The Gvlshornbook

This could have been a pretty important remake. Angels with Dirty Faces. A 1930’s James Cagney film that was anti-gang in its way. It told of the rise of a bootlegger and his friend (Pat OBrien), who becomes a priest while Cagney becomes a thug. Bootlegger commits murder, gets sentenced and O’Brien asks him (Cagney) to feign cowardice on his way to the chair to disillusion the boys who idolize him. As he is led to his death, the bootlegger freaks out, begging for his life. You aren’t sure if he was scared or doing the right thing. but it works. the y boys abandon his memory.

The death of Crips founder Tookie Williams, for the murder of four people, because of their race has died in California’s San Quentin of lethal injection. Williams’ death is the best lesson about gangs he ever could have written about, as it showed children the ultimate consequence of the thug life. Except, his death will magnify his myth.

People argued he should not have died because he was:
a) framed - the witnesses were snitches and other unsavory types. (see link 1 in rebuttal)
b) redeemed
c) black
not necessarily in that order. The people he shot - and bragged about shooting to his friends and family, were just going about their business. He became an anti-gang activist while on Death Row, repudiating his early life, but never saying “forgive me” for the murders. He said he was innocent, He never accepted responsibility. Williams’ death is the greatest anti-gang lesson ever.

He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his books, but despite his redemption regarding his gang life and his work, he still failed to forgive those who arrested, tried convicted and ultimately put him to death. The only member of the family of one of the murdered, asked for clemency. Schwarzenegger did grant it .

My question - and before you think I am not in favor of the State taking a life, I am in favor of making sure that every effort to assure that the condemned is indeed the one. Williams’ crime was witnessed. He boasted of it. There are others on Death Row more deserving of anti-Death Penalty actions, but because these men do not write books, get movies made about them, they languish. Self serving actions like Williams’ only make it more difficult for the Truly Wrongly incarcerated to get Justice. The only mitigating reason, in my opinion for his having his sentenced commuted would have been the enlargement to the Myth of Stanley “Tookie” Williams. expect the “narcocorridos”(drug ballads) to be released soon celebrating his crimes and wait for them to become number one with a bullet.

If Williams was innocent, where was the Innocence Project in this? Nowhere. why? I don’t have the answer, but perhaps they looked at the DNA evidence, the transcripts and the evidence and concluded he was guilty. But going to them, wouldn’t have been as sexy… and a google search right at this moment, gives not information on the murders that sent him to the needle. not a word. the victims are nonexistent until page four, and then, the anti still outweighs the stories of the murders. Some of the pages devoted to the evidence:

Sources:
witness list
tNBC4 looking at the evidence
Is guilty and is lying….
These are crime scene photos

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Senator, and Presidential Candidate, who ran for the Dem Nomination to run against RM Nixon in 1968

He was an anti-VietNam candidate. We got Hubert Horation Humphrey… who gave us Richard I, who later would resign rather than be impeached over the break in at the Watergate Hotel.

Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech

Bush-administration officials privately threatened organizers of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, telling them that any chance there might’ve been for the United States to sign on to the Kyoto global-warming protocol would be scuttled if they allowed Bill Clinton to speak at the gathering today in Montreal, according to a source involved with the negotiations who spoke to New York Magazine on condition of anonymity.

IMPEACH BUSH

While waiting for the 11:00a.m. Ferry, I overheard a family talking about their missing 13 year old daughter. I spoke to the mother, and she told me the girl had left for her Manhattan school as she always had done but never arrived. She was last heard from on SIRTOA at around 6A:45 am, heading toward ST. George Ferry Terminal. We spoke at length about her disappearance and how to get the word out. I asked her to email me a picture and description of her daughter. When I get it, I will be posting her picture and vitals along with a number to the NYPD here on my LJ and my other Journals.

The St. George Ferry Terminal has cameras throughout, as do all the boats and the South Ferry Terminal. We are hoping that she boarded the Ferry, and that someone will remember seeing her.

She disappeared 4 days ago.

This has been cross-posted to several different weblogs of mine.

So, Bush thinks the Cosntitution is a “goddamned piece of paper”. Let the Troops know how he feels.

Send the Bastard Tyrant to Leavenworth for his High Crimes and Misdemeanors starting with his perjury upon taking the Oath of Office.

Capitol Hill Blue: Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AlterNet: Neil Bush Meets the Messiah

This “heavenly way,” the Rev. Sun Myung Moon explained, demands a 51-mile underwater highway spanning Alaska and Russia. Sitting in the front row: Neil Bush, the brother of the president of the United States Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean giant of the religious right who owns the Washington Times, is on a 100-city speaking tour to promote his $200 billion “Peace King Tunnel” dream. As he describes it, the tunnel would be both a monument to his magnificence, and a totem to his prophecy of a unified Planet Earth. In this vision, the United Nations would be reinvented as an instrument of God’s plan, and democracy and sexual freedom would crumble in the face of this faith-based glory…

Wow!!!! a Hiway linkiung Russia and Alaska…. seems like a great way to get an Army here…. or there….

I saw the “Coronation” of Moon video, (available via BitTorrent download) and was offended, appalled and downright livid at OUR Congress placing a Crown on this lunatic.

In 1989, U.S. News & World Report linked his group to the Heritage Foundation and other conservative organizations. “Because almost all conservative organizations in Washington have some ties to [Moon’s] church,” wrote reporter John Judis, “conservatives … fear repercussions if they expose the church’s role.”