Posted on 12/21/2005 3:30:08 AM PST by beaversmom
US celebrities and rights activists have lamented the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams at his funeral.
Hundreds of mourners came to the violence-wracked area of Los Angeles where Williams founded the murderous Crips gang three decades ago.
Under heavy police presence, a long line of people entered the 1,500-seat Bethel AME Church.
Vendors sold T-shirts with Williams' picture, and a large TV set up in the parking lot allowed the overflow crowd to watch the service.
Williams was executed on December 13 despite clemency pleas from celebrities and others who said he had rededicated his life to peace.
"It's nine-fifteen on twelve-thirteen and another black king will be taken from the scene," hip-hop star Snoop Dogg told mourners, reciting a poem about the execution.
The line "I don't believe Stan did it" drew wild applause in the parking lot.
Williams, 51, was put to death by injection at San Quentin Prison for the 1979 shotgun murders of a convenience store clerk and three motel owners.
"The war within me is over. I battled my demons and I was triumphant," Williams said in a recording played to mourners, whom he asked to spread a message to loved ones.
"Teach them how to avoid our destructive footsteps. Teach them to strive for higher education.
"Teach them to promote peace and teach them to focus on rebuilding the neighbourhoods that you, others and I helped to destroy."
The veteran civil rights campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson decried the execution of Williams, who Jackson said saw himself in the end as a "healer, not a predator".
"Tookie is dead. We're not safer, we're not more secure, we're not more humane," Jackson said.
They don't change from protest to protest.
Thanks for the link. The masturbation protestors seemed a little out of place but I guess it's all fair game at a stinky leftist shindig. What a freakin' mess! Michael Savage's line--"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder"--doesn't go far enough for these I don't know whats.
Nice!
Thanks for looking- you really have to witness this junk with your own eyes, to really, really believe how bad it is. It is beyond grotesque- these "protesters" are vengeful, hate-filled, exibitionistic children in adult bodies-- sort of like "Lord of the Flies" meets "The Road Warrior..."
If you have the stomach for it, there is plenty more here:
(The main zombie page, containing all these images and hundreds more, can be found at http://www.zombietime.com.)
There is a dreary, oppressive sameness to all these lovefests, isn't there?
I sometimes wonder if there is a backlot somewhere in Hollywood for "dissaffected types" who mill about, waiting for the next bus to the next protest.
I guess I have seen some of his work before. I remember the "parade" pictures in Berkeley where the poor little boy is looking at the ugly old exhibitionists marching down the street. That poor little boy. His parents need to be charged with child abuse.
I didn't see one person in that collection that the world would miss if something"tragic"happened to them.The scrotum inflators looked particularly hapless.
Savage has a good point- I'm old enough to remember when "those on the Left" were people like Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, or Pat Moynihan-- you could disagree about some points of policy, but they weren't enemies of America, or her citizens. The characters populating this, and other, protests are no friends of the West, or things most of us hold dear.
Jesse Jackson is nothing but an extortionist gangsta in a suit.
Excellent Advice!
I've got a co-worker who was spouting the line about puting an innocent man to death. I soooooo wanted to refute her idiocy, but I didn't because I didn't want to cause a scene. (when she gets embarassed, she becomes loud and obnoxious.)
But I was able to convince the co-worker she was spouting off to to the real reasons why he's no longer breathing air. He actually believed me......
My late, first brother-in-law was like that-- always going to college in NYC, Paris, London, Seattle- and never graduating. He wanted to be the next F. Scott Fitzgerald, and surprisingly, he was a witty, talented writer-- but he only wrote stuff slamming his family, so naturally no larger audience was interested in his work.
So much world experience with a inner hatred that limited his success.
Its a "read later, must go to work now" bump. Thanks for the info Backhoe.
Nice work by Zombie.
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