Posthumously yours, Stanley Williams*

Ventura County Star ^ | 12/20/05 | David Howard

[Rabid Dog]

Posthumously yours, Stanley Williams* By David Howard December 20, 2005

NOTE: David Howard, of Ojai, is a peace activist and writer who held a candle for Williams at the Ventura County Government Center on the night of the execution.

Dear Arnold Schwarzenegger, I've been dead for a few days now. You've probably already forgotten about me and moved on to more important matters like condemning gay marriage, helping the Minutemen keep Mexicans out of California, and preparing another diatribe to deny clemency to Clarence Allen, the 75-year-old blind Choctaw Indian you'll execute Jan. 17.

Still, I beseech you -- once again -- to take a moment from your busy schedule. I have something important to tell you: I forgive you for murdering me. Here's why:

First, I forgive you because I realize it's not personal. You're just a ventriloquist's puppet for special interests that couldn't care less about individual lives like mine or those of the at-risk youth I would have continued to help had I lived.

You, Arnold, are beholden to the military-industrial-prison gang that has turned the United States into the per-capita incarceration capital of the world, a country only outdone in executions by Iran, China and Vietnam.

Second, I forgive you because I understand that shallow, unprincipled politicians can't really be blamed for lashing out as you did.

Jesus said, "Forgive them; they know not what they do." You know not what you do. You don't get what's wrong with state-sanctioned ritual murder. You don't get why rehabilitation and redemption are better than blood vengeance. And you don't get why so many people thought my trial was hopelessly tainted by racism.

Third, I forgive you because it's not for me to judge. Ultimately, Arnold, you don't answer to Stanley Williams. You answer to history. My legacy is a series of beautiful children's books and a peace treaty between violent street gangs. What's yours?

Fourth, I forgive you because I, too, must take responsibility for your empowerment. There's some wisdom in the proverb, "People get the government they deserve." Our apathy, despair, lack of organization and appetite for simple-minded diversion helped elect you and your brutalizing political agenda.

Fifth, I forgive you because I refuse to seek revenge on my fellow human beings. After my redemption, I lived for reconciliation, healing and justice. I took a vow never to hurt anyone.

Sixth, I forgive you because I never give up hope. I hope and pray you may still learn to do the right thing. Trust me, there are always opportunities for redemption, even for you. It's never too late to renounce violence and injustice.

Finally, I forgive you because I have compassion for you. I know that deep down inside you, there is a goodness that suffers because you killed me. I no longer have time to figure out how you became the wounded narcissist that you are, but I know it's not the real you. You're better than that, Arnold. May God have mercy on your soul.

* Stanley Tookie Williams was channeled by David Howard, of Ojai, a peace activist and writer who held a candle for Williams at the Ventura County Government Center on the night of the execution.

[confederate_infidel]

Fifth, I forgive you because I refuse to seek revenge on my fellow human beings.

Yes, revenge is wrong. And unmotivated murder is okay, right?

[Viking2002]

Hey, Tookie:

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,

The worms play pinochle on your snout.....

The next time I'm out in Cali (that is, if I'm ever am forced at gunpoint to go there), someone remind me to shotgun a six-pack of Pabst and go water the flowers on his grave.......

[Brilliant]

Dang! First he writes children's books, and now this.


I'm betting he played just as much role in writing the children's books, as he did this.

[mylife]

Oh Wow. This David Howard guy is a nutcase

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the post. Each time I think this has about reached it's zenith in offensive capacity, I'm startled to find how wrong I was.

This guy is going to be with us for a long long time.

[seastay]

If they like tookie so much why dont they give Arnold credit ? Since, now according to google; tookie is more popular than Rosa Parks by a 3:1 margin:

3,330,000 for "rosa parks"
9,980,000 for "tookie"

[proud_yank]

Come on man, maybe if you had sent this whole article through the Ebonics Translator, then I might for a second think it was the Great Tookie Monster speaking.

For instance,

Before Translation: Tookie was a fine, well intentioned, innocent, young man.

