Conan vs Austria

We Austrians are very proud of Arnold Schwarzenegger, no one else from our country had such an remarkable career as the styrian Oak. Though, there was one, I always forget his name, but I think he even made it on the front page of Time Magazin as person of the year. I think they call him the Upper Austrian brownie, but I could be wrong… But for good reasons we are not very proud of that guy and pretend that he was German…

Well, but back to Arnie, whos actions remind me of one of Britney Spears songs these days. Ooops, I did it again… But this is a very serious topic and I shouldn’t joke about. No clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a former Gang leader turned Child-book writer. Arnold was the last chance for Mr. Williams to be spared from a lethal injection. But Arnie was elected by the people of California and the people of Californa are pro Death peanlity (roughly 70 %) so there was little he could do (some people say because he wants to run for re-election).

Which brings me back to Austria, arguably his biggest fan club! Some over here where so proud of their most famous son, the even named a sport stadium after him, back in the old days, when he was running around with big guns, terminating bad guys on the silver screen rather then by signing a piece of paper. What a coincicdence… The pen is mightier the the swoard!

But since Arnie became Governator some Austrians are mad at him for doing what he has always done and they want the stadium renamed. A sport stadium can’t carry the name of a real killer, someone who is pro death penalty. But they are too late, Arnie drew his guns faster (and that’s what he is best in) and the Terminator told the major of Graz to find a new name for the sports stadium.

And today the Austrian green party lost their only chance to appear on the international news and make some noise about topics that are out of their league.