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@AceOfSpadesHQ BREAKS SILENCE: #BrettKimberlin’s Escalating Threat

Posted on | June 8, 2012 | 67 Comments

“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? . . . Patere tua consilia non sentis, constrictam iam horum omnium scientia teneri coniurationem tuam non vides? O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit. Consul videt; hic tamen vivit.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 B.C.

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Being sanguine by nature, as I told Nice Deb in an interview a couple weeks ago, I don’t scare easy, and sometimes am accused of recklessness, as well as disregard for the feelings of others who are of a more cautious temperament.

“No discretion,” as one critic recently said in a conversation that was rather less private than she believed. Selah.

To live your life constantly deferring to the opinions of others is to forfeit your independence and become a slave to peer pressure.

Nevertheless, in the matter of Brett Kimberlin, there are matters of operational security to be kept in mind, information which cannot be revealed, lest we give The Pipsqueak Monster some clue as to what measures are being taken to guard against his nefarious schemes and the actions of his evil accomplices. Exercising discretion is therefore vital, and I’ve had to judge carefully what to discuss in public.

Let me repeat what I’ve said before: If Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser are not under FBI surveillance, why the hell not?

This is merely a surmise, which any reasonable person would make, based upon well-known facts, and I do not doubt that both Kimberlin and Rauhauser are aware of this. Their phones, e-mails and other communications are almost certainly being monitored, and they cannot make a move that the feds don’t know about.

My surmise in this matter — what you might call an educated hunch — probably accounts for the increasingly frantic and desperate activity of the various Web presences that comprise what Ken at Popehat calls “Team Kimberlin.” They’re acting scared, and looking very guilty, trying to re-direct suspicion away from themselves by pointing the accusatory finger at others.

Vicious dishonest cowards don’t scare me one bit.

Fear a man who is honest and brave, but never fear a lying coward, because such sadistic monsters delight in inspiring fear.

If you want to be frightened about something, think about this: Neal Rauhauser has boasted about having contacts in the FBI. What sort of disinformation has Rauhauser given the feds? Could it be that federal agents are actually assisting his smear machine? We know that Attorney General Eric Holder is either incompetent or corrupt — perhaps both — but the possibility that the taint of political corruption has spread to the FBI should be a concern to every honest American citizen.

Meanwhile, Ace of Spades has broken his daylong silence to warn against my sanguine confidence, urging Congress to act swiftly to thwart Kimberlin’s familiar pattern of escalation:

Brett Kimberlin will not be stopped by scrutiny. Even when he was a suspect in the Speedway Bombings, and being followed by agents of the FBI — and he knewhe was being followed — he continued to conduct his large-scale drug smuggling operation. While being investigated for the Speedway Bombings, he was arrested independently for procuring false military ID. And then, having been arrested (and released) for procuring false military ID, he was arrested for smuggling tons of marijuana into America.
The fact that the FBI was watching him didn’t seem to matter. He considers them stupid; he always thinks he’s one step ahead of them. The fact that he has frequently been arrested and caught does not seem to enter into his reasoning.

It’s brilliant work — he ain’t the Jack of Spades, y’know — and I share Ace’s belief that congressional action is imperative. But my educated hunch is that honest law enforcement officials will slap the cuffs on Kimberlin before Congress can enact legislation, and I can only pray that they act before someone gets hurt even worse than Kimberlin’s previous victims have been hurt.

Like Cicero said: “Hic tamen vivit.”

Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Comments

67 Responses to “@AceOfSpadesHQ BREAKS SILENCE: #BrettKimberlin’s Escalating Threat”

  1. DaveO
    June 8th, 2012 @ 7:44 pm

    Kimberlin and Team Kimberlin are behaving almost as if they’ve been told that they’re cut-outs. So who are their heirs?

    I suspect Kimberlin and Team Kimberlin will return to prison, under the auspices of their employers – a nice, white-collar prison with access to the internet. Or a misfortunate series of events. 

    AG Holder isn’t incompetent. He knows the weakness of the law, and of the law enforcement agencies. From his actions in civilian life, and as the Deputy AG and now as AG, Holder consistently demonstrated he knows the law, and it loopholes.

    What Holder is, is a coward. Seems he can’t handle even simple conversation with Issa, and the topic isn’t even as complex as race relations in the US of A.

