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Anonyme, Friday, May 10, 2002 - 18:08
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A look at the coverage of the suspected killer of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn.

In yesterday's vancouver sun there was an article titled "Alleged Assassin a Militant Environmentalist", about the death of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. I can't find the article online, although I have found another tiltled Suspect in killing of Dutch politician was an environmental activist. I do not condone the actions of the assassin, but I want to comment on the media coverage of this event.


 The article goes on in detail about alleged assassin van der Graaf's eating habits and animal rights beliefs:


"In a two-year-old letter published on the Internet, van der Graaf described how he became a vegan, the strictest form of vegetarian, and had worked for various environmental and animal rights groups since he was a teenager. At Environmental Offensive, he wrote: 'my actions don't come much from love for animals. I just have a basic standard: what happens in factory farming is not right.'"

 What all does this have to do with the fact that he is being held for murder? According to the article in yesterday's sun, Dutch police say it has nothing to do with it. Why, then, would the headline of the article hinge on van der Graaf's environmental activism?


A further attempt to solidify a mainstream perception of envionmental activists, people who write on the internet and vegans as enemies of the state, as terrorists?


Seems to me, that's it!
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