[lbo-talk] MaxSpeak, You Listen!: CORY SI, TOOKIE NO

[Sean Johnson Andrews]

Wojtek:

> Were you also equally busy choking your anger at this
> http://www.johnandkenshow.com/archives/2005/12/01/tookie-williams-victim-pho
> tos/
>
> Or you just simply did not give a flying fuck about these "uncool" people.


Um...that's kind of a dumb response. Regardless of which popular figures 
were involved, the people who were trying to change the verdict weren't 
asking for him to be set free or for him to be sent on a Caribbean vacation, 
just that he not be, as Paul says, murdered by the state.  This fairly 
obvious fact seems to be lost in the national death penalty debates which 
seem to pose it as all or nothing: if they aren't getting put to death, then 
they aren't getting punished.  Isn't being in prison for the rest of your 
life punishment?  Or maybe you think we should kill everyone who commits (or 
is at least accused and convicted of) murder?

-s