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     1        mouthful to keep saying the people involved with London
     2        Greenpeace or the people who attended the meetings of
     3        London Greenpeace when you are trying to, you know, have a
     4        sentence that flows.
     5
     6             The various "we's", as Mr. Gravett said, refers to the
     7        London Greenpeace.
     8
     9   Q.   Well, that cannot be right can it?  Some of -- the "we" at
    10        the beginning might, in the first paragraph, but the rest
    11        surely refer to the five individuals who have been sued?
    12        London Greenpeace is not being asked to apologise it is?
    13        A.  Hold on, hold on.  (Pause) Well, I think in the way
    14        that it is used, "sue five of us as individuals", that
    15        means 5 of the people who were loosely associated with
    16        London Greenpeace and the same with the "we will apologise
    17        to them".  I mean, that would refer to anybody who was
    18        involved with the campaign.  It was not just going to be
    19        "we".  Where it says "we are going to fight them every
    20        inch of the way", it was not just going to be the "we" as
    21        in the five people who were being sued.  There was no way
    22        that we could have fought the case on our own without the
    23        support and backing of other campaigners and other people
    24        who believe in freedom of speech.  And so it is referring
    25        to, in general, the antiMcDonald's movement or
    26        anti-McDonald's campaign.
    27
    28   Q.   Is it really, "McDonald's are going to regret ever taking
    29        us to court"?
    30        A.  Yes.
    31
    32   Q.   What, the anti-McDonald's movement?
    33        A.  People in the anti-McDonald's movement, yes.
    34
    35   Q.   "Us" is you five, you were the only people that were going
    36        to court, you were the only ones that got writs, you were
    37        the only ones that were asked to apologise?
    38        A.  I do not think it makes a lot of difference, but to me
    39        when I read it, it reads, it is talking about anybody
    40        involved with the movement, and we are on one side,
    41        McDonald's is on the other side.  McDonald's are trying to
    42        silence their critics, campaigners are trying to fight
    43        back.
    44
    45   Q.   Can you then turn, please, to tab 99?  Sorry, I am looking
    46        at a different volume now because we have moved forwards a
    47        year, September 1991.  Pink 1B, please, at tab 99.  Again,
    48        it is on Greenpeace London paper.  Somebody has written
    49        "Sept", short for September, 1991 on it.  Do you recognise
    50        that writing of Mr. Morris?
    51        A.  No.
    52
    53   MR. MORRIS:  What are we looking at now?
    54
    55   MR. RAMPTON:  September 1991.
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:  "What is wrong with MacDonald's?" leaflet.
    58
    59   MR. RAMPTON:  No 1B.
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