{"id":981,"date":"2015-11-03T20:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T01:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2016-02-18T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:48:34","slug":"report-november-3-arthur-topham-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Report November 3 Arthur Topham Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rE1ujz3yjYw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shocking: Judge orders\u00a0 Defence&#8217;s Expert Witness report re-written and his curriculum vitae revised (to exclude favourable reviews of his book The Wandering Who)<\/p>\n<p>Shocking: Judge Brian Butler says: &#8220;Freedom of expression is not relevant. Freedom of speech is not at stake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over half a day lost due to Crown&#8217;s inability to produce properly prepared and legible documents for books of evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer Barckay Johnson slapped down for &#8220;personalizing&#8221; Arthur Topham (68-year old grandfather who lives on a farm with his wife). Mr. Johnson says Mr. Topham willnot be testifying: &#8220;In this country, we don&#8217;t have to be cross-examined on our opinions.&#8221; It is Mr. Topham&#8217;s freedom of expression that is at stake. Freedom is definitely an issue for Mr. Topham. You the jury have only seen a small portion of what is on his huge website.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Witness Gilad Atzmon was born and raised Jewish in Israel and now lives in England and is a scholar (B.A. in philosophy from Tel Aviv; M.A. and Ph.D. studies in psychology from the University of Essex) and is a gifted Jazz musician who has played with Paul McCartney.. &#8220;Unlike Mr. Rudner, he is not being paid for his testimony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gilad Atzmon finally begins his evidence late in the day. He indicates Jewish identity can be a religion or ancestry or ideology (Zionism) The latter can and should be open to criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking: Judge orders\u00a0 Defence&#8217;s Expert Witness report re-written and his curriculum vitae revised (to exclude favourable reviews of his book The Wandering Who) Shocking: Judge Brian Butler says: &#8220;Freedom of expression is not relevant. Freedom of speech is not at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}