Nightcap Nightmare Blog: 04/19/21

April 19, 2021

Hippyland on a Commercial Scale

Environmental Defender Scott Sledge heads local opposition to Nightcap "Hippyland"

Sydney Morning Herald describes local contention over a proposed land-share venture at Mt Burrell as "Hippyland on a commercial scale: Byron battle over suburb-sized commune”.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/hippyland-on-a-commercial-scale-byron-battle-over-suburb-sized-commune-20210416-p57jv0.html

In a linked 2020 article by Sydney Morning Herald, the same venture is pinned to the town of Nimbin and disparaged as a "hippy commune" with sloppy, misleading reporting about the outcome of a defamation trial regarding Blogs published by Free Radical: Darwin v Norman.

The defamation charges were brought by Adrian Brennock (AB) and Phillip Dixon against journalist Gillian Norman (Gi Linda) representative of creditors who in 2016 published claims that Brennock's "development team" defrauded them in a land-share scam.

Judge Fagan determined that "folly not fraud" caused the "debacle".

An entirely unrelated picture of Nimbin's Hemp Embassy is used by Sydney Morning Herald to falsely depict the supposed "Blogger" as a dreadlocked male "hippy" and the Mt Burrell land-share development as a "hippy commune".

To anyone well informed about the Bhula-Bhula-Nightcap scheme, both these Sydney Morning Herald articles are sad examples of badly researched yellow journalism, using the alluring "hippyland" pejorative to distract from many significant omissions and errors of fact.

The commune was at Mount Burrell, near the alternative mecca of Nimbin in northern NSW.

Defamation

Blogger ordered to pay $400,000 in defamation suit over commune 'debacle'

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Freedom of Speech - Denied

Google Corp has summarily removed ten posts from Nightcap Nightmare Blog, in response to a request by Rose Litigation's lawyer Billy Fitzgerald, who represents the sovereignty activists running the Nightcap venture discussed in this blog.

Although the censored posts do not name Mr Fitzgerald's clients, the offending posts have been censored because they supposedly violate injunctions imposed by NSW Supreme Court on the co-author and editor, Gi Linda, who is prohibited from imputing felony to Mr Fitzgerald's clients.

The injunctions are based on a 2020 Supreme Court decision by Fagan J that although more than twenty investors lost life savings amounting to over $2.5 million after they provided equity, loans and purchase money for land in 2014-16, receiving nothing in return, this represents incompetence by Mr Fitzgerald's clients, not fraudulent deception.

Nightcap Nightmare Book in Progress

Nightcap Nightmare is a book in progress, compiled by those ensnared in a land-share community at Mt Burrell, NSW. Compiled by Gi Linda, the book spotlights a communitarian venture run by sovereignty activists who are selling "tribal title" to dwelling sites without development approval, on properties taken from those who paid for the land. It tells how shareholder deals were made with neighbouring landowner Peter van Lieshout, brother of billionaire developer John van Lieshout, before revealing plans to extend aboriginal sovereignty claims across the nation.

The land-share scheme began in 2014 as an intentional community called "Bhula Bhula Village Community," promoted by Mark Darwin through Truthology and Freedom Summits. When the sovereignty activists seized control of the properties, more than twenty families lost life savings totalling over $2.5 million.

Nightcap Nightmare is a compelling true account of the resilience of a group of angry creditors and their quest for truth and justice on the tilted stages of Australian Courts.

Dancing on a Tilted Stage

"Many people ask me how, for seven years, can this mob continue selling homesites with no DA on property they don't own, where multiple occupancy is not permitted, without fulfilling marketing promises? Where is justice?

It is my experience that their false narratives established errors of fact before NSW Supreme Court of Defamation, resulting in misapplication of law and imposition of gag orders.

This interferes with the true exercise of justice and advances dominant commercial interests under colour of law by constraining legitimate freedom of discussion on matters of public concern.

If dominant political and financial interests are also allowed to profit with impunity by summary imposition of draconian censorship by Google Corp, this effectively subverts Constitutional protections over the right to public discourse and due process." Gi Linda

April 19, 2021

Hippyland on a Commercial Scale

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