RDH Trial- Day Four

 

See here for day three: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-three.html.
The trial of Richard D Hall is over. The final day, only a half day in the end, was indeed Mr Oakley's summation. He described what he felt were the "very strange" elements of this case, such as the announcement of a planned future injunction halfway through the trial. He criticized Mr Price for failing to address the factual elements of Richard's evidence, even though it was he who originally brought them up. He made the point that Martin Hibbert's principle gripe seems not so much Richard's conduct as it is his opinions. This again raises the subject of an obvious ulterior motive. Something happened on Tuesday that I thought it wise not to mention at the time, while the trial was in progress; because it might give away intelligence to the enemy, so to speak. During his cross-examination of "Miss G" Mr Oakley asked her a question that didn't seem relevant at first glance. Did she approve of the mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham's proposal for a law to force people not to question the official story of terrorist attacks; she replied "Yeah!" without hesitation and with a vigorous nod of the head. I wondered why the barrister had asked her that question, but then it became clear to me. It was similar to Mr Price's cross-examination of Richard. Mr Oakley had laid out a trap for Miss G and she walked straight into it. She exposed herself as bearing personal and emotional hostility to conspiracy theories. If she had said something like: "Well, I hate this nonsense about the Arena attack not happening, but I do believe in free speech so wouldn't try to stop people saying it" she would have come across as more reasonable and open-minded. As it was, her attitude added to the suspicion that this lawsuit is just a vexatious pretext to punish somebody whose views make them angry. It is a form of litigious cancel culture. The barrister also made the point that it is only through questioning official stories that true justice is often done. He cites the obvious example of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four, ten men imprisoned for a decade for a crime they didn't commit, the 1974 pub bombings. Another example is the Hillsborough inquiry; and there are many others. As expected, Mrs Justice (I'm sure her parents didn't call her that) Steyn ended the trial without making a judgement. She promised to do this in a couple of months. As we left the Royal Courts we were astonished to be faced with broadside of TV cameras and photographers snapping away; so you might have seen us on the news tonight! We did not speak to them and just walked straight down a side street to a pub for a well deserved drink. The trial is over, but we still don't know the verdict. Despite this, we were all in high spirits, especially Richard who is probably very relieved that this is all over, for better or worse. I know for a fact that regardless of the judge's decision, Richard will not go under. He has too many supporters and we will continue to support him. Mr Oakley came with us to the pub. As I said before, Richard's barrister was brilliant, but I did not know his real opinions. A good lawyer can act with enormous principled passion that seems genuine, but sometimes their own views are very different. This can lead to some misunderstandings, such as in this famous movie scene, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjbxL_v2DPk. As we spoke to him in the pub it became obvious that Mr Oakley was being sincere. I don't want to say too much in case it gets him into trouble, but suffice to say he is very much on our side. It was great to spend some time with so many like-minded people. Unlike a conference, this gathering had a serious purpose and a moral mission. I've made some really good friends this week. Despite it being an experience we'd rather Richard had not had to go through, and I'm quite certain he does too, we've all learned a lot and gained a lot. Richard himself should feel very proud of what he has achieved.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-lawsuit-mini-portal.html.

RDH Trial- Day Three

 

See here for day two: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-2.html.

