By Angela Hughes
ANOTHER day and another truth-teller is attacked.
This time it’s the Slovakian president, Robert Fico, a vocal critic of covid lockdowns and the Ukraine war, who planned to not only reject the proposed pandemic treaty, but also announced plans to investigate the safety of the covid jabs. Thankfully it looks like he will survive being gunned down on Wednesday.
Already, the UK media have said, essentially, that ‘he brought it on himself’, with Sky News branding him as “very pro-Russian” and effectively hinting that he deserved it.
The award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald has commented: “Listen to this Sky News report on the shooting of Robert Fico. Not only do they come close to justifying it because he opposes aid to Ukraine, but they also casually imply that he’s being paid by the Kremlin. This casual accusation is so prevalent in the West and toxic.”
It looks like the shooter has already been identified in several local media reports as a writer and activist named Juraj Cintula, who is said to be part of the pro-West, liberal ‘Progressive Slovakia’ party.
Fico is the latest in a line of courageous, anti-narrative leaders across the globe who have either been injured or killed after taking anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown or anti- Ukraine war stances.