Absurd Truth: Martyrs > Monsters

Dana shares the story of Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man who served capital punishment for a murder of a woman in 1998  Dana fact-checks the narrative regarding this case after the NAACP tries to defend him. Meanwhile, a Missouri middle school student was suspended after posting a picture of Dr. Pepper cans in the shape of a gun.

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Florida man almost died he got a lap dance from
his housekeeper? Was his name, Arnold. Last name rhymes with Mortzenegger.

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Florida man almost died, will get a lap dance from
his housekeeper. The incident happened in Tampa and the mate, Oh,
it's one of those maids. It's a skanky maid that
will scankily clean your house at three hundred dollars an hour.
I bet she doesn't have I bet she doesn't do
a good job either. Uh. She said that she was
cleaning this dude's house and then he just about kicked

(00:48):
the bucket. She had a call the ambulance. Can you
imagine telling first responders, well, what happened was my maid,
who is a topless maid? Uh? Ended up? Yeah? Can
you just imagine? He apparently lived, but still that's maybe
he learned his lesson and got like a decent, like
an actual cleaning crew. I don't know. This is such

(01:10):
a Florida drive. This is such a woman driver's story.
I almost it almost seems mean to put Florida in
front of it. Florida woman was rescued after a crash
left a Porsche dangling from a Florida parking garage. So
help me, dude. She was rescued. This was in Coral Gables.
It's a Porsche Suv. It was dangling from the third

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back up and she accidentally hit the accelerator or did

(02:16):
something and like drove right there. Oh my gosh, a
portie suv driven up right there. She's a lucky she's alive.
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Dana Lash here with you at the bottom of this
first hour. Did everyone follow or maybe you didn't follow
the story of Marcellus Williams. And we got to touch

(04:04):
on this because there's a lot of misinformation going around.
We're going to get into all the polling and everything
that we usually do at this time here coming up.
But this story is wild, particularly when the absolute misinformation,
which I think is fascinating when the left talks about misinformation,
they never indict themselves on. This has been at i mean,

(04:28):
just a record high with this story. So yesterday the
state of Missouri carried out an execution lethal injection on
this violent convicted felon, Marcellus Williams, and it was ordered
by that he had appeal after appeal after appeal, the
Supreme Court State Supreme Court said Nope, it's not you

(04:48):
got to go through with it. It's part of his punishment
for his very violent crime. This guy was a career
violent criminal, he was already serving, was already convicted on
a separate charge and got fifty years for robbery and
something else and then he had killed Felicia Gail back

(05:09):
in August of nineteen ninety eight. He robbed her house,
he ambushed her, waited till she was in the shower,
he ambushed her, stabbed her forty three times, left the
knife in her neck, and he stole a bunch of
stuff from her house. And then here's where it gets interesting.
The laptop and her purse were found in his car

(05:33):
by his girlfriend, and there were also other things that
were found, and there were things that the girlfriend and
they had like something like twenty some odd witnesses for
the state that came forward that told that said things
in court that were never made public. That only people

(05:55):
who knew the crime scene, who because Marcellus Williams apparently
told him everything, only things that the person who would
have done it knew he told them, and that was
never made public until like way later. And it gets
me because you had the NAACP come out and they
tweeted out yesterday quote tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent black man.

(06:17):
Governor Parson had the responsibility to save this an innocent life,
and he didn't. And they go when DNA evidence proves
innocent capital punishment is not justice it's murder. And they
had a graphic that said a man was lynched today.
That's just so offensive and insulting. Interesting. I didn't find
anything recently, and I didn't find anything at all in

(06:40):
NAACP's account about the murder of Officer David Lee in
Saint Louis from an illegal immigrant who ran him over
as he had stopped to help at a crash site.
So NAACP only cares about some black lives, not all
black lives, just some if it suits their purposes. That
being said, not every not quit making martyrs out of monsters.

(07:04):
And I do think and there was a lot of
discussion and debate over DNA evidence, but there was a
lot of concrete, irrefutable evidence in this case. That is
why all of his appeals lost. That is why. And
there are cases when appeals are granted and decisions are
stayed or reverse because of new evidence. That didn't happen here.

(07:24):
Because this guy was guilty. Af he was guilty. He
stabbed this woman forty three times and left a knife
in her neck. He ambushed her, He bragged about it
to everybody who would listen. All her stuff was found
in his car and his property. He tried his pawn
her laptop, and everyone's like, well, the DNA is disputed.