At the start of the third day of the trial of Richard D Hall, everybody felt that Richard was way ahead. The defence had declared with a very high innings, but now it was the prosecution's turn to come out to the crease and bat. Mr Price began by calling Richard as a witness. The first two hours of his cross examination was baffling. He started doing what is similar to a skeptics' debunking of Richard's theories on the Manchester Arena; not unlike the recent one Neil Sanders has done (unsuccessfully in my view). This was very odd because it seems to run contrary to the summary judgement forbidding any discussion of evidence. I had the feeling there was some strategy involved that I, not being a lawyer, could not understand; and I was right, but I'll come to that later. Mr Price kept reminding Richard of his responsibilities as a journalist, quoting OfCom's rules relating to "fairness" and the welfare of contributors. He claimed that the Hibberts had been featured so much in Richard's filmography that they counted as contributors and not just subjects. I doubt that, but I'm sure it can be clarified. Mr Price appealed to emotion again, returning to the "cruelty" and "hurt" Richard's actions had caused, allegedly. How the final photo of Martin and Eve in the restaurant before going to the Arena was "very precious" to them. "What about compassion?" he implored. As I've said before, such guilt tripping is not uncommon and I think it has no place in a rational discussion, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2009/01/show-some-respect.html. Mr Price kept pushing Richard to explore the hypothetical possibility of whether the Hibberts' story could be true. "Why don't you just believe them, Mr Hall?" he said. "Surely you can understand why, if their story is true, they would be so upset?" "It's a very serious matter because you're accusing them of a crime!" He then asked Richard if he had done a risk assessment before producing his programmes, as if Richplanet TV is some kind of building site. He quoted numerous media regulations and how journalistic freedom and the public interest have to be weighed up against privacy and social violation etc. Two questions I would like to have asked him which never came up in the trial were: How does Marianna Spring's invasion of Richard's market stall and attacks on his reputation weigh up in that rulebook? And: In his view, how does one legitimately portray Martin Hibbert and his family with anything other than unquestioning adulation according to his standards? I might add, as a KC Mr Price lacks the eloquence and conviction of Mr Oakley. It's just as well he is not on Richard's side. 

 

Richard replied calmly, choosing all his words carefully; but he remained defiant. He kept returning to the point that the evidence was what mattered and that whether the witness' testimony matched the facts was relevant. In his view, there are questions that people have a right to ask and should be asking; and I agree with him. He brought up examples of real life false flag and staged terror like Operation Gladio and the Baghdad bombing in which actors pretended to be dead bodies. He described the cagey and contradictory attitude of the public inquiry. It was only later on in his summing up that I realized the game Mr Price was playing with Richard; he was testing him. He claimed that Richard had the "arrogant" idea that he had no need to balance his journalistic rights to free speech with his duties of protection towards witnesses and subjects. However, if Richard had answered differently, for example saying: "Yes, if it turned out Martin and Eve were telling the truth then I would have to withdraw my books and films and apologize to them." then he would be lured away from his central argument, that he questioned the truth of their statements in the first place. This would lead to him to being trapped in an infinite paradoxical loop, saying that despite his doubts about their honesty, they might be honest; and therefore he would not have been doing this research in the first place which made him question that etc. Mr Price stated as fact that Richard's theories were "baseless"; I wonder why he used that word. I was waiting for him to say "egregious harm" and "trust the science", but he is not quite that corny. It was only just before the lunch break that Mr Price briefly brought up what I thought was the core of the Hibbert's grievance against Richard, his filming outside Eve's house. He did not successfully counter the points made by the defence though, in my view. He asked Richard why he thought he had got it right about Manchester when all the judges, the police, the emergency services and the city council etc all got it wrong, as if reality is some kind of election. He accused Richard of confessing that what he does is harmful because he shields his own nine year old son from what is going on while castigating the Hibberts for not doing so with Eve, but that is not an accurate analogy. Richard is shielding his son from his own court case; a very different affair. As with the Alex Jones trial, Mr Price presented Richard with some examples of recent social media posts about this trial, as if Richard is directly responsible for the behaviour of others, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/08/alex-jones-in-court.html. He did not include the HPANWO Voice posts in this series, probably because I am too reasonable for his purposes. There is only one day left in the schedule of this trial and I expect it will be mostly Mr Oakley summing up. I will be there tomorrow for that.
See here for day four: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-four.html.

See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-lawsuit-mini-portal.html.

