That, argue his lawyers, is an act of pure reportage and is protected by the first amendment.

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Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Edward Stevenson described the attack as "an act of pure depravity by small minded thugs".

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They want their country to act for pure motives, and might have refused to support foreign interventions that were forthrightly described as defenses of corporate power.

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