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The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin

Posted on | October 13, 2013 | 187 Comments

Remember when North Carolina Democrats were trying to intimidate @LadyLiberty1885 and @sistertoldjah? The headlines:

Who’s a ‘Bully,’ @GregFlynn? Democrat
Operative Targets North Carolina Mom
— The Other McCain

#ShutUppery and the Drums of #WAR
— Lady Liberty

Why The Doxing of LadyLiberty1885 and
Other Conservative Female Bloggers Matters
— The Jawa Report

Noted douche nozzle @GregFlynn wants
Conservative blogger to “shut up”
— Daley Gator

Prominent #NCGA Dem activist using
front group to stalk, dox conservatives
— Sister Toldjah

#ShutUppery: North Carolina Dems wage online
witch hunt against conservative women
— Twitchy

What you may not have realized is that this is part of a continuing pattern of harassment, smears and intimidation waged against conservatives on Twitter for years. Remember in April 2012, liberals got Chris Loesch’s account suspended — sent to the “Twitter gulag” — as a result of their orchestrated harassment. This activity was supported and encouraged by the same people who, under the hashtag #StopRush, were harassing Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers online.

The connection involved an activist named Melissa K. Brewer who, at the time, was using the Twitter handle @subculturestuff, an account that has since been deleted, but which you can see via RTs of existing accounts, (e.g., April 14, 2012, April 20, 2012,  April 22, 2012) and you might notice the overlap between the #StopRush and #Occupy hashtags:

The featured link was to this:

End Hate Radio: Rush Limbaugh
National Sponsor lists, twitter actions and more.
How to take action in the #stoprush campaign, no matter where you are.
Tweet & Send FB Messages to National
Rush Limbaugh Sponsors Directly.

Melissa Brewer’s @subculturestuff account was an outspoken advocate of this unhinged leftist #StopRush attempt to silence Rush Limbaugh, and then she got exposed as targeting Limbaugh’s Twitter defenders, specifically including Sister Toldjah.

Brewer told #StopRush supporters to pre-emptively block a list of conservative Twitter accounts she accused of being “Nazis” and even suggested reporting them to the FBI! 

Accounts on Brewer’s targeted list included Stephanie Janiczek (@SMjaniczek), @fatdaddybulldog, @sevenlayercake, @Serr8d, @Polliwogette and Darleen Click (@darleenclick). So the same people who were trying to shut down Rush Limbaugh, who has a nationwide radio audience of millions, were also trying to shut down these ordinary citizens with a few thousand Twitter followers.

What followed Brewer’s exposure was familiar to anyone who followed Neal Rauhauser’s 2010 TwitterGate debacle. Brewer deleted her hit list, denied responsibility, and then claimed that she was a victim of online harassment, rather than the perpetrator thereof.

Cowardly lying bullies who hate free speech are predictable that way.

Delete, delete, delete — @subculturestuff is gone, but Brewer’s stuff got screencapped, so that people noticed when Brewer’s @catsrimportant account became involved in harassing Brett Kimberlin’s enemies a few weeks later in June 2012. What was not understood was why Melissa Brewer would support a notorious criminal like Brett Kimberlin, or why she was the source Bill Schmalfeldt contacted (using his since-deleted @LiberalGrouch account) for information on Aaron Walker:

2670. Sun Jun 03 19:55:53 +0000 2012, liberalgrouch, 209372854213558273,
@catsrimportant can someone point me to something written about this Aaron Walker case that was NOT written by some right wing shithead?

Notice the frequent communications between them:

Look again: What did Melissa Brewer say on June 4, 2012?

@liberalgrouch @DavidHogberg Did you see the Anon leak
about people being PAID to blog about Kimberlin?
A story of deflection & #GOP #FAIL

Melissa, I’ll bet you $20 that “the Anon leak” you referenced was, in fact, a conspiracy theory smear written by Brett Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser, and if you or anyone else can provide me that document, I believe I can prove Neal’s authorship. Rauhauser’s habitual dishonesty, his penchant for using false conspiracy theories to attack his targets, is well-known. (See, for example, “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?“) For those of us being sued by Brett Kimberlin for $1 million — when the activities of Team Kimberlin (including Schmalfeldt and Rauhauser) are part of the allegations in that lawsuit — this kind of stuff becomes highly relevant.

Go here, do a CTRL+F search for @catsrimportant and you will find Schmalfeldt tweeted to Brewer 293 times between June 3-July 2, 2012.

Highly relevant, as I say.

So, to recap: The same Melissa Brewer who was part of the hateful #StopRush boycott effort to silence Rush Limbaugh, the same Melissa Brewer who was part of the hateful effort to silence @SisterToldjah and other conservatives on Twitter, this was the Melissa Brewer who claimed to have an “Anon leak about people being PAID to blog about Kimberlin,” and this same Melissa Brewer was communicating multiple times daily with Bill Schmalfeldt, who has harassed Aaron Worthing, Ali Akbar, Lee Stranahan, Patrick “Patterico” Frey, John Hoge and others. Lee Stranahan, Feb. 16:

Cease & Desist: Melissa Brewer aka
@CatsRImportant Is Working With Bill Schmalfeldt

That was at the time Stranahan was pursuing harassment charges against Schmalfeldt. It has been alleged by Kimberlin Unmasked that Melissa Brewer is “Xenophon,” who has published multiple attacks on Team Kimberlin targets. And guess what? Kimberlin Unmasked also is a defendant in the Kimberlin v. Walker et al. lawsuit. Now, after all this, Melissa Brewer has posted a long article with this headline:

My Story: PTSD, Survival, and Feminism

Let me quote a few key passages briefly (with comments):

I entered into the world of “political blogging” because I feel my experience benefits women. . . .
I am writing this to reach my online friends, although I’m sure my “political enemies” will also have a field day with it. You see, these political “foes” think that it’s discrediting to find out every miserable thing in my past, every horror I inflicted on myself, and use it against me to humiliate me online.

