Go, Ahnold!
California Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar stood up to the Hollywood liberal types and granted no stay for the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. Maybe from having been in Hollywood himself, Arnold realized how shallow and self-serving these celebrities can be. After all, with their hired security details and sophisticated alarm systems, Hollywood stars needn't worry about being shot in the back. It could not have been an easy decision for Governor Schwarzeneggar. He would have been demonized either way by one side or another.
The question in my mind remains: why did the Asian community not protest the protesters? Williams killed several members of an Asian family. Have Asians somewhere voiced their opinion but were ignored by the media? Or were they too busy simply educating themselves and their children, working, and not *gasp* wallowing in a victim mentality?
posted by junebee @ 10:00 AM
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2 Comments:
Arnold Terminator really shouldn't be put up on a pedestal, he made a political decision to kill a man, but we shouldn't forget all the violence and gore in his film career. Hollywood has a bad impact on a lot of these troubled kids and Arnold set a very bad example. Tookie on the other hand, wrote children's book to spread a positive message. I don't care whether someone is guilty as sin, murder is murder, and it is unethical and wrong to commit murder, no matter what the motivation or justification!
Tookie, on the OTHER hand, killed more than 5 people! I read some interesting comments on http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/142999.php
. The first one was that if Europe feels so sympathetice for all these murders, heck, let's just send them all over there. Let THEM deal with them. Secondly, as a society, we MUST
send the message that taking a life is
wrong, except in cases of self-defense.
I sincerely doubt whether Tookie's
life was endangered by a family of
hotel owners.
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