  2. Jazz
    June 8th, 2012 @ 7:48 pm

    Keep up the great work, and keep keeping us informed as you can.

    I haven’t used my Latin training since I graduated seminary 30 years ago.  It’s useless now – my brain is empty of all but the most elementary declinations and conjugations – and silly homonyms (“sember ubi sub ubi”, i.e., always where under where, or “always wear underwear”).  So, the Latin quotes without translations are very, very frustrating. Think of your readers, Friend McCain, please!

  3. Joy W. McCann
    June 8th, 2012 @ 8:04 pm

    Great entry. Could, however, use some linguistic name-dropping.

    Oh. Wait . . .

  4. Ace’s Call to Action
    June 8th, 2012 @ 8:07 pm

    […] II: The Other McCain hopes that law enforcement will step up to the plate before someone else gets hurt. Cancel […]

  5. MrPaulRevere
    June 8th, 2012 @ 8:22 pm

    Asking Holder to investigate the swatting calls is all well and good, but color me cynical. Maybe something will come of it , maybe not. Another line of attack would be to have Rep. Issa grill the State Dept. on why they are throwing contracts at Kimberlins con job non-profit outfit. This line of attack is more likely to be successful, and is the path of least resistance.

  6. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 8th, 2012 @ 8:47 pm

    It is a very very good post by Stacy.  I would say Ace and Michelle Malkin’s posts today were amazing.  I was honored to link to them.

    And honored to link to you Joy.

  7. Bob Belvedere
    June 8th, 2012 @ 8:51 pm

    The Memeorandum thread is gone.

  8. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 8th, 2012 @ 8:57 pm

    Despite feeling poorly, Zilla screen saved it.  Zilla deserves the FMJRA award this week for Blogger heroism above and beyond the call of duty.  

  9. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 8th, 2012 @ 9:18 pm

    Twitchy says 7o member of Congress called the WH and Justice to act in this matter.  This is big news. I am glad to hear we got seventy. I hope more act, from both parties.
    http://twitchy.com/2012/06/08/70-members-of-congress-to-ask-holder-to-investigate-swat-ting-on-monday/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

  10. blaster
    June 8th, 2012 @ 9:23 pm


    Could it be that federal agents are actually assisting his smear machine? ”  

    Well, yes, of course.  I have written here before that the truly scary thing about Kimberlin is that he is the marriage of radical ideology with the power of the state.  He is in league with Big League Dems.  He has  lot of cachet with folks like Carl Levin.  He’s a minor celeb to the Left because he spoke truth to power about Dan Quayle, no matter that by truth they mean lies.  

    “Team Kimberlin” acts with impunity not because they have big balls – Kimberlin was a bomber, the most cowardly, craven sort of bad guy (does my bomb squadness show?) – and he picks his fights with lawyers.  Why does he get away with it?  What is it that has been so curious?  That the “authorities” don’t take action against him, right?  There are already laws against making fake phone calls, right? Against making fake calls to the police, against reckless endangerment, false statements in court, etc.    

    That’s the real story here.  Stacy’s nose for news picked up the trail, not because a domestic terrorist was threatening bloggers, but because he was in league with Democrat operatives.  *That* is the story, it is why they can do what they do.  Kevin Zeese is one of Kimberlin’s attorney types, he is all about how Bush and Diebold stole the election(s), and Bush and Rumsfeld are war criminals, lobbied to get Bush administration lawyers disbarred (where else have you heard such talk?).  Oh, and also one of the main organizers of Occupy DC.  Who supported OWS?   

    You want to bring TK down, tie them to people close to Obama.  Make those links.  They’ll see the underside of the bus just like everyone else who is no longer useful.  

    The whole world is watching.  

  11. robertstacymccain
    June 8th, 2012 @ 9:34 pm

    “So, the Latin quotes without translations are very, very frustrating. “

    When Hunter S. Thompson was young, an editor gave him some sound advice: Don’t write down to your readers.

    That is to say, assume your reader is as intelligent and literate as yourself. People are not so stupid that they need me to hold their hands and tell them everything. Any person with the intelligence to follow the Kimberlin story must, I assume, be smart enough to Google “Cicero + ‘hic tamen vivit'” and find an English translation of the first oration against Catiline.

