What Does an Assassin Have to Do ?

Those were the good old days, when an honest assassin could count on a little ink. That's John Wilkes Booth over there, the man who murdered President Lincoln. There's your notoriety. 140 years later and school children still know his name.

Imagine if he had announced his intentions from some secure place. The outrage !
The sensation !

Nowadays, you announce your intention to murder the duly elected head of a sovereign government and you get nothing. Rodney Dangerfield gets more respect. Oh, sure, you might get a mention in The Australian and, with a little luck, the International Committee for the Fourth International (and that name is not a gag) will give you a mention on their World Socialist Website. But, that's it.

Nothing from ABC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN or FOX but a big fat yawn. O.k., to be fair and complete, truthout picks it up.


Our guess is that Israel so routinely commits crimes against international law that their announced intention to make the Palestinian Prime Minister an assassination victim just doesn't register on the news-0-meter. We thought at least FOX would like it with their taste for the testosterone response.

Unaccountable power usually leads to bad things, so we'll keep watching and

Stay Naked
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