Posted on 12/12/2005 9:40:52 PM PST by beaversmom
Edited on 12/12/2005 10:38:14 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The fight to spare death row inmate Stanley 'Tookie' Williams' life has reached from California all the way to Colorado.
Anti-death penalty protestors held a rally at the state capitol Monday afternoon in hopes that Williams' life would be spared.
The rally was organized after California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency to Williams, co-founder of the notorious Crips street gang.
Williams was given the death penalty after being convicted of murdering four people during two 1979 holdups.
The demonstration at the capitol was small, but the speakers spoke strongly about Schwarzenegger's decision.
"It's not ironic that the 'Terminator' would decide to take a man's life because the 'Terminator'..hey I guess we've already seen he has no life. He's a Hollywood character," said Earl Armstrong, a Denver community activist.
Protestors held a vigil and honored Williams as a man who turned his life around behind bars. Williams changed his point of view in prison and tried to convince people that gangs were not the way.
Governor Bill Owens said if he was in Schwarzenegger's position, he would examine the case very carefully.
"I'd look at the court record, I'd look at the appeals and I'd try and decide whether or not there was anything in the evidence or in the court process that led me to believe that justice had been done," Owens said.
At the rally, more than praise for Williams, there was condemnation for a system that would put him to death.
"Residing like God over life and death of a man....he's not fit to lick the boots off," Ward Churchill told the crowd of protestors. Churchill is the CU professor who was criticized for comments he made about the victims of September 11.
Williams' lawyers filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for clemency. If they do not grant clemency, Williams will be executed at 12:01 a.m. PST.
I don't even know why I'm posting this because frankly I find dog poop more entertaining than Ward. The left is really starting to bore me.
OK... I propose a swap, Tookie for Churchill.
If this jerk wants to trade place, go ahead... Otherwise, just STFU.
Everyone wins! Hooray mutually beneficial exchange!
Maybe we can get him to volunteer to take Tookie's place.
Oh, well THIS adds legitimacy to their movement.
How about double or nothing?
Is Ward Churchhill offering to take Tookie's place? I might be in favor of that if Churchhill made the offer.
Now taking a count of who cares other than the Leftist pukes.
And here's the final tally: 0
So, then why was it newsworthy?
Your post says it all----who cares what these fools say? The joke is that both you and I did it.
It's a far, far better thing you could do Ward...
Oh... so Tookie wasn't a "little Eichman"?
They'd bore me too if you and I didn't have to pay them (Churchill) to propagandize our kids.
""I'd look at the court record, I'd look at the appeals and I'd try and decide whether or not there was anything in the evidence or in the court process that led me to believe that justice had been done," Owens said."
Thats incredible for another governor to say!
(anything in the evidence or in the court process that led me to believe that justice had been done)
'"Residing like God over life and death of a man....he's not fit to lick the boots off," Ward Churchill told the crowd of protestors.'
Hey, Churchill, you stupid sh*t. First of all, the judge, the jury, and the court system, not Arnold, did the "presiding," not "residing," over the life and death of this jerk. And, second of all, I'm not sure how you "lick the boots off" someone else. Maybe you can show us.
Thats a twofer I could go-fer! :)
Big Chief Hair-Bun Need Tookie Needle Big Time, Heyah Massa?
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