    If they don’t know the backstory of Catiline’s conspiracy, let them consult their encyclopedias. My home library includes seven different encyclopedias, some dating back to the 1930s. Alas, my home library is now packed into boxes and soon to be loaded onto a truck, but …

    Anyway, people love a puzzle. Those who did not recognize Cicero’s words will, I hope, enjoy the research — and smile at the significance of the allusion.

  12. ThePaganTemple
    June 8th, 2012 @ 9:39 pm

    Aaarrgghh ye shoulda known Ace couldn’t keep quiet fer a whole bloomin’ day, and this is the man whut practicly invented the concep o’ the open thread. Curses, Kimberlin wins again, cos no one kin keep bloomin’ quiet, septin’ maybe fer Robert The McCain who did manage to keep to his one post mandate, at least fer a while ‘e did.

    O’ corse, we kin expect updates threw out the day.

  13. CPAguy
    June 8th, 2012 @ 9:45 pm

     Holder isn’t that bad of a guy.  Like the guy who had to argue the Individual Mandate…it is pretty hard to come up with good arguments for the indefensible….that said…this whole thing doesn’t seem to warrant a DOJ investigation.  A local FBI branch should do the trick.

  14. MrPaulRevere
    June 8th, 2012 @ 9:52 pm

    Bingo: “You want to bring TK down, tie them to people close to Obama. Make those links.” The Obama State Department is shoveling money into Brett Kimberlins pockets DIRECTLY  via their contract with the ‘justice through music’ con job non profit. Its bad enough that taxpayers do it indirectly via their tax-exempt status as Ace has pointed out. Pardon me for being frustrated that this angle of the story is not being pushed.

  15. Adobe_Walls
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:09 pm

    Holder is “that bad of a guy” he is one of the sleaziest people in government in the last 30 years. Panthers can’t change their spots not even black ones.

  16. Info
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:24 pm

    And if the folks at the Adventist school haven’t thanked you, they should have.

  17. Ellie Mae
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:28 pm

     Docket Date:

    04/30/1997
    Docket Number:
    10

    Docket Description:

    JUDGMENT

    Docket Type:

    Docket

    Docket Text:

    JUDGMENT ENTERED BY CONSENT ON THE JUDGMENT INDEX IN FAVOR OF THE
    PLAITNIFF CAROLYN C. KIMBERLIN AGAINST THE DEFENDANT BRETT C.
    KIMBERLIN IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
    ($150,000.00).

  18. Dianna Deeley
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:31 pm

    Please forgive me for pouring cold water on some of this, but TK is – I’m sorry! – very small potatoes from the point of view of the big boys.

    I want them taken out. They are the sort of sordid operation that saps the health of the republic if left to operate with impunity. The reason, however, that they have not drawn the ire of the proper authorities prior to this is that they simply are far too picayune for notice.

    RSM is quite right that this is news, because any reader with a modicum of patience and intelligence can wrap her brain around this story – despite the side-winding and digression – and see why Team Kimberlin is a threat. This is a very good story. What it illustrates, though, is what operators who are more subtle and less criminal do, and that is very important. 

  19. Dianna Deeley
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:33 pm

     I’m seriously fond of your comments, so don’t take this wrong.

    Are y0u paying a bet, or do you simply like “Talk like a Pirate” day so much that you must continue it? Or is there a deeper purpose that I, being satirically challenged, simply do not get?

  20. Ellie Mae
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:34 pm

     http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/19/leftist-bloggers-sordid-past-raises-questions-real-intent/#ixzz1vqZbppHZ

    Interesting tidbit from Fox news from 2010.

    “Now, 22 years later, Kimberlin has taken that lesson and made unfounded
    accusations a profession of sorts. Using two popular leftist blogs, the
    56-year-old from Bethesda, Md., has raised hundreds of thousands of
    dollars from the public and left-leaning foundations by promising to put
    conservatives he disagrees with in jail, often with offers of large
    rewards. So far — without success — he has called for the arrest of
    Karl Rove, Andrew Breitbart, Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue,
    Massey Energy Chairman Don Blankenship and other high-profile public
    figures.”

  21. Dianna Deeley
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:35 pm

     Well, I enjoy Cicero’s rhetoric, but it was a pretty poor excuse for a conspiracy!