(07:46):
There wasn't this found at the scene. You can't tie
this with you with him. I think a lot of
times people will try to hide behind these exclusionary you know,
technological whatever and ignore all of the other hardcore evidence
as a way to justify making martyrs out of monsters.
I tweeted about this yesterday. I mean, this guy's a
career criminal, absolute career criminal. And here's the other thing

(08:11):
that the press that was and Ibram Kenny tweeted about it,
all this stuff the girlfriend. They were trying to accuse
the girl forrid No, well, she's got a record and
she lied about it so she could get reward money.
That's a lie that is absolutely, irrefutably false. She never
asked about award money. She never made a single mention

(08:35):
of it. That was the press and his defense team
and the people who were trying to lie about his
heinous crime to free him. That's what those people made up.
I noticed that no one ever cares about innocent lives.
No one ever talked about Felicia Gale's innocent life. She
was the one who was lynched she was lynched by

(08:56):
Marcellus Williams the same way David Lee offered. Sir David
Lee was lynched by an illegal immigrant who was drunk
out of his mind and plowed into him when he
was trying to help. But a crash sight. If you
want to have a discussion of lynching, good grief. The
Left is all up in arms about this. They're so upset.

(09:20):
I mean, this guy was convicted on undisputed facts. He
pawned her laptop off, and the guy was trying to
lie and say that he was trying to blame other
people around him for why this woman's personal items were
found all on her, all in his property. He murdered her.

(09:43):
She's an innocent victim, and he murdered her. They were
talking about the DNA. They said, oh, well, the DNA technology,
you know, the touchding and all of this, it didn't
exist at the time that he was convicted. And nothing,
none of this though, none of nothing, ever exonerated him.
Literally nothing. He confessed to it, He bragged about it.
He confessed to it multiple times. He bragged about it

(10:06):
multiple times. And then the people that he bragged about
it too, he threatened to kill them if they ever
if they ever shared the information. And again the people
the informants, because they said, oh, well, one of the other,
one of the other witnesses there were it was a
jailhouse informant, someone in jail that he bragged to. Well,

(10:27):
that's nice that you want to That's what gets me
is these same people will say that Marcellus' is Williams
fifteen felonies and his other conviction that gave him fifty
years for robbery in a completely separate case shouldn't be
used as a measure of his character. But they're super
quick to try to disqualify these jail house informants for

(10:48):
the exact same thing. But what's more, these informants were
sharing information with investigators, with law enforcement that were never
made publicly, that were never made public. It was none
of this information was ever shared with the public ever.
The only way anyone would know it is if the
actual murderer told them that's it. I mean, he sold

(11:15):
her husband's it was her husband's laptop, but it was hers.
He sold her laptop. The person that he sold it
to identified Williams as the seller. By the way, he
tried to attack a guard and escape and all this
other stuff, and he threatened correctional officers and all the
stuff in jail. Noticed that. The NAACP and all of
the people who are trying to tell you that he's
this gentle giant, they've never made mention of any of that.

(11:39):
You guys didn't even know about that. Probably did you
talking about this case? Bet you didn't. Oh but man,
these bleeding heart dumbasses are all over social media. Someone
said he's a deeply spiritual person and a poet, and
he's also a murderer. He stabbed a woman forty three times.
The evidence is irrefus ule. That is why all of

(12:02):
the appeals failed. That is why he was convicted, that
is why his execution was upheld. But everyone wants to
make it like, oh well, it's racism. The real racism
is the situational ignoring of crimes against minorities because it
doesn't fit your Marxist agenda. The same people who are

(12:24):
trying to say that Marcellus Williams is an innocent poet
are the same people that tried to tell you that
Mike Brown was like a twelve year old little kid
and done worked that way. Stop making martyrs out of monsters.
This guy is guilty, and people who paid attention and
who write about this case know it. All of the

(12:46):
people saying otherwise, none of these people have ever bothered
to read anything about this case other than the aggregated
news spoon fed to them by media on television or
social media. Yeah, they're lazy because people who paid attention
to the facts. Even if you don't like the outcome,

(13:07):
or even if you don't like the death penalty, the
only logical and truthful conclusion is well, he did it.
He's guilty, and that's it. Just amazing to me. I've
read about this case because, like I said, where this
woman was murdered, it was in nineteen ninety eight. I'm

(13:29):
from Saint Louis. I'm very familiar with this case. I
had a friend who lived not far from had moved
in with her older sister who lived not far from
where Felicia Gale was stabbed. And I remember being a
h because we had already started like going doing stuff,
because we did a college newspaper and all that stuff,

