Max Mosley News of the World trial protest

Max Mosley News of the World trial protest

Just before the judge ended the proceedings in court 13 Royal Courts Of Justice Monday 14th July 4:25pm, Stuart Holmes (Anti smoking campaigner) approached the bench handed some papers to the judge, produced a banner, saying: "Holocaust-Mosley Ecclestone & Blair’s tobacco conspiracy destroyed EC Directive 98/43/EC.....", held it over his head and said to the judge in a loud voice:

“Your Honour Both parties are guilty of holocaust, the court is turning a blind eye to this holocaust, that is an abuse of process! Rupert Murdoch is a director of Marlboro cigarettes and is promoting smoking in his films (Actors Smoking) and Max Mosley was involved in the Bernie Ecclestone conspiracy to destroy a European directive to ban tobacco advertising. The World Health Organisation forecast 1 billion tobacco deaths this century."

The Judge repeatedly told him to shut up- he refused, the judge then left the court and Holmes was bundled out of court by an assistant and then escorted from the building by security.

This is the banner-

HOLOCAUST

MOSLEY, ECCLESTONE & BLAIR’S

TOBACCO CONSPIRACY

DESTROYED EC DIRECTIVE 98/43/EC

The World Health Organisation forecast 1 billion tobacco deaths this century (That’s 15 times greater than the total war dead of the entire 20th century excluding genocide.)

These are the papers handed to the judge-

Tobacco lobby targeted Blair as 'smoker friendly'
Jamie Doward, social affairs editor The Observer, Sunday October 31, 2004 Article history

Tony Blair was identified by the tobacco lobby as a potential ally more than a decade ago, according to confidential documents that will reignite the debate about Number 10's links with cigarette manufacturers.
It emerged last week that the Prime Minister and a number of his key allies, including former Trade Secretary Stephen Byers, had met executives and lobbyists from British American Tobacco (BAT) in 2000, at a time when the company was being investigated over claims that it was colluding with smugglers.
The revelations raised questions about the power and influence of the tobacco lobby, which is currently looking to steer the government away from making a manifesto commitment to banning smoking in pubs.
Now, previously unpublished documents show that Blair, a former smoker, had been targeted by the tobacco industry for almost 15 years. The industry conducted a series of meetings while Blair was a shadow minister and these continued when he entered Number 10.
In 1991 the Prime Minister, then an MP, was included on a list of politicians, journalists and other key opinion formers who were viewed as 'friendly' towards the Tobacco Advisory Council (TAC), the pan-industry group that represents the interests of the cigarette firms and set up the pressure group Forest (Freedom of the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco).
The list, headlined with the words 'Subject: target list advertising campaign newsletter', was drawn up on 23 August, 1991, by the lobbying and public relations firm, Edelman, on behalf of the TAC. It was sent to executives working for four cigarette companies, Gallaher, Rothmans, Imperial and British American Tobacco and identified people who might support its campaign to derail the European Commission's plans to outlaw tobacco advertising.
Blair, and the current Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, were included under the headline 'TAC friendly MPs', along with scores of other, chiefly Conservative politicians, journalists such as Auberon Waugh of the Telegraph and Richard Littlejohn of the Sun, and members of the Commons Pipe Smokers Club. One person who helped draw up the list said Blair may have been included because he had been tacitly supportive of the tobacco lobby's 'freedom to choose' campaign.
However, a Downing Street spokeswoman said: 'This list was put together by a lobbying firm to impress its clients. We know of no evidence that the Prime Minister has ever taken an interest in this issue.'
A spokeswoman for the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association, which replaced the TAC, said it was impossible to say why its predecessor had viewed Blair as 'friendly'. But she suggested that the TAC might have taken the view because Blair's constituency contained a cigarette factory and would have been worried about potential job losses once the Brussels directive came into force.
The document of 'friendly MPs' was buried in the archives of BAT's library in Guildford, Surrey. The company was forced to open up the archives as part of a series of lawsuits, but it had failed to implement any index or classification system. The list emerged only last week after researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine finished a three-year project to systematise the archive's 6.5 million pages and put it online.
By 1995, six months after he was elected leader of the Labour Party, documents show Blair's name had been dropped from the list of MPs viewed as 'friendly' by the tobacco lobby.
But Ash, the anti-smoking group, said the Prime Minister's inclusion on the 1991 list was worrying. 'There are some deeply disturbing names on this list. These lobbyists know their business. They don't put contacts on without some reason. It would be interesting to find out what the reason was for Mr Blair,' said Ian Wilmore, a spokesman for Ash.
The pressure group said it was not surprised Martin was considered 'friendly' by the tobacco lobby. Interviewed in a book. Smoke Ring: Tobacco, Money and Multinational Politics, first published in 1984, Martin talked about his relationship with Imperial Tobacco, then a big employer in his constituency. 'The wealth of the Imperial group was created by tobacco workers. We help them when they need us,' he said.
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Tobacco Advertising Directive 98/43/EC

Max Mosley was involved in the Bernie Ecclestone Affair (A conspiracy to destroy EC directive 98/43/EC)
The World Healtth Organisation forecast 1 billion tobacco deaths this century (That’s 15 times greater than the total war dead of the entire 20th century excluding genocide.)

The following is from Wikipedia:

In 1997, Mosley was involved in delaying European legislation banning tobacco advertising. The British Labour party had pledged to ban tobacco advertising in its manifesto ahead of its 1997 General Election victory, supporting a proposed European Union Directive banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship.[57] At this time all leading Formula One Teams carried significant branding from tobacco brands such as Rothmans, West, Marlboro and Mild Seven. The Labour Party's stance on banning tobacco advertising was reinforced following the election by forceful statements from the Health Secretary Frank Dobson and Minister for Public Health Tessa Jowell.[58] Ecclestone appealed "over Jowell's head" to Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff, who arranged a meeting with Blair. Ecclestone and Mosley, both Labour Party donors [59], met Blair on 16 October 1997. Mosley argued that the proposed legislation was illegal by EU rules, that Formula One needed more time to find alternative sources of funding and that the prompt introduction of a ban would lead to races being held outside Europe, while the coverage, including tobacco logos, would still be broadcast into the EU.[60] He also argued that:
Motor racing was a world class industry which put Britain at the hi-tech edge. Deprived of tobacco money, Formula One would move abroad at the loss of 50,000 jobs, 150,000 part-time jobs and £900 million of exports.[58]
On 4 November the "fiercely anti-tobacco Jowell" argued in Brussels for an exemption for Formula One. Media attention initially focused on Labour bending its principles for a "glamour sport" and on the "false trail" of Jowell's husband's links to the Benetton Formula One team. On 6 November correspondents from three newspapers inquired whether Labour had received any donations from Ecclestone; he had donated £1 million in January 1997.[58] On 11 November Labour promised to return the money on the advice of Sir Patrick Neill.[61] On 17 November Blair apologised for his government's mishandling of the affair and stated "the decision to exempt Formula One from tobacco sponsorship was taken two weeks later. It was in response to fears that Britain might lose the industry overseas to Asian countries who were bidding for it."[62]
The revised directive went into force on in June 1998, and banned sponsorship from 2003, with a further three year extension for "global sports such as Formula One". On 5 October 2000, the directive was successfully overturned in the European Court of Justice on the grounds that it was unlawful.[63] A new Tobacco Advertising Directive took effect in July 2005; The Financial Times described Mosley as "furious" about the fact that this was a year earlier than provided for under the 1998 directive.[64]