Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 39


     
     1        55, for example, of pink 1A.
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  Have you finished with the photographs?
     4
     5   MR. RAMPTON:  For the moment.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Keep them near at hand somewhere.
     8        A.  Did you say 55?
     9
    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?
    14
    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.
    19
    20   Q.   This document underwent several versions did it not?
    21        A.  I have seen other versions of it, I think, yes.
    22
    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.
    28
    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."
    39
    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.
    48
    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.
    54
    55   Q.   It is a way of spreading the word is it not?
    56        A.  Yes.
    57
    58   Q.   And that is what Veggies did with the fact sheet was it
    59        not?
    60        A.  With -- sorry?

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