Day 275 - 08 Jul 96 - Page 33
1 people taking action for themselves about things that
2 concerned themselves instead of leaving it up to people in
3 positions of power to do things for them.
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5 The third paragraph about where it is recounted about
6 Mr. Gravett having spoken to the film crew and
7 Mr. Pocklington describes him as a spokesman for such a
8 group, then it goes on to say, "It was pointed out that the
9 views expressed by him were his own and not those of the
10 group in general, this fact seemed to be important to
11 several of those present". That was my experience as
12 well. Obviously, I was not at this particular meeting but
13 it was my experience that if somebody went along and spoke
14 on a particular topic which was a campaign that had been
15 done in the group's name, or talked about anything and
16 associated themselves with the group, that they were
17 speaking on their own behalf about their own views, they
18 were not speaking on the behalf of everybody else, and they
19 were not representing the views of everybody else
20 necessarily.
21
22 I mean, I dare say there was overlap on some points
23 but there certainly were areas that, you know, people did
24 have different views on. For example, Mr. Gravett
25 mentioned about some of the people in the group being
26 pacifists and others not. There were people there who were
27 very strict pacifists, who did not believe that violence
28 should be used even in self-defence, even if people were
29 being attacked or something like that, you know, and they
30 were completely against any war, defending yours in a war,
31 or whatever, by violent means. And then there were other
32 people who did not hold that view. Obviously, no one was
33 in favour of violence apart from in self-defence, but there
34 were those differences in the group. There were other
35 differences in the group as well.
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37 Yes, the next one is page 119. 24th May 1990,
38 Mr. Pocklington. Yes, just in the third paragraph, about
39 the phone bill because I am going to go on to what
40 Mr. Bishop said, but basically the situation was that I was
41 at this time a signatory to the account, although I think I
42 became a signatory some time in spring 1990. Mr. Morris
43 was never a signatory to the account, as far as I know
44 anyway. He certainly was not a signatory at this time.
45
46 On page 120, which is the following page, the second
47 paragraph. This is the same meeting where Mr. Bishop says
48 I arrived with a request from Mr. Morris about to know what
49 was going on about the group. And thinking back about
50 this, I actually think that what is referred to in this
51 second paragraph here is the Trafalgar Square defendant's
52 campaign, which was obviously set up after the
53 demonstration against the poll tax, and Mr. Morris was very
54 involved with the Trafalgar Square defendant's campaign and
55 I think that he handed me a leaflet. I have got some vague
56 recollection that he handed me a leaflet about it and asked
57 me to raise it at the Greenpeace meeting, would Greenpeace
58 affiliate to the Trafalgar Square defendant's campaign and
59 send a donation? Because, obviously, that was something he
60 was heavily involved in at the time.
