Neal Rauhauser’s Game Plan Involving Velvet Revolution and Anonymous

Posted on | June 15, 2012 | 55 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Neal Rauhauser is crazy and not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, and his boastful arrogance has been his downfall before. So it is again.

In a message posted in the comments of a blog in October 2011, Rauhauser explained that he and someone he describes as “a very big dog from the Anonymous pen” conspired to use Brett Kimberlin’s non-profit Velvet Revolution as a vehicle to exact vengeance on (a) his personal enemies, (b) the security firm HB Gary and (c) “Breitbart associates.”

The campaign of harassment and intimidatiion we have seen carried out in recent months apparently is the product of that game plan — and Rauhauser boastfully explained how he developed that plan quite publicly more than eight months ago.

Rauhauser’s Familiar Pattern

Before I share that with you, however, let me preface it by explaining that the claim to victimhood that Rauhauser presents in this 970-word treatise is false. His exposure in the 2010 “TwitterGate” affair was the result of his open incitement of his s0-called “beandogs,” the gang of online thugs who obscenely harassed Tea Party activists on Twitter. His public Tweets to the “beandogs” were screen-capped and documented by Patrick Read, Michelle Lessick and others, and Rauhauser’s role was clearly evident.

Furthermore, exactly as with his current role in the Kimberlin case, Rauhauser had described — publicly and in advance — his plans for an online war against the Tea Party, in two posts at the forum Open Left:

Aug. 29, 2010: Organized Intimidation? Ambush Time.
Aug. 31, 2010: Social Media’s Neighborhood Watch

That was in August, not long after Rauhauser had been a speaker at the Netroots Nation conference. He was a consultant with the firm Progressive PST, which included several Democratic politicians (including Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva) among its clients.

Neal’s own description of his specialty? “Solving problems in the social media work space for political campaigns and causes.” But once he was busted in TwitterGate and someone called it to my attention, I did a post on Oct. 7, 2010 (“BUSTED! Video Documents Role of Democrat Consultant Neal Rauhauser in Smear Campaign Against Tea Party“) that was linked by Lonely Conservative, House of Eratosthenes, Liberty Pundits, Right Klik, Verum Serum, I Own the World, Memeorandum and The Blaze, to name a few. On Oct. 9, 2010, I did a follow-up post noting Rauhauser’s reaction to the exposure:

Rauhauser deleted [his “WingNutWatch” Twitter] account and protected [his personal Twitter account], the kind of gesture a detective might say was indicative of “consciousness of guilt.”
The obvious question: If Rauhauser has nothing to hide, why is he hiding? Let me suggest an obvious answer: Rauhauser is becoming an embarrassment to his Democratic clients, especially Arizona 7th District Rep. Raul Grijalva.
Rauhauser had boasted of his relationship with Grijalva — who sent the consultant a “thank you” note — and like so many other previously “safe” Democratic incumbents this year, Grijalva is in the toughest re-election battle of his career.

In late September 2010 — before I even noticed TwitterGate, but after Read, Lessick and others had begun exposing the “beandogs” operation — Rauhauser clearly realized his scheme was busted. Caught attempting to victimize others, Rauhauser declared himself the real victim in a Daily Kos post entitled, “Tea Party Stalks Me & My Kids.”

This tendency toward self-pity, blaming others for problems that he himself caused, appears to be a deeply engrained personality trait with Rauhauser. Incapable of accepting responsibility for his own failures, Rauhauser psychologically projects responsibility onto scapegoats, whom he demonizes and accuses of malicious motives and actions, as a means of justifying his attacks on them, attacks that he encourages others to join.

The Narcissist as Self-Imagined Hero

Soliciting assistance in his plots — recruiting a gang of followers — functions psychologically as a means for Rauhauser to validate his grandiose narcissistic conception of himself as a heroic leader.

Rauhauser is manipulative, and his boastfulness is part of his manipulations: He brags about his contacts with law enforcement, for instance, in an attempt either to intimidate his enemies or else to impress potential allies, conning them into believing he has “connections” who can help them accomplish his elaborate plans to inflict vengeance on their common enemies.

