AtDTDA 212 Governor of Jeshimon
Joseph T
brook7 at sover.net
Mon Mar 12 11:49:00 CDT 2007
On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Joseph T wrote:
> This was brilliant. Just too dead on to be anything else.
> On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:32 PM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> In the weeks before the execution, Bush says,
>> a number of protesters came to Austin to
>> demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker.
>> "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush
>> whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't
>> meet with any of them", he snaps, as though
>> I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive
>> question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry
>> King either when he came down for it. I watched
>> his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her
>> real difficult questions like, 'What would you say
>> to Governor Bush?'" "What was her answer?"
>> I wonder. "'Please,'" Bush whimpers, his lips
>> pursed in mock desperation, "'don't kill me.'"
>> I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a
>> condemned prisoner who has since been
>> executed seems odd and cruel — because he
>> immediately stops smirking.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker
>>
>> Who IS Alberto Gonzales?
>>
>> While Bush was Governor of Texas from
>> 1994 - 1999, there were over 150 capital
>> punishment executions -- a number that
>> was described by Alan Berlow of The
>> Atlantic Monthly as "a record unmatched
>> by any other governor in modern American
>> history." As Governor, Bush had the power
>> to grant clemency for any of these executions,
>> yet he granted clemency for only one. From
>> 1995 - 1997, it was Gonzales, in his role as
>> (prior to becoming Secretary of State) who
>> was in a position to draft legal documents
>> for Bush as to whether clemency should be
>> granted or if the execution should proceed.
>>
>> http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/
>> 2007/20070307_gonzales_alberto.html
>>
>>
>> February 14, 2007
>>
>> Racism and Corruption in Tulia
>>
>> Texas Injustice in Black and White
>>
>> By J. L. CHESTNUT, Jr.
>>
>> I have a deep and troubling concern in the
>> law's racist involvement with death:
>> executions. I also have a deep and troubling
>> concern in what too often passes for legal
>> justice for black folks and poor folks. Texas l
>> ed the nation in executions when George W.
>> Bush was Governor, and that state then and
>> now, is in the business of killing primarily
>> young African-American and Mexicans males.
>> Take a look at so-called justice, Texas style.
>>
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/chestnut02142007.html
>>
>>
>> We beg your pardon
>>
>> By DALE McFEATTERS
>>
>> Hardly had the guilty verdict come in on
>> Scooter Libby than President Bush's
>> conservative Republican fan base began
>> clamoring for an immediate pardon for the
>> one-time vice-presidential chief of staff. . . .
>>
>> . . . .As governor of Texas, Bush was equally
>> as sparing with his clemency powers and
>> presided over 152 executions, a modern record.
>>
>> http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/197/159
>>
>> Bush refused to save her life, and Tucker
>> became the first woman executed in Texas
>> since the Civil War.
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17507199/site/newsweek/page/3/
>>
>> They all lived in fear of the Governor, forever to and
>> fro in Jeshimon and apt to arrive anywhere in town
>> without warning. What impressed a first-time viewer
>> was not any natural charisma, for he had none, but
>> rather a keen sense of something wrong in his
>> appearance, something pre-human in the face, the
>> sloping forehead and clean-shaven upper lip, which
>> for any reason, or none, would start back into a
>> simian grin which was suppressed immediately,
>> producing a kind of dangerous smirk that often
>> lingered for hours, and which, when combined with
>> a glistening stare, was enough to unnerve the boldest
>> of desperadoes. Though he believed that the power
>> that God had allowed to find its way to him required a
>> confident swagger, his gait was neither earned nor,
>> despite years of practice, authentic, having
>> progressed
>> in fact little beyond an apelike truge. The reason he
>> styled himself the Governor and not President or King
>> was a matter of executive clemency. The absolute
>> power of life and death enjoyed ba a Govenor within
>> his territory had its appeal. He traveled always with
>> his "clemency secretary," a cringing weasel named
>> Flagg, whose job it was to review each day's
>> population of identified malefactors and point with
>> his groomed little head at those to be summarily
>> put to death, often by the Governor himself, though,
>> being a notoriously bad shot, he preferred not to
>> have a crowd around for that. "Clemency" was
>> allowing some to wait a day or two before they were
>> executed, the number of buzzards and amount of
>> tower space being finite. AtD 212
>>
>> Published on Saturday, June 17, 2000 in the
>> New York Times
>> Texas Executions:
>> GW Bush Has Defined Himself, Unforgettably,
>> As Shallow And Callous
>> by Anthony Lewis
>>
>> http://www.commondreams.org/views/061700-102.htm
>>
>> Bush has two vulnerabilities he can't disguise:
>> He's the son of George H.W. Bush, and he's
>> chief executive officer of the Texas death
>> industry. . . .
>>
>> http://www.commondreams.org/views/020900-105.htm
>>
>> On the morning of May 6, 1997, Governor George
>> W. Bush signed his name to a confidential
>> three-page memorandum from his legal counsel,
>> Alberto R. Gonzales, and placed a bold black
>> check mark next to a single word: DENY. It was
>> the twenty-ninth time a death-row inmate's plea
>> for clemency had been denied in the twenty-eight
>> months since Bush had been sworn in.
>>
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200307/berlow
>>
>> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/20096/tsl-20096.html
>
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