  22. WJJ Hoge
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:36 pm

    You didn’t go far enough with your Cicero.  Just after your quote ends, he writes:
    [i]n te conferri pestem, quam tu in nos [omnes iam diu] machinaris. ([T]he plague which you were devising against all of us now should have directed against you.)

  23. Dianna Deeley
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:40 pm

     I have not seen (and probably will not see for months) JTMP’s 2011 990 and the 2012 990 is a long, long way off. But I strongly suspect that they did not receive any payment for their presentation. I have been doing some reading on this State Department initiative, and it appears that all an organization need do is apply – and not very many do.

  24. Dianna Deeley
    June 8th, 2012 @ 10:48 pm

     So, was that a blind, or is BK’s mother really that mad at him? I’ve seen both argued. What do you think?

  25. Ellie Mae
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:05 pm

    Mike Stack (the crying wolfe) was mercilessly attacked by this criminal gang from Weinergate days. He was the first Swat victim.  It is my wish that he finds out the truth as to who did these vicious things to him. We all want to know who Dan Wolfe is.  I found this snippet from his blog. 

    http://cryingwolfe.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/r-i-p-andrew/

    Read everything you can at his blog.  He has a huge repository of relevant research on these same characters.  I wonder who he thinks Swatted him, because all three 911 tapes sound like the same person. 

    I feel like Mike kind of got abandoned in this whole situation, almost like Seth was. 

    I hope I’m wrong, but he has a goldmine of info at his site.  Read it all.

     

  26. Ellie Mae
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:10 pm

     It’s a trick really.  He had his Mom sue him so that he could claim he had to satisfy the judgement to her before paying the judgement to his crime victims.  She said he owed her for paying for his lawyer.  It’s bogus in my opinion.  Its a legal way to avoid paying his debt to his victims.  His aunt is a super rich chick who funds his progressive causes.  I wonder if she knows she’s also a victim.

  27. Taxpayer1234
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:12 pm

    The Cataline conspiracy was pretty deadly for being a “poor excuse for a conspiracy.”

  28. MrPaulRevere
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:12 pm

    Sharpen your pencil. I’ll go deeper into this tomorrow: MAY 24, 2012 – JTMP has been a participant in the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program for 3 years now

  29. Taxpayer1234
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:21 pm

    In case anyone wants a translation, here’s the definitive from Perseus Digital Library (Tufts Univ.):  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0019:text=Catil.:speech=1:chapter=1

  30. Dianna Deeley
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:26 pm

     I do not see on JTMP’s 990 any indication they were paid for that participation, and I looked hard. Besides, were they paid for any government contract, they’d have to account for the money. Help me?

  31. ThePaganTemple
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:46 pm

     Aaarrgghh payin’ off a bet, now that sounds good fine lassie, let’s stay with that, sounds better ta me than a nervous tick or series o’ mini-strokes. Corse in reality I is jes stillin’ me nerves fer a future of pillage and plunder, which I will commence after I finish this last bottle o’ Cap’n Morgan. Lessen I decide to have another one that is.

  32. Bob Belvedere
    June 8th, 2012 @ 11:57 pm

    The research is a bitch on this one, since you leave out the middle.

    However, Google Translate will provide a translation that, while not eloquent, is understandable.

    http://translate.google.com

  33. ThePaganTemple
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:00 am

     Aaarrgghh ye are cerect, lassie, Kimberlin is a distraction, sorter like an openin’ gambit pawn ment to focus attenshon away from the real power players upboards way.

  34. Dianna Deeley
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:03 am

     I confess to having absolutely no clue what on earth you are talking about, but hell, half the time, I re-read my comments from a Friday and conclude that some less-than-sane person appropriated my keyboard.

  35. Dianna Deeley
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:20 am

     NOT a distraction at all! He’s just – or used to be, anyway – minor. He’s a flea.

    Which does not mean – and in no way do I mean to imply, never mind say that he and his associates are not dangerous – that I do not detest and condemn his and his associates methods and practices. I believe they are a menace. They damage people  and free speech. I simply note that these are most definitely (despite the thuggery and vile attacks) flea-bites in the terms the high level law enforcement types think about.