Keep all this in mind, then, as you carefully read the October 2011 comment Rauhauser posted at the Qritiq blog:

Neal Rauhauser (@NealRauhauser) Says:
October 5, 2011 at 3:08 pm
And here is the likely first cause behind all of this.
James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles clearly violated Maryland wire tap laws. You can’t record someone without their permission here — it’s just that simple.
The Baltimore city prosecutor begs off — too busy with violent crime, so the IndictBreitbart effort is launched.

http://indictbreitbart.org/index.php?q=node/237

This frightens and infuriates Breitbart, so his toadies come hopping along, they find poor Seth, and he’s just the right tool to get at the guys behind IndictBreitbart.org. The smear goes on for two long years, screwing up their fundraising.
Then HBGary CEO Aaron Barr mouths off about having information on Anonymous in the Financial Times. Sabu notices, and soon Mr. Barr is out of a job and his company’s email is spattered all over the net. I pick through the debris field, writing a report that is seen by House and Senate staff, and during that process I make contact with Velvet Revolution.
Now I had a problem last fall, some crazy guys making up this huge conspiracy theory about me (Google:Twittergate) and it did to me what Seth did to others — you can’t Google my name without seeing a big wad of troll droppings for results.
Greg W. Howard and Patrick Swift Read were always the public face of this attack on me, but hovering in the background was ZAPEM. I never could identify her, beyond knowing that she was female, and that she was probably in New Jersey.
But people just couldn’t shut up about Weinergate, and things started to fall out.
Howard and Read have offended a number of their supporters badly. I have a big dossier now on things they’ve done thanks to their poor relationships with others, stuff I’ve not released, stuff that doesn’t quite rise to the level of needing law enforcement attention, but I bet there will be civil suits sooner or later.
Patrick Read betrayed ZAPEM’s first name, Michele, in a ranting email to me a couple of months ago. We suspected that [redacted] was her last name from a slip she made in an obscure social media profile elsewhere.
Mandy Nagy, Liberty_Chick on Twitter, made another slip during hurricane Irene. She was having trouble traveling — a downed tree or some such, and she reached out to ZAPEM and Mike Stack, owner of the goatsred account of Weinergate fame.
I don’t have the specific tweet handy, but it basically indicated that they were near enough to rescue her and that she knew them well enough to trust them for this. Nagy, O’Keefe, Stack, and ZAPEM are all close enough to meet somewhere on short notice — if they feel the need for a long walk in an open area after reading this, Washington Valley Park is roughly the geographic center for their locations.
The name slips and the geographic slip, coupled with some other sleuthing I wasn’t directly involved in, yielded this Facebook profile. Others are quite excited, I am not yet 100% convinced that Michele [redacted] is both ZAPEM and sister or sister in law of Mandy Nagy.
I have to stress that this is NOT CONFIRMED. And all we need is another Jennifer George, dragged through the muck for something she didn’t do.
[link redacted – speculative]
Meanwhile, back on the intert00bz …
ZAPEM, determined to bring me down, unprotects her Twitter account, giving me all sorts of goodies, then she begins to harass various aspects of Anonymous. Not quite as grim as the provocation Aaron Barr offered, but eventually one of the little ones comes to me and asks about ZAPEM. I don’t share anything they couldn’t get from public searches, and I tease them with a bit of the information I provide here.
A few hours pass and then a very big dog from the Anonymous pen comes knocking, puzzled over why one crazy person with a Twitter account is so important.
People have a view that Anonymous is all crime, all the time, but that’s more properly the mysterious transnational behavior problem that is LulzSec. Most of the Anonymi are more interested in free speech and technology — “We don’t break into things, we break out of them”.
We start talking, comparing war stories clear back to the 1990s, and it turns out big dog and I didn’t know each other, but our circles did cross. Pretty soon an obscure IRC channel on an obscure network is full of people that went quiet ten years ago, all making popcorn and getting ready to watch the fun.
Fun? Absolutely — because now Anonymous understands that Velvet Revolution is the only victim of HBGary that has both standing and the will to pursue them. They understand that Velvet Revolution has faced an organized smear that is pretty transparently attributable to Breitbart associates. And now there may well be a connection between the two.
So ZAPEM went out in an ill advised effort to recruit Anonymous as her personal army, and instead she just put Breitbart & Co. square in their gunsights, with more than adequate reasons for them to take the same sort of interest in them that they did in HBGary.
Freedom of speech and association are inalienable rights. That isn’t a free pass to assemble a pack of yahoos and smear someone you disagree with, and if the purpose of that smear is covering a string of state and federal crimes calculated to interrupt the right of free assembly on election day for minorities and the poor?
No movie producer would go for this story line – it’s too far fetched. And yet here we are at the end of a long trail of bread crumbs, and while some of the particulars are up in the air, the overall pattern is pretty clear.
One final pithy quote:
“No one of us is as cruel as all of us.” -Anonymous