RDH Trial- Day Two

 

See here for day one: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial.html.
I got up at five AM for a second time to catch the coach to London. Luckily there is a very good regular coach service between Oxford and London precluding the need for accommodation there which is very expensive. As I've said earlier, I always feel very uncomfortable entering the Royal Courts of Justice; that Dracula's castle in the heart of the capital gives me the creeps, and I'm not even the one in trouble... yet. Today consisted entirely of a series of three cross-examinations by Mr Oakley, Richard D Hall's barrister. The first was with somebody I will call "Miss B"; she is Eve's educational carer. She said she became aware of Richard's presence more recently than the others; it was when the Panorama documentary was broadcast in October 2022. Eve herself first heard about Richard the previous summer, when the family decided to nickname him "Stalkerman". They believed that Richard was "making money!" from conspiracy theories and that this is "unfair!" (In the portal link below I explain why that very unoriginal accusation is false.) Eve's access to the internet is closely supervised, seeing as she is a mentally and physically handicapped young adult. Mr Oakley accepted that the presence of cameras and the media at Eve's college was upsetting for her, but that was nothing to do with Richard. Eve's parents did not try to reassure Eve that "Stalkerman" was not going to come back and "get her!"; why not? Eve apparently is generally very nervous and needs constant comforting. The second witness of the day was a "Mr Ll". He is a friend of Martin Hibbert and he claims to have heard of Richard as long ago as 2018. He told Martin about it, but the latter dismissed it as unimportant. Mr Ll says that Mr Hibbert is a very proud man who masks his feelings. Mr Oakley repeated the point he had made to Mr Hibbert and Miss B, that any anxiety and trauma the family was experiencing, was not Richard's fault; it was due to the general aftermath of the event in Manchester. Richard was pretty much a transient figure in their lives until the beginning of Mr Hibbert's media career. Mr Ll said that "denial of their story", meaning the official story of how the Manchester Arena incident had taken place, had harmed Eve and Martin. This is another very hackneyed falsehood that is wheeled out whenever some disaster occurs, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2009/01/show-some-respect.html. Mr Ll also claimed Richard had made an "implied threat" to a paramedic in one of his videos when in fact all Richard did was make his viewers aware that he had more information about that man that he might release at a later date. Mr Ll echoed one of the points made by Mr Hibbert, that he felt intimidated in the courtroom by the presence of... wait for it!... us! Richard's supporters, people like me. It is true that dozens of us have turned up to act as observers/McKenzie friends whenever Richard is in court; but, as far as I have seen, we have behaved ourselves impeccably. I have never approached Martin Hibbert on any of the occasions I have been with him in the Royal Courts of Justice. I believe none of us would be as stupid and counterproductive as to behave in a hostile manner towards him. In fact, at one time today I was passing through a door at the same time as Mr Ll and held it open for him. He said: "No, after you." I passed through the door and replied: "Thank you." We have a right to be there under the principle of open justice.

The most interesting witness was the last one of the day, "Miss G" who is Eve's mother and Martin Hibbert's ex-partner. She was not present in the courtroom and called in via CVP, which is similar to Skype or Zoom. Mr Oakley asked her how she felt about Eve's father's media presence; his TV and radio interviews and the new book he has just published. She shrugged and said it was his business seeing as they are separated and he is an adult. She trusts him and doesn't believe Eve could be harmed by the publicity. Like Mr Hibbert, Miss G is uncertain about the details of Richard D Hall's influence on their lives. Like the others, she first heard about him from Martin's discussions with her in mid-2021 and had no previous knowledge of him. She has only watched one of his videos and read a very short passage from his book. Richard's barrister then challenged her with many of the same points he had made to Mr Hibbert. Why is this a problem when Richard only approached their home on one occasion almost two years previously? Why had they never reported Richard to the police on any other occasion apart from summer of 2021? Did she know that Richard had stayed on a public highway and had not trespassed on her property? Miss G then contradicts Miss B by saying that she regularly informs her daughter about online content related to Richard, such as showing her Marianna Spring's TV documentary. She allows Eve to use the internet unsupervised, but says her daughter only watches music videos when left to her own devices. She says that Eve is still scared of Richard, but how does she know so much about him? Again, it seems that it is those around her who are actively keeping Richard fresh in her mind. Why don't they reassure her that he has gone and will never come back? Then something incredible was revealed, it turns out that Richard had had communication with the Hibbert's solicitor long before the harassment lawsuit against him had been initiated. The law firm had sent Richard what is effectively a cease-and-desist notice and Richard had replied that he was willing to remove some of the material that had been published by Mr Hibbert that he had reproduced, which he is not obliged to under established journalistic practice; if the family would accept that he had done nothing wrong. Miss G replied in a similar vein to her ex; she did not know this correspondence had taken place. That is extraordinary. I, personally, would be incensed if any solicitor acting for me tried to make secret negotiations with another party while keeping me in the dark. Somebody is lying here; either the family or their lawyers. Either way, this is a very weird situation. Of course, if this exchange between Richard and the solicitors had been made in the open, then that changes everything. It suggests a desire on Richard's part to deescalate and close the case amicably. The trial continues.
See here for day three: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-three.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-lawsuit-mini-portal.html.