    A couple years ago, I ran across the really astonishing and shocking fact that older Americans are being scammed. Each little old lady or man is being scammed for – call it – $4,000 per month. But each nasty scammer is defrauding (say) 10 lol/m’s per month, and each call center is staffed by (guessing) 50 scammers.

    There are, at a rough estimate, lots and lots and lots of these scamming operations – I hesitate to speculate about numbers.

    Do the math.

    The FBI, State Department, Treasury…are not interested.

    My personal estimate, just from what I was able to dig up from public records and family plaints is that the monthly take cannot be less than about $10 million.

    No, I’m not kidding. And, to my shock and horror (forgive me for shouting) NOBODY CARES.

    So, given the infinitesimal amounts associated with this story, if Stacy McCain (0ur host, and due his star billing), Patterico, Ace and everyone else involved had not got up on their hind legs and made a justified fuss, no one would care now.

  36. Laurence
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:33 am

    The 3rd Oration Against Cataline. Doesn’t get much better than that!

  37. Dianna Deeley
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:41 am

    And let us not forget that Antony had Cicero’s head and hands displayed upon the Rostra.

    The Romans – even – found that shocking. Which says something. 

  38. ThePaganTemple
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:44 am

     AAARRGGHH that relly pisses me the fuck off, its not fair to pick on the elderly folks thataway, everybody deserves ta be pillaged and plundered equal like, fair ‘n square, without regards to race, creed, color, or age.

  39. Adjoran
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:51 am

     He is certainly not qualified to be AG – his experience is all as a political operative, not a prosecutor.

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  41. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 9th, 2012 @ 12:59 am

    Holder is a criminal who belongs in prison.  That is not hyperbole.  He is corrupt to the core.  

  42. Adjoran
    June 9th, 2012 @ 1:07 am

    Having the members of Congress call the DOJ and FBI is more likely to get some action, at least on the SWAT-ting, than the idea of new legislation or the ridiculous idea of “oversight hearings” devoted to non-profits who average < $250K a year in tax-deductible donations. 

    Despite those among us who see a conspiracy in everything, nearly all of the career people  in criminal division at DOJ and the FBI wouldn't be involved in a conspiracy to obstruct justice, and most would happily arrest anyone who suggested they should.  The big crime here is the false 911 calls apparently made across state lines. 

    Bust the caller, and listen to him sing.

  43. ThePaganTemple
    June 9th, 2012 @ 1:09 am

     Aaarrgghh only cos it was Cicero if it were some poor dumb fuck they woulda screamed whur’s ‘is heart, whure’s ‘is torso, whure’s ‘is pecker. Those bleedin’ Romans didint play around.

  44. Adobe_Walls
    June 9th, 2012 @ 1:20 am

    Not sure if this is good or bad but I fully understood everything he said in the above comment.

    By the by I’ve no doubt that by any given Friday some less than sane person has indeed appropriated your key board, I’m sure by sometime Saturday it comes back to it’s rightful owner.

  45. Adobe_Walls
    June 9th, 2012 @ 2:40 am

    Yes but political appointees determine priorities and I’d argue that at least in the civil rights departments there is a significant amount of politically correct political corruption. In any case unless the misuse of police departments earns their attention this kind of impersonation is considered small potatoes.

    All agencies and departments of our government are thoroughly infested with Bolsheviks.

  46. Adobe_Walls
    June 9th, 2012 @ 4:02 am

    Ya gotta admit though one misses those “personal touches” that are so lacking in our politics today.

  47. Beto_Ochoa
    June 9th, 2012 @ 8:37 am

    Ace’s blog is finished. He’s pulled the plug.

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    June 9th, 2012 @ 9:34 am

     For those of us who missed the kerfuffle, WTF happened at AOSHQ?  I show up this morning and see the place is shuttered…any info?

  50. Jeanette Victoria
    June 9th, 2012 @ 10:00 am

     Another example how liberals and corrupt judges are using the legal system to shut up conservativeshttp://www.massresistance.org/…

    Convicted sex offender gets judge in Maine to issue restraining order against Brian Camenker of MassResistance — for exposing offenses against kids at “gay youth” club!

    Part of vicious new tactic by homosexual movement to silence critics….

    Camenker had never met, seen, spoken to, visited, or communicated with Flanders. The organization MassResistance had simply posted a document which Flanders had written himself and distributed publicly. And it was posted nearly five years earlier.