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National Geographic Explorer: World's Most Dangerous Gang (2005)
You won't learn anything...
but some nice pictures of tattoos and dead bodies.
Nothing new here. It is the same tired old gang clichés repeated over and over. The same over-the-top sensationalism over and over. Fear mongering at its worst. Substitute "ruthless Jamaican gangs" and I saw this story twenty years ago. Maybe it was two years ago with "killer Mexican gangs". I remember now. In the late 80s, it was the Bloods and Crips.
The program had a chance to make some statement about immigration policy or the criminal justice system or repercussions of US foreign policy or something but didn't.
Lisa Ling trying her best to have gravitas by saying Mara Salvatrucha instead of just MS 13. Over and over.
Unless one gets off looking at the same four pictures of dead bodies twenty times, a big yawn.
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
Tookie is sh*t and so are Foxx and this revisionist movie
First off,
"The Nominators Peace
Right to submit proposals for the Nobel Peace Prize, based on the principle of competence and universality, shall by statute be enjoyed by:
1. Members of national assemblies and governments of states; 2. Members of international courts; 3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes; 4. Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; 5. Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; 6. Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1) and 7. Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
The Nobel Peace Prize may also be awarded to institutions and associations.
Prize-Awarder: The Norwegian Nobel Committee, Oslo"
Not exactly an exclusive list. Being Nominated Doesn't Mean Sh*t!
Second, Tookie didn't "found the Crips". He started a Crip gang. Hundreds of Crip gangs exist. You can start your own in your area. Really.
Third, his children's books are all of 24 pages long each and he couldn't even do that without "co-author" help.
Fourth, poor white males are statistically the most likely to get the death penalty for murder. Look it up.
Fifth, one of Tookie's sons in jail for murder and another is wanted for molesting a 15 year old girl (his step-daughter). Apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Sixth, he was involved in numerous violent altercations while in jail including threatening to have guards murdered.
Seventh, he is an unrepentant murderer, armed robber, and racist.