Labour party politician Roy Hattersley, often credited with much of the responsibility for breaking the power of the radical left in the Labour Party during the 1980s, and for bringing about New Labour. According to the Guardian, however, he is a butcher and mass murderer. Hattersley writes a regular column for the Guardian. His latest is headlined "How I became a militant," is an argument that Britain has moved to the right, making him look more left-wing. The headline was presumably the choice of the Guardian editors, not Hattersley. According to the Guardian, Hamas is a militant group. The group that murdered Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia this summer was a militant group. And, according to the Guardian's Sunday paper, the Observer, the bombings in Spain were similarly the work of the militant group al-Qaeda.
The Madrid bombings which killed 200 people were dramatically claimed by the Islamic militant group al Qaeda early on Sunday morning.
So, the Guardian says, the term militants includes al-Qaeda, Paul Johnson's murderers, Hamas, and, oh yeah, Roy Hattersley.
Is the Guardian attempting to suggest that all those killers are not really so bad? After all, they really are no different than Roy Hattersley, are they?
