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Neal Rauhauser’s Bizarre Suspicions, and Profiling the (Hypothetical) ‘UnSub’

Posted on | June 23, 2012 | 80 Comments

‘Deeply disturbed … narcissism … sociopathic’?

“Please think about your family. This story is not worth it. I can assure you that. . . .
“I am trying to help you, a lot of people are very disappointed that this story has continued.”
— “Alicia Pain,” June 23, 2011

“Another possible outcome would be a two digit body count from some mosque in Virginia after Aaron goes full tilt Jared Loughner on the congregation. . . .
“I continue to be the sort of guy who can get a counter terror [special agent] in the D.C. area on the phone in short order.”
— Neal Rauhauser, Feb. 16, 2012

“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.'”
— Robert Stacy McCain, June 15, 2012

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
SWATting victim Mike Stack accused Brett Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser of criminal harassment. On May 24, the day he was due to appear at a New Jersey courthouse for a meeting intended to resolve that case, Rauhauser sent an e-mail to Stack that included this:

Given that Doug [Stewart] was in court with us, as well as others who may not have spoke up, I think it’s very dangerous that we should appear together at a known time. You haven’t faced this stuff yet, but Gabbie [Giffords] took a bullet through the back of the head and Gabe Zimmerman died along with five others in Tucson. What McCain & Walker are doing is *way* more intense than the stuff that [led] up to that mass shooting. I am truly worried we could end up caught in the middle of a gunfight between deputies and some extremist group. It’s never been made public, but there were members of Michigan Militia periodically patrolling the Occupy Lansing camp because they got a hint I was there, and before that it was some League of the South guy in South Carolina who got interviewed by FBI hate crimes squad.

These insinuations are either (a) insane or (b) dishonest, or perhaps (c) both insane and dishonest. There is no other possible explanation for Rauhauser’s bizarre claim that Aaron Walker’s defense against Brett Kimberlin’s intimidation tactics — and my reporting on Walker’s plight — were likely to lead to a massacre comparable to Jared Loughner’s criminal rampage in Tucson.

Please note that I reported on Loughner’s crime both on my blog and at The American Spectator. In point of fact, “the stuff that [led] up to that mass shooting” was Loughner’s slow-motion descent into psychosis, a mental deterioration influenced by the atheist 9/11-Truther conspiracy cult “documentary,” Zeitgeist.

What other “stuff” does Neal Rauhauser mean to say caused Loughner’s murder spree? Sarah Palin’s “target” map? “Incivility”? Rauhauser doesn’t say, nor does he acknowledge that Loughner was a paranoid psychotic deluded by left-wing conspiracy theories.

” I am truly worried we could end up caught in the middle of a gunfight between deputies and some extremist group”? What deranged nonsense is this? Who could possibly take Neal seriously?

Only a handful of people knew or cared about the Stack-Rauhauser case. There were some people working behind the scenes trying to get somebody — anybody — in New Jersey or New York media to cover that story, and nobody was interested, even though it involved Mike Stack, who played a key role in exposing the Anthony Weiner cybersex scandal.

Yet here was Rauhauser, the defendant in a criminal harassment case, sending a private e-mail to Stack — the plaintiff in that case — attempting to convince Stack that they were both in danger of dying in a violent attack by an armed gang of right-wing extremists.

The Michigan Militia! The League of the South! All these shadowy menaces, Rauhauser wanted Stack to believe, were such a looming threat to public safety in Somerset County, N.J., that it was dangerous for Stack and Rauhauser to “appear together at a known time.”

And why? Because of Aaron Walker and me!

Rauhauser then went on in his e-mail to Stack to cast a penumbra of suspicion around Patrick “Patterico” Frey who, like Stack, had been targeted for SWATting in the wake of WeinerGate:

If Frey or anyone around him can shift blame to you for anything that has happened they will try that.
The FBI agent in charge of counter-terror for NYC was interested after I told her a bit about what you had been close to, but after some consideration I think it is unwise for you to approach them on your own. I also think you might have some sort of claim against Frey, but it’s not as clear as what Nadia [Naffe] has.
I will write a note introducing you and Jay Leiderman. He is Nadia’s lawyer, he is not mine, so you would be talking to him as if he were going to be your counsel in a civil suit against Frey, and he will advise you on the particulars of talking with the feds after what you have seen. . . .
We’ll look what I have over — you, me, and qritiq, then we’ll share it with Allyn Lynd, the FBI agent who is most known for dealing with stuff like that. I think this is a separate issue from Frey and so forth – we can do this without either of us being exposed to any trouble.

