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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2005-03-10 03:33 pm

Outraged at uppity foreigners, USA withdraws from Vienna Convention on access to diplomats

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21981-2005Mar9.html

Apparently too many nations, many filled with Catholics and the unfashionably tinted, were using it to protest treatment of their citizens in death penalty cases in the USA. Treaty rights are only for Americans, guys.