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     1        appropriate for you to represent the London Greenpeace
     2        group as the speaker at a Hackney & Islington Animal Rights
     3        Group on the theme anti-McDonald's?
     4        A.   Because it was near the World Day of Action against
     5        McDonald's.  I knew about McDonald's and went along to
     6        speak.  I would not have gone along and had it -- under --
     7        speaking under the name of Paul Gravett.
     8
     9   Q.   Why?
    10        A.  Well, no one, you know, puts their own names on things
    11        like that, on public display.
    12
    13   Q.   This, Mr. Gravett, is the point?
    14        A.   Yes.
    15
    16   Q.   This, Mr. Gravett, is a feature of London Greenpeace's
    17        continuing concern with McDonald's, is it not?
    18        A.   Well, if I was going along to speak at meetings every
    19        month of the year, up and down the country on behalf of
    20        London Greenpeace, I would call it a continuing feature.
    21        But, in fact, I only did two of these meetings and they
    22        were a year apart.
    23
    24   Q.   Mr. Gravett, this idea that you--
    25        A.  Of course I was interested in the anti-McDonald's
    26        campaign; I am not saying that.
    27
    28   Q.   Yes and so must the members of the group would have been
    29        otherwise you would not have bothered to have mentioned it,
    30        would you?
    31        A.   No.
    32
    33   Q.   No.  That is right.  Mr. Gravett, this idea that you should
    34        speak as representative of London Greenpeace against
    35        McDonald's at a meeting of some other group, that was not
    36        prompted by any of the inquiry agents, was it?  It was your
    37        idea, was it not?
    38        A.   Yes, my idea.  My idea and my idea alone.
    39
    40   Q.   And you announced it at the meeting in the belief that
    41        there might be other members of London Greenpeace who might
    42        go along and hear what you have to say?
    43        A.   I think it was less that, than I just wanted people to
    44        know what I was doing.
    45
    46   Q.   And if anybody had thought -- you say they spoke up if you
    47        disagreed.  If anybody had thought, well, it was a very bad
    48        idea he should represent us on another group on an
    49        anti-McDonald's theme, they would have said so, would they
    50        not?
    51        A.   Yes, they may have done.
    52
    53   Q.   While you have got those notes out and so you shall not
    54        need to get them out again, can you turn back to the notes
    55        of the 19th July, 1990 which will start on page 20.  At the
    56        bottom of the page you should find a handwritten 20?
    57        A.   Yes.
    58
    59   Q.   Now I do not think that you -- yes you were.  You were at
    60        this meeting, or so it is said, on the 19th July and so was

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