Posted on 12/16/2005 10:11:35 AM PST by Impeach98
How a lesbian, liberal
Democrat turned Tookie's
lights out
Posted: December 16, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
It was a little after midnight as scores of pro-gang activists gathered in a vigil to honor their hero "Tookie" Williams. I was at this media group-grope at San Quentin prison. As reporters interviewed reporters, I stood watching and waiting for the inevitable nuttiness I knew was going to follow.
Aware of the growing passion amongst those in the pro-Crips contingent, I decided to leave before any unruly mobs could materialize with their threats to run down anyone who didn't believe in "Tookie's" innocence.
Williams (whose real first name is Stanley; "Tookie" is his Crips' gang name that he refused to renounce) was finally put to death early on Tuesday for the murders of four innocent people.
Thank God. And thank Susan Kennedy.
Ironically, justice was served because of the hiring of a liberal, lesbian, abortion-rights activist named Susan Kennedy, a top aide to recalled-Gov. Gray "Electricity Crisis" Davis.
Before watching the lights go out under Davis, Kennedy had served as the executive director of the California Democrat Party.
And with that background and track record of political involvement, you can understand why the world of Republican politicos was rocked a couple of weeks ago when Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he had chosen Susan Kennedy to serve as his top adviser – his chief of staff.
Schwarzenegger's selection of Kennedy set off a firestorm in the GOP, and with good reason. Consider the reaction of Democrats had John Kerry or Al Gore named Karl Rove as their chief of staff.
Gov. Schwarzenegger already had problems with his conservative base after several missteps during his first term. But the Susan Kennedy appointment was the one that had solidified the backlash against Schwarzenegger by fellow Republicans.
And now Schwarzenegger was in a bind. If he granted "Tookie" clemency, he would have surely turned growing Republican skepticism into a full-blown GOP revolt against him.
Schwarzenegger had gotten himself into this mess when he agreed to grant Williams a hearing to consider sparing him from the death penalty. It was another one of those "I want to reach out to the liberal people of California" gestures that reminded conservatives why they didn't much like Schwarzenegger in the first place.
Angered victims'-rights groups questioned how Schwarzenegger could possibly consider granting clemency to a man who had founded the Crips gang and murdered four human beings. "Tookie's" Crips have robbed, raped and murdered thousands upon thousands of innocent victims, destroying whole families and neighborhoods.
When he was convicted of murder, jurors on the Williams' trial said "Tookie" had looked over toward them, called them "sons of bitches" and threatened that he would exact revenge and, "was going to get all of them."
No wonder the criminal-coddling liberals love him so much!
The "SaveTookie.org" website has proclaimed "Tookie" to be, "a great fighter against racism, injustice, and the death penalty."
They celebrate his stand against the death penalty? Apparently, "Tookie" only supports death by gang-murder, but opposes capital punishment. "Good for him" cheer the soft-on-crime liberal apologists!
Liberals have turned the concepts of "right" and "wrong" on their head. They now are amazingly redefining prison as a resume-booster, like a college degree or a record of involvement with charitable organizations.
Patt Morrsion, who writes liberal witticisms for the Los Angeles Times and delivers liberal invective over the airwaves for National Public Radio, wrote this week that: "Not everyone who goes to prison is Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi ... Being sent to prison does not automatically give anyone a leg up the hero ladder."
Apparently Ms. Morrisson thinks that lots of the time going to prison does make one a hero.
Maybe Ms. Morrisson is unaware of the fact that another Mandela has been involved with the effort to re-write history to demean victims and their families. Winnie Mandela, Nelson's ex-wife, spent time at San Quentin strategizing with "Tookie" Williams on how to avoid the death penalty.
What a great match, since Winnie Mandela was herself accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy.
The same liberals who are now making "Tookie" Williams into a martyr, demanding a state funeral for a cold-blooded killer, also spawned Susan Kennedy, that far-left, liberal activist who now serves as Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's right-hand woman.
So, did Susan Kennedy kill "Tookie"?
In the Byzantine twists of California politics, the governor denied clemency to Stanley "Tookie" Williams because Schwarzenegger knew he could not survive the hemorrhaging of any more Republican support.
And for that you can thank Susan Kennedy, the woman who was on the watch when the lights went out in California during the energy crisis under Gray Davis.
This time you could say she turned the lights out on "Tookie."
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Melanie Morgan is chairman of the conservative, pro-troop non-profit organization Move America Forward and is co-host of the "Lee Rodgers & Melanie Morgan Show" on KSFO 560 AM in San Francisco.
We will never know what prompted Arnold's decision. Would Gray Davis have granted clemency? Doubtful, IMO.
I agree with you about Gray Davis. Of all the issues, being tough on crime was his best. Plus he's not a very compassionate type. At least Arnold's personality is such that he is more of a touchy-feely-backslapping kind of guy.
That could explain why there wasn't a riot. Will any of them show up to pour St. Ides over their homie's grave?
Why do some people react as if Ah-nuld was the only one who decided Tookie's fate? Tookie's case has been scrutinized by all levels of judicial system, including the not-so-conservative 9th Court, and all of them declined to grant a stay, let alone a new trial.
You appear to be correct. He apparently claimed that in his book, and his father apparently was also 'Stanley T. Williams'. He appears to be a third generation Tookie.
Considering the Gropinator married a Kennedy, is this Susan a member of the degenerate Kennedy clan? She sure sounds like it.
Was Susan Kennedy one of Arhnold's in laws?
"Tookie" to be, "a great fighter against racism, injustice, and the death penalty."
Against the death penalty, and in favor of murdering innocent people.
Amazing how things, sometimes, just 'work out', isn't it?
From what I understand, even the inmates were terrified of him. He was an evil [CENSORED].
He made it political by granting him a hearing and considering the request at all. There was no requirement (or even precedent) for a governor to do so. The basis for his decision, as written in his five page statement, contained no information that was not available before the hearing or a matter of public record. In fact, if Arnold had done exactly ZERO in this hollywood-scripted-political-show, Tookie would have been executed, as scheduled.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539571/posts
"What troubles us is the long, drawn-out public process that took place around the clemency hearing," said Mike Spence, president of the influential California Republican Assembly, which has threatened to revoke its endorsement of Schwarzenegger over his appointment of Kennedy. "I don't think you can do the thing you ought to have done to begin with and then expect to get lots of credit for it."
If one looked at the evidence, I can't imagine anyone but the anti-death penalty folks and the communistas supporting clemency.
Indeed.
I am not surprised, but of course still disappointed, to see so many people at FR who fall for the "Lucy pulled the football out from Charlie Brown" antics of people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and the RINOs who inhabit the GOP establishment in California.
They reward Arnold for "doing the right thing" - but the "right thing" was to never grant the clemency hearing.
But, that's OK. The next time Arnold screws the GOP/conservatives they'll have an excuse for that act of betrayal as well.
Well he had to raise taxes... or whatever else the transgression will be.
Good work, Mel.
I agree. It appears to be a repetitive theme. The same script was used for the Gay Marriage veto and the Drivers License legislation (twice!). Instead of applying some common(R) principle standard (e.g. the Republican platform) by which actions are measured, the operatives seem to want to use Cruz Bustamante as the standard--i.e. any action to the right of Cruz should be lauded. The bar has been placed so low that applause is given for virtually any logical action.
No relation.
Did you guys read the column? Morgan isn't saying that Kennedy had a hand in the decision to deny clemency. She's saying that Arnold was hurting with the GOP for selecting Kennedy, and one more disappointment might have been fatal to him. He did the right thing in regards to the Tookmeister in order to sort of make up for bringing Kennedy aboard, is her theory at least.
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