Actor steamed about Hollywood support of murderer

Actor-writer Joseph C. Phillips

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Not everyone in Hollywood is supporting a bid for clemency by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the quadruple murderer and founder of the Crips street gang facing execution in California in less than two weeks.

While stars such as Jamie Foxx, Mike Farrell and Snoop Dogg have asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute the death by lethal injection set for Dec. 13, actor-writer Joseph C. Phillips sees the movement in Hollywood as a sign of moral corruption within the entertainment industry.

"Snoop, Mike Farrell, Danny Glover, Jamie Foxx and the other celebrity voices now raised in support of Williams offer a clear picture of the distorted moral vision of the Hollywood left," writes Phillips. "It is a vision that finds virtue contemptible and props up homicidal maniacs who write bad children's books as role models for the masses."

Williams, 51, was convicted of the 1979 murders of Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang, Yee-Chen Lin and Albert Owens in two separate robberies. Imprisoned since 1981, he is asking Schwarzenegger to grant him clemency because he says he has earned redemption through the writing of children's books.

Phillips, a star on "The Cosby Show" and "General Hospital" and a commentator for National Public Radio, disagrees.

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Stanley 'Tookie' Williams

"The argument for commutation of Tookie's sentence centers on all the good work he has done since going to prison," writes Williams. "The series of children's books he has written and his work to stop gang violence is proof of his redemption. ... The portrayal of Williams as some pied piper of peace for the gang community also holds very little water. A quick review of Book Scan shows the Tookie series of books have hardly been blockbusters. His top seller, 'Gangs and Violence,' has sold 330 books. Another book, 'Gangs and Wanting to Belong,' sold exactly two copies."

Phillips is not just steamed about the record of a quadruple murderer being distorted. He's angry at his own industry for cheerleading his cause.

"Here again, wealthy celebrities are telling hard working, law-abiding citizens that the example offered by them is inadequate to save their communities; the models of competence, creativity and virtue that are alive in these neighborhoods is simply insufficient," he says. "No matter that hundreds of young people find the strength of character – the hope – to resist the gang life. No matter that many of the stars have themselves found the strength to rise out of the tough streets. All that means nothing as compared to the words and example of Tookie Williams."

Phillips points out the death Nov. 13 – one week before the celebrity-driven "Save Tookie" rally at San Quentin – of 14-year old William Cox and a friend who were attending a neighborhood carnival when they were gunned down by a man who mistook them for rival gang members.

"Of course Snoop and Danny Glover did not hold a rally for William Cox," he says. "His death went unnoticed by the Hollywood commissars of compassion. They were too busy trying to save the life of a cold-blooded killer to notice one more young life snuffed out by gang violence. That tells you all you need to know about the corrupt vision the Hollywood left has for America."

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