This is such a convoluted wad of misleading lunacy I scarcely know how to begin unraveling it. How is it, for example, that Rauhauser imagines Patrick Frey would want to “shift blame” to Stack?

Blame for what? What crime is Frey alleged to have committed for which he would, according to Rauhauser, want to falsely blame Stack?

How does this relate to Nadia Naffe, nemesis of James O’Keefe? What does Rauhauser claim Frey or O’Keefe (or their unknown accomplices) have done that would be of interest to “The FBI agent in charge of counter-terror for NYC” or “Allyn Lynd, the FBI agent who is most known for dealing with stuff like that”?

Stuff like what? What horrific criminal malfeasance does Rauhauser know of, that would require the intervention of these authorities?

Uh . . . SWATting by a member of a notorious computer hacking gang?

Why was Rauhauser name-checking FBI Agent Allyn Lynd in this private e-mail in May 2012 when, in October 2011, Rauhauser was boasting of his connection with “a very big dog in the Anonymous pen”? How is it that Neal was pushing this disjointed crazytalk at Mike Stack, barely six months after Rauhauser himself was proud to proclaim his association with hackers linked to an international criminal conspiracy?

Can you say, “consciousness of guilt,” boys and girls?

While I hate to put any more crazy ideas into Neal Rauhauser’s demented mind, I wonder if the FBI might soon be reading this blog post.

To put it a bit more plainly, I wonder if some of my sources — who tell me they’ve been talking to the FBI — would e-mail the agents a link to this post, so that the agents could ask the clever folks at the Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico to ponder a few hypotheticals.

Suppose there was a certain person (we’ll call him “UnSub”) who knew himself to be implicated in serious crimes. Suppose that UnSub displayed an obsessive interest in secrecy and deception. Furthermore, suppose that UnSub believed himself to be under investigation.

How would such a person behave? Is it possible — and I’m just throwing this out there, as a hypothetical possibility — that UnSub would attempt to deflect attention from himself by making accusations of wrongdoing against others? Would UnSub try to destroy or conceal potential evidence? Could we, perhaps, expect UnSub to taunt his victims or send veiled threats to potential witnesses against him?

Just kind of thinking out loud here, you understand. Purely a matter of abstract speculation, perhaps of interest to the BSU analysts at Quantico only as an exercise in psychological theory.

Maybe the BSU analysts could factor in some other variables. Say, for instance, if UnSub liked to brag about his connection to law enforcement officials, or exhibited the kind of sadistic personality that would brag about using martial arts to inflict pain on a woman.

Do you think FBI criminal profiling specialists would be interested to learn that UnSub had previously engaged in behavior “disturbing enough to result in a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation“?

What the psychiatrist found was a man who was deeply disturbed, possessed of the worst narcissism he’d ever seen. [UnSub] had reactive attachment disorder. He was sociopathic, and his behavior resulted in [UnSub] facing various difficulties socially and professionally.

Like I said, sort of an abstract hypothetical we’re talking about here, the type of case study that might interest FBI-BSU strictly as the subject for what you might call a “clinical exercise” or something.

Maybe it would come in handy to law enforcement officials who had spent an entire year trying to solve a mysterious crime. Also, I think it might be helpful to FBI agents who were ready to apprehend a deviant “sociopathic” criminal like that: How would UnSub react if he thought he were under surveillance and the feds were about to move in? Would this kind of psychological stress make him a potential threat to himself and others? Shouldn’t law enforcement agents be informed that UnSub had boasted about carrying a concealed handgun?

Glock 19, the 9x19mm compact frame, fits my hand like a glove. When I used to carry this I’d load half a dozen frangibles — Glazer Safety Slugs — which are safer in urban environments. The rest of the stack would be Remington Golden Sabers — the right stuff according to FBI barrier tests.
Today what I have is not so potent, but it’s much more concealable.

