A few days ago, somebody approached me in a pub with some
urgency and informed me that Richard D Hall thinks that Luis Elizondo is a
shill. I replied by smiling thinly. The phrase: "Richard D Hall thinks
(insert name here) is a shill!" is almost a tautology. For a man who goes
to sleep every night thinking there are MI5 agents under his bed and once
denounced an entire radio station merely because their website looked a bit
like his, Elizondo is red meat. Yet Richard is only the most extreme fringe of
a broad spectrum. Despite what the skeptics claim, UFOlogists are not a gaggle
of wide-eyed believers. We are very introspective and self-critical, and
sometimes in the wrong way. In fact there is virtually a cottage industry of social
media mavens who dedicate every moment online to picking holes in the
characters of everybody else in UFOlogy, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/02/simon-parkes-is-innocent.html
and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/01/tribunal-update-linda-moulton-howe.html.
Those, like myself, who refuse to jump on these torch-and-pitchfork bandwagons
are subjected to emasculating scorn; and another example has just come to
light. Cristina Gomez is a relative newcomer to the subject, emerging in the
post-2017 "New UFOlogy" wave. She has become a dedicated journalist
and blogger who regularly posts new material, see: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParadigmShifts
and: https://strangeparadigms.com. She
comes across as a good-natured and cheery young woman. Unfortunately, her
positivity inevitably has led to accusations of weakness and naiveté from the usual
clan of backslappers. This encouraged her to write an article in which she
asserts her own position as well as predicting the inevitable backlash from
the UFO Twitter disinfo-heads. It's an excellent defence of Lue Elizondo that
is intelligent and analytic. It is clear that Cristina has indeed seriously
considered the other side of the story, as have I. The notion that Elizondo is
a new Richard Doty or Nick Pope has to be addressed. His rise to prominence
does seem very convenient. His frustrating reticence and seeming inability to
deliver the information he continuously hints that he has should make one think
twice. However, I don't accept that it helps to take a preventative or alarmist
position. We do ourselves and UFOlogy no favours by assuming that a person is
bad because they do not jump to every tune we whistle, as and when required. As
Cristina puts it: "...if he isn't a
peerless master of Disclosure and the tip of 'our' truth-seeking spear; a guru
of confirmation of all our suspicions about the gatekeepers in the house of
smoke and mirrors, conforming to our every expectation- then by gosh, we'll
cancel him! Yeah... Right. Get over yourselves." Source: https://strangeparadigms.com/blog/whos-lue-no-who-are-you-971.
Lue Elizondo has stated several times that Disclosure is a
process and I'm inclined to believe him. It matches my own previous
observations. Cristina has also understood that, in many cases, so-called
"cross-examination" is simply an excuse for an orgy of self-indulgent
bullying. What's more, money can be made from this kind of drama. As I say in
the background articles above, the "wannabe Howard Stern" channels
are often monetized. Their users are often on Patreon and give privileges to
donors. Their Tweets get liked by major mainstream media outlets. These people
have written books and made movies to "bring the truth!" Debunking
UFO's is big business. At the end of the day, what real evidence is there that
Elizondo is a shill? Cristina breaks the issue down very well. He has a reputation
for expressing sincere beliefs about UFO transparency. He left the Pentagon,
with all its salary and benefits, to rough it as a civilian UFOlogist. He has
been consistent in his assessment of the phenomenon, including taking up
positions unpopular in some circles, such as the threat possibility being a genuine
military concern. The allegation that Elizondo is a government plant is nothing
more than an assumption; and it is pedalled by people who have a vested
interest in him being an agent, either financial or in terms of social status. Does
it occur to any of those people that if Lue is for real then he presents an
opportunity we cannot afford to miss? Cristina uses a lot of angry rhetoric in
her article, but she has been sorely provoked. There is a UFOlogical thug
element and it has been left to run amuck. Somebody needs to call it out and
I'm glad I'm no longer the only one doing it. Well done, Cristina!
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-shill-squad-4-tribunal-update.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/11/shill-tribunal-update-personnel.html.
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/12/richplanet-tv-on-aatip.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-shill-squad-4-tribunal-update.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/11/shill-tribunal-update-personnel.html.
And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/12/richplanet-tv-on-aatip.html.
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