Today at 12:35am Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips, was executed in San Quentin, California. He had been condemned for murdering four people in cold blood.
Williams supposedly saw the error of his ways and started writing children's books encouraging kids away from the gang lifestyle. It is good that a former gang founder and murderer would try and help others from falling into the same evils that he himself committed. This is notable.
But being a good citizen and respecting the rights of others, especially the right to live, should not be seen as a concept that goes above and beyond the moral base. It is part of the moral base. It is what is expected. Should one be praised for doing what they should already be doing?
Why should we raise up Williams as a noble icon because now he chooses to do good? I have never murdered anyone. Should I be praised and marched all over the media and recognized by celebrities? No, because it is expected of me to treat others morally and to respect their rights.
After Williams was executed by lethal injection, those that supported clemency for him declared in one voice, "The state of California just killed an innocent man," as they walked out of the chamber. Innocent? He is not innocent. I ask anyone to prove he is innocent. He may be reformed, even repentant, but not innocent. His crimes are real. Repentance has not changed the status of murder against four.
We saw rapper Snoop Dogg, himself a former Crip, and others especially celebrities crying out for Williams' clemency. But where were all these stars when Ted Bundy was being taken to the slaughter? Bundy showed great remorse, admittance of his crimes and repentance for the rape and murder of innocent women? This is true Hollywood hypocrisy.
Ted Bundy's crimes were against women and in the eyes of our society this is horrible. And they would be right! But because of all the feminist banter, crimes against women are used as a selling point to draw sympathy and emotion so that agendas can be pushed, instead of seeing true justice served and society protected.
It is not the crimes against women that Hollywood cares about. It is their agenda. It is not the children's books written by a former Crip that they care about, again it is their agenda. Their agenda determines their cause not their morality or standard for measuring right and wrong. Bundy's execution is accepted because of feminism. William's execution is unacceptable because they want to do away with capital punishment. And of course there is the whole glorification of the gang lifestyle by rappers and Hollywood.
Even though Ted Bundy repented, he still had to pay for his crimes. Repentance does not remove consequences for ones actions. Neither does the good of Williams remove the consequences of his crimes. He is no different than Bundy. Both committed the greatest of all sins against another person and that is taking innocent life.
1 comment:
That's the problem with our society. Man will judge what's evil or good depending on their own agenda's. It's all double standards. Just because you write a childrens book doesn't give you the right to be immune for your crimes. At least the justice system didn't buy into the hype... at least for this case.
I'm just sick of the media, hollywood, and all the libral junk!!
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