* * * * * *

The numerous falsehoods in this bizarre document — e.g., Rauhauser’s claim that Breitbart’s “toadies” had employed “poor Seth” [Allen] as “just the right tool to get at the guys behind IndictBreitbart.org” — are ultimately irrelevant, except as glimpses into the counterfactual conspiracy theories that seem to ricochet around constantly inside Rauhauser’s depraved mind.

What is actually important are these assertions by Rauhauser:

After he wrote a report about the HBGary hacking that was “seen by House and Senate staff” — ! — Rauhauser made “contact with Velvet Revolution,” one of Brett Kimberlin’s tax-exempt non-profit groups.
Rauhauser spent enough time cyberstalking various of his “enemies” — Michelle Lessick, Mandy Nagy, James O’Keefe and Mike Stack — to learn they all lived in New Jersey and that, according to his “sleuthing,” Lessick and Nagy are related by blood or marriage.
Rauhauser is contacted by “a very big dog from the Anonymous pen” intrigued by Rauhauser’s interest in Lessick, and Rauhauser then engages in a conversation with Anonymous members on “an obscure IRC channel.”
Evidently, during that conversation, Rauhauser convinced his Anonymous friends “that Velvet Revolution is the only victim of HBGary that has both standing and the will to pursue them” and “that Velvet Revolution has faced an organized smear that is pretty transparently attributable to Breitbart associates.”
Rauhauser uses this argument to persuade Anonymous to assist him and Velvet Revolution in getting revenge on his enemies.

It is important to explain that the conspiracy theories Rauhauser purveys are all demonstrably false.

There were no “victims” of HBGary, because HBGary never got the contract to do the devious “Nixonesque” things that were discussed in the e-mails that the LulzSec hackers illegally obtained. Aaron Barr of HBGary mentioned Mandy Nagy’s October 2010 article about Brett Kimberlin in one November 2010 e-mail, with the note, “We could do so much with this.”

Imagined Victims, Imagined Villains

What that e-mail showed was not evidence of the conspiracy that Rauhauser claimed to have discovered. Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution had been publicly calling for criminal prosecution of the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the potential client that Barr was eager to impress. Barr had found Nagy’s article and evidently believed it would be useful in helping them impress the client and land the contract.

This e-mail got scrambled around in Rauhauser’s mind. Conveniently forgetting that HBGary never got the Chamber contract, and thus that neither Velvet Revolution nor anyone else was ever a “victim” of HBGary, Rauhauser interpreted that one e-mail as evidence of conspiratorial collusion between HBGary, Nagy and Breitbart. But it simply wasn’t so.

Nor, contrary to Rauhauser’s assertion, was there any conspiracy between Seth Allen and “Breitbart associates.”

What actually happened was this: When Nagy published her article, based on her own research, Kimberlin jumped to the erroneous conclusion that Nagy relied upon Seth Allen as her source. In fact, Nagy is a veteran researcher and writer who once worked as an editor at Lexis-Nexis. But by the time Nagy published her article in October 2010, Kimberlin had spent more than a year trying to shut up Seth Allen, a progressive who had been calling unwelcome attention to Kimberlin’s criminal past on liberal blogs.

