Tribunal Update- Linda Moulton Howe Interview

 

How many readers have ever been the targets of an internet lynch mob? It tends to affect people mostly who have a large public presence, but it can be suffered by anybody; sometimes it breaks out among a circle of friends for example. In the background links below I describe my own experiences of it; the frustration, the sense of unfairness, the people you thought were your friends abandoning you without a word. It happens far too often. Case in point, Curt Jaimungal recently interviewed the veteran UFOlogist and mysteries investigator Linda Moulton Howe on his Theory of Everything programme. She has just celebrated her eightieth birthday, but shows no signs of slowing down. The interview goes well until the last twenty minutes, then it takes a nasty turn. Curt reads out a viewer's question concerning a picture Linda put on her Earthfiles website which she used to claim was a photograph of a grey alien taken on the moon by an Apollo astronaut. Linda recoils from the question. She becomes defensive and recriminatory towards Curt. Curt is clearly upset and embarrassed by this. He apologizes to Linda and then the interview ends. He received a lot of congratulatory comments for "asking a tough question!" Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45C8dvULu04. The person posing the question was Steven Cambian who is a popular UFO social media maven, see: https://www.youtube.com/c/Truthseekershow/featured and: https://twitter.com/StevenCambian. He is also a mutual collaborator of my late friend Kev Baker, see: https://www.spreaker.com/user/aftermathfm/episode-6-the-uncomfortable-truth-of-ufo. As you can see, he has made several rather vainglorious videos on his YouTube channel about Linda's interview and the discord that he sowed in it. He claims that the alien image is not one of a real extraterrestrial, in fact it was from the cover of a computer game; and the picture certainly does appear there, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51_(2005_video_game). However, Linda did engage in an email exchange with Steven and admits that there is a chain of custody problem with the image. She changed the picture's description on her website to take account of that. Steven hit back saying that he had spoken to the artist who painted it and therefore was totally certain it was from the computer game. Linda said that this in itself might be a cover story to hide the image's real origins. And this is how the internet lynch mob was roused.
 
Steven Cambian accuses Linda of being a grifter, deliberately promoting the moon alien image, even though she knows it is not a real alien, to make money; along with other things. However, Linda Moulton Howe did attempt to reason with him, exchanging letters, adjusting her position. If she were really a fraud, why did she not just block him and ignore him? She has presented an alternative thesis relating to the phenomenon. To be honest, I think it's unlikely, but she does at least deserve to have her testimony heard. Such backfilling does occur in disinformation psyops, for example see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/04/russian-roswell-fact-or-fake.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/10/alien-autopsy-hoax.html. Why is it disreputable for her to have a paywall? She's earning a living from her work; is that bad? Did the communist party take power in the night? Steven himself takes superchats and there are ads on his videos. I don't understand why this issue cannot be resolved in a civilized manner. Linda does not fit the profile of a scam artist. She makes errors, as we all do, but I think she sincerely believes in the moral virtue of what she is doing. She does try to maintain open lines of communication with her critics; scammers never do that. However, these points were lost on Steven's subscribers. Almost immediately, the usual rigmarole began in the comments sections; a lot of mutual backslapping and unthinking condemnation of Linda. This is how guilt and innocence is decided these days, a handful of videos or Tweets and a well-timed Steven Cambian cackle. Who appointed that babbling beatnik judge, jury and executioner of the UFOlogical community? He's not a UFOlogist. He contributes nothing to the subject at all. All he does is pontificate over the characters of other people in UFOlogy. In this way he is very like Royce Myers, "UFO Watchdog". I'm sick and tired of all these "consciences of UFOlogy" who keep popping up like this and courting attention by slagging everybody else off. What makes me sad is that their posts are a hundred times more popular than any of mine suggesting the introduction of some kind of tribunal system, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/11/shill-tribunal-update-personnel.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-shill-squad-4-tribunal-update.html. Leaving aside UFO's and thinking more generally, we are going to need something like this more than ever in the next few years as the rule of the Deep State on earth weakens. As I've said many times, we are going to need to keep cool heads on our shoulders as we suffer the cold turkey of the post-Illuminati transitional period. What chance do we have to maintain any kind of human civilization if nobody understands the need for due process of law? What is today a Twitterstorm about an alien photo in the future could be a torch-and-pitchforks mob hanging people in the street. Sadly, most people are so dependent on the Illuminati that they can't imagine life without them. Our journey to freedom is going to be long and perilous.
See here for background: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/12/is-there-any-hope.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/03/fake-defamation.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-reply-to-caroline-stephens.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/08/troll-gossip-backlash.html.