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10 July, 2024

From Anthony James Hall

Professor Emeritus

University of Lethbridge

Hello Autonomous Trucker. Thanks as usual for your conscientious contributions where you help fill in some of the blanks in the biased legal proceeding where the Coutts 2 are made to sit inside a jail cell with armed guards inside the court room. The intent is clearly to signal to the jury that the accused must be very dangerous. The accused didn't need a holding cell inside the courtroom during the lengthy "pre-trial" phase of this marathon legal proceeding. What changed?

One of the blanks I want to draw attention to is that I have been banned from attending the Coutts 2 Trial. The facts behind Judge Labrenz's banishment of me, without calling on me to give my side of the story, seems to me irregular.

I my view I should have been allowed to comment on the matter of my expulsion before the judge made his ruling based on the Crown's unilateral explanation of what its agent claimed had transpired. I have been attending the bail hearings and then the pre-trial from the beginning. I live half a mile from the courthouse.

I have been writing at a steady pace many dozens of relevant essays that sometimes touch on the Coutts legal proceedings, that sometimes feature elements of the pre-trials, and that always highlight scores of the larger political, legal, and media issues concerning the Crown, the federal government's and the RCMP's joint attempt to criminalize the ongoing Freedom Convoy. Some of my essays highlight the very significant role of Minister Chrystia Freeland in creating the impetus for the RCMP to meet the federal directive to discover possible "terrorists" at the Coutts Protest in order to justify the Emergency Act.

Of course in amongst all the reporting and interpretation I have been doing, a significant amount of my analysis highlights the dubious conduct since the earliest days of the Coutts protest of Crown prosecutor Stephen Johnston. As I see it, this criticism was quite probably a factor in the Crown's decision to ask Judge Labrenz to remove me unilaterally and without due process from these guilty-until-proven-innocent proceedings.

My request would be that my written record of the proceedings since the events at Ottawa, the Ambassador Bridge, and the Coutts protest be taken into account by the few honest reporters that can attend the trials. Needless to say, most of the Legacy media display no interest in the facts of the case apart from leading the extensive trial-by-media meant to help convict the accused with the active complicity of many law enforcement officials. Please see

https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/anthony-j-hall

https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/

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Thank you for your efforts, Anthony, I will see what I can do to speak with those still allowed to attend proceedings.

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Thanks AT. Global Research of course has been declared too heretical to be eligible for the big search engines. Nevertheless the site is visited widely by folks in the know all over the world. My aim at Global Research was to put up a constant information defence of our ongoing, worldwide Freedom Convoy movement. I have to say, the folks I've been trying to reach in Alberta, people who have lots of time for Rebel News (which has always been on-again, off-again on the Coutts 4 and Coutts 2) only rarely find their way to Global Research.

I see GR.ca as a semi-peer-reviewed venue given the central role of the very accomplished and much-persecuted Canadian Prof., Michel Chossudovsky, in his overseeing of all the venue's publishing activities since it was founded in 2001.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/anthony-j-hall

Its good we can also relate through Substack.

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Would you believe it if I told you another researcher who has published at GR.ca was my neighbor for awhile here in Upstate New York?

Michael Bryant, check him out

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Jul 10Liked by Autonomous Truck(er)s

I’ve watched this movie before 🤨 Tom cruise minority report right? No thoughts allowed!!

The unraveling is nearly complete, the regime is as painted into a corner as one can get. Expect a “fire” at the document storage area to take care of that nicely in the near future. Likely will label another patriot as the alleged culprit. Not to give the evil ideas.

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Jul 10Liked by Autonomous Truck(er)s

I did not know about the gravel quarry and municipal permit! Every one of your articles does a little bit of the shifting and buckling work that eventually creates avalanches.

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All it took to find that out was talking to the men’s advocates, something that not a single one of the mainstream ‘journalists’ covering this case bothered their asses to do.

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I’ve mentioned this in several of my pieces here, but wouldn’t you know it, our esteemed regime fellators don’t like to do their homework, even with the salaries and backing of the largest media institutions in the country.

Curious that.

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Jul 10Liked by Autonomous Truck(er)s

It's because their salaries are boosted tremendously by our black-hearted leader to protect his narrow interests!

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Jul 10Liked by Autonomous Truck(er)s

Well I confess I have not read every single piece… repetition is good for the kids at the back 😉

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No worries.

I have barely any time to write the damn things, and I expect many people likewise are short on time to read them all.

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Jul 10Liked by Autonomous Truck(er)s

But we really really do appreciate it very much!

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