RDH Trial- Day One

The trial of Richard D Hall has begun; see the link below for background. Day one is over. It was held at the Royal Courts of Justice again and this time the court had made more of an effort to accommodate the large volume of visitors. A second courtroom had been set up with a cloud video platform, a type of CCTV, so the people who were unable to fit into the main courtroom have somewhere else to watch. Richard was represented by a barrister this time; and, as it happened, he turned out to be a right Perry Mason! Mr Price was once again acting for the claimant. There was a different judge this time, a Mrs Justice Steyn. The court officials were "robed" this time, wearing the traditional suits, gowns and wigs. Mr Price began by giving an overview of Mr Hibbert and his daughter's experience since the alleged bomb attack in 2017. I found it unfair that the prosecution is allowed to bring up evidence to support their cause, but Richard is forbidden by the summary judgement. What's more the claimant has himself criticised the Kerslake Report, the official story of the Manchester Arena attack, so why can't Richard? Richard's public views about the incident were described with words like "insulting" and "upsetting", but being insulting is not a crime. Mr Price stated that it doesn't matter whether Richard believes sincerely that the Manchester Arena event was staged; what matters is the damage it does to the people on the receiving end. The prosecution's opening statement was primarily emotional, not factual. Mr Oakley, Richard's barrister said pretty much all the things that I have said before, that this whole case against Richard had the ulterior motive of censorship. Martin Hibbert was called as a witness and most of the rest of the day covered the defence's cross-examination of him. Mr Hibbert acted as if he were still filming with the BBC instead of giving testimony in a courtroom. He spoke of his emotional trauma and fear for his daughter's safety, but at the same time he has sought publicity and is quite happy to appear in major media roles; documentaries, news stories, interviews etc. Nearly all the material Richard has used as evidence to criticize him is in the public domain, much of it published by Mr Hibbert himself. The only exception was when Richard went to Eve Hibbert's home. However, even this is not what it has been portrayed as. Richard did this in July 2019 while Mr Hibbert only found out about it two years later, in the summer of 2021. It was the visits by the police and not Richard that drew the neighbours' attention towards Eve. Mr Oakley also pointed out that, by his own admission, it is not Richard who has caused all of Mr Hibbert's trouble. His injury and mental trauma has. Hibbert gives contradictory dates about when he first heard of Richard as well as vague and uncertain statements about what effect Richard is having on him and his family. Hibbert includes a lot of rhetoric about his dislike generally of conspiracy theories. This makes the barrister question his motives. He brings no evidence at all to the table that supports his claim that Richard has harassed him.

 
Mr Hibbert generally seems very unsure of himself and what exactly he thinks Richard has done wrong. He can't remember the specific videos in which Richard is supposed to have caused him and his daughter so much emotional hurt. Doesn't he remember? I have really been harassed and I know off by heart every word said to me by "Team Droike" and where they said it, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/04/that-thread.html. Why did Mr Hibbert drag this issue into court? There is a simple statutory commission grievance procedure for breaches of data protection. Mr Hibbert then made the unusual step of criticizing his own legal team for not telling him this. What is really going on here? The trial has begun well for Richard. His barrister did an excellent job. Of course there are up to three more days left to go and the prosecution will get the chance to strike back, but so far so good. I'll be going to London tomorrow for day two.

