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The Kimberlin Files: Ali Akbar, the Fight for Liberty and … a Disturbing Silence

Posted on | June 18, 2012 | 71 Comments


 

“If Rauhauser and Kimberlin aren’t under investigation by the FBI yet, why not?”
Robert Stacy McCain, June 4, 2011

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
During the Right Online conference, National Bloggers Club president Ali Akbar was interviewed by Christina Corbin of Fox News:

“What they’re clearly trying to do is dampen down free speech, but it goes beyond that — it’s putting people’s physical safety in jeopardy,” said Ali Akbar, who heads a group called the National Bloggers Club made up of conservative online writers.
Akbar told FoxNews.com that he believes he is a target after he claims his mother’s home address in Texas was posted on various Internet sites to “incite someone crazy on the fringe left to do something absolutely awful to one of us for what we’re talking about.”

(Via Memeorandum.) There is a limit to what can be accomplished by defensive measures to protect against such dangerous intimidation tactics. We have seen in the cases of Seth Allen, Mike Stack, Patrick “Patterico” Frey and Aaron Walker that courts and law enforcement agencies have repeatedly failed to take appropriate action against the thugs who seek to stifle First Amendment freedoms. Indeed, in the May 29 Maryland hearing that exemplified the bizarre success of Brett Kimberlin’s abusive “lawfare” tactics, Aaron Walker was arrested ! — on the basis of dishonest claims made by Kimberlin who, among other things, is a convicted perjurer.

Mike Stack and Patterico were both SWATted nearly a year ago, and yet no arrests have been made in those cases. Patterico demonstrates that he was being harassed on Twitter in September 2011 by Neal Rauhauser’s associates who made specific references to SWATting before Patterico had ever made public mention of having been SWATted.

The FBI knows all about this, and yet they refuse to act.

Patterico has clearly identified those whom he suspects of complicity. Has the FBI inquired with Twitter to find out who was behind the “LulzShack” handle in August 2011? Or who was behind the “Stormpedo” Twitter handle in September 2011?

We are at the point of the story where, if this was a TV crime drama, the detectives would have the suspects locked in a room, confronting them with the evidence and interrogating them for 14 consecutive hours until they cracked.

Is the FBI incompetent? Or — I hesitate to suggest this — has the Justice Department become so corrupted that even the FBI’s hard-won reputation for integrity has been compromised?

This is why Neal Rauhauser’s repeated boastings about his contacts in the FBI disturb me. We know that Rauhauser is a liar and a braggart, but what if he’s actually telling the truth about his cozy relationship with law enforcement? What if the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have actually bought into Rauhauser’s deceptions?

Perish the thought. I have spoken to at least three people who say they have talked to the FBI about what is, supposedly, an ongoing investigation of these matters. These people tell me to be patient, and assure me that the FBI is doing their best. But if they’re doing their best, how to explain the lack of action? 

We know that Rauhauser was in contact with Brett Kimberlin and Velvet Revolution by the summer of 2011. We know that Rauhauser (under his “Stranded Wind” alias) posted a series of items at Daily Kos targeting Patterico for his writings about Anthony Weiner:

On July 27, 2011, Rauhauser declared that Patterico “looks to be a pretty good candidate for the planner/operator behind Weinergate.”

We know that, when Rauhauser reached out to leaders of the “Occupy Boston” protests in September 2011, he made the connection through Gregg Housh, who was a partner of  “Anonymous” spokesman Barrett Brown, who was raided by the FBI earlier this year in connection with the “Lulzsec” hacking conspiracy. We know that Rauhauser boasted about his connections to “a very big dog from the Anonymous pen” in October 2011. We know that Rauhauser has written extensively about his methods of online deception and secrecy.

Readers who have carefully followed my “Kimberlin Files” coverage for the past month — since the May 17 post, “Is Democrat Operative Neal Rauhauser an ‘Associate’ of Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin? (And Why It Matters)” — know all of these things and, if FBI agents were seriously investigating the case, then the investigators must know all these things, too.

