Posted on 10/29/2004 10:14:33 PM PDT by LouAvul
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Activists opposed to the death penalty scaled the roof of a soccer stadium named for Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday and unfurled a banner covering the California governor's name with the word "Mankiller."
The activists said they were protesting Schwarzenegger's support for capital punishment in California. The death penalty is illegal in Austria, where Schwarzenegger was born and began his bodybuilding career.
"We decided to pointedly protest the death penalty in California a few days before the U.S. presidential election" next Tuesday, said Peter Rosenauer, a spokesman for the group Resistance for Peace.
"The Republican governor of California and close political confidant of U.S. President George W. Bush has not renounced the death penalty," he said.
Two members of the group dressed in blue workmen's overalls walked unnoticed into Schwarzenegger Stadium in Graz, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of Vienna, and used a ladder to reach the roof and cover Schwarzenegger's name with the banner.
From the ground, with the banner in place, the stadium's main sign read "Arnold Mankiller Stadium" for about two hours before authorities were called to the scene to remove the label.
Graz's stadium was renamed on June 20, 1997, to mark the 50th birthday of Schwarzenegger, who was born in the nearby village of Thal. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1984.
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Like it matters. How often does California actually execute someone? The vast majority of those on death row in California die of old age.
It's a funny thing about these euro-socialists -- they only criticize America for having the death penalty, never do they criticize red China or any islamic country for having the death penalty. Gee, I wonder why that is. They probably just forgot to. Anyway, it's hard to take them too seriously, since they started two world wars and invented both fascism and communism. If I had a track record like that, I'd probably keep pretty quiet.
You believe killing an innocent unborn child is "one in the same" with executing a murderer?
The Liberal stance of Anti-Death Penalty and Pro-Abortion is NOT the same as the Concervative stance of Pro-Death Penalty and Anti-Abortion. The difference is in the innocence or guilt of the individual being put to death. The Liberals seek to protect the guilty and kill the innocent...Concervatives seek to kill the guilty and protect the innocent.
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