This is why, when Patterico did a post based on Nagy’s article, Kimberlin mentioned Allen (“Socrates”) in threatening to sue Patterico. Kimberlin (who knew nothing of Nagy’s research skills) seems to have assumed that only Allen could have been the source for the information about Kimberlin’s past. So Patterico was accused of “conspiring” with Allen.

By now the astute reader understands — and I don’t really have to point this out do I? — that Kimberlin and Rauhauser’s belief in an imaginary conspiracy of their enemies led them into creating an actual conspiracy of their own.

It’s all right there, you see: Presenting himself as an agent of Velvet Revolution, Rauhauser elicited assistance from members of Anonymous in a conspiracy that “put Breitbart & Co. square in their gunsights.” What did Rauhauser mean by that expression? What manner of activity did Anonymous agree to conduct against the target “in their gunsights”? We don’t know.

What we do know is that, once more, Rauhauser’s compulsive bragging has led to the exposure of one of his schemes.

I believe the appropriate word for such a situation is “lulz.”

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Update (Smitty): welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Comments

55 Responses to “Neal Rauhauser’s Game Plan Involving Velvet Revolution and Anonymous”

JeffS
June 15th, 2012 @ 9:45 am

Very nice reporting, Stacy — the skull sweat that went into connecting these dots is evident.
doyouknowwhat
June 15th, 2012 @ 10:05 am

“Sen.
McConnell drew special attention to allegations that certain left-wing
activists have been SWATting their political enemies. “I know you’ve
been right on top of that story,” he said of Breitbart News. “I think
those reports are incredibly disturbing and need to be fully
investigated, and I hope we can get somebody in the majority position of
the House to take a look at it. There’s somebody I’ve heard about named
Brett Kimberlin, who is a left-wing terrorist that I know many people
feel may be behind the SWATting. That’s strictly illegal, and should be
investigated.”

“They
are trying to shut up their critics,” McConnell said. “I want to
stiffen the spines of those who are out there. Do not be afraid of this
crowd. Don’t let them scare you. Every American has a right to organize,
to speak, to contribute to causes they believe in. The best way to stop
them would be to defeat them in the election this November.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/14/McConnell-Interview-AEI
DarthLevin
June 15th, 2012 @ 10:12 am

Why do I get the feeling that Rauhauser owns two or three self-storage units full of composition notebooks, each page with lots of tiny writing?
JeffS
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:12 am

And written in a secret code.
gloogle gloogle
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:22 am

Seconded. Keep up the good work.
PaulLemmen
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:23 am

Excellent work Stacy!
SDN
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:56 am

Probably for the same reason you get the feeling that paste is a food group to him?
RainMaker
June 15th, 2012 @ 12:22 pm

This guy thinks
like a Marxist, because they use a top down political infiltration methodology.
He thinks all the right wing people are centrally organized and centrally
planned, not just thousands of independent thinkers on the internet.

What schools did
he attend, was he trained overseas or in a Marxist led US University?

He may have
undergone some sort of coercive brainwashing during a high stress time in his
life to solidify this type of thinking.
The brainwashing could have occurred during undergrad education when he was
young and impressionable. Many of these people come
from a dysfunctional families. I have seen families with issues of Alcoholism
and various types of abuse are more susceptible to Marxist indoctrination. It replaces the normal family structure.

I am guessing
Cuba, U of M, Columbia U .or some place in Minnesota; these are some places
where this type of thinking is still fostered.
Dianna Deeley
June 15th, 2012 @ 12:41 pm

Does anyone else note that, while the names remain the same, their relationships and roles keep changing? Aside from Patterico as the eminence behind all of this, that is. One does wonder – if Patterico truly were responsible – where does he find the time to hold down a job, be married and have kids, blog, and mastermind some vast, ghillie-suit of a conspiracy?
Garym
June 15th, 2012 @ 12:54 pm

Has he watched the movie Se7en? You know, just to get some pointers.
jsn2
June 15th, 2012 @ 12:58 pm

“BUSTED! Video Documents Role of Democrat Consultant Neal Rauhauser in Smear Campaign Against Tea Party“

The video has been pulled. Any copies?
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June 15th, 2012 @ 1:42 pm

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The Damn Dirty RINO
June 15th, 2012 @ 1:47 pm

My senior senator, Mitch McConnell . . ….