Reporters are not cops and I’ve sometimes cautioned that bloggers should resist the urge to “play detective,” putting the cart of conclusions before the horse of facts, seeking “evidence” to support their own idiosyncratic theories of suspected wrongdoing. A lot of the confusion over WeinerGate resulted from bloggers like the idiotic Tommy Christopher trying to “play detective” and being led on futile, deceptive wild-goose chases.

Just stick to the facts. Do your job — keep digging in on the story and keep readers informed of new developments — and trust that the cops and other authorities will also do their jobs.

People have asked me if I have talked to the FBI or if I plan to sue anybody about the harassment that I’ve had to deal with. No and no.

All I want to do is keep reporting the story. If the FBI wants to talk to me, they can get my personal cell-phone number from some of the sources I’ve interviewed who say they have been talking to the FBI for weeks and months about this case. As for lawsuits, I long ago decided it was the best policy to heed the advice of Andrew Jackson’s mother:

“Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander, assault and battery. Always settle them cases yourself.”

Lest that historic wisdom be cited as a violent “threat” by Kimberlin and Rauhauser — a couple of lying, cowardly punks who love to deceive fools by claiming victimhood — let me say that telling the truth is the means by which I intend to settle this case.

As Professor Glenn Reynolds accurately remarked, I am not intimidated, which is what Kimberlin sought to do when he contacted my wife’s employer, dishonestly claimed that I was “harassing” him, and made clear that he knew where I lived.

At that point, in my first post from an Undisclosed Location, I asked for intercessory prayer, entrusting my safety and the safety of my family to the Lord of Hosts. And I also trusted that the tip-jar hitters would come through, contributing enough to the Shoe Leather Fund to keep me on this story and relocate my family. God has answered those prayers and I am profoundly grateful for the continued support of readers.

Years ago, when I was still in college, I took a Trailways bus ride to Charlottesville,, Virginia, to visit a girlfriend. And while I was in Charlottesville, I insisted on visiting Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello, where I wanted to see with my own eyes something I’d only ever read about in books. Jefferson wrote his own epitaph, and so I wanted to go see his gravestone, which doesn’t even mention the fact that he was president. Instead, as I knew, Jefferson wished to be known for three accomplishments: Writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, and authoring the Virginia statute for religious freedom.

That last accomplishment does not seem, at first glance, to rank in significance with the first two. We can understand Jefferson’s pride in authoring the Declaration, and the founding of a state university is an important achievement, but . . . a mere state law? Why would Jefferson insist that this be inscribed on his tombstone, to the neglect of the many high offices he had held, including Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, and President?

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself … she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”

Truth is great and will prevail. This expresses a faith in the truth, and in the ability of ordinary people to understand the truth, that is almost in itself a religious belief. Jefferson has at times been excoriated (or praised) as a Deist and skeptic, yet I think no Bible-believing Christian could quarrel with his belief in the insuperable power of truth, for the Christian must firmly believe that the truth of God must ultimately triumph over Satan’s lies.

Knowing the power of truth, then, I call to the reader’s attention an interesting bit of information from Mark Singer’s 1996 book, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin (pp. 35-36):

Until the children hit adolescence, Carolyn [Kimberlin] took them to Sunday services at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Brett was confirmed there, along with his brothers and sister, but he had no faith.
Brett: “I was the only one who wouldn’t pray. . . . I went to Sunday school and learned the Lord’s Prayer and stuff, but I felt totally alienated from this fraud. From the age of six, I didn’t buy into it at all.”

While I am troubled by the disturbing silence from the FBI’s investigation, I have reason to suspect that this silence is even more troubling — one might say, ominous — for Brett Kimberlin and his associates. And given that he has disavowed God since childhood, there is no one to whom Kimberlin can now pray for deliverance. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 

 

 

THE KIMBERLIN FILES:

 


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71 Responses to “The Kimberlin Files: Ali Akbar, the Fight for Liberty and … a Disturbing Silence”

  1. JeffS
    June 18th, 2012 @ 2:09 pm

    A couple of thoughts here, pure speculation, at both ends of the spectrum:

    1.  The FBI is silent because no law enforcement agency wants to discuss an active investigation in the open.  This is “operational security” writ large.

