Arnold Schwarzenegger failed, again. He failed you, me, everyone and children yet to be born. At one minute after midnight, he failed Tookie Williams and he failed himself.

In potentially granting clemency to Stanley Tookie Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger had yet another opportunity to take honest and historic action, something worthy of a Governor of a free and progressive people.

Instead, he chose barbarism, false retribution, murder.

Think back to when you were a kid, and adults would say, "Don't do that." Later, you would catch the same hypocritical adult doing exactly what they'd warned you away from. I'm sure it's how many of us started smoking and drinking. "Do as I say, not as I do." This is exactly where we are with the death penalty.

Thank you Arnold, for showing the world a Governor of California who believes people cannot change. Thanks for proving to all the gangbangers in my neighborhood, my city, my state and across the nation their first instinct was correct: even if you change, the government wants you dead. Thanks for silencing one of the few credible voices of reason many of those kids we may kill in this same fashion have ever known.

Thanks for perpetuating a fucked-up system where we all just keep right on killing each other.

But don't congratulate yourself too long or too loudly, Arnold, and don't act like this is money in the bank. Your troubles are only just beginning. You rode in on a trumped-up recall brokered by rich Republicans because people voted for The Terminator.

All those Californians who voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Movie Star, are now sorely disappointed and kicking their liberal selves over Arnold Schwarzenegger, weak, pitiful excuse of a Governor. You never had enough conservatives in California to be elected... there simply aren't that many. And now, you're no longer a Movie Star.

You could have shown us a strong man, Arnold, standing up for what's right. Instead, we'll be thinking of this when we vote you out of office.

I thank you, and I'm sure Tookie does too, for showing us what kind of man you really are.

You, on the other hand, have no one to thank but yourself.