The customary phrase, I believe, is “armed and dangerous.”

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Comments

80 Responses to “Neal Rauhauser’s Bizarre Suspicions, and Profiling the (Hypothetical) ‘UnSub’”

  1. Mike G.
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:16 pm

    Hmmm…never have seen an FBI agent in my neighborhood nor talked to one. That boy is whacked!

  2. Adjoran
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:19 pm

    Unhinged.  There really isn’t any other way to describe the guy.

    The Michigan Militia did send a patrol to the Occupy Lansing camp, but they were pretty clear it was to “protect their First Amendment rights” even those the MM opposed the Occupy politics.   Nothing to do with Neal – IF he was there, it is doubtful the MM knew it or knew who the heck he is other than some pencil-necked geek they wouldn’t waste a bullet on.

    Naffe, of course, was supposedly filing suit against Patterico and did (I think) file a complaint against him with his boss and perhaps also the state bar association.  I think for some generalized “harassment” or something.

    The whole crew is a bunch of sick freaks. 

  3. Mike G.
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:20 pm

     Looking at his picture there, he kind of looks like one of the characters from Deliverance…perhaps the one who made Ned Beatty “Squeal like a pig” IYKWIMAITYD Which reminds me, this weekend is the 40th anniversary of the movie which was filmed in this general area. Big todo ’round these parts,

  4. Mike3
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:23 pm

    Steer Rauhauser into a physical honey pot through Kimberlin or naffe’s lawyer. But have the inquisitor there to leverage him.

  5. g b
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:25 pm

    A link to the minutes of a Lansing City Council meeting (117 page pdf) where on the last page a ‘leader’ of the “Occupy Lansing” group in a letter to the Council backs up what Adjoran said above.

    http://www.lansingmi.gov/Lansing/clerk/Council_Packet_2012_05_31.pdf

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  8. Stogie Chomper
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:32 pm

    God!  I thought exactly the same thing when I saw the pic!

  9. vermontaigne
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:35 pm

    I dunno. I think he looks like one of them critters from The Dark Crystal.

  10. Wombat_socho
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:52 pm

    Interesting that he brags about having a concealable pistol. Given how stringent the gun laws are in Maryland, I wonder what the chances are that he actually has an ownership permit, much less a permit to carry concealed?

  11. SPQR9
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 10:59 pm

    Rauhauser’s ravings look loonier every day.  If this guy actually believes half of what he writes, he’s commitable.

  12. crosspatch
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:17 pm

    My experience with nuts: 

    1. Never try to ponder what might have made them do or say what they did or said.  In doing this you are likely using a rational thought process and are therefore likely going to come to the wrong conclusion. 

    2.  Fear, shame, and insecurity are huge in the goings on in the minds of most nuts.  Their emotional sensitivity about certain things generally has the gain cranked up to 11 so they can be really reactive if you hit one of their “nerves” or something they are very sensitive to.

    3.  Once they become fixated on you, they can become determined to see your complete “destruction” and I don’t necessarily mean that in a physical sense but as in complete character assassination.  It generally depends on the degree of threat they perceive.  It generally starts as dismissal or devaluation.  They pretend to blow you off because you are too dumb/incompetent/whatever for them to bother with.  Then they attempt to simply insult you, generally in some sort of public way or in front of someone you value to get you to stop.  But if they genuinely feel threatened they can go into all out character assassination mode.   Generally once in this mode they don’t let up.

    4.  They are subject to the “normal” people around them turning on them in a mutiny once they (the normal folks) are tired of keeping up the charade.   Someone lets all the skeletons out of the closet and throws their hands up in the air and walks away in disgust. This is often seen in a work, family, or social unit where, for example, a narcissist controls outward appearances and external communications within a group hiding a very dysfunctional internal dynamic.  They exert a lot of energy in creating an external appearance and eventually someone inside the organization gets sick of it and spills the beans.  This generally utterly destroys the head nutcase in charge or causes some great destructive burst of energy as they go down in flames.

