Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 54


     
     1        A.  Yes.
     2
     3   Q.   And you had conceived the idea before ever you joined this
     4        group, am I right, that successful multinationals of the
     5        type you saw epitomised by McDonald's, successful
     6        multinationals of that kind, ought to be removed from the
     7        face of the earth; is that right?
     8        A.  You cannot run a multinational and make profits without
     9        exploitation and oppression.
    10
    11   Q.   But am I right?
    12        A.  Yes, I did.  It was before I got involved with London
    13        Greenpeace that I had an opposition to the way that
    14        multinationals did their profiteering.
    15
    16   Q.   So the London Greenpeace anti-McDonald's campaign, which
    17        was already being heralded as a huge success even by the
    18        time you joined, must have seemed like manna from heaven to
    19        you.  It was absolutely perfect for your purposes was it
    20        not?
    21        A.  It was a campaign I was involved in.  I mean, just lots
    22        of different things, and I have attended hundreds of
    23        demonstrations and pickets on a wide range of issues, and
    24        McDonald's was one of those.
    25
    26   Q.   You must have thought that fact sheet, so called
    27        fact sheet, was one of the best things you had every read.
    28        Am I not right?
    29        A.  It was interesting.
    30
    31   Q.   Yes.  And I am sure you embraced it with enthusiasm did you
    32        not?
    33        A.  I don't know what you mean to be honest.
    34
    35   Q.   What I mean is that you grasped every opportunity that
    36        arose to dish out this and other kinds of material which
    37        might help to remove McDonald's from the planet?
    38        A.  From when I got involved in the group, it was always
    39        said that the fact sheet was not for distributing on the
    40        streets, that it was saved for specific inquiries.  If I
    41        was as keen as you are making out, I would have got
    42        involved with answering letters, and so on, to do with the
    43        with anti-McDonald's stuff.  I would have, like, become
    44        part of the -- I mean, it was not a subgroup but part of
    45        the, you know, people who were actually running the
    46        campaign.  To me it was one of the issues and, yes, it
    47        embraced issues which are important to me, but it was not,
    48        it did not have, you know, any special significance.
    49
    50   Q.   And you did not in the very least, in fact quite the
    51        contrary, disapprove of what anybody else may have done in
    52        pursuit of that campaign, did you?
    53        A.  It was not up to me to disapprove or approve, people
    54        got on with whatever they felt was important and, you know,
    55        if you weren't interested or you did not feel that that was
    56        something you wanted to focus on, then you did not have to.
    57
    58   Q.   Are you saying, Miss Steel, it is in character for you to
    59        sit by when something is being done in the name of a group
    60        with which you are associated of which you do not approve.

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