Day 270 - 28 Jun 96 - Page 20
1 "There were various communications from other organisations
2 interested in conservation and protection of wildlife and a
3 couple of letters."
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5 Can you remember what your impressions were about the type
6 of letters and the type of communications that the group
7 was making? Were those typical or not typical of what you
8 now remember as your impressions overall of the kind of
9 people the group was in touch with?
10 A. Well, from what I remember, there were quite a varied
11 number of issues and certainly conservation and wildlife
12 came up a couple of times. Yes, that was fairly typical, I
13 would think, of the sort of letters that would be
14 received. I mean, I was not paying an awful lot of
15 attention to other issues because I was there really to
16 pick up on things that were mentioned about McDonald's.
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18 Q. Right. Well, that was going to be my next question, which
19 was something I was going to ask you about, if I can find
20 it, of course, was that on page 21 we talked about the
21 annual McDonald's day and fayre and that kind of stuff. In
22 the second paragraph, I do not know if you can see it, at
23 bottom you said that the fayre was going to be changed to
24 the London Greenpeace fayre outlining the areas of interest
25 and vision of the future, which you did, in the next
26 paragraph, you summarised those. Then you said:
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28 "He - that is John - said though that the anti-McDonald's
29 campaign would still continue as 'everyone hates
30 McDonald's'."
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32 Can you remember now whether it was stated how the
33 anti-McDonald's campaign would continue? Was that by other
34 groups, was that by London Greenpeace?
35 A. I do not actually remember how it would continue.
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37 Q. Right. When he apparently said "everyone hates
38 McDonald's", do you know what he was meaning there? Was he
39 meaning the population in general or campaign or --
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How can --
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43 MR. MORRIS: I am just asking can you --
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45 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Morris knows quite well not to ask a question
46 like that.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All the witness can really say is what
49 someone said.
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51 MR. MORRIS: Can I just ask you about the actual people in the
52 group itself. What was your impression of the motivation
53 of people? You said already that they genuinely believed
54 in what they were doing.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: I am sorry, my Lord, I want to make a formal
57 objection now. I have sat very quiet for a long time. It
58 is quite evident to me, not only from the courtroom this
59 morning, but from what went on outside in the Strand, that
60 there is some extent to which this is a publicity exercise
