls?
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at December 12, 2005 08:51 PM
Let these be your last thoughts, Stanly Williams:
"ALBERT OWENS, TSAI-SHAI YANG, YEN-I YANG, YE-CHEN LIN."
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 12, 2005 10:29 PM
Did anyone catch CNN this evening during Andy Coop's cute little 360 thing? The title of the segment was, "Chamber of Death." To be read, "Chaaaaimbah ov DEATH!"
Posted by: Patrick at December 12, 2005 10:32 PM
Your clock sucks
Posted by: Dan at December 12, 2005 10:46 PM
TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC
Posted by: BUUWWAAHAHAHA at December 12, 2005 11:04 PM
"To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
--C. S. Lewis
What rhymes with mippocrits?
Posted by: t-wob at December 13, 2005 06:13 AM
Oh, and grain of salt and all that.
Posted by: Patrick at December 13, 2005 06:31 AM
He created a legacy of pain. He made bad choices, wrong choices. Someone has to pay for them. I say, "took too @#$%^&* long".
Posted by: Heresy at December 13, 2005 07:22 AM
I'd love to have the state be Christian and forgive the late Took-E, T-Bob, but sorry, no can do. Separation of church and state, you know.
(While I'm at it, isn't it odd that the same people who ban Christmas have "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" stickers on their bumpers? So we're not supposed to mention His Name in school, but we are supposed to run our foreign policy by his words? What am I missing?)
Posted by: EssEm at December 13, 2005 07:33 AM
Forgiveness doesn't mean you waive the punishment.
BTW, my Tookiemeter doesn't seem to be working anymore, but I guess it doesn't matter. NEXT!
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at December 13, 2005 07:57 AM
Essem,
I think what your missing is irony. "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" points out the hipocracy of following Christianity in some ways, but not others. WOuld Christ be happy with the war? It's a valid theological question, but most people dodge it.
Atrocities,
Not only that, forgiveness must mean reveling in the punishment. Glad the definition is clear for me now.
Posted by: t-wob at December 13, 2005 08:12 AM
Just because we had a Tookie party with popcorn, suds, & party favors? FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE! HASTA LA BYEBYE BABY!!
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at December 13, 2005 08:15 AM
http://www.twofingertacotango.com/pictos/tookiebook.jpg
God giveth and God Tookie away. *snicker*
Posted by: Bill at December 13, 2005 10:03 AM
Justice for all?
Samuel Sheinbein:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9910/24/sheinbein.01/index.html
Posted by: This/That at December 13, 2005 10:06 AM
That's the way the Tookie crumbled. BTW., for those uninterested in the lives of his victims, here's what tookie did (warning, vivid photographs):http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/tookiewilliamsvictims.html
Lucky Tookie, it went so peacefully.
Posted by: Martin at Blogbat at December 13, 2005 06:42 PM