    2.  We attribute corruption to all levels of the DoJ (i.e., Holder and his flying monkeys), and hence to the FBI.  This is likely unfair; I concede that the corruption is there (thanks, Obama), but I doubt it’s every where.  I believe that integrity is still a word with meaning for many agents.  So, it’s possible that we are either witnessing typical bureaucratic indifference (and, yes, cops are susceptible to that), or they are simply overloaded, and have higher priority cases.  It’s not like there’s a shortage of criminals in this country — just look at the Administration.

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  4. Bob Belvedere
    June 18th, 2012 @ 2:38 pm

    This is why we must continue to be relentless in our pushing of this story.

    GSP:
    We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. ” Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we’re going up against. By God, I do.

    My men don’t surrender; I don’t want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That’s not just bull shit either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man!

  5. DonaldDouglas
    June 18th, 2012 @ 2:46 pm

    Outstanding, McCain!

  6. CallMeStormy
    June 18th, 2012 @ 2:57 pm

    Patterico in his blog today asserts that Stormpeedo, Occupy Rebellion and Darrah Ford are one and the same person. In other words, different handles and aliases employed by the same individual.

     Who is this individual? From all appearances, someone who’s been deeply immersed in the porn industry, as Darrah Ford wrote a longtime blog dishing out “insider” gossip within that industry. Some porn reformers have “outed” this individual, and you can use Google to read what they are claiming, and the many charges and counter-charges surrounding these revelations. I’m not going to jump headfirst into that can of worms here. Mr. McCain is absolutely correct, we must resist the urge to rush to conclusions and also refrain from playing judge and jury before knowing all the facts. Still, it’s interesting that these reformers seem to be bucking up against the same kinds of foes  as conservative bloggers, namely, a bunch of slugs engaged in a relentless, often shadowy campaign of stalking, harassment, cyber-thuggery and distortion. If there is a connection between all of these cross-currents, it might explain why the FBI is moving slowly to round up the bad guys. That’s because the cesspool might not be a little puddle, but a mighty big and truly fetid and foul-smelling swamp.

    For an introductory taste of what’s afoot, read this story that dropped last Thursday in the LA Weekly:http://www.laweekly.com/2012-06-14/news/Shelley-Lubben-porn-rescue-pink-cross/ Also, check out the Christian Pornstar website of Monica Foster at:
    http://www.christianpornstar.com/ 

  7. Adjoran
    June 18th, 2012 @ 3:19 pm

    The FBI isn’t in the business of publicizing their investigations.  They have been known to threaten interference and/or obstruction charges for those who get too curious about ongoing probes.  While individual agents in various regional offices including LA may have declined to open an investigation of the SWATtings (or as Politico sees them,  “elaborate practical jokes”), the stuff rolls from a different elevation when 87 members of Congress call for an investigation.  These are the folks who vote on the budget (remember when we used to have actual federal budgets before the lazy Democrats took over?)

    But even though your reporting – Pulitzer-worthy back when the Pulitzer meant something – explains the narrative, you haven’t uncovered any evidence which can be used in court to convict any of the principals of a federal crime.  That’s what the FBI is doing.

    And the “F-in’ BI” doesn’t stop when they find evidence of a crime and say, “Oh, looky!  Let’s bring charges now and hold a press briefing!”  Not their style.  They keep looking, amass a pile of charges high enough to entice one or more of their targets to turn on the others, aiming to build airtight cases on multiple charges against the biggest fishes in the criminal conspiracies.

    The FBI isn’t interested in Bruno breaking a shopkeeper’s arm or Vinny the Fin running a chop shop, they want the Don and they want him for a long, long time.

  8. Finrod Felagund
    June 18th, 2012 @ 3:44 pm

    Wow, the threatening comments by “Michael Whiteacre” there remind me very strongly of the tactics of Kimberlin and his gang of goons.
     

  9. Kenno271
    June 18th, 2012 @ 3:53 pm

    Is it possible that Andrew Breitbart was murdered by Rauhauser and Kimberlin? The timing seems awfully suspicious.

  10. JeffS
    June 18th, 2012 @ 4:04 pm

    Breitbart had standing medical  issues.  The coroner said natural causes.   The family is satisfied with that.

