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Bye Bye Tookie
Maxprop wrote:
One of the cable/satellite news channels ran a piece on Tookie's life today. During his involvement with the Crips, the continuing war between them and the Bloods took over 20,000 lives What??? That's crazy. That would mean he'd have to be responsible for every murder in every major metropolitan area for several years. Can't anybody do math? ... according to a researcher at UCLA's School of Law Enforcement (may not have that name quite right). Hmm, sounds like one of those pointy-headed scientist types working on a gov't grant... don't you neo-cons usually dismiss this kind of stuff with a laugh? ... While Tookie was convicted of four murders, it was estimated that he was directly or indirectly responsible for thousands of deaths, mostly young inner city black men between the ages of 12 and 22 Don't you neo-cons usually shrug this off as being no loss? ... plus an assortment of innocent bystanders. Hey, as long as it's nobody you know personally, what's the diff? Not guilty, eh? If he'd been on the jury, Jon, he'd have seen the preponderance of evidence against Williams. That said, I'm not a fan of capital punishment and would like to see it eliminated. Nobody in their right mind is a "fan" of capital punishment, just like nobody is in favor of abortion. It's a question of rights vs gov't authority. Personally, I think that if one believes that the state has no moral right to capital punishment; then by logic, the state would also have no right to wage war. If an individual has the right to defend his own life, his family, & his property, then by all logic that right extends to use of deadly force at the extreme. The state is nothing but a large group of citizens, therefor the citizens have the right to endow that state with authority to use deadly force (when in extremis) to protect them. In other words, I have no problem with capital punishment, IMHO those guilty beyond doubt of heinous crimes *should* be executed. However I have a big problem with the way the death penalty is currently applied in this country. But hey, it's always detail detail detail! Regards Doug King |