Tuesday, November 29, 2005
But he's changed!
Let's see... a non-Berkeley guy is being held by a government that isn't the City of Berkeley for a crime that wasn't in Berkeley and will be executed under non-Berkeley law... This sounds like a job for The Berkeley City Council!!!
[Poet-Politician Kriss Worthington] said [quadruple-murderer Stanley Tookie Williams]' accomplishments, including being nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize and once for the Nobel Prize in Literature, earned him the right to live.
Ah, those accompishments. Over at Patterico's Pontifications, where you can occasionally see Berkeley Blogalum Angry Clam, you can find out a little more about these Nobel Peace Prize nominations. They weren't really accomplishments, you see, they were desperate attempts to save the dude's life in the hopes that the media will lap up the fact that "he was nominated for a Nobel Prize" without noting how easy that is. (Patterico is actually trying to get himself nominated on the grounds that he's killed fewer people than other nominees and winners, in the hopes that newspapers might start to realize how empty a nomination is) In other words, what the Daily Cal is reporting as an "accomplishment" was actually an attempt to dupe the Daily Cal into reporting that he's made an accomplishment, hoping that folks will believe, as Worthington does, that earns one the right to live. I'm sure Sean Barry must be very proud.
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