The reason why I was against Tookie's Execution...

PlanetBev

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:42 PM
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The reason why I was against Tookie's Execution...

Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 03:45 PM by PlanetBev

I can't stand being in a country that has this type of similarity to Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and all other medieval thinking governments.

One of my co-workers gleefully informed me today that she sat up till 12:40 to make sure that Tookie was dead. I guess she assumes that I feel the same way, but I said nothing in reply. I don't want this kind of conversation at work.

I can only wonder how my co-worker's all-white Simi Valley life was improved by this man's death.

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ET Awful

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:44 PM
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1. Ah yes Simi Valley, home of the jury that exonerated the officers

in the Rodney King case sparking the 1992 riots.

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PlanetBev

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:46 PM
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2. Bingo

Hit it right on the head, ET

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ET Awful

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:47 PM
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4. Well, I used to live just over the ridge in Woodland Hills

I know whereof I speak :P

Woodland Hills/Canoga Park is a tad more . . . diverse shall we say? :P

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PlanetBev

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:49 PM
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5. Out here in Thousand Oaks

Slighty less knuckle-dragging than Simi...but not much.

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sui generis

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:46 PM
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3. a serious character flaw - someone rejoicing at the death

of another human.

Whether or not she think he "deserved" it, the malice of her statement is quite telling.

When all is said and done, she never met Tookie, for all she knows Tookie was made up by the news or MGM Studios or might have been real, Tookie could be dead or alive and the impact would be the same, and the idea of his life or death is all just an abstract even now.

Odd that someone would sit up all night waiting on the death of an abstract. That's a flawed human.

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Tom Joad

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Tue Dec-13-05 03:52 PM
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6. It wasn't nothin but a lynching.

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roguevalley

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Tue Dec-13-05 04:31 PM
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7. It made me lose sleep. Now, country, are we better for this? I was

under the opinion that the death toll in Iraq was enough blood on our collective hands. I HATE truly that I get dragged into the common guilt over state sanctioned murder. This didn't do one damn thing but damn all of us. For shame.

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