Time to choose up sides. . . . now has Brett Kimberlin and his lackeys on his radar screen. As Drew points out in his post over at Ace of Spades, a lot of conservatives think he’s the biggest RINO there is (because they’re obviously unaware…
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June 15th, 2012 @ 1:51 pm

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JeffS
June 15th, 2012 @ 2:50 pm

Update on Aaron Walker’s situation, via Michelle Malkin: Brett Kimberlin fail alert: Criminal charges against Aaron Walker dropped
K-Bob
June 15th, 2012 @ 4:31 pm

These guys are as inventive as addicts when it comes to hiding their problem, which is their refusal to accept responsibility for their own actions.
Red
June 15th, 2012 @ 4:49 pm

–Been following this but haven’t been able to post (work firewall and such). Give ’em hell Stacy!!
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June 15th, 2012 @ 5:30 pm

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DaveO
June 15th, 2012 @ 5:31 pm

In several posts, you use terms that diagnose mental illness to Rauhauser, but ascribe evil to Kimberlin. At the level these two are operating, they aren’t mentally ill – they are fully functioning. Neither of them believe they are evil, because they are behaving in a manner that says they don’t operate on our moral plane.

These two remind me more of Gary Ridgeway or Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, killing people online and using the internet, with a Google-alert to the next newsclipping about their exploits, and returning to gloat over the corpse of an abandoned blog, or home. There are many rituals: feeling victimized by being exposure, seeking sanction from equally shadowy hackers, and a misdirection of victims – evidence of one of them being the dominant, mentor-killer?

Should be an interesting forensic interview.
blaster
June 15th, 2012 @ 5:34 pm

Okay, odd:

So O’Keefe has a state grand jury in New Hampshire, then doubles down by having one of his guys pose as Attorney General Eric Holder, attempting to vote using his name here in D.C. Last week I sat for an hour with two Metropolitain Police detectives. They were local, we had some stuff on Chicago, they said “Let us forward this.” When I asked they said “We’re a little bit federal, too.” So they’re deputized U.S. Marshals and I think this is probably a general election related task force – they were in my place last summer, when I was still in Illinois, collecting my notes on hate groups that involve themselves in elections.

I keep saying the problem is that Kimberlin and crew are radical ideology married to the power of the state. Now, most of that stuff reads pretty wacky and I don’t doubt that this seriously overstates the relationship here, but there you go. Along with the revelation about the NH AG seeking materials from Nadia Naffe.

There’s your story. Makes Watergate look like Romper Room.
lefthand
June 15th, 2012 @ 5:48 pm

Completely baseless conjecture. Also compeltely incorrect.
lefthand
June 15th, 2012 @ 6:00 pm

Congratulations. Over the past couple of weeks you and your friends have succeeded in ripping Rauhauser to shreds. I think it’s safe to say his career in this area, if indeed he had one, is over.

Both sides have been fighting like cats and dogs for going on 3 years. Tons of pointless, exasperating, sometimes sickening, sometimes dangerous drama. Sound and fury signifying nothing.

You have trolled each other into oblivion. Are you finished yet?

I suppose there are still the lawsuits to consider. If all parties were wise they would walk away.

The only matter worth pursuing at this point? The identities of the people involved in the swatting.
JeffS
June 15th, 2012 @ 6:15 pm

The only matter worth pursuing at this point? The identities of the people involved in the swatting.

I disagree. Rauhauser is but one player in this. If you were actually following this story (which I doubt, unless you are being deliberately obtuse), you’d know that. I’m not going to say that there’s national conspiracy, although it’s possible. But it’s clear that Rauhauser has been supported and enabled by other people in some sort of network.

The fact is, there’s a machine out there (maybe more than one), intended to intimidate people who do not support “liberal” views and/or agendas. And if not intimidate, to shout them down, or discredit them.

Intimidation and demonization are both threats to free speech, which leads to a loss of other freedoms.

