Reply #34: LOL . . . a peer reviewed study? [View All]

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What a load of horseshit.

Not everything is peer-reviewed. (Also, a peer-reviewed study is performed in a medical or scientific context, where there are peers to review it, it's not typically performed in a statistical context, do you ask for a peer review of an AP/IPSOS poll?)

Sorry if you can't find information for yourself. I provided you with a starting point.

The numbers come from folks like Barbara Becnel, not myself. If you don't like them, talk to her.

Of course, if you'd done any research, you'd know that Williams didn't have "connections." Becnel despised him when she met him. She went in to write a book on her own as a journalist.

12 year old kids don't write affidavits. Ask Becnel (or hell, read court filings with letters from kids attached for that matter).

Until then, you're spewing your opinions based on nothing but your opinions.

Until you're willing to speak with Becnel or contact her (I have in the past), you have no clue what you're talking about. So, until you actually educate yourself, you aren't worth speaking with.

As I said, you've oviously never worked with at-risk youth. You've never seen the reaction among kids when they see someone from their own background (instead of some sanctimonious prick in a suit) telling them the dangers. He didn't just write books (you'd know this also if you'd done any research). He recorded videos which were used worldwide, he engaged in conference phone calls with youth centers across the country, some of them on a weekly basis. He held programs inside the prison where extremely at-risk youth were introduced to what it was like (much like the Scared Straight programs used in the 70's which were found to be very effective).

Once again, I don't believe you've done ANY research into the subject. Tell you what, write to Becnel, ask her for her back-up. She's provided it to the court and to others, I'm sure that she'd provide it to you as well.

Maybe you'd like to speak with the president of the National Lawyers Guild?

http://www.nlg.org/news/statements/TookiePR.htm

How about the president of the San Francisco Board of Education?

http://edjustice.blogspot.com/2005/11/educators-for-tookie-williams-books.html

Of course there's also the fact that the 9th Circuit when they reviewed his case recommended clemency. (will post the exact text of their recommendation later, don't have it handy right now.)

Then of course you could read:

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/gasper181105.html

Or do you really not want to know the facts? Maybe stay secure in your haze of moral indignation?