Tookie or Teminator...who is the real monster?

Last night the state of California put a man to death.

This man epitomized a human monster..a master of evil. He is responsible for thousands of deaths, millions of lives ruined because of drugs, uncountable numbers of beatings, rapes and robberies.

He was the co-founder of the Crips.

But since his incarceration he had became someone different. He had been redeemed. He had been rehabilitated. He had been transformed.

He had become an example of everything that we claim prison is there to achieve.

Prison is supposed to be a punishment for your crimes, but also a place for rehabilitation.

Tookie Williams was the posterboy for both.

So what was achieved by his execution?

The Terminator showed that in California prison is simply about vengence and punishment.

The US showed that it follows Paul the Zealot and has no use for the words and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

Maybe someday the US will become a Christian nation, as it claims it is, but for now the US has once again shown that it is a Paulian nation that doesn't care about redemption, but only about Vengence.