Ghetto Braces for Execution
South Central Los Angeles – Korean grocers, Jewish slumlords, gentrifying corporate land barons, and long-haired faux liberal documentary film makers have embarked on a mass exodus from the war-torn urban ghettoes of most major American cities in anticipation of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s likely rejection of a clemency request for convicted multiple murderer and co-founder of the notorious Crips street gang, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, who is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on December 13th.
The evacuations began in earnest yesterday morning when the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent a fleet of one hundred busses withheld from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to Compton to relocate
non-black people to Brentwood, Bel Air, Santa Monica and Glendale. According to authorities the evacuations are proceeding smoothly.
Former Governor Ronald Reagan granted California’s last clemency to a severely brain damaged man in 1967. Since that time 1,000 death sentences have been carried out nationwide and 3,400 men and women remain on death row, 42 percent of whom are black. During the same period, only 230 instances of clemency have been granted, 171 of those coming in 2003 in the State of Illinois when Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of all prisoners in that state two days before leaving office.
Excluding the Illinois cases, barely one percent of all men and women sentenced to death have received clemency in the past three decades. Clemency, an act of grace entrusted to the Executive branch, not the Judiciary, is a scarce commodity. Authorities reason that grace and politics just do not mix.
Williams’ supporters, who include over-rated actor Jamie Fox and purveyor of filth, violence and degradation of women Snoop Dog (that sage), argue that the murderers’ jailhouse conversion and his work to steer young people away from the gang lifestyle represent the sort of redemption that makes Williams an ideal candidate for clemency. Others argue that Williams, who has never admitted guilt in the four murders of which he was convicted – albeit by an all-white jury on the basis of circumstantial evidence and coerced confessions from jailhouse informants – deserves no special treatment.
Schwarzenegger, who is rumored to be none too fond of dark folks, is believed to fear alienating his eroding base of knee-jerk reactionary yuppie scum by displaying mercy in any form. A source close to the Governor told the Fifth Avenue Gazette, “I don’t care if Tookie wrote the Gospel. That brother’s dead y’all.”
Actor Jon Voight, who portrayed Pope John Paul II in an absolutely abysmal made-for-television movie last weekend, surprisingly said nothing about Williams’ case, although he is rumored to be once again talking to his daughter, Angelina Jolie.
Rage poet and jazz icon Gil Scott-Heron, who has twice served time for possession of controlled substances, spoke with the Fifth Avenue Gazette. According to Scott-Heron, the boarded up windows and vacant bank buildings might save a few honkeys, but the revolution has finally come, and it won’t be pretty.
“You will not be able to stay home brother,” he said. “You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip out for beer during commercials because the revolution will not be televised.”
Although Scott-Heron might be partially correct, and although Reginald Denny definitely does not intend to go anywhere near the intersection of Florence and Normandy for a good long while, if Williams is put to death there will likely be plenty of photo opportunities for the Reverend Al Sharpton who plans to stroll through Watts in a red, black and green liberation jumpsuit that he has been saving for just the proper occasion.
As a matter of policy the Fifth Avenue Gazette does not express editorial opinions [!]. However, with respect to the morality of murder, whether committed by a violent, predatory concrete monster steeped in the ruthlessness of the angry streets, or by the cold steel and acid syringe of a faceless and unfeeling government institution, the editors will make an exception.
It is debatable whether or not sentencing a human being to spend an entire life behind bars is actually more cruel that ending a life. It is also debatable whether or not families who lose a member to particularly heinous violence derive some sense of closure upon the death of a murderer.
What is not debatable is whether or not it is just that of 222 executions in the past 30 years of killers who murdered outside their own race, 12 involved white killers and black victims, whereas 210 involved black killers and white victims. Neither is it debatable that the accident of being born black in America condemns a man to an eight-fold greater likelihood of premature death than a white man. Less still is it debatable that if Tookie Williams draws down the curtain and joins the choir invisible on Tuesday there is going to be hell to pay on the streets of the inner cities.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper will be embedded with a National Guard unit. News outlets will make comparisons with the riots following the acquittals of four storm troopers who beat the living shit out of Rodney King while he lay immobile in the street. A black man will be filmed looting a television from a Rent-a-Center. Jesse Jackson will say something that rhymes and his head will be so bulbous that small bodies will begin orbiting it spontaneously.
At the same time, members of the Minute Men, the Michigan Militia, and other organizations whose acronyms are MM will buy ammunition and hunker down in their double-wides in suburban Saginaw anticipating the imminent invasion of roving black hordes of wanton killers. When it doesn’t materialize, they will meet at the VFW and knock back a twelve-pack or so. Then they will go home and abuse their wives and children.
France will surrender.
During the uprising that is already in the planning stages, readers of the Fifth Avenue Gazette will continue to receive coverage of the important news of the day. They will read letters to the editor from William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gary Condit and they will think to themselves, “Thank God we’re white.”
