At the time we spoke with Reverend Jackson we had no idea what Schwartznegger had written about why he denied clemency. We were shocked to learn that the governor had a problem with Tookie’s choice of heroes. Sounds like Arnold was looking for an excuse… Candy man speaks to this scenario in our interview…
Below are a couple of articles that also address this craziness including one by author Jeff Chang
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Schwarzenegger: Tookie Must Die For George Jackson's Sins
By Jeff Chang
In both cases, execution was the verdict.
The Terminator issued a statement today denying Stanley Tookie Williams request for clemency.
"It is impossible to separate Williams' claim of innocence from his
claim of redemption," Schwarzenegger wrote in his statement. "Based on
the cumulative weight of the evidence, there is no reason to second
guess the jury's decision of guilt or raise significant doubts or
serious reservatons about Williams' convictions and death sentence."
But he doesn't stop there. He goes on to rewrite the history of San
Quentin in the late 60s and early 70s. And here's where he steps over
the line.
I oppose the death penalty. But I have been an ambivalent supporter of
clemency for Tookie Williams.
But in this statement, Schwarzenegger makes it clear that Williams is
being executed for much more than the facts of the case. He is being
taken for George Jackson's sins.
Rejecting Williams' efforts to end gang violence, Schwarzenegger
practically blames Williams for it: "...(T)he continued pervasiveness
of gang violence leads one to question the efficacy of Williams'
message."
In the most telling paragraph, he notes that Williams dedicates his
book to "Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Assata Shakur,
Geronima Ji Jaga Pratt, Ramona Africa, John Africa, Leonard Peltier,
Dhoruba Al-Mujahid, George Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and countless
other men, women and youths who have to endure the hellish oppression
of living behind bars."
He writes, "The mix of individuals on this list is curious. Most have
violent pasts and some have been convicted of committing heinous
murders, including the killing of law enforcement. But the inclusion of
George Jackson on this list defies reason and is a significant
indicator that Williams is not reformed and that he still sees violence
and lawlessness as a legitimate means to address societal problems."
Where did this come from?
It's an attempt to turn Williams' execution into an ideological attack
on the broad-based movement to question the prison-industrial complex
and push for more progressive approaches to rehabilitation.
Schwarzenegger won't just lose one on this decision.
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AFRIKAN RESISTANCE, AFRIKAN LIBERATION
13 DECEMBER 2005
Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams is about to be murdered because of his political beliefs.
Not because he is alleged to have killed 4 people.
Not because he was co-founder of the CRIPS.
But because he read & was redeemed by – or enlightened on another level - by reading extensively the true AFRIKAN history written by some of our greatest AFRIKAN scholars, & because he has a great deal of influence among AFRIKAN youth, & because he dedicated his book, ‘Life In Prison,’ to some of our greatest AFRIKAN (& some non-AFRIKAN) FREEDOM FIGHTERS – all of whom have either been assassinated by the COINTELPRO state or have fended off numerous of such attempts, & are thus being penalized by being exiled or encaged.
In ASSATA’S case, the US1M dollar ransom is in actuality the death sentence that they have been thwarted from leveraging from their kangaroo KKKOURTS.
The complicit, duplicitous, & genocidal nature of the enemy beast within the lives of all of the people to whom ‘Tookie’ gave his dedication – of course, will not ever be admitted to by the likes of an Arnold Schwarzenegger participant in such heinous crimes as ‘regime change by state murder,’ for Arnold is someone who is so desperately attempting to sit - & stay – upon the failed & flaccid genitals of his keepers of the bush regime, that he will do what they ask when they ask it – no matter the right or the wrong.
Millions of our LOVED ONES now perish at the hands of the beast & his helpers among us, most particularly in Haiti.
And the prison industry is big business, locally, nationally, & internationally. u.s. Death camps have sprung up all over the world. Monstrous prison guards are exported from the u.s. to torture camps that still have yet to be uncovered. Children are harrassed & terrorized in schools all over the country for actively rejecting the bush regime
Why then would they want to save the lives of any who would deplete the ranks of those whom they warehouse?
Prisons will not ever be obsolete to those who whose only almighty has always been money & whose only modus operandi has been the enslavement of, theft from, & murder of us – we who have the mental & physical resources that they in their ignorance could not produce for themselves.
Just as J. Edgar Hoover was more afraid of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY FREE BREAKFAST PROGRAM, than he was of armed Panthers, because it educated the children even as it fed their physical needs, & the current beasts would rather give Mumia Abu-Jamal an UZI than a microphone, so it is with Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams.
He did that which he needed to do. Any AFRIKAN in particular who does this remains a threat to the state.
If ‘Tookie’ had been broken by his keepers & by captivity, then he would not have mentioned – nor read – much less dedicated books - & his life - to the teachings of George, Jonathan, Assata, Dhoruba, John Henrik Clarke, & others.
But these are names that can & have educated our young - & re-educated some of our procrastinating old - to the realities of PAN-AFRIKANISM, imperialism, racism, mentacide, genocide - & the necessity for freedom.
Many have taken their arts & turned them into true weapons of peoples’ war, liberation, & peace the peace of the warrior ready to do battle to victory...
From ‘Tookie’ to 2PAC, Malcolm to Mandela, Dessalines to Dred Scott to Dred Wilme to Nat, Boukman to Bill & Mabel Williams, Fred to George to Ruchell Cinque Magee to Aristide, Yaa Asantawa to Ida B. to Assata, Mamie Till to Martin Luther King to MOVE, Palmares, to Greenwood, to Rosewood - such has always been the case.
And in each case, the state has reacted the same. In Haiti, they are actively running search & destroy missions against AFRIKAN children, raping women, bombing cities.
So too are they doing the same here. AFRIKAN men are dragged under trucks until dead, or beaten to death in city jail holding cells. Babies in Palestine are becoming martyrs rather than submitting to enemy rule.
& ARNIE, as Hitler’s Littlest Helper, of course has the assistance of all of those who did not - & still do not – see fit to fight for Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams, what he stands for, & all whom the state massacres – through many death penalties, in both minimum & maximum so-called ‘security.’
But this is l’impunite de l’homme blanc des etats unis...the impunity of the white man in the u.s. He will always use & then discard the tools he has at his disposal.
George warned us about looking for mercy from the enemy beast.
Many have forgotten the words of James Baldwin when he wrote, in his 1970 letter to Angela Davis: If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.
Even if the terminator had granted the clemency, I would still be saying the same things, for the bottom line is that we are not free, & until we are, the struggle continues. The war is not over until we win.
The children know.
The youth know.
Haiti knows.
The real gang members are the Arnolds, bushes, roves, rice, powell, latortues, COINTELPROS, SSU’s, prison guards, departments of corruption, terrorists in blue.
Mass murderers all.
How many chickens have to come home to roost among us before we listen?
A LUTA CONTNUA
The struggle still continues.
AND IT IS STILL A WAR WITHOUT TERMS