    If you are dealing with an entire nest of nuts, Lord help you.  One thing on your side, though, is they tend to also analyze things from their own nutty perspective and often come to incorrect conclusions as to people’s motivations or expectations of what they are going to do next.  

    That’s just my experience, your mileage will vary.

  13. crosspatch
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:20 pm

    Oh, one other thing.  Many times you can tell what they are sensitive to by the insults they hurl at you.  In deciding what to throw at you, they often ponder what they themselves would find most hurtful or rousing to get an over-the-top response.  By looking at how they try to hurt you, you can sometimes divine what they would find most hurtful to them.

  14. Serr8d
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:21 pm

    Damn, that’s one scary visage! You could sling a cat between his front teefs, and run the Lunar Rover around on that cratered, bulbous nose! 

  15. SarahW
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:22 pm

    When IS the FBI going to shut that clown show down?

  16. Dianna Deeley
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:28 pm

    Great question. Do courthouses in Maryland have metal detectors, as they do here in California?

  17. The Working Class Consevative
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:29 pm

    Neal is a lying POS  Nuff Said..  If this tragic man possesses a gun it should be confiscated.  His lyihng connection to the FBI shoul;d be investigated.  Turd is the wORD

  18. Dianna Deeley
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:31 pm

     Really excellent analysis, but leaving out my personal favorite piece of advice when dealing with nuts: pick up your skirts and slip silently away.

  19. crosspatch
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:33 pm

    ”   If this guy actually believes half of what he writes, he’s commitable.”

    It’s also possible he doesn’t believe a word of it and is just putting it out there in the hopes a bunch of nuts DO believe it and gang up on the target.  Sort of like the whole “9/11 was an inside job” and “chemtrails” and “anthropogenic global warming” things.  Just put the information out there and enough nuts will buy it and it takes on a life of its own inside the minds of dozens of nuts and you have to deal with it forever no matter how many times it is debunked.

  20. Forrest Sargente
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:33 pm

    Wow! These radical lefties are nucking futs. And our ridiculous democrat Homeland Security clowns call me an extremist simply because I’m retired military, endorse the TEA Party and own a couple guns…pathetic.

  21. Dianna Deeley
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:34 pm

    Here’s my question: Rauhauser’s nuts – functional within very narrow constraints only – but he’s hanging out with, working for  (we think, anyway) a ruthless sociopath, Brett Kimberlin, who is (so long as we do not insist upon a moral dimension) eminently sane.

    How is this supposed to work out? Is Rauhauser a sacrifice? What’s the gamed outcome?

  22. crosspatch
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:38 pm

     Yeah, generally speaking, distance is your friend.

  23. Madmke59
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:41 pm

    Sorry  Tired after long Real life day

  24. crosspatch
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:43 pm

     Personally, I think the most interesting personality in all of this is Matt Edelstein.  If you draw the whole thing out like a network, he’s the “hub” node of a lot of “spokes”.   K & R are probably just “tools”.  Just dogs they can sic on opponents.  As I said the other day, there’s really two stories here.  One is of K & R and their despicable acts and the other of mass manipulation and deception by a huge “progressive” social management scheme.

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  26. Serr8d
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:48 pm

    Shoq is another excellent ‘community organizer’. I’ve studied his tweeting style for a couple years now; I know how he works.

    BTW, if you want to follow his tweets in your RSS reader, here’s the link…

    http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/8431652.rss

  27. crosspatch
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:50 pm

     I think it has been fairly well determined at this point that Shoq = Matt Edelstein hasn’t it?

  28. RosalindJ
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:52 pm

     Yes. Standard empty-your-pockets, walk through the frame.

  29. JeffS
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:53 pm

    NR’s (apparent) obsession with “Loughner’s slow-motion descent into psychosis” might be from identifying with Loughner.

    IYKWIMAITTYD.

  30. Garym
    June 23rd, 2012 @ 11:55 pm

    The only question is: Do his teeth flap up and down like they did in the movie?

  31. Dianna Deeley
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:08 am

     That is a very interesting speculation. However, I must object that – despite everything about him that makes my skin crawl – there is absolutely no evidence that Kimberlin is apt to center his activities upon anyone else. The man is clearly able to use and manipulate those around him; he understands someone like  Neal well enough to make him act for Kimberlin’s purposes; but he shows no loyalties whatsoever that have been discerned.

