Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 44
1 not like the answer to, our witnesses have been told that
2 they must answer the question.
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4 MS. STEEL: He is answering the question. You do not like the
5 way he is answering it.
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7 MS. STEEL: He is not answering what steps. I am not saying why
8 he took the ----
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Please. Ask another question but do not
11 interrupt the witness until he is finished speaking.
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13 MS. STEEL: I want to know what steps you took not why you took
14 them, or why you say you took them. I want to know what
15 steps you took?
16 A. If you let me answer I will. The first step I took was
17 to re-examine a document published by London Greenpeace
18 about its Aims and Objectives. I went back through it and
19 I examined that which it says. Contained in that document
20 is a "we are going to smash McDonald's". This is a primary
21 objective. In there is a statement about alignment with
22 animal liberations and, at the same time as this was
23 happening, we had had in the British Company four or five
24 fire bombing incidents.
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26 When I looked at that document, when I married together the
27 comments from licensees, from owner operators, from
28 managing partners around the world about: "This is
29 affecting our business. What are we doing about it?",
30 I decided to go forward. I did not do it on a whim, a
31 wish. I did it based on what was alarming facts to me
32 published in your document, married together with the
33 comments of my Managing Partners around the world. That
34 simple.
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36 Q. Can you answer the question, please, Mr. Preston?
37 A. I just did.
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39 Q. What steps did you take to stop the publication of the
40 leaflet?
41 A. That is what we did.
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43 Q. You read this leaflet. That is it, is it?
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think the witness may be puzzled because he
46 has already said what steps he had taken.
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48 MS. STEEL: I have not heard them.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And you appear to be asking about more steps,
51 that may be the problem. You may be at cross purposes.
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53 MS. STEEL: I have not heard him say what steps he took apart
54 from reading this leaflet.
55 A. What can I say? I can reiterate it one more time.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He said he set about trying to find out who
58 was responsible, or words to that effect.
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60 MS. STEEL: Right, so how did you do that?
