Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 50
1 Q. So, in your view, all the statements that are in the fact
2 sheet are equally bad?
3 A. Yes.
4
5 Q. Or equally inaccurate?
6 A. Yes.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You may have remembered something I did not
9 do. That is quite possible. I had not recalled that Mr.
10 Preston said all the allegations were equally bad. He did
11 say: "There is not a thing in that document which is true,
12 not a single solitary thing". Is that what you were
13 thinking of or something else?
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15 MS. STEEL: It was something else. I do not know where it is,
16 but it does not really matter because Mr. Preston is saying
17 it is the case now anyway.
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19 Mr. Preston, is that the case, that you consider all the
20 statements in the fact sheet to be equally false, damaging
21 offensive or whatever?
22 A. I think they are all damaging. I think they are false
23 and I do not know that I could rank them 1, 2 3 or 3, 2 1.
24 I think they are all terrible, individually or collectively
25 starting with those headlines.
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27 Q. Starting with the headlines, you are particularly outraged
28 about them, are you?
29 A. Well, that is what people eye gets first. I am sure
30 that is why you wrote it that way.
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32 Q. I did not write it at all, so I would correct you on that.
33 You do not have any evidence that I wrote it, do you?
34 A. Do I? No.
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36 Q. So when you are talking about "you"?
37 A. The group. Referring back to my aims and objectives,
38 doing things collectively not as individuals. I keep going
39 back to that document of your own time and time again.
40 Yes, I do.
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42 Q. And then you went on about how the same or similar leaflets
43 were being distributed worldwide. Presumably you wanted to
44 stop everybody from repeating the same statements?
45 A. I want to stop the repetition of that which is
46 contained in that leaflet. You folks talk about half a
47 million being distributed worldwide and wanting the number
48 to grow. I pick your number as a starting point.
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50 Q. Half a million?
51 A. Umm Hmm.
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53 Q. I am not sure that you are right. You might be referring
54 to other leaflets actually but it does not matter, it is by
55 the by.
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57 You have referred in your statement to the group Veggies in
58 Nottingham?
59 A. Yes.
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