wasn't there an international agreement not to assasinate heads of state?

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> May Day greetings from the
> Wobblies:http://www.scribd.com/doc/54283067/Industrial-Worker-Issue-1735-May-2011
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> Hooray! Hooray! the first of May!
> Outdoor fucking begins today!!!
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>> May Day greetings from the Wobblies:
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>> <http://www.scribd.com/doc/54283067/Industrial-Worker-Issue-1735-May-2011>May
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>    In the fucking snow with the roads closed?
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> Everyone to their own thing I guess... Happy Hay Market Day...ken
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> Hooray! Hooray! the first of May!
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> 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?"
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> Bin Laden?s Crimes, and Ours
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> By Matthew Rothschild [editor, the PROGRESSIVE magazine, May 2, 2011
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> 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.
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> Jim Devine?/ "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
> way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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