Ahnuld's reasoning was that the facts did not make him believe that there was a "genuine repentance" on Tookie's part. But in the interviews I read he made it sound like it was his "gut feeling" or perception of the circumstances rather than something quantifiable (...now WHO in the world would ever think that way.....?
At first thought, I would have been inclined to say the man had "redeemed himself" too, until something very revealing came out upon reading all the articles: namely that not one single time in all these years did this "reformed" man ask for television time or a podium so that he could appeal directly to the remaining Crips or all other adult gang members to give it all up, get out, turn themselves in, or any other solution which could have used his influence in that community to turn evil into good. And so there are now double the number of gang members in this country as there were when he got caught and convicted. He was not willing to give up his "dignity" by publicly humbling himself and pleading with others to turn back. If he really was such an all-out wonderful role model that Snoop Dog and all the other Black media whores wanted to eulogize him, where is the PROOF that he actually accomplished anything? I can nominate UG for the Nobel Peace Prize, did you know that? So it means nothing that other people with an agenda to push use his name in that context. What I want to know, and hopefully our governator as did as well, is where are the crowds of gang members coming forward to say that Tookie convinced them to dedicate their lives to helping their people through good works rather than robbing and slashing them? Not a peep has been heard along that line, instead we are just getting more of their "righteous anger".