This goes back quite a few years (journolist is but one example), but it is well worth pursuing. Walking away would be counterproductive.
lefthand
June 15th, 2012 @ 6:36 pm

Rauhauser is saying the exact same thing about the existence of a “conservative” machine intended to intimidate people who do not support “conservative” views and/or agendas.

Does either of these organizations actually exist or is it just a bunch of people attacking each other?
MM
June 15th, 2012 @ 6:53 pm

Agreed. The SWATting is the least important part of the whole story and does not lead to the money and power behind the scenes. That is why try are focusing on that angle.
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June 15th, 2012 @ 7:00 pm

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Bob Belvedere
June 15th, 2012 @ 7:07 pm

He’s cloned himself, obviously – another sign that he is The real Blofeld!

I shall look forward personally to exterminating you, Mr. Bond, er, Mr. Rauhauser.
Bob Belvedere
June 15th, 2012 @ 7:08 pm

Sadly, the ‘Peace Order’ still stands:
http://thecampofthesaints.org/2012/06/15/the-brettkimberlin-report-d21-part-ii-maryland-will-not-prosecute-aaron-walker/
lefthand
June 15th, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

You’re kidding me, right? Money and power? You mean the couple hundred thousand dollars Velvet Revolution and JTMP receive each year?

That’s hardly a huge conspiracy. That’s barely a flea on the ass of the elephant.
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June 15th, 2012 @ 7:32 pm

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blaster
June 15th, 2012 @ 7:56 pm

How much were the plumbers paid?
Wombat_socho
June 15th, 2012 @ 8:09 pm

You must be new here.
This isn’t a left/right issue at all, and that you think it is says more about you than it does about the issue itself.
DaveO
June 15th, 2012 @ 9:03 pm

lefthand,

There’s been a “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy” ever since Hillary Clinton declared it so when she faced criminal charges in the Starr investigation.

So far, there’s never been any evidence uncovered, or you’d hear about most nights on the lamestream news, and in most news stories put out by AP and UPI.

The Vast Rightwing Conspiracy is the most often used, and never proved piece of deflection. People of the Left WANT to believe there is such a conspiracy. People of the Left have, by and large, reached a mental and emotional that requires such a conspiracy.

Its why you hear nothing but the blaming of Bush today. Its why you hear of an obstructionist Congress (but the only obstruction is coming from Senate Dems).

The world has become very, very dangerous place as Lefties avoid coming to grips with the destruction of most of their most cherished notions (keynsian economics, racism, social justice). That’s why Rauhauser can bleat “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy” and you give equal credence to real, no-shit attempted murder.

Way to go Lefthand, you support murder.
JeffS
June 15th, 2012 @ 9:19 pm

Does either of these organizations actually exist or is it just a bunch of people attacking each other?

We can agree that people are attacking other people. But in any campaign, someone has to initiate the attacks. These do not start spontaneously. Which, I think, is where you are missing the boat. Whether you are sincere or a concern troll in doing so remains to be seen.

I suppose we could go back generations on this partisan bickering, mud slinging, and subterfuge. But I start with where Stacy starts: Twittergate.

The Tea Party started as — and largely remains — a grass roots organization. Because of that, it is hugely unpopular with the left. You will likely characterize thee as assertions, but I can live with that.

Rauhauser initiated Twittergate because of the TP’s unpopularity. Whether he did so at the bidding of someone, or did so to gain favor with some people is immaterial. He made the first attack, and became part of a network.

And he did not stop the attacks. Apparently, he has accomplices in these attacks, as indicated by the relationships Stacy and others have dug up. Brett Kimberlin comes to mind.

These attacks were intimidation, intended to shut people up, whether it was the Tea Party message, or reporting facts. Because free people do not take tyranny lightly, they counterattacked. Not by smears, lies, lawfare, and other forms of intimidation. But by legal means, including reporting facts, and seeking legislative relief. I don’t see BK and NR writing their Congresscritters.

I say all this because you seem to be a fence sitter, more interested in getting everyone to shut up. So I will ask you a question:

Have you addressed these concerns to BK or NR? By Twitter? E-mails? Posting to their blogs? Or even on a blog of your own?

