{"id":3721,"date":"2005-10-26T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/26\/another-terrorist-supporter-at-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2005-10-26T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T19:01:44","slug":"another-terrorist-supporter-at-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/another-terrorist-supporter-at-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Terrorist Supporter at the Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRegular readers will recall our link<\/a> to the gory tale of the killing of a Chinese democracy activist reported in the Guardian which turned out to be hysterical (the guy was beaten but not killed.) The Daily Ablution has more on the reporter, who fits a profile of sorts:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nToday’s Private Eye, making explicit comparisons with the Dilpazier Aslam affair<\/a> – to which the Eye has gleefully alluded at least three times – raises some interesting points concerning Mr. Joffe-Walt’s background.<\/p>\n

Of course, it comes as no surprise to learn that the Guardian foreign correspondent, who has 18 months of experience as a professional journalist, was moved to act as a “human shield” in Iraq<\/a> (he found the experience “very stressful”). Like Mr. Joffe-Walt’s dissociation from the real world, such sentiments are to be expected in the Guardian newsroom.<\/p>\n

What’s of more concern is the reporter’s avowed support for a terrorist organisation (does this sound familiar?). In an interview <\/a>with Newsweek magazine, he reveals that:<\/p>\n

“I support the Earth Liberation Front. I think what they do is morally defendable as long as they don\u2019t kill people. That\u2019s the principle of direct action.”<\/p>\n

The ELF, a group of serial arsonists, caused over $43m worth of damage in 600 attacks between 1996 and 2002 (PDF<\/a>), when FBI named them the largest and most active terrorist group in the US. They remain active.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wish we could say we were surprised by this, but after the Dilpazier Aslam affair we put nothing past the Grauniad.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will recall our link to the gory tale of the killing of a Chinese democracy activist reported in the Guardian which turned out to be hysterical (the guy was beaten but not killed.) The Daily Ablution has more on the reporter, who fits a profile of sorts: Today’s Private Eye, making explicit comparisons … Continue reading “Another Terrorist Supporter at the Guardian”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Y1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}