(13:52):
and we were already going into the offices for summer,
and she was like, oh my gosh, there was like
tape everywhere and all this stuff. She had never seen
a crime scene before because she lived near it. And
you know, you hear something like that and you will
follow it right like you know you hear you know.
I mean, it's just natural, it's human nature. This guy
was guilty as the day as long. People were saying, well,

(14:12):
the family, you know, the victim's family wanted to have
him spared. That has nothing to do with the fact
that he did it. He did it regardless of whether
or not they want him spared. This guy the evidence
was irrefutable. So I don't know, there's a lot of
bad information out there now. Like I said, there are

(14:33):
instances where you have innocent people. This is not one
of them. It isn't He is absolutely not one of them.
And I do think it's fascinating that this guy he's
attacked other he attacked other inmates, he fought with correctional officers,
he threatened him, he tried to escape. No, don't you
think that's kind of important when talking about this guy's
character upon conviction, Because I do. I do for sure. Now,

(14:58):
law and order, this all that's the symptom of the
restorative justice that is promoted and pushed by these restorative
justice people. And by the way, good on Mike Parson
for holding the line. Eric Greeton's that sniveling Democrat who
only became a Republican and then tried to run Trump's

(15:19):
coattails and then actually was a burden to the Trump
campaign and all Republicans because he couldn't keep it in
his pants and he couldn't keep his story straight. That psychopath.
He actually gave this guy. He actually gave this guy respite.
He paused the execution at one point, Greetons did. He

(15:39):
caved to all that restorative justice, just like the time
when he made the capital of gun for his own
and then try to lie about it because he's kind
of anti gun and he thought he could make a
commercial about it later and like make up for it.
But no, we remember. Yeah, he actually he actually helped
and was agreeing with the defense and allowed this guy.
He paused the execution. Greton's dead, Yeah, because he fell

(16:03):
victim to that restorative justice narrative. My Parson did, and
he's like, look the facts of the facts, here's the evidence.
It's indisputable. That's a difference between a weak, fake Republican
and a real Republican. By the way, unbelievable. No, there
is a one less monster out on the streets. I
absolutely support capital punishment. I think violent murderers should be

(16:25):
put to death, and it is not the same. You
can be pro life, by the way, and be for
capital punishment. The only way that you can't be pro
life and be for capital punishment is if you're a
moron who thinks that a violent murderer is the same
as an innocent baby. I mean, if you believe that
an innocent baby is capable of making the wilful choices

(16:46):
of an adult violent murderer, well, then I guess you
have an argument that I don't see it that way.
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(20:03):
I feel California passed the law to banner restrict smartphones
in schools. Why just this is what I don't like.
The government doesn't need to be doing this. This is
just parents and schools. Parents be active. So the government's like,
you're not doing your job. I see the need to
fill it with some law. I see the need to
exploit your your uninvolvement with some laws. Stop it. They're

(20:29):
banning smartphones in schools and they have us and they
have five point nine million public school students. And it's
Los Angeles County which started it. Now they're doing the
whole thing. These Surgeon General called for a warning label
on platforms. He's so, I got to it's not a
conspiracy theory. Really, they want to put labels on them
like they do with cigarettes. I think it's all about

(20:50):
making sure that people I'm a little sus I'm I
don't think it's all about mental health with controlling kids
on social media. I think it's about preventing the next
generation from being able to act as free and free
and fair discussion on social media platforms. Just saying I
really do feel like that, So I don't. I mean,
just watch what your kids are doing, make sure stranger danger,

(21:10):
make sure they're not talking to no kid touchers, make
sure they're not, you know, spending an unhealthy amount of
time on social media. But this idea of restricting it
with kids, I honestly feel like there is a push
to try to prevent the next generation from being as
online and engaged in debate and being able to look
out alternative sources for news. I think it's about information control,

(21:30):
I really do. But they're trying to disguise it as
like mental health and they're looking out for your kids.
We should come back to that. We got more in store.
Stick with us. In Mountain View, Missouri, a student at
Liberty Middle School was suspended because he took a picture.
He used doctor pepper cans and he made a gun
with his doctor pepper cans, like not a functional gun.

(21:51):
He literally just lined up the cans on the bed
and they kind of looked like a lowercase K in
the shape of a gun. The student's named Riley Grundan.
He's thirteen years old. And when you went to school,
he was told that he needed to turn himself in

(22:12):
to the district's central office over concerns of an online post.
And when the mom went there, she was shocked. He
was given a three day suspension and that someone had
felt uncomfortable because of what he had put on social media.