See here for day two: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-2.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-lawsuit-mini-portal.html.

RDH Lawsuit Mini-Portal

I have decided to put links to all my publications on the subject of Richard D Hall's lawsuit into a mini-portal where readers can access them easily and systematically. This subject does not need a main site full portal because there will probably only be a handful of posts about it and many of them.

The BBC on RDH: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-bbc-on-rdh.html.

HPANWO Show 538 Podcast- Nick Kollerstrom: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/02/hpanwo-show-538-podcast-nick-kollerstrom.html.
RDH Panorama Livestream: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/11/rdh-panorama-livestream.html.
RDH vs the BBC Update: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/04/rdh-vs-bbc-update.html.
Free the Merthyr Tydfil One!: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/05/free-merthyr-tydfil-one.html.
"The Truth is No Defence": https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-truth-is-no-defence.html.

RDH in Court- Day One: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/01/rdh-in-court-day-one.html.
RDH Court Verdict: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/02/rdh-court-verdict.html.
RDH in Court- Day Two: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/03/rdh-in-court-day-2.html.
RDH in Court- Appeal Rejected: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/06/rdh-in-court-appeal-rejected.html.

RDH Trial- Day One: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial.html.

RDH Trial- Day Two: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-2.html.

RDH Trial- Day Three: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-three.html.

RDH Trial- Day Four: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-trial-day-four.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones and the Crafty Nihilist 2

 

I have been featured on a livestream by the Crafty Nihilist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UlYoi6AZBI.
This was an unplanned contribution. I happened to be watching and they invited me on. It went well considering I was ad-libbing and we discussed consciousness, past lives and Lord of the Rings.
See here for my previous appearance on the Crafty Nihilist's channel: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/06/ben-emlyn-jones-and-crafty-nihilist.html.

Lotus Eaters on Chemtrails

 

A couple of months ago I reported on how Podcast of the Lotus Eaters had started tackling more conspiratorial subjects, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/05/lotus-eaters-go-full-woo.html. I am pleased to report that they have taken the next step by examining geoengineering. They were inspired by the Dubai flood story which sounds to me like either a rainmaking programme gone wrong or an act of environmental terrorism, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/04/rain-in-dubai.html. Josh is joined in the show by regular guest panellist Godfrey Bloom and a young man called Lewis; and they reveal that recently there was an atmospheric aerosol test that was not revealed to the public until afterwards. They also speak as a truism something that has never been admitted formally, that the Lynmouth disaster was caused by an RAF cloud seeding experiment, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/07/lynmouth-flood.html. The irrepressible Godfrey is famous for saying what he thinks and not caring what anybody says, so I found it quite moving to hear him talk about his life in the country and how he and his wife once saw chemtrails forming behind high flying aeroplanes covering the English rural sky in a white blanket. As the Eaters rightly say, chemtrails do not only poison the sky, but the ground too. Clifford Carnicom and Sophia Smallstorm have addressed that too, see: https://old.bitchute.com/video/7rfBT1NGMZH6/. It appears the Met Office is very much involved, receiving massive donations from billionaires via a geoengineering lobby group. Along with chemtrails, geoengineers plan to move their interventions above the atmosphere by putting mirrors in space. Bill Gates has his finger in this pie of course. Incredibly there are currently 327 projects underway in the United Kingdom on geoengineering. These are supposedly only "hypothetical" projects; but then why so many and why are they being given so much money? I've spoken before about the Oxford Martin School, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/03/oxford-martin-school-and-geoengineering.html. Source: https://odysee.com/@lotuseaters_com:1/don’t-question-the-clouds:1. One wonders, with this new found awareness of all matters tin foil hat related, where will the Eaters go next? Be sure, when they do you will hear about it first on HPANWO Voice.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-change-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/02/chemtrails-portal.html.