Via LA Times:
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore has called for an economic boycott of the state of Georgia to protest Wednesday's execution of Troy Davis, the Savannah man convicted of murdering an off-duty police officer in 1989.
"I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia," Moore wrote on his website in a blog item posted a few hours after Davis' death.
"I will ask my publisher to pull my book from every Georgia bookstore and if they won't do that I will donate every dime of every royalty my book makes in Georgia to help defeat the racists and killers who run that state. I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia."
The case of Davis, 42, garnered international attention in recent years as a number of witnesses recanted statements that helped convict him in his 1991 trial. In 2010, U.S. District Judge William Moore reviewed the new evidence on orders of the U.S. Supreme Court and found it to be "largely smoke and mirrors."
Upon close inspection, most of the recantations, the judge ruled, were partial, illogical, or "impossible to believe."
Michael Moore's latest book, "Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life," was released this year and is available in hardcover.
It was in stock Friday at A Cappella Books, an indie retailer in the Little Five Points neighborhood that boasts a wide selection countercultural and left-wing titles.
An A Cappella staffer (and noted avant-garde musician) Glen Thrasher told a reporter that the store hadn't received a phone call from Moore's publisher.
Thrasher said he was among the thousands who signed a petition calling for clemency for Troy Davis.
As for Moore's boycott?
"I have to sell books," Thrasher said, drily. "So I guess I can't agree with him."
Side Note: I understand the raw emotions surrounding the execution of Troy Davis, I have been fuming over the injustice of it all.
There are some serious flaws in the United States judicial system.
With that being said, to call for a economic boycott of the entire state of Georgia is ridiculous! That would be putting innocent hard working people in jeopardy of losing their jobs in an already stressed out job market. If you start boycotting companies, that will eventually lead to them laying off employees.
Instead of boycotting Georgia. We need to change the death penalty laws and guidelines in this country.
Troy Davis should not have been executed and the fight should continue to prove he was innocent (which I believe he was), and Troy Davis' family should look into suing the state.
Troy Davis exhausted every legal avenue that was available to him, and the legal system failed him over and over again. That is inexcusable.
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