(22:32):
And you can see Jan's showing you the image on
the simulcast. Literally it's one, two, three, four, five cans
stacked in a one row one can and another can
like for the stock and the grip, and then you've
got one can that's I guess supposed to be the
optics on top. That's literally it. So he was suspended
from school for three days for that. That's the dumbest

(22:55):
thing I've ever heard. And he's thirteen. The school said
it was threatening. What how, he's thirteen years old. He's,
you know, this good grief and the mom is completely right.
She's like, he didn't do anything wrong, and she was upset. Absolutely.

(23:17):
She goes there's staff who posts pictures of real firearms
and they go hunting with their kids, and they even
post pictures of their kids with firearms that they hunt with.
He had to the boy was They made him. He
had to undergo a search before he was being allowed
back on the premises. And it's going to be on
his permanent school record. He's gonna have two counts, one
of cyberbullying and the other of making a school threat.

(23:37):
And he wasn't cyberbullying. He just made it with the
cans and he posted it online because he thought it
was funny looking. That's it. And the superintendent, Lanna Tharp,
who is a moron, said this quote. We have enough
information to believe the video had caused fear to at
least one student, and understandably, so understandably what okay, If

(24:03):
my kid came to me and said, mom, there's a picture.
How many posted a photo of a rifle made out
of cans. Here's the picture of it. I'd tell my
kid to grow some balls and stop being super sensitive.
Are you kidding me? My kid would never come up
to me with anything like that. Whoever, and it probably
wasn't the kid. It was probably the dumb parents clearly. Uh.

(24:31):
It was completely a Karen Good loan this mom for
sticking up for her kid, because there's nothing wrong that
caused fear to one student. You know why, because adults
brainwashed kids into thinking they got to be a terrified
of inanimate objects and meanwhile, turn your blind eye to
the real threats out there we had. She got fired
from the school. But one of my kids in school,

(24:52):
he and his friend drew pictures. Uh. And they were
in junior high and it was they were in to
study hall, they got their work done, and they drew
pictures of army guys, like guys like US military soldiers
battling in a firefight with terrorists. Isis terrorists? Right? And
they what are soldiers in a firefight with ice terrorists?
Carry guns? And the woman teacher saw that what they

(25:18):
were drawing and sent them to the principal's office, and
she really was hoping that they would get in a
lot of trouble for that. And my husband and I,
it's funny because we're always like okay, you know. My
husband's like, i'll be bad cop, you'd be good cop,
and I'm like okay, and then I roll in immediately
and I'm bad cop. And Chris is like, we can't
both be bad cop, so he's he has to be

(25:38):
good cop because I immediately roll in and I have
no tolerance for this stuff. I'm really cool, but I
am pushy as all hell as you can imagine. And
I had told the that I let the administration know
and know on certain terms that the teacher because the
teacher was a leftist who who one time said that

(25:59):
Jesus was a socialist, and that was really fun correcting
her with tons of biblical citations on that one. And
she ended up getting fired and a lot of parents
were complaining about her. This is Texas, come on. And
I made it very clear and know on certain terms
that there was nothing wrong with this, that this was
the teacher who was harassing and bullying the students due

(26:19):
to her very well known public, very far left leaning beliefs.
And then if my child was suspended, I was going
to take him on a field trip, and I was
going to buy him a gun that looked like one
of the ones that he had drawn, and that I
was also going to try to look at my legal
options to go after the teacher for harassment, and I
would be very public about all of it, and needless

(26:42):
to say, nothing happened. And then she ended up later
enough parents complained about her and that she was fired.
She ended up being fired because she was really far
left and very I don't mind it if you're lean
to the left, but don't harass kids based on your
your idiotic partisan beliefs. And I feel like that what
was happening here with this kid and for someone to go, oh, well,
there was a first off, you're teaching that's not what

(27:05):
threat assessment is. You are horribly horribly damaging these kids
by telling them to be afraid of everything that is
not an actual threat. But then when it comes to
real threats, you tell them that they have to turn
a blind eye. When it comes to a young girl
going into the bathroom and seeing a grown ass man
in there. Oh well, you better just stuff all that
down to where you can't feel it anymore, because you're

(27:26):
a bigot. If you feel like your safety's in danger,
then they tell kids not to be afraid of actual threats,
be afraid of the silly stuff that isn't a threat,
that is abusive and it's damaging to kids, and adults
who do this are themselves predators. Thanks for tuning in
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