    Unless you have evidence to the contrary (i.e., no speculation), let’s just say that not only his death was unfortunate, the timing was as well.  I’m sure Breitbart would have enjoyed these proceedings immensely.

  11. McGehee
    June 18th, 2012 @ 4:06 pm

    Do you have a theory of how they could have done it? Spill.

  12. Pathfinder's wife
    June 18th, 2012 @ 4:20 pm

    FBI, as already mentioned, doesn’t talk shop about what it’s up to w/ an ongoing investigation.

    And the problem may be that it isn’t just these fellows that are involved in swat-ting…it’s bad enough if something you uncover is embarassing for one political party, quite another if both sides have been engaging in things.

  13. CallMeStormy
    June 18th, 2012 @ 4:36 pm

    Yes, Michael Whiteacre does seem like a sweetheart, doesn’t he?

    But also follow the involvement of attorney Marc Randazza. If he sounds familiar, he should. He’s the same attorney who represented Isaac Eiland-Hill in his court fight against Glenn Beck after Eiland-Hill launched the “parody” website DidGlennBeckRapeandMurderaYoungGirl1990

    Anyone interested in that case can read the Wikipedia summary here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_v._Eiland-Hall 

    The interesting facet of that case: The website received over 120,000 page loads within its first 24 hours of existence — its viral ascendancy powered by “Anonymous” spreading the false meme that Eiland-Hill had planted, at least according to Mediaite.

  14. Jaynie59
    June 18th, 2012 @ 5:07 pm

    I have one kid and one dog and make pretty good money and there is no way I could afford to just leave to live somewhere else. 

  15. Barf Becker
    June 18th, 2012 @ 5:08 pm

    Sounds like someone involved with Neal who knows too much about Monica and slandered Mike in her ” Christian Pornstar” website.

  16. kryon77
    June 18th, 2012 @ 5:29 pm

    I’m a God-less atheist too, but I’m not a domestic terrorist like Kimberlin.  There are a great many atheists living wholly ethical lives, and I daresay the amount of evil committed by atheists is no greater than that of the religiously-minded.  So I wish RSM hadn’t gone there.

    That being said, no biggie. Stacy’s courageous reporting on the ongoing Kimberlin Crime Family saga is amazing, and I’ll continue to be a loyal reader.

  17. CallMeStormy
    June 18th, 2012 @ 5:55 pm

    Struck a raw nerve there? V-e-e-r-r-y in-ter-est-ing, to quote that great sage Arte Johnson.

  18. Adobe_Walls
    June 18th, 2012 @ 6:24 pm

    Not to say that every single person in the DoJ is corrupt or only interested in furthering an ideological agenda but it is safe to say there is corruption at every level of the DoJ. While this is certainly much more pervasive in the civil rights division as related by J. Christian Adams on numerous occasions, since that division can do the most damage to our Republic but do not think the Bolsheviks have neglected the rest of the DoJ or the FBI.

  19. Adobe_Walls
    June 18th, 2012 @ 6:33 pm

    Your Vinny and Bruno analogy is interesting as they’ve probably had as many failures as successes in that department.

  20. Adobe_Walls
    June 18th, 2012 @ 6:36 pm

    Aren’t all deaths untimely and unfortunate from at least some ones perspective?

  21. blaster
    June 18th, 2012 @ 6:43 pm

    The silence is disturbing.  I wrote this before, and I think someone obliquely referred to it as a conspiracy theory.  But ask yourself if it fits the facts:

    “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.  

  22. DaveO
    June 18th, 2012 @ 6:46 pm

    Curious: why Patterico?

    Lots of folks reported on, and followed the Weinergate spectacle.

    In his day job, was Patterico prosecuting or leading the investigation of a major drug/marijuana smuggling ring? Cartel? About to uncover direct links between drug smugglers and weapons supplied by the DoJ?

    Kimberlin is a convicted drug smuggler. Rauhauser claims contacts in DoJ. They’re both ruthless supporters of Leftists.

    Yes, this is just speculation, but again – why Patterico? Why not the Instapundit or Dan Riehl or the Confederate Yankee? Why not RSM back then?

