[Sosfbay-discuss] Clemency - and humanity - DENIED

[alexcathy at aol.com]

O Andrea, Andrea, My Dear Innocent Child,

What we are struggling against here is exactly the sort of thing Hannah 
Arendt wrote about in the "Origins of Totalitarianism."

We are literally struggling with a regime that based on terror.  
Terrorism from below is when some scumbag sets off a bomb on a crowded 
bus or marketplace.  We fear violence, but the "Terror" is the thought 
of just arbitrarily being blown away with absolutely no connection to 
being either "guilty" or "innocent."

The psychology is the same in a totalitarian state.  In the worst days 
of the Soviet Union people got picked up and arrested for absolutely no 
reason.  It's the same thing here.  The fact that Tookie Williams did 
indeed have certain redemptive qualities was all the more reasons why 
they had to execute him.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
To: Green South Bay Discussion <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Sent: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:16:02 -0800
Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Clemency - and humanity - DENIED

  I cannot understand how they got away with killing this man.  He and
his books received several prestigious nominations, including the nobel
peace prize.
Andrea