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Assange, Attack, Guardian, Journalism<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Piet Mondriaan\u00a0Self portrait\u00a0<\/strong>1918<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Guardian columnist Owen Jones, a self-described left activist and socialist, was attacked in the streets of London at 2 am Saturday morning in what he himself describes as \u201ca blatant premeditated assault\u201d by a bunch of guys. He says he was kicked, punched, but then saved by the friends he was with, and nothing really happened to him. Or he would have taken photos and published them. Owen was fine, before and after. But his pride was not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No pictures of black eyes or anything, but a brick load of indignation. No matter that in Britain, people are attacked all the time, certainly at that hour, in bar fights, in knife fights, people die every weekend. But for some reason Owen Jones thinks his role in this is special. That the incident happened because of his political views, and because the far right is getting more aggressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Jones\u2019s own Guardian:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owen Jones Attacked Outside London Pub<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian columnist and activist Owen Jones has been physically assaulted in London while celebrating his 35th birthday with friends. In an attack he called \u201ca blatant premeditated assault\u201d, Jones said he was kicked, punched and thrown to the ground by a group of men in the early hours of Saturday morning. He said that he and his friends went to a pub and left at 3am.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>

\u201cWe were about 30 metres away, saying goodbye to each other, when four men charged directly towards me: one of them karate kicked my back, threw me to the ground, started kicking me in the head and back, while my friends tried to drag them off, and were punched trying to defend me. \u201cIt was clearly a premeditated attack and I was their target. They all attacked me and only assaulted my friends when they tried to defend me.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Assange, Attack, Guardian, Journalism Guardian columnist Owen Jones, a self-described left activist and socialist, was attacked in the streets of London at 2 am Saturday morning in what he himself describes as \u201ca blatant premeditated assault\u201d by a bunch of guys. He says he was kicked, punched, but then saved by the friends he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26588,14976,26587,3771,26590,462,2864,1921,26589,13924,26591,5177,10522],"class_list":["post-47956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-afghan-war-logs","tag-assange","tag-attack","tag-guardian","tag-hate-preachers","tag-journalism","tag-lies","tag-new-york-times","tag-owen-jones","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-socialist","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47957,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47956\/revisions\/47957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}