Environmental Activists
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Portrays activists as courageous defenders facing intimidation and violence for the public good
[loaded_language] Uses emotionally charged descriptions of threats and personal attacks to elevate the moral stature of the campaigners.
“On 27 March last year, a hooded man dressed all in black came up to him with a pistol in his hand. “He told me, ‘You don’t know who you’re messing with,’” Cifuentes recalls.”
Environmental activists are framed as being deliberately disadvantaged by the new cost rules
The article explicitly notes the disproportionate impact on environmental activists, using dismissive language that marginalises their legal standing.
“It is patently obvious – even through the Government has tried to elide the point – that the net effect of the new measures will be to discourage environmental activists and others from taking judicial reviews.”