wasn't there an international agreement not to assasinate heads of state?
On 5/2/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Send pen-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pen-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Happy May Day, 2011! (Mike Ballard) > 2. Re: Happy May Day, 2011! (Sandwichman) > 3. Re: Happy May Day, 2011! (ken hanly) > 4. The War Is Over. Kiss a Nurse and Start Packing (Robert Naiman) > 5. he won't be missed, but... (Jim Devine) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 17:12:49 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mike Ballard <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] Happy May Day, 2011! > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > May Day greetings from the > Wobblies:http://www.scribd.com/doc/54283067/Industrial-Worker-Issue-1735-May-2011 > May we all get up from our procrustean beds and toss off our 'invisible > handcuffs'! > Mike B) > > *********************************************************************** > > Wobbly Times > > http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com/ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/private/pen-l/attachments/20110501/e52b5258/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 19:47:23 -0700 > From: Sandwichman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Happy May Day, 2011! > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hooray! Hooray! the first of May! > Outdoor fucking begins today!!! > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Mike Ballard > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> May Day greetings from the Wobblies: >> http://www.scribd.com/doc/54283067/Industrial-Worker-Issue-1735-May-2011 >> >> <http://www.scribd.com/doc/54283067/Industrial-Worker-Issue-1735-May-2011>May >> we all get up from our procrustean beds and toss off our 'invisible >> handcuffs'! >> >> Mike B) >> >> *********************************************************************** >> Wobbly Times >> http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > > > -- > Sandwichman > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/private/pen-l/attachments/20110501/cce9c058/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 20:04:57 -0700 (PDT) > From: ken hanly <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Happy May Day, 2011! > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > In the fucking snow with the roads closed? > > Everyone to their own thing I guess... Happy Hay Market Day...ken > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Sandwichman <[email protected]> > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, May 1, 2011 9:47:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Happy May Day, 2011! > > Hooray! Hooray! the first of May! > Outdoor fucking begins today!!! > > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Mike Ballard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > May Day greetings from the Wobblies: >>http://www.scribd.com/doc/54283067/Industrial-Worker-Issue-1735-May-2011 >> >> >>May we all get up from our procrustean beds and toss off our 'invisible >>handcuffs'! >> >> >>Mike B) >> >>*********************************************************************** >>Wobbly Times >>http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com/ >>_______________________________________________ >>pen-l mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > > > -- > Sandwichman > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/private/pen-l/attachments/20110501/5a2061b7/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 11:33:40 -0500 > From: Robert Naiman <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] The War Is Over. Kiss a Nurse and Start Packing > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > No doubt there will be a window of relief now, in which many will be > willing to give the U.S. the benefit of some doubt about its future > plans. But if the war continues as it has, public opinion will soon > ask, "We got our man. Why are we still there?" > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/afghanistan-war-end_b_856322.html > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 10:06:21 -0700 > From: Jim Devine <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] he won't be missed, but... > To: Pen-l <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Bin Laden?s Crimes, and Ours > > By Matthew Rothschild [editor, the PROGRESSIVE magazine, May 2, 2011 > > I always rejoice at the death of a mass murderer, and Osama bin Laden > was definitely a mass murderer. He killed 3,000 people here on 9/11, > and he killed more than 300 in August 1998 in the bombings of the U.S. > embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. > > So I understand the sense of relief or closure or even triumph that > many Americans feel today. > > But it?s worth grappling with precisely what it is that bin Laden did, > and why it is that Americans are chanting ?USA, USA? today. > > What bin Laden did was to use violence as a ready tool to advance his > purposes. > > What bin Laden did was to wantonly sacrifice the lives of innocent > people in service of those purposes. > > In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than William > McKinley was in the Philippines. > > In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than Harry > Truman was when he dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. > > In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than Ronald > Reagan was when he funded and trained the contras against Nicaragua or > backed the Salvadoran military against the rebels there. > > In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than Lyndon > Johnson was in Vietnam. > > In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than George > W. Bush was in Iraq. > > Oh, there is one big difference: bin Laden killed far fewer innocent > people than any of those U.S. Presidents. > > So, when you examine the righteous triumphalism than many Americans > are feeling today, it comes down to this: We?re not against using > violence as a ready tool to serve our purposes; we?re not against > wantonly sacrificing innocent lives; we?re not even against mass > murder. > > We?re only against it when violence is used against us. > > We?re only against it when ours are the innocent lives being sacrificed. > > We?re only against it when we?re not the ones committing the mass > murder but are the victims of the mass murder. > > This understanding puts a creepy edge on the rah-rahs of today. > > Until we renounce violence as a convenient tool, until we stop > sacrificing innocent lives, until we no longer excuse the mass murder > that our own government commits, we?re not in much of a position to > celebrate. > > And spare me Obama?s talk of ?justice? being done. That?s exactly the > same phrase Bush used after U.S. forces gunned down Saddam Hussein?s > sadistic sons, Uday and Qusay. > > It?s not ?justice,? as we?ve come to revere it in this country: a > system that upholds due process and habeas corpus and assumes the > innocence of the accused and allows for trial by jury. > > No, what Obama and Bush were talking about was rough justice or > frontier justice. > > The word ?justice? should not adorn an assassination. > -- > Jim Devine?/ "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > End of pen-l Digest, Vol 1163, Issue 1 > ************************************** > -- love and peace to all marty _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