After Translation: Tookie wuz uh fine, well intentioned, innocent, young bruh. peep this $hit

Much more believable.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

That is so rich!

[mylife]

Tookie elevated to the level of Jesus on the eve of Christmas.

[confederate_infidel]

That's just nasty dawg. (See? I'm practcing my slang...son!)

[jess35]

Third, I forgive you

Forgiveness from a mass murderer is not required or desired.

[HighlyOpinionated]

1. Athens Park Boys 2. Bishop 3. Black Stone 4. Bloods 5. Bounty Hunters 6. Brims 7. Compton crip 8. Crips "Cousin" 9. Crip 10. East 11. F*ck You 12. Harlem Crip 13. Hoover Crip 14. Kitchen Crip 15. Mafia Crip 16. Mafia Crips 17. Number Zero 18. Number One 19. Bloods ( Piru Street Bloods) 20. Power 21. Primo 22. Underground Crip 23. Victory

Guess Tookie won't be needing these gang signs any longer.

[proud_yank]

Before: Finally, I forgive you because I have compassion for you. I know that deep down inside you, there is a goodness that suffers because you killed me. I no longer have time to figure out how you became the wounded narcissist that you are, but I know it's not the real you. You're better than that, Arnold. May God have mercy on your soul.

After: Finally, I forgive ya cuz I gots compassion fo' ya. I know dat deep down inside ya, dere iz uh goodness dat suffers cuz ya ganked me. I nahh longer gots tyme ta figure out how ya became da wounded narcissist dat ya iz, but I know it'snot da real ya. You're bettah than dat, Arnold. May God gots mercy on yo' soul. slap mah fro!

[Nothometoday]

It's kind of over, Folks. Gloating about his demise and making jokes about it is up there with him laughing about the people he killed.
Is it OK because WE do it?
I thought we were better than that here.
It is just not so funny, anymore.

[proud_yank]

Ok, I just got back from channeling Tookie again. He couldn't talk much, he was playing bridge with Jesus, Ghandi, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yassir Arafat. He claims he was misquoted...told me to tell Arnold not to show his face in the afterlife.

ROFLMAO! Did John Edward of 'Crossing Over' help you achieve this feat?

[JCEccles]

First, I forgive you because I realize it's not personal. You're just a ventriloquist's puppet for special interests that couldn't care less about individual lives

Way beyond irony, even beyond farce.

[hercuroc]

This is appropriate-from Black Sabbath


Hand of Doom
What you gonna do
Time's caught up with you
Now you wait your turn
You know there's no return

Change your empty rules
You join the other fools
Turn to something new
Now it's killing you

First it was the bomb, Vietnam napalm
Disillusioning, you push the needle in
From life you escape, reality's black drape
Colours in your mind satisfy your time

Oh you, you know you must be blind
To do something like this
To take the sweet that you don't know
You're giving Death a kiss
Poor little fool now

Your mind is full of pleasure
Your body's looking ill
To you it's shallow leisure
So drop the acid pill
Don't stop to think now

You're having a good time baby
But that won't last
Your mind's all full of things
You're living too fast
Go out, enjoy yourself
Don't bottle it in
You need someone to help you
Stick the needle in, yeah

Now you know the scene
Your skin starts turning green
Your eyes no longer seeing life's reality
Push the needle in
Face death's sickly grin
Holes are in your skin
Caused by deadly pin

Head starts spinning 'round
You fall down to the ground
Feel your body heave
Death hand starts to weave

It's too late to turn
You don't want to learn
Price of life is high
Now you're gonna die

[OldSmaj]

You've probably already forgotten about me...

Not from lack of trying, but this Tookie dookie just keeps coming up.

To hell with you, Tookie.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

The Governator replies,

"Tookie, you dead murdering racist SOB, you are DEAD!, KAPUT!, deceased, canceled, voided, lawfully executed, worm food, room temperature, cremated, and... you are in HELL, (no redemption without remorse, without changing, plus HE read those crappy books, so...)"Tookie" you are in HELL!, and, ""Tookie, you will NEVER murder anyone again."