Not interested it's made for TVRecently waiting for a bus another bus passed by me with basically this add on the side. Now I don't like made for TV movies(especially when they have an after school special feel) and I don't like FX and I don't really like Jamie Foxx but I was intrigued by the tag-line "Gangster Death Row inmate Nobel Peace Prize Nominee" and the word biographic. What alternate universe must I be living in where CNN of all people has reported that the founder of the crypts has been nominated for a nobel peace prize for his books for children and I Totally miss it. The movie is ok not great in my opinion but watch-able. If you know nothing about Stan 'Tookie' Williams read his story I guarantee that it will make you think. In my opinion it doesn't matter if you think he's a piece of shit or worthy of release and praise though I lean toward the latter. I want to hear the arguments saying that Tookie should never have been published from prison. In my perfect world If someone no matter what atrocities they have fathered affects the world in such a positive manner they deserve a chance to get what they have done weighed again. You have made mistakes you may even have lived your mistakes for a while like he did but once you recognized them and repented you where forgiven in one way or another. The difference I see here can be named as four victims: Albert Owens, a 7-Eleven clerk; Yen-I Yang, a Taiwanese motel owner; and Mr. Yang's wife and daughter. These things will and can never be replaced. Sure you can argue acceptable losses for instance if Tukkie's books saved the lives of even a hundred children that otherwise would have been lost to gang violence don't those hundred people make up for the lives of four? I don't know. it's hard to quantify the value of a human being and I don't think I'll try because doing just that seems to lead many people to bigotry. in a way quantifying the value of life is what has caused bigotry and the most death ever. Statistically the bloodiest book(the book that has caused the most death) is the bible. Due to it's powerful nature people continue to kill segregate and judge in the name of god. I'm sure you've heard the saying "Kill Them All, Let God Sort Them Out" now stop and think about that a second who is wrong here let us assume that two innocent good people with a misunderstanding are put in front of each-other and one kills the other citing the idea let god sort him out. the man who killed has shed blood on the land and broken a direct commandment Thou Shalt Not Kill nowhere in the bible does god add the clause unless it is in my name. So why do people think that this is a legitimate process of thought why do so many people know the saying?
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