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By Margaret Wilde, July 9, 2011 at 7:01 am Link to this comment
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Well, The Guardian assuredly stood up to injustice this week with its fearless revelations about past phonehacking and other criminal activities of the News of the World. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/07/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-live-coverage.

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By Peter Hockley, June 23, 2011 at 8:26 am Link to this comment
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Sorry I for got to ad this link about Brian Haw.

http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/159-stop-
the-war/12637-brian-haw-peace-campaigner-born-1949-
died-18-june-2011-?
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By Pete Hockley, June 23, 2011 at 8:24 am Link to this comment
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How about Brian Haw, they even introduced legislation
to try and stop him.

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By gerard, June 22, 2011 at 9:05 am Link to this comment

How about Tim DeChristopher?

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