Yes, Bart Sibrel was arrested for trespassing on Neil Armstrong's property ostensibly to obtain Armstrong's reaction to his charges. As a result Sibrel was fired from his job as a part-time cameraman for the Nashville, Tenn., NBC affiliate. Astronaut Ed Mitchell reported that Sibrel and his crew confronted him claiming to be from the Discovery Channel and then sprung the hoax trap on him.
I have no legal training, but it appears to me that Sibrel's behavior is tortious, Aldrin's alleged battery notwithstanding. Do repeated accusations of lying qualify as harassment? In any case, requesting on-camera interviews under false pretenses is manipulative at best and unlawful at worst.
Unfortunately this, like all similar incidents, will simply be spun to convince Sibrel and his followers that he's onto something. Conspiracy theorists generally can't understand that they're annoying. So any objection or defensiveness is simply interpreted as confirmation that they're touching a nerve. They're touching a nerve, all right, but not the one they aimed for.
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