Day 258 - 07 Jun 96 - Page 52


     
     1        paragraph?
     2        A.  Which paragraph?
     3
     4   Q.   The third paragraph down?
     5        A.  Right; yes.
     6
     7   Q.   It says, "We are active in supporting the miners' strike
     8        and the print workers sacked by Murdoch".  You do not have
     9        any objection to people supporting those causes, do you?
    10        A.  Let me read that.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No ---
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:  It is simple question.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- I am sorry; Mr. Preston said that what he
    17        objected to was the "smash McDonald's" and, for better or
    18        worse, he thought it said it aligned you with the Animal
    19        Liberation Front.
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, so -----
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There has been no suggestion from
    24        Mr. Nicholson that he has feelings one way or another about
    25        the miners' strike.  He may do, for all I know.  If you are
    26        suggesting that he did something relevant to this case
    27        because he does not have much time for the miners' strike,
    28        just put it to him.  There is no point in just asking him
    29        what his view on the miners' strike is.
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  No, I do not want to know his view of the miners'
    32        strike -----
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you have an allegation, put it to him
    35        straight.
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  You did not have any objection to any of the other
    38        activities mentioned in the leaflet that London Greenpeace
    39        were pursuing?  That was their business, so far as you were
    40        concerned?
    41        A.  The one that worried me was your association or your --
    42        London Greenpeace's proclaimed association with animal
    43        liberation groups, because we had suffered at the hands of
    44        animal liberation groups.
    45
    46   Q.   So, you had no objection to anything else?
    47        A.  Yes, your anti-McDonald's stand.
    48
    49   Q.   All right, then.  Fair enough.  But apart from the other
    50        activities, you did not have any objection to it, as in 
    51        that paragraph?  If you can read that paragraph to 
    52        yourself.  If you read the paragraph and say "Do you have 
    53        any objection" ---
    54        A.  As a member.
    55
    56   Q.   -- "to London Greenpeace's right to be involved in those
    57        activities"?
    58        A.  As a member of McDonald's executive, no, because I was
    59        not concerned with the poll tax, I was not concerned with
    60        the miners' strike.  My own feelings on those things are a

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