The United Kingdom is doubling down on its censorship and those who dissent from the official narrative. Proving it doesn’t value free speech, the UK has fined a “conspiracy theorist” $58,000 for the crime of speculating that the Manchester Arena bombing was staged.
Two survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing were awarded £45,000 ($58,000) in damages on Friday after they won a harassment case against a conspiracy theorist who had claimed the attack was staged by the UK government, according to a report by RT.
Martin Hibbert and his daughter, Eve, sued Richard Hall, a former television producer and a self-described journalist for harassment and data protection, and won the case in London’s High Court last month.
Hibbert was paralyzed from the waist down and Eve, then 14, suffered a severe brain injury in the attack at Manchester Arena in 2017, when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device outside an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds of others. –RT
The ruling class is making sure that those who speculate outside the official narrative get punished for doing so. The system doesn’t want anyone to question it, whether they are right or wrong is irrelevant to those who seek to control the narrative.
Hall published videos and a book about the Manchester Arena bombing, in which he claimed that the terrorist act had been staged and that the people who had died were living overseas or were already dead before the event, without providing evidence. In court, Hall reportedly insisted his actions, including filming Eve outside her home, were in the public interest and claimed the pair were “crisis actors” in a state-orchestrated hoax where no one was “genuinely injured,” while “millions of people” had “bought a lie.”
These theories will continue as long the official narratives continue to fall apart. Unfortunatly, it look like people are not allowed to theorize that the ruling class would “stage” an event to manufacture compliance. The rulers would never do that, right?
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