Martin Doyle cartoon: Dropping the Piracy flag

Thursday, 24 October 2013, 5:02 pm
Opinion: Martin Doyle

Martin Doyle cartoon: Dropping the Piracy flag

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Downgrading the charge against Greenpeace activists from "Piracy" to one of "Hooliganism" is sadistic semananticism.

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