Why “Tookie” shouldn’t be “Swartzed” by the Terminator

Don’t think about killing or not killing Mr. Williams, “just don’t do it”. As a former police officer in Riverside, CA, I can attest that an African American cannot receive a fair trial, or due process in the United States of America, including California. Without an investigation, with one court appearance, anywhere in this country one cannot come away knowing the system is corrupt and biased toward people of color. Predominantly white judges, prosecutors, police officers, being supported by illiterate public defenders and lawyers who barely passed the exam. The death penalty is another means to eliminate Blacks from this country. It replaces the past lynching of Negroes, where any Black who dare rape or kill a white will be lynched or put to death. If you are not willing to perform an execution yourself, then to demand that others do so is a cowardly act. If you are a compassionate Republican and not a cowardly right wing radical Republican, you will allow Mr. Williams to live as the judicial system allowed the two radical Republican KKK white boys who chopped off the Black man’s head and their excuse was that they were all drunk. They apparently avoided the death penalty after convincing the court that all three were “friends”. To my knowledge no white has ever in the US received the death penalty for killing or raping a Black. Possibly you being a foreigner and living a protective life may or may not know of a case. If true then the more reason that you should just not kill this Black man or anyone in the future. We all should be against killing anyone, whether in Iraq or the streets of our cities. Guns should not have been made so available to Blacks in particular in the manner they were in the past. With the racial discriminatory practices of the judicial system, law enforcement, industry, media, and the military in particular, we when enlisting Blacks should not give them weapons because it is difficult for them to determine who the enemy is especially with Bush’s war. The execution, discrimination, the lack of opportunities for Blacks in this country due to the color of their skin is more detrimental than what the Nazis did to the Jews. Don’t be a party to this process. If Johnny Cochran was alive he would better explain how corrupt and racist what “white people” call a system of justice. Please hear my plea, “just don’t do it”. Walter L. Ellis, a former officer RPD (Riverside, CA)