    This is so visible that, in fact, RSM is writing about Rauhauser, Momus is writing about Rauhauser, and The Trenches are writing about Rauhauser, as is Patterico. Neal Rauhauser is out in plain view, though we know that Kimberlin has been very active in attacking people like Aaron Walker. Tell me how Matt Edelstein – out in the open, visible to all, doing stuff that’s going to keep him under the wary and wrathful eyes of many people in the blogosphere – is the center of the hub?

    It’s not that you’re wrong. I’m just following a very old piece of advice: “Never mind his eyes! Watch his hands!”

  32. Aristomedes
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:13 am

    This is meant as a friendly, constructive criticism: you may lose a lot of support by dissing atheists so casually as above. I have known plenty and can say that some of the most ethical people I have known were atheists, and I would want them at my back in such trials.  I have found the mix of good and evil to be roughly equal to that among Christians. Of course, I have not been around leftist types as much, and evil does seem to concentrate there.

  33. crosspatch
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:13 am

    Another hallmark of the average run-of-the-mill nut that I just remembered is the notion of “do not talk about me to other people without my permission” angle.

  34. Adobe_Walls
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:18 am

    “Loughner’s slow-motion descent into psychosis,” doesn’t seem all that different than Neal Rauhauser’s slower-motion descent into psychosis. Is it even possible that he has FBI or other LE contacts that take him seriously?

  35. crosspatch
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:23 am

     I don’t disagree.  Just saying that I think that in the course of all of this digging into the doings if Kimberlin has exposed Rauhouser and now that has exposed Edelstein.  They each have their own story.  By “most interesting” I guess I really meant to say most likely to be political dynamite.  Kimberlin is more of an individual story as tragic as it is.  The Edelman story has the potential to impact an entire movement by exposing the depth and breadth of a rather huge deception played on potentially millions of people.

  36. Dianna Deeley
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:50 am

     Have you stopped and wondered what any FBI contacts actually think? Every now and then, it gives me pause. Is it possible that FBI agents spend so much time immersed in conspiratorial insanity that people like Rauhauser sound plausible to them?

  37. crosspatch
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:55 am

     Ok, speculation:  cyber security and crime is now on their radar bigtime.  Rauhauser is a network guy.  Any contact with law enforcement *might* be in that context.

  38. Dianna Deeley
    June 24th, 2012 @ 12:55 am

     Speaking as a non-believer, it doesn’t much bother me, as it’s interesting that Rauhauser’s raucous atheism – mentioned at all, never mind negatively – draws atheists out of the walls. Why do you care? It doesn’t bother me when agnosticism or even pagan beliefs are mentioned, except when the writer gets the beliefs wrong.

    I simply don’t understand why atheists feel a need to defend those for whom atheism is a flag of convenience, excusing their bad behaviors and selfish beliefs.

  39. crosspatch
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:04 am

    Yet another thing to toss out there is that Rauhauser isn’t so crazy but knows how to *leverage* crazy.  For example, people tend to easily believe things that validate their world view.  Some people are “spring loaded” to want to believe certain things.  If you suggest such a thing, to them “it all fits perfectly” and “must” be the truth.  An example would be Rauhauser’s Daily Kos diary that attempted to finger Breitbart & Co. as hacking Rep. Weiner’s twitter account.  That posting became enormously popular and it would seem that a lot of people believe it was plausible and that “it fit”.  They don’t want to believe Weiner would be that stupid, it “must” have been dirty tricks.  That disinformation then motivates a lot of people to target political opponents.

    It’s probably a mixture of both.  He’s a nut, but knows how to motivate other nuts by telling them what they want to hear.  History is full of people like that.  Lyndon LaRouche was a good example. 

  40. Dianna Deeley
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:14 am

     This may be more a side-comment than anything more significant, but it’s quite notable that Brett Kimberlin has a money trail. I have no idea about Edelstein’s.

