The irony of Tookie's celebrity status
--posted by Tony Garcia on 12/10/2005
The truly ironic thing here is that the anti-death penalty crowd (the global movement on Tookie's behalf) have hurt their cause. First, in America their cause is hurt because they are joined by the "Never Heard Of A Cold-Blooded Killer We Did Not Love" crowd that permeates Hollywood and the Left.
They also have hurt their cause by making Tookie into a celebrity. If he is executed there will be a large boost to the deterent factor behind the death penalty that some pro-death penalty people claim as part of the need for capital punishment. If he is spared execution the message will be loud and clear...murderers can get leniency and crime can go up.
Simplistic? To a degree it is. But the effects are both logical and possible. Can you prove otherwise? No. The reality is the making of Tookie into a celebrity has hurt the anti-death penalty cause. Tookie is one of the people that makes us undecided people think, "Hmm, maybe the death penalty is not so bad in some cases." Having the details of his case brought out of obscurity brings people to realize what monsters there actually are in this society...and we ponder the benefit to ridding the society of these devils.
Everyone single one of these big production protests the anti-death penalty creates is one more nail in their movement's coffin because they always rally around the very people the majority of society would support executing.
The longer this Tookie ordeal goes on the more decided I become on the death penalty. Fry the son-of-a-bitch.
The more the Left stand up and claim Tookie is a model prisoner or model citizen the less I pay attention to ANYTHING the oozes from their mouths. (BTW, Jamie Foxx, even though I REALLY loved the movie Ray I will not be spending my money on it because of your rallying behind this murderous demon.)
The bigger the whole ordeal gets the less sympathetic I am to Tookie's (hopefully) pending demise...and the more celebretory I will become if it arrives.
Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie. Execute Tookie.
And the Governor that is considering the clemency is Republican. Somehow that must be relevant.
********** UPDATE **********
MN Liberal called me to task for not mentioning the party of the Governor that was considering Tookie's leniency petition. MN Liberal failed to lay out the relevance (or the irony) of the party but I have inserted that into this posting. It didn't make sense but I did it.
3 Comments:
Does it matter what party the Governor is? No.
So what is your point, other than trying to engage in senseless partisanship?
You can take partisan swipes. I challenge you to find one Right Winger on the Leniency-for-murderer bandwagon. Leniency for murderers is a cause of the left...hence the Free Mumia crap, the long list of lefties wanting Tookie to not get his sentence (on assinine grounds such as "he writes children's books), the liberal groups that are lining up on the clemency line.
Personally, I think that the fact that the Tookie supporters are almost entirely Left leaning is relevant.
How does Schwarzenegger's party affiliation (a loose one at that) play into the equation?
You really are missing the point about Tookie. The deal is that CA decided they wanted the death penalty. Tookie was convicted under that law. Tookie should have been fried.
From Captain's Quarter's:"So why am I not up in arms about Tookie? As I wrote earlier, the people of California decided that they do want the death penalty. It has withstood challenges from political opponents because it has a bipartisan appeal to Californians, with some estimates as high as 70%. One day, perhaps, they will change their mind and commute the sentences of people like Williams to LWOP. Until then, the people deserve to get the justice they've chosen."
The Left and Tookie was NOT about the death penalty. It was about leniency from his sentence.
From psychmeister: "Now I feel no singular sense of sorrow or shame when a convicted murderer gets the death penalty; I just don't think that it's our role to play God in this case.
Again, same thing. He was not saying Tookie should get clemency. He accepts the penalty and wants to change the law.
Same thing with Mitch's post.
Find a right-wingers who wanted Tookie saved.
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