  23. Shawny Lee
    June 18th, 2012 @ 7:15 pm

    Nuh-uh, not God-less, no way.  Had my ass picked up and dusted off and handed back to me too many times not to be a believer.
    But the comment I wanted to add was that as big a deal as this is to us as conservative bloggers, it should be outrage voiced by ALL bloggers, everywhere.  But as big a deal as this is to us, there are much bigger investigations which need to be going on and hopefully those F.B.I. agents with integrity are working on those priorities for us.  With this administration, much is being asked of them which goes deeper into the rabbit hole.   
    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gop-senators-want-irs-cite-legal-grounds-demanding-donor-lists-tea-party-groups 

    And thank God for these guys! 
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/18/border-patrol-group-calls-holders-resignation/

    Plus White House national security leaks because this president is a traitor at the top who desperately wants to control the message more than respect laws or anyones rights.  And if his team wants you to shut up, he won’t call your local PD and send in a SWAT team.  Homes and life savings have been stolen through fraud and corruption and lives have been lost.  Ongoing investigations.  I’d pay good money to see 85 congressmen who would have stood up for us against the NDAA, or extension of the Patriot Act, or backdoor amnesty, the list goes on.  Didn’t mean to go on like that but look at the power we have to directly impact an issue and consider what we could be using it for. 

  24. JeffS
    June 18th, 2012 @ 7:19 pm

     By no means, AW.  I’ve seen a similar problem in other Federal agencies.  It’s gonna take a big broom to clean these turds out.

  25. JeffS
    June 18th, 2012 @ 7:21 pm

     Well, yes, of course.  I meant in the sense that Team Kimberlin is getting dragged out into the sun.  I’m sure that Andrew is smiling somewhere.

  26. Shawny Lee
    June 18th, 2012 @ 7:28 pm

    I don’t, but one theory put out there by Lame Cherry blogger is microwave weapons tech.  I still want to know what happened to Jack Wheeler because he was a cyber weapons expert who was murdered.  No chance in the world he wasn’t involved in the STUXNET conversations. 

  27. robertstacymccain
    June 18th, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

    I’m not worried. My wife, however . . .

  28. robertstacymccain
    June 18th, 2012 @ 7:34 pm

    Why Patterico, you ask?

    Let me give you just a little hint: Did you know that Rauhauser has, among other things, drifted into the Little Green Orbit?

  29. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 18th, 2012 @ 7:44 pm

    This does not sound good.  

  30. richard mcenroe
    June 18th, 2012 @ 8:16 pm

     Unless, as under Hoover, they didn’t give a shit about the Mob as long as there were Reds under the bed.

    Granted there really WERE Reds, but they blew off the Mob.

  31. DaveO
    June 18th, 2012 @ 8:45 pm

    That could explain Rauhauser. But Kimberlin, or is he CJ’s twin?

  32. Adjoran
    June 18th, 2012 @ 9:16 pm

     When galaxies of crazy collide . . .

  33. Adjoran
    June 18th, 2012 @ 9:20 pm

     You don’t need six whole degrees of separation to connect the dots with this band of nuts.  Aaron helped Sean Allen (very slightly) defend himself against Kimberlin’s lawsuit.  Aaron used to guest-blog at Patterico.

  34. MrPaulRevere
    June 18th, 2012 @ 9:21 pm

    While not discounting the CJ angle, I would suggest that Kimberlin (and team Kimberlin) have a pathological hatred for anyone connected with law enforcement. I mean look at their vitriol to ward Brandon Darby whom I consider a hero. And it fits like a glove with Kimberlins life history.

  35. Dianna Deeley
    June 18th, 2012 @ 9:48 pm

     I’d argue that the Little Green Orbit was disrupted and sank into that black hole. It’s not like there is much integrity or will power, holding it to an independent path of its own, is it?

    Damn. So sad.

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  37. Dianna Deeley
    June 18th, 2012 @ 10:02 pm

     How do we help you ease her mind?

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

     Which is all nice, but then they get into court and have these insane charts, and the jury, at a certain point, gets tired of listening to them.

  39. Crawford
    June 18th, 2012 @ 11:05 pm

    If you’re hearing voices from your fillings, seek help immediately!