    It’s worth pointing out my own, personal, prejudice and point of interest is that I’m intensely outraged by the use of “non-profit” status as a mask. That doesn’t mean other people need to share it, that’s just a way of being clear about why focusing on Brett Kimberlin seems like the most important part of the story for me.

  41. Bob Belvedere
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:22 am

    From the Leftist perspective, which has the clarity of a Fun House mirror, you are a threat – all of us on the Right are.

  42. JeffS
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:23 am

    Human intelligence does not require their sources to be sane or smart, merely competent and credible.  And, I’m certain, the data has to be verifiable through other sources. 

    “Plausibility” is something that analysts assess, based on collected and processed data.  A good intel shop does not leave that to the agents, although I expect they are involved in the analysis.  But the agents do the grunt work, the analysts play with the databases, and the supervisors make the calls.

    As Stacy notes elsewhere, “Facts are facts”…..but only after they are verified. 

    So any agent working with NR is not only NOT accepting NR’s word at face value, the agent is assessing NR’s competence and credibility to pass to the analysts. 

  43. crosspatch
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:28 am

     You point out another aspect of far left wing radicals that seems to be a recurring theme.  A lot of their behavior seems to be rooted in self-loathing and projecting of those things onto various aspects of their identity.  For example: “I am bad, I am Jewish, religion is bad” or “I am bad, I am American, America is a capitalist country, capitalism is bad” or “I am bad, I am white, white people are bad”.  I see this pattern of self-loathing in that they seem to turn against every aspect of their identity and their culture.  They seem to be *for* what ever is *against* their culture.  “I am bad, I am American, China is against America, China is good”

  44. Dianna Deeley
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:33 am

     The only problem is that when you read Rauhauser’s emails (or just Stacy’s wonderful deconstruction of them), it is abundantly clear that Rauhauser subscribes to a deeply conspiratorial view of reality. No one ever simply has an opinion: that is a bought-and-paid-for statement, or it’s been manipulated.

    Bluntly, Rauhauser lives in a world where there is no rational discourse. It’s either corrupt, manipulated, or delusional. That is not a sane basis for discourse.

    In context: I believe in the honesty of character of most people, even when I disagree with them. I tease friends of liberal viewpoint, and gently mock friends when they excuse for someone they agree with an action that would draw their powerful condemnation were it done by someone with whom they disagree. It’s how we tell if we’re on a rational plane or not.

  45. crosspatch
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:52 am

     Oh, yeah, he’s a nut.  No disagreement here.  And the things he did were CLEARLY over the line.  I mean, sure, people can say things to political opponents, but there are some things that just cross the line of basic human “right and wrong” that are common to all of us if we want to live in any kind of a civilized world.  The level of intimidation these people engaged in is clearly over the line and they need to be held accountable for it.

    What perplexes me is the extent to which this is been ignored but I suppose it is no surprise when you have a DoJ as political as this one is.  It’s like *everything* is political and viewed through that lens no matter how horrible it is.

  46. M. Thompson
    June 24th, 2012 @ 1:58 am

    If this guy is involved with anything LE related, he’s either an informant, or he’s being used. Sources don’t have to be sane, just credible. Or else he’s like one of those nutters who’s a failed Homegrown Violent Extremist; being lead along to do something big and criminal or catch a bigger fish.

  47. Adobe_Walls
    June 24th, 2012 @ 2:07 am

    Actually the lefts self loathing is the only thing about them demonstrating good sense.

  48. Adobe_Walls
    June 24th, 2012 @ 2:14 am

    I rather think that after a conversation with a FBI agent, depending on how much time Rauhauser had to spout, the agent would be left considering whether Rauhauser needed watching or merely looking after.

  49. Stogie Chomper
    June 24th, 2012 @ 2:20 am

    I couldn’t resist the inspiration of my fellow commenters.  I Photoshopped the above pic and you can see Neal “Deliverance” Rauhauser here:  

    http://saberpoint.blogspot.com/2012/06/neal-rauhauser-keeps-good-company-on.html 

  50. Taxpayer1234
    June 24th, 2012 @ 2:21 am

    My paranoid schizophrenic uncle is looking more and more normal compared to these guys.  And he’s been institutionalized for the better part of 40 years.