If she is the complainant, then the whole case falls apart due to an utter lack of credibility on the part of the witness facilitated by a failure of due diligence on the part of the WMF T&S.
If she was abetted by/conspired with Maria Sefidari, than Sefidari needs to be removed immediately.
Goes to the credibility of the witness, your honor.
If the initial complaint is invalid, then any sentence handed down must be withdrawn.
Hale's history of serial lying, manipulation and backstabbing stretching back two decades over dozens of websites really should be looked at hard.
All that dumpster diving, and all he's got is still some very big IFS and an entirely toxic idea that somehow harassment can be justified by the victim's past or present conduct.
What we she wearing Vig? Was she
asking for it?
Ya fucking sick bastard.
But yeah, credibility of the witness. Would be relevant if she were the sole complainant and she was found to have materially misled investigators.
We can either spend the next few weeks persisting in believing this is going to be the truth of the matter once ArbCom have gone over the dossier and given their conclusions, or leaked their version of the truth if they feel hamstrung, and everyone in the WMF and on the Board has had a chance to consider if they might not be better off, career wise and legal liability wise given the nature of the more serious accusations, revealing any smoking guns they have, that speak to manipulation if not outright corruption.
Or we can accept now that it is obvious bullshit, there is no there there, it is just the sort of delusional crap you can only sign up to if you are minded to ignore whole mountains of evidence and circumstance and indeed plain common sense, that discredits your belief. A conspiracy theorist, in other words.
We've already seen Vigilant lie about material facts in the case. Pretending like he didn't, and just barrelling on like it's nothing, merely further destroys his own credibility, as if he really has any left.
Hopefully the damage has already been done. His bullshit has now been officially endorsed by the leadership of Wikipediocracy as the most compelling explanation.
If this is how they collapse, if this is what it takes for people to finally realize they're not who they claim to be, that they never could and never would be independent investigators of all the many ways the cult is bad, so be it. A very fitting way to go, in my book.