![]() This, in effect, was where the trial was won - as a showcase victory for the notion of People Against Profit." Despite the Judge ruling against the McLibel Two - but awarding McDonalds only a tiny fraction of their costs - the trial showed that two anarchists could take on one of the biggest capitalist corporations in the world and come out with the vast majority of public opinion on their side. The trial became the longest in British legal history. The two were denied both legal aid and a jury trial and it was quickly revealed that McDonalds had used spies to collect information on them before the trial. "In 1990 McDonalds sued two London Greenpeace activists, David Steele and Helen Morris, for distributing a leaflet critical of McDonalds. Joseph Stilwell, translation of 'Illegitimati non carborundum' People are sick and tired of this country telling them what to do." Malcolm McLaren: "People are sick everywhere. I mean, how could this be a good example to children?" Yorkshire TV Interviewer: "It's said that you're sick on stage, you spit at the audience and so on. "DRUNKENNESS, noun: A temporary but popular cure for Catholicism." "I declare a permanent state of happiness" And if now and then, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the glum loneliness of your room, you come to, your drunken state abated or dissolved, ask the wind, ask the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, ask all that runs away, all that groans, all that wheels, all that sings, all that speaks, what time it is and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, will tell you: 'It is time to get drunk!' If you do not want to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk, always get drunk! With wine, with poetry or with being good. What with? Wine, poetry, or being good, please yourself. If you do not want to feel the appalling weight of Time which breaks your shoulders and bends you to the ground, get drunk, and drunk again. "It is essential to be drunk all the time. Phil, anti-road protestor From The Observer, January 1997 "Don't let my unseriousness make you think it isn't serious." "Tubthumping" is Shouting to Change The World (then having a drink to celebrate).It's stumbling home from your local bar, when the world is ready to be PUT RIGHT. This is the text for this song that was ommitted from the North American version of the "Tubthumper" album: You are never gonna keep me down (when we're winning)īut I get up again (pissing the night away) He sings the songs that remind him of the better times He sings the songs that remind him of the good times ![]() He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink (Pissing the night away, pissing the night away) (We'll be singing, when we're winning, we'll be singing) (But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter)
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