No matter what venue you want to name, Ray Hall has provided nothing but the finest solid unbiased information with regard to the current case of discrimination that is before the courts.
He has given countless hours of his time to provide the most comprehensive summaries of legal information with regard to all aspects of the issue, in response to the questions of a huge number of individuals.
In fact, most of the pertinent questions have been repeated ad infinitum and despite that, have always been met with the same factual measured response. In fact, the wealth of factual information is nothing short of amazing. Anybody can attest to that, and where all of the factual information has not been right at hand the response has always been measured and qualified.
In anybody's opinion, the value of that kind of resource is immeasurable.
The ACPA Forum had the distinct advantage of his generous input but chose to exclude him to the detriment of their own membership. So too with his denied participation in meetings. The first thing you would assume is that the Association would have an obligation to permit their own members to learn the real facts, and the real case. It's their loss unfortunately because there are no doubt a lot of guys out there who have serious questions and who want the real correct straightforward serious answers. But those avenues seem to be systematically closed down.
The recent display at AvCanada on their Forum included a string of outright personal slander against Mr. Hall and in response he was banned from that Forum as well, through no fault of his own. If you can't even protect yourself against that kind of activity without incurring retribution yourself, that speaks volumes about what went completely wrong. Sure there were a lot of guys over there who got the afterburners on way too early, and it's a hot topic but where was the response to that.
It was however a good move by the Moderators to bring the hammer down on that Forum and those particular threads, but unfortunately the element that was clearly at error was somehow missed. Not to criticize the Moderators. Trying to ride herd on that is like trying to herd a bunch of cats that are on fire. It's not easy and kudos to them for at least diving in there and taking some kind of action.
But as anyone who has read the items in question, surely an apology must be due to Mr. Hall for the part of that action that saw him adversely affected for no reason and which only served to reinforce the actions of those who are in it for a brawl.