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December 09, 2005
Tookie Riots
This prediction is both disturbing and quite probable:
Four Los Angeles City Council members called for calm Friday as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger considers whether to grant clemency to Crips co-founder and death row inmate Stanley "Tookie" Williams.
With less than four days to go before Williams' scheduled Tuesday execution, sporadic-yet-credible threats of civil unrest have prompted the council members and representatives from the city and county human relations commissions to ask religious leaders to emphasize a message of peace during weekend services.
"We picked up information that led us to believe that there were some planned and intentioned acts of violence that could occur in the wake of the decision or the execution planned for Stan "Tookie" Williams," Robin Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, said during a news conference at City Hall.
I can totally believe that there are groups out there that plan on sparking riots to blame it on the Governator--and close behind that President Bush. The MSM will demand a discussion of "race relations" and you will hear all kinds of linkages to the looting during hurricane Katrina [vanden Heuvel]. We will see people saying that Tookie was actually a victim of the same society that left black people to die in New Orleans.
Hollywood actors will go on television and call Arnold a terrorist, gestapo, facist racist. Then they will say that President Bush is one as well because he too could pardon Tookie. A bunch of thugs will be told that this is the perfect time to go rob stores for XBox 360s and then go on television and say they just wanted to give their kid something for Christmas--er, Festivus--but couldn't because of the oppression they face because the GOP cut food stamps to fund their illegal war in Iraq and tax cuts for the rich.
And don't think this will be lost on the confirmation hearings of Judge Sam Alito. Senator Kennedy will go to the floor of the senate and do an "In Judge Alito's America" speech stating that all black people will be executed: "The current administration could not kill all the black people in New Orleans with the hurricane Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby asked Halliburton to create, so the administration nominated someone from the extreme far right-wing of judicial thought to ensure that we can kill all the blacks through execution."
And don't think this will be lost on the international community. Tookie's execution will start a movement to keep Saddam Hussein from being executed because he has written poetry since his capture. The Nobel committee will hastily nominate Saddam for a peace prize for that poetry. Code Pink and the Democratic Party will launch a campaign saying that President Bush, in his illegal war for oil, will have the blood of Saddam (a reverent, poetic, Nobel Prize nominee, repentant example to other dictators in the world) on his hands. Arnold will be blamed for Saddam's execution for the precedent he set in California and Democrats will demand a recall.
What's worse? After writing this satire, I honestly believe it could become true.
Posted by Aaron at December 9, 2005 08:25 PM
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Bring 'em on. Note to Korean shopkeepers: don't shoot to wound
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at December 9, 2005 08:44 PM
I saw a prosecutor on CNN say that if Tookie had truly turned a new leaf, he can tell the authorities the history of the Crips. Their founding, the structure of the gang, and how it's run.
I'd like to add to that these thoughts. Tookie can then tell the world where the bodies are buried, both metaphorically and literally, who runs the crips now, and what crimes they're committing.
But he's written (or more likely, has had ghostwritten) some children's book and said "violence is bad."
Tookie is a complete fraud.
Posted by: John Ruberry at December 10, 2005 01:37 AM
Good point.
How many cold cases are there in how many cities, that could be solved by a few answers from Tookie?
And if he has too much "honor" to do that, then let him accept his destiny. Let him give his live in exchange for the four that he stole.
Another minor point, I don't know if the irony of this has settled in on his Leftist supporters - didn't Tookie use a gun to kill his victims? How many of these Hollywood Leftists would stand up for the right of common citizens to be armed against this sort of criminal?
Posted by: joe-6-pack at December 11, 2005 11:57 PM
If California wasn't so liberal as Europe, there would be no riots.
At this point it is pretty obvious that the black "community" riots as an excuse to loot. Do you think most people really give a damn about that subhuman piece of shit?
Put out a strong edict that rioting/looters will be shot on sight and I guarantee there won't be one incident.
Posted by: Bill at December 12, 2005 07:26 AM