Stanley "Tookie" Williams

No matter what a man does it can not erase the past. Williams is a murderer and if you do the crime you do the time. If indeed Tookie has redeemed and wants to keep kids from joining gangs and taking the path he led then he should gladly be put to death as an example of what happens when you act like a cold blooded killer.  He shot a woman in the face less then a foot away the severity of the murders shows what Dear ole Stanley Tookie Williams is capable of, and that’s not even looking at the fact he co-founded the Crips one of the most deplorable gangs of the modern day.  

Now I have been to the website of Tookie Williams and there claim that Tookie has kept 150 thousand kids out of gangs is ridicules and un-founded. If indeed this is true lets see these e-mails. Look if I was trying to get clemency for someone I knew had made a huge change I would gladly show all the proof I had. They have been asked by numerous people on the opposing side to show proof of the 150 thousand numbers that they boast and they REFUSE to give proof.  A few testimonials on the web site with no way of checking if they are even real is not going to cut the mustard, not for me any way. Look if you are reading this then do something about Tookie clemency claim Call the Governor.

Sir,

I am a member of a National Guard unit who has received warning that there might be riots because of the upcoming execution of Tookie Williams. I am appalled at the amount of support for this man. Perhaps he didn’t kill those 4 people, however, the entity that he has created has killed hundreds more—for that simple fact alone he should die. Tookie is no different that Saddam Hussein, or Bin Laden—who my brothers and sisters in arms are also fighting to protect us from. Should the “average citizens” of America be allowed at S.H. or B.L.  they would rip him to shreds, not only because of his support  and/or leadership of the Al Quaida, but because of the sheer terror they have put our nation in—has Tookie Williams not done the same thing? It is because of this creation of the Crips, and inspiration to create other street gangs that I can’t wear a simple COLOR in certain areas of Los Angeles. 

This man deserves to die. I don’t care that he has “changed” or that he is trying to be a “role model”…lets make him an example. No matter what “good deeds” you do to try to fix what you did wrong, you will still have to answer to America’s Justice system.

If this man is granted clemency all we are telling today’s youth is that you can do whatever wrong  you want—a few children’s books, and some web sites will redeem you.

Anonymous.

Don't Be Deceived By Stanley "Tookie" Williams

Once in a while we would receive news that a convicted murderer repents what he did and becomes a reborn believer in God. Very often, the convicted murderer would use his apparent repentance and good behavior as grounds for clemency from the death penalty.

While I believe that  it is possible for a convicted murderer to truly repent his wrong-doings  and that the death sentence can be commuted with the consent of the victim's family, we must take a very critical look at every case of appeal for clemency on grounds of good behavior in jail because  the apparent good behavior can be a calculated act to achieve clemency rather than a transformation stemming from genuine repentance.

The high profile case of Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams attract a lot of attention lately not only because the date of his execution for murdering four people during two robberies is getting close, but also because he had been nominated by a member of the Swiss parliament for the Nobel peace prize citing his work in turning young people away from gangs.

People are usually more prone to believe the  repentance of a convicted murderer when the convicted murderer and the people he appeals to share common grounds. For example, the Christian church are more likely to support clemency of a convicted murderer who claims to have become a Christian while in jail. (Ever heard of the Christian church supporting clemency of a convicted murderer who had become a Muslim or Buddhist while in jail?) Therefore, we must analyze the thoughts of the convicted murderer appealing for clemency impartially to discern if the apparent transformation is genuine or just a means to an end.

In Williams' website  www.tookie.com he  posted  two letters to incarcerated youth. In the first letter he emphasize the importance of self-education for the incarcerated youth, which is good advice. However, in the second letter, he exposes his real nature by comparing the correlation between prisoner and guard to that of slave versus master. Everybody knows that the slaves in America were not criminals. They were innocent victims captured by some devious and bigoted white people of that time for their selfish gains in slavery. Nowadays prisoners are people who have committed crimes including rapes and murders, so it is a big insult to Williams' ancestors who were victims of grave injustice when he has the audacity to put himself, a convicted murderer of four people during robberies, on the same pedestal as the slaves, who were innocent victims. By putting forward the deceiving comparison, Williams exults  himself and the criminals at the expense of his ancestors. Therefore, the second letter shows that Stanley "tookie" Williams is not genuine in repentance. He simply tries to exonerate himself and criminals like him with deceit instead of showing real remorse of  guilt. His approach would seem to work on some prisoners, but the apparent change would not be an entirely benign one because it doesn't have the element of real repentance and has the element of hatred towards people who uphold the law.