South Central Los Angeles – Korean grocers, Jewish slumlords, gentrifying corporate land barons, and long-haired faux liberal documentary film makers have embarked on a mass exodus from the war-torn urban ghettoes of most major American cities in anticipation of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s likely rejection of a clemency request for convicted multiple murderer and co-founder of the notorious Crips street gang, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, who is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on December 13th.
The evacuations began in earnest yesterday morning when the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent a fleet of one hundred busses withheld from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to Compton to relocate
non-black people to Brentwood, Bel Air, Santa Monica and Glendale. According to authorities the evacuations are proceeding smoothly.Former Governor Ronald Reagan granted California’s last clemency to a severely brain damaged man in 1967. Since that time 1,000 death sentences have been carried out nationwide and 3,400 men and women remain on death row, 42 percent of whom are black. During the same period, only 230 instances of clemency have been granted, 171 of those coming in 2003 in the State of Illinois when Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of all prisoners in that state two days before leaving office.
Excluding the Illinois cases, barely one percent of all men and women sentenced to death have received clemency in the past three decades. Clemency, an act of grace entrusted to the Executive branch, not the Judiciary, is a scarce commodity. Authorities reason that grace and politics just do not mix.
Williams’ supporters, who include over-rated actor Jamie Fox and purveyor of filth, violence and degradation of women Snoop Dog (that sage), argue that the murderers’ jailhouse conversion and his work to steer young people away from the gang lifestyle represent the sort of redemption that makes Williams an ideal candidate for clemency. Others argue that Williams, who has never admitted guilt in the four murders of which he was convicted – albeit by an all-white jury on the basis of circumstantial evidence and coerced confessions from jailhouse informants – deserves no special treatment.
Schwarzenegger, who is rumored to be none too fond of dark folks, is believed to fear alienating his eroding base of knee-jerk reactionary yuppie scum by displaying mercy in any form. A source close to the Governor told the Fifth Avenue Gazette, “I don’t care if Tookie wrote the Gospel. That brother’s dead y’all.”
Actor Jon Voight, who portrayed Pope John Paul II in an absolutely abysmal made-for-television movie last weekend, surprisingly said nothing about Williams’ case, although he is rumored to be once again talking to his daughter, Angelina Jolie.
Rage poet and jazz icon Gil Scott-Heron, who has twice served time for possession of controlled substances, spoke with the Fifth Avenue Gazette. According to Scott-Heron, the boarded up windows and vacant bank buildings might save a few honkeys, but the revolution has finally come, and it won’t be pretty.
“You will not be able to stay home brother,” he said. “You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip out for beer during commercials because the revolution will not be televised.”
Although Scott-Heron might be partially correct, and although Reginald Denny definitely does not intend to go anywhere near the intersection of Florence and Normandy for a good long while, if Williams is put to death there will likely be plenty of photo opportunities for the Reverend Al Sharpton who plans to stroll through Watts in a red, black and green liberation jumpsuit that he has been saving for just the proper occasion.
As a matter of policy the Fifth Avenue Gazette does not express editorial opinions [!]. However, with respect to the morality of murder, whether committed by a violent, predatory concrete monster steeped in the ruthlessness of the angry streets, or by the cold steel and acid syringe of a faceless and unfeeling government institution, the editors will make an exception.
It is debatable whether or not sentencing a human being to spend an entire life behind bars is actually more cruel that ending a life. It is also debatable whether or not families who lose a member to particularly heinous violence derive some sense of closure upon the death of a murderer.
What is not debatable is whether or not it is just that of 222 executions in the past 30 years of killers who murdered outside their own race, 12 involved white killers and black victims, whereas 210 involved black killers and white victims. Neither is it debatable that the accident of being born black in America condemns a man to an eight-fold greater likelihood of premature death than a white man. Less still is it debatable that if Tookie Williams draws down the curtain and joins the choir invisible on Tuesday there is going to be hell to pay on the streets of the inner cities.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper will be embedded with a National Guard unit. News outlets will make comparisons with the riots following the acquittals of four storm troopers who beat the living shit out of Rodney King while he lay immobile in the street. A black man will be filmed looting a television from a Rent-a-Center. Jesse Jackson will say something that rhymes and his head will be so bulbous that small bodies will begin orbiting it spontaneously.
At the same time, members of the Minute Men, the Michigan Militia, and other organizations whose acronyms are MM will buy ammunition and hunker down in their double-wides in suburban Saginaw anticipating the imminent invasion of roving black hordes of wanton killers. When it doesn’t materialize, they will meet at the VFW and knock back a twelve-pack or so. Then they will go home and abuse their wives and children.
France will surrender.
During the uprising that is already in the planning stages, readers of the Fifth Avenue Gazette will continue to receive coverage of the important news of the day. They will read letters to the editor from William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gary Condit and they will think to themselves, “Thank God we’re white.”
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