The scholarly facade of this tendentious propaganda peddler of dogmatic pacifism has totally cracked, and she has been revealed as the shoddy scholar and enemy of animal liberation she has always been. See the devastating new critique of Hall by UK activist Alison Banville, as she and her comrades (who Hall vilified as thugs and misfits) prepared a little surprise for this overpaid bureaucrat for the corporate-state machine:
"Lee Hall, notorious defender of state oppression of animal activists and author of the ridiculous ‘Capers in the Churchyard, Animal Activism in the Age of Terror’ was scheduled to give a talk today (Sunday Sep 6th) at the London Vegan Festival. Things didn’t work out quite as she, or the festival, had planned however. If Hall was seriously entertaining the notion that she could fly to England and hold forth for fifty minutes at an event like this, with SHAC activists present, on the subject of her choice, without being confronted about her statements on direct action, then I suggest she is in need of a psychiatrist."
—Alison Banville
See: http://thomaspainescornerwordpress.com/2009/09/10/lee-hall-unplugged-and-unmasked/
There is also a very illuminating video of the entire event at this same link.
For background critical essays on Hall's shoddy scholarship and state-influenced denuniciations and distortions of the militant direct action movement in the UK, see:
Pacifism or Animals: Which Do You Love More?
http://thomaspainescorner...wordpress.com/2009/02/07/pacifism-or-animals-which-do-you-love-more/
Averting the China Syndrome: Response to Our Critics and the Devotees of Fundamentalist Pacifism
http://thomaspainescornerwordpress.com/2009/02/24/averting-the-china-syndrome-response-to-our-critics-and-the-devotees-of-fundamentalist-pacifism/
Presence of Malice: UK Activists v. Lee Hall
http://thomaspainescornerwordpress.com/2009/03/23/presence-of-malice-uk-activists-v-lee-hall/
All in all, it has been a bad few weeks for the elitist single-issue vegan pacifists and abolitionists, but good for the defenders of militant direct action and social revolution!