I  understand that our justice system still has lots of problems. People have been incarcerated for rapes they did not commit until proven innocent by DNA. People have  been put to death for murders but the real killer turned out after the execution. Police brutality towards the underprivileged. Treating drug addicts as criminals instead of sick people who need rehabilitation. Abuse of the three-strike law by convicting offenders who commit minor crimes to life imprisonment while rapists and even murderers can walk the streets after a few years in prison and then commit more heinous crimes. Yes, our justice system need to be improved and even revolutionized but certainly not according to the absurd doctrine of Stanley "tookie" Williams.

It is naive if not ignorant for anybody to think that it would help to turn young people away from gangs if Williams is awarded a Nobel peace prize for his apparent anti-gang message. Years ago in another country, a teenager I knew boasted to me that he had shoplifted some snacks from a convenient store. When I tried to convince him not to do that again saying that he might get caught and end up in jail, he said that he saw a reality TV show about shoplifting in which the reformed teenage offenders were interviewed and also featured a drama about a teenage shoplifter. He said that it is so cool to be on TV and that he wanted to be like the teenage shoplifter in the TV drama who now became a star. Headline like "Convicted murderer and Crips co-founder nominated for Nobel peace prize" undoubtedly would have the same adverse effect in the minds of some innocent teenagers.

So some people think that the billboard featuring Fifty Cents with a horn in one hand and a gun on the other with the message "Get Rich or Die Trying" delivers the wrong message to people and needs to be removed. I agree.  What if someone put up a billboard featuring Stanley "tookie" Williams  standing with four murder victims lying on the ground behind him? The victims have blood gushing out from gun shot wounds in their heads and Williams has thrown  the gun on the ground and holding  the award high  like a champion. It goes with the message "Hi, kids. My name is Tookie.  I am a surviving Crips co-founder, convicted murderer and now a Nobel peace prizewinner. Stay away from gangs. Peace ." Such obscenity should never be allowed either on billboard or in real life. Don't tell me that Stanley "tookie" Williams is innocent of murder. Besides the four brutal murders that he has been convicted, the blood of every innocent victim murdered in robberies by the gang that he co-founded is also in his hands.

The so-called apology Williams posts on his website further exposes his hypocrisy.  He did not apologize to any of the innocent people victimized or murdered by him and his gang members. And he only expressed cares to end child-on-child brutality and black-on-black brutality. So adult-on-adult  and adult-on-child brutality doesn't seem to bother him enough to be mentioned. A real man of peace would just say that he wants to struggle to end brutality in the streets. Why does he want to struggle to end black -on -black violence only? Only a racist like him would ignore the devastation his gang on people who are not black. A majority of the murder victim in hold ups in convenient stores and other businesses were people of other races like Hispanics, Chinese, Koreans, etc., who worked hard to support their families only to be murdered by the gang that he has created. By mentioning  that he wants to struggle to end black-on-black brutality only instead of to end brutality against people of all races, his  so-called apology tells us that his repentance is not genuine. Therefore his so-called apology is meaningless.

What ultimately exposes his un-repentance is that at the end of his so-called apology he wrote Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Surviving Crips Co-Founder.  A man who is truly sorry that he had co-founded a violent gang would only mention it early in the text and would not be brazen enough to use it as his title at the end of the text. It shows that deep in his heart he still hangs onto and feel proud of his gangster legacy. A truly repentant man would have titled himself as Reformed Crips Co-Founder or something that reflects his feeling of remorse.

It's still not too late for Stanley "Tookie" William to change his wrong ways of thinking and be a real man of peace. Remember, the Nobel peace prize does not  make a man of peace, but true love for people of all races does.