Families of Williams' victims urge governor not to forget them [Tookie]

The store clerk, the motel owner and his family, these people do not matter. They are little people. If they had not been lucky enough to be killed by Tooke Williams, nobody would have ever heard of them. They would have lived and died in obscurity without feeling even the reflected warmth of International Celebrity.

Tookie Williams, however, is a major figure. A Celebrity in his own right with counter-cultural cachet to spare. He is an intellectual in that he not only reads books, he has written one as well. He is ready to take his rightful place in The Pantheon of the Fabulous if only Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fellow Celebrity and also Governor of the State of California, would see fit to spare his life.

They WANTED to turn their lives around, but Tookie needed $$$$.

Tookie killed these people because killing was a way to establish his credibility within his criminal gang. Even by the standards of idiot criminals, these killings were completely unnecessary.

Good Lord, he is the founder of the Crips, one of the most murderous gangs in modern history.

May he burn in Hell.

Not to mention he set such a great example for his own son, who is now serving time in prison for killing someone.

I spent a little time browsing on tookie.com. This is what he regrets:

"I also didn't expect the Crips to end up ruining the lives of so many young people, especially young black men who have hurt other young black men. . . . So today I apologize to you all -- the children of America and South Africa -- who must cope every day with dangerous street gangs. I no longer participate in the so-called gangster lifestyle, and I deeply regret that I ever did.

As a contribution to the struggle to end child-on-child brutality and black-on-black brutality, I have written the Tookie Speaks Out Against Gang Violence children's book series."

There isn't a word of sympathy for his victims, or other innocent victims of gang crime. His sympathy is for the gang members. He regrets their -- and his own -- self-destruction -- that is all.

I think Tookie is still the same racist he was when he murdered whites and Asians in cold blood, laughed about their suffering, and stated that he wanted to kill all whites.

Put another way, his "redemption" is really just self-pity -- extended to those he views as being like himself.

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