Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 39
1 55, for example, of pink 1A.
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3 MR. MORRIS: Have you finished with the photographs?
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5 MR. RAMPTON: For the moment.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Keep them near at hand somewhere.
8 A. Did you say 55?
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10 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, 55. It has got page 159 at the bottom. This
11 is what has been called the aims and objectives document.
12 I hope -- is it?
13 A. By you?
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15 Q. Yes, I think -- it is better to call it aims and ideas, is
16 it not, because that is what is on the document?
17 A. That is what Paul put when he typed this up and when we
18 prepared the leaflet.
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20 Q. This document underwent several versions did it not?
21 A. I have seen other versions of it, I think, yes.
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23 Q. You will have seen earlier versions which did not make any
24 mention of the poll tax for example will you not?
25 A. Yes, and they had other bits which were different as
26 well. I think when Paul redid it there were actually some
27 quite radical changes to it.
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29 Q. Yes. Tell me something while we have got this out in
30 passing, it popped into my mind, something you said
31 yesterday, can you look at the bottom, the last paragraph
32 on the first page: "Revolution can begin anywhere but
33 please do not get the idea we are dull politicos. We
34 laugh, have fun, get drunk sometimes, fall in love.
35 Indeed, revolutionary struggle itself can be fine(?) if,
36 like us, you believe it is about taking action and
37 communicating not sitting around in cliques discussing
38 stuffy texts."
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40 That was the watchword of the group, was it not,
41 taking action, being activists, and that is a word which we
42 often see in the literature is it not?
43 A. The group believed in encouraging people to take action
44 for themselves or of their own account, to change what they
45 thought was wrong with society, rather than appealing to
46 politicians and leaders, or whatever you want to call them,
47 to do it for them.
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49 Q. Quite a lot of the literature, as we will see later on,
50 quite a lot of the group's literature, says something like
51 this: no copyright, make your own copy. Does it not?
52 A. Yes, that is quite common within, particularly, the
53 anarchist movement.
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55 Q. It is a way of spreading the word is it not?
56 A. Yes.
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58 Q. And that is what Veggies did with the fact sheet was it
59 not?
60 A. With -- sorry?