  40. Crawford
    June 18th, 2012 @ 11:07 pm

    If there were a Republican equivalent to Kimberlin and Krew, they’d have been front-page in the NYT months ago.

  41. Dustin
    June 18th, 2012 @ 11:11 pm

    Another great post, RSM.

    Thanks for the perseverance.  And that you stood up to Kimberlin when it took quite a bit of bravery… after it was clear what they were doing to people, and before it was clear many would rally around the cause. 

  42. CallMeStormy
    June 18th, 2012 @ 11:18 pm

    I see that my comments from earlier today have been excised. I don’t have any problem with that. No doubt, I  touched upon aspects of this story and various side characters who are perhaps too murky or tangential to interject at this point. I certainly have no desire to compromise any ongoing investigations, either by law enforcement agents or the blogger/ journalists who’ve endured harassment for many months while probing into this mess. That said, I’ll restrict my 2 cents worth of commentary to the one salient point I raised in my original opening sentence: In his blog today, Patterico asserts there’s a high probability that Stormpeedo, Occupy Rebellion and Darrah Ford are one and the same individual, someone using different handles and aliases for different occasions, as the need arises.  

  43. Saul
    June 18th, 2012 @ 11:28 pm

    The FBI…refuse to act.

    You’re accusing the FBI of protecting Kimberlin simply because they haven’t arrested him yet? Ever heard of the concept of investigation? Remember, just because you don’t know what they’re doing doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re doing. ; )

  44. G Joubert
    June 18th, 2012 @ 11:53 pm

    Why Patterico is one question.  Another is, why has Patterico’s employer not taken quite seriously the SWATting of one of its deputies, by persons unknown for motives unknown.  You’d think the LA District Attorney’s office would want to get to the bottom of that.  Or is it, perhaps, that Patterico has chosen himself to not pursue that recourse, not wanting blowback from his blogging activities to burden his employer?

  45. CallMeStormy
    June 18th, 2012 @ 11:54 pm

    One other comment: RSM, you practically brought tears to my eyes with your eloquent and astute tribute to Thomas Jefferson. Many folks forget, but Jefferson, besides being a President, consummate statesman and thinker, was also an architect. The community of Jeffersonville, Indiana, was laid out according to a grid pattern and design that Jefferson created, reflecting his ideal vision of a city for the future. It’s incumbent upon all of us to keep his vision alive, ensuring the proper balance of freedom and law,  as opposed to the chaos and chicanery represented by the Speedway bomber.   

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  47. JeffS
    June 19th, 2012 @ 12:29 am

    Luuuuuuccccyyyyy!  You got some ‘splaining to do!

  48. Adjoran
    June 19th, 2012 @ 12:43 am

     And every day since.  WaPo too, and MSNBC would be running 24/7 on “the crisis” and ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/PBS would have a daily segment on it, and how elected Republicans encouraged or sponsored it.

  49. DensityDuck
    June 19th, 2012 @ 12:47 am

    You’re assuming that inaction by the FBI represents tacit acceptance.

    Others are puffing themselves up, talking of OPSEC and Ongoing Investigations, trying to seem like they’re operators just in from the field.

    Is it really so hard to believe that maybe the FBI just doesn’t *care*? That they see this as a nerd slapfight that won’t harm anyone outside the principals, to the extent that anybody is harmed at all? That they consider the whole business a slightly more expensive version of name-calling and tattletailing?

    Remember that not everybody thinks the Internet is real yet. Most people still think that it’s a clubhouse for pot-addled hippies and glasses-taped-together nerds and musicians with only one name.

    (as a parting shot, remember how this all went down the next time you rail against “cyberstalking” or “cyberbullying” laws.)

  50. Adjoran
    June 19th, 2012 @ 12:51 am

     Look at what happened to Aaron Walker in court in Maryland.  This story is so complex and involved as to seem fantastic, and the perpetrators’ entire rationale such a pure pack of lies and paranoid, aberrant acts as to seem a work of bad fiction, that it is very easy to slip too deep into the weeds trying to explain it.  Just telling the story, straight up without any conjecture, just the facts, is going to sound pretty darned strange.

    I wouldn’t blame Patterico if he decided to leave his office out of it until it ripens enough that they enter on their own.