I ask because I’ve seen this behavior before: People are defending themselves against unscrupulous or even vicious people, and in steps a “peace maker” who is more interested in “peace and quiet” than in justice or freedom. This “peace maker” calls both sides bad, and makes his audience ashamed of themselves. And the people back off.

EXCEPT….the so-called “peace maker” never talked to both sides. Just one. And the other kept on ramping up their aggression.

This was a common tactic during the Cold Wayr, lefthand. And the fact that you have less than 6 comments on this blog makes me wonder just much of a “peace maker” (a/k/a concern troll) you are.
JeffS
June 15th, 2012 @ 9:22 pm

Hmmmmm…….still trying to discredit the meme, huh?
lefthand
June 15th, 2012 @ 10:03 pm

I’m actually not concern trolling. I’m honestly inquiring about what’s going on because it seems to me that both sides have been flinging shit and fighting unfairly. I don’t believe in a right wing conspiracy OR a left wing conspiracy.

And I wonder how much more time is going to be wasted addressing trolls (like Neal) instead of working on issues that really matter. I understand that your attacks on him are in reaction to his attacks on you. And then he responds in kind and round the circle goes. When does it end? When can we move on? Do you not see how much time this wastes?

This is what a troll DOES – he is a big fucking suck of time and energy. The attacks have to stop with someone, sometime, or it just continues indefinitely.

If I were to espouse a conspiracy, I would say the powers that be are having a huge fucking laugh over this war between the grassroots.
JeffS
June 15th, 2012 @ 10:35 pm

This is what a troll DOES – he is a big fucking suck of time and
energy. The attacks have to stop with someone, sometime, or it just
continues indefinitely

Now, see, this is EXACTLY my point. I speak clearly to you. You ignore my question, sidestepping the issue that BK and his ilk are responsible for this situation. You come right back to the question I already answered, although indirectly. You don’t listen, you don’t answer, you ask the same question, trying to get your message through.

My answer was:

“Because free people do not take tyranny lightly, they counterattacked. ”

So, you do not listen. The kind will label you obtuse. The unkind will not.

So here’s my direct, blunt answer:

We are defending our freedoms. It’s over when we do not need to defend our freedoms.

It’s a waste of time only if you do not cherish those freedoms.

And I am unkind.
JD331
June 15th, 2012 @ 10:37 pm

The great conciliator? Rauhauser and Kimberlin are like weeds, you have to dig deep to root them out. don’t give up yet because it’s hard. Or it’s hot in the kitchen
Dianna Deeley
June 15th, 2012 @ 10:46 pm

Which is how it’s crept along. It needs an audit, and it needs to be exposed. If you don’t see that small corruption leads to huge corruption, you’re not paying attention.
The latest on the Brett Kimberlin/Neal Rauhauser/blogger intimidation stories « The Daley Gator
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:01 pm

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oKeefeInJail
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:10 pm

Neal Rauhauser is awesome!
Bob Belvedere
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:25 pm

Well put.
Bob Belvedere
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:28 pm

Juror Bob votes:
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Adjoran
June 15th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm

By even suggesting a moral equivalence, you betray yourself as evil.
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June 16th, 2012 @ 12:04 am

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Dianna Deeley
June 16th, 2012 @ 12:06 am

You’ve read his screeds? Go back in time; note that he keeps some of the dramatis personae, but their roles and relationships change.

Rauhauser’s like a dime-store novelist, not terribly concerned with continuity. It makes it hard to believe him.
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June 16th, 2012 @ 1:51 am

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Barf Becker
June 16th, 2012 @ 9:04 am

“lefthand” might be the famous blogger that has harassed and tormented the same group?
http://justcall…… this troll has also been a hero and mouthpiece for these goons.
Red
June 16th, 2012 @ 1:25 pm

And takes a razor blade to his fingerprints…
‘Scrubbed’ Writings Show Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser’s Obsessions : The Other McCain
June 17th, 2012 @ 11:30 am

[…] “LulzSec” cell of Anonymous.In a comment posted at a progressive blog in October 2011, Rauhauser described being contacted by a “very big dog from the Anonymous pen” who agreed to assist Velvet Revolution in an apparent plan to attack enemies of Rauhauser and […]