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Originally Posted by serial
Absolutely, luckily BT shareholders have more intelligence than BT gives them credit. When Pete(dephormation) asked his questions, many of the shareholders were curious as to what this was all about. The team outside were greeted with a plethora of shareholders asking to explain what he(Pete) was talking about.
Again, just to re-state, the information we provided wasn't negative spin, it was factual. The information in the fliers is 100% correct.
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Indeed and many thanks for PG from inphormation desk for producing the flier text in a language which was comprehensive to the general public. We handed out over 1000 fliers today and they all went to interested parties as opposed to just shoving them into the hands of random passers by.
One very interesting situation which I almost forgot. There were some BT OpenReach lawyers there who discussed the system with one of the campaigners and until then had no idea that it was even happening. There were some very frantic phone calls made by them to their colleagues and they took a fist full of fliers with them to discuss the matter further.
Alexander Hanff
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Originally Posted by bluecar1
well done, sort out the work issue first as wife and kids need to get a bit more priority for a while
peter
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It isn't as easy as that unfortunately. I have a job lined up but I need to sit my exam before I can start it and that requires a great deal of time and concentration which is almost impossible for me at the moment as there really is so much going on that it is impossible to concentrate on an exam at the moment.
Furthermore, I have a responsibility to this campaign and this very much involves my own family as I am fighting to protect their rights as well. If I drop everything now what happens? Kent will see it as a victory and it could set the campaign back significantly. I didn't ask to be in this position but I am and I can't abandon my post at such a critical time.
The press and media interviews I give, the meetings with Peers such as Lord Northesk and Baroness Miller, the work I am doing behind the scenes to organise meetings and phone calls, the case now in the hands of City of London Police; they all need to continue and without them the campaign suffers significantly.
It simply isn't possible to walk away from this, it is a responsibility I have to bare (and do so gladly because it is an issue I am absolutely dedicated to and passionate about) and I will continue to do that to the best of my ability.
There is no choice to make between money and civil liberties, civil liberties must take priority every time they are the most important aspects of everything we are as a society and of democracy itself, nothing is more important than that. I can't just switch off after thousands and thousands of hours of work, it would be inhuman to do so and I simply can't. This might not make sense to some people I guess I don't know how to explain it better I only know how I feel and I simply cannot drop this, irrespective of any hardship I may encounter as a result. I only wish I could earn money half as quickly as Phorm are losing it
This is real life, this is what it is all about, not what you are worth in financial terms but how you choose to live and the decisions you make. This is not just about us, these issues have extreme reach and will effect the lives of our children, their children and beyond. Once these rights are dissolved they don't just fall back into our laps, they are gone pretty much forever. I have a family, I have a duty to protect them at all costs, as do we all.
I am probably not making much sense because my head is spinning from the days events, but I say these words with the utmost of sincerity and people really do need to wake up to the realisation that life is not about today or tomorrow, it is about the future, it is about what we can all achieve for the betterment of that future and it cannot be measured by how much money you have in the bank, that really doesn't matter.
Alexander Hanff