(It does not “humiliate” anyone to call your enemies Nazis and to urge people to report your enemies to the FBI?)

No matter how hard I tried to suppress it, I had underlying mental illness, and “looking normal” or “acting okay” never erased that desire to destroy myself, cut myself, or take my own life. . . .
Living with a secret mental illness isn’t easy. . . .

(Yeah, tell me about it. Some of us have been unfortunately forced — by you — to live with your mental illness for months. But thanks for admitting what we already knew: You’re psycho.)

When I look back at it, it all feels like some surreal nightmare to me. My psychiatrist once told me that people with PTSD walk around with a feeling of “unreality” . . .

(Thanks for reminding us again that you’re crazy.)

By the time I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, I had attempted suicide three times. . . .

(But heroically survived, so you could courageously inflict your misery on the rest of the world because — social justice!)

In 2008, a small group of residents from N Street walked to the Metropolitan Church on 16th Street as a small group, and placed our vote for President Obama. That was the most political thing I’d done in my whole life. It was actually one of the happiest moments I’d had in a very long time. . . .

(Inflicting your misery on the rest of the world. Q.E.D.)

Because I suffer from PTSD, my writing career is part-time, and I’m fine with that. Sometimes I take a part-time job or temp work, when the going gets tough. But again, I’m fortunate, and I tend to get by on the residual royalties that I make from online publishing.
I’m not brilliant, rich, or famous. I’m good at social media, and I am sometimes a really good writer.

(And you say so yourself.)

The only reason I have ever written on politics was to have a voice. . . .
Nobody has ever paid me to blog or Tweet anything political. I only write under my own name, because I want to own my words, because I find it empowering-especially now that the ex that I had a restraining order against is now in jail, and probably going away for a significant amount of time.

If it is true, however, that you have never written except under your own name, why were you suspected of being “Xenophon”? Why were you assisting deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt in his unconscionable harassment of Lee Stranahan and his family?

Why, Melissa Brewer, did you join Team Kimberlin? Why would anyone defend a criminal monster like Brett Kimberlin?

So now, denying that you ever wrote about politics for money, and denying that you ever wrote under a pseudonym, you tell this long tale of what a pitiful victim you are, soliciting sympathy for yourself, so that anybody who now suspects you of lying can be accused of lacking sympathy for victims of violence and abuse.

Because . . . feminism.

Well, I’m getting sued by Brett Kimberlin for $1 million, so perhaps you’ll excuse me if I’m a little short on sympathy just now.

You tried to silence Rush Limbaugh.

You accused Sister Toldjah and her friends of being Nazis.

You told your friends to report conservatives to the FBI.

You sought to destroy innocent people on behalf of Brett Kimberlin.

And yet after doing all this evil, you are the victim? Let me check . . .

Nope. Sorry. My give-a-damn’s busted.

What’s a synonym for “prostitute,” Melissa?

Andrew Klepper, 19 of Bethesda, has been charged in conjunction with an alleged act of prostitution.
On May 15, a Montgomery County police officer saw an advertisement in the Erotic section of Craigslist.com. He contacted the woman in the advertisement, Melissa Brewer of Reston, Va., and arranged to meet, according to charging documents.
The documents further state that Brewer quoted a price of $200 per hour for a “full service” appointment. The term “full service” is understood to mean sexual intercourse, according to the documents.

Yeah, $200 for “full service,” and you were advertising yourself on Craigslist under the name “Lisa,” but you’ve never been paid to write about politics and never written under a pseudonym?

We should trust you, because you’re mentally ill. And a prostitute.

Liars hate the truth.

And the truth they hate most is the truth about themselves.

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, The Kimberlin Files

Comments

187 Responses to “The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin”

  1. scarymatt
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:08 am

    Yes, her described life was pretty awful. But her “reasons I blog” list is just a bunch of non sequiturs.

  2. IvanFollows
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:51 am

    This is how manhag and kommie roll! Couple of radical FemiNazi’s bully suppressing others and claiming to be victims. http://t.co/UQ0RANyRG2

  3. VTwinCrucible
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:57 am

    RT @daalad: The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/Gq3JI73vWq

  4. KlaatuGort
    October 14th, 2013 @ 7:07 am

    The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/FLQ1LLGPRm

  5. VTwinCrucible
    October 14th, 2013 @ 7:10 am

    RT @KlaatuGort: The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/FLQ1LLGPRm

  6. Kelsonus
    October 14th, 2013 @ 7:13 am

    The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/ogJBGXqB66

  7. joethefatman1
    October 14th, 2013 @ 7:13 am

    The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/21UK9gMmbm

  8. DaTechGuyblog
    October 14th, 2013 @ 7:25 am

    If you want a demo of why aiding #kimberlin et/al vs @rsmmcain is a bad idea @catsrimportant gets a demo here http://t.co/tzD4Jo2ICd

  9. wjjhoge
    October 14th, 2013 @ 7:27 am

    RT @DaTechGuyblog: If you want a demo of why aiding #kimberlin et/al vs @rsmmcain is a bad idea @catsrimportant gets a demo here http://t.c…

  10. LadyLiberty1885
    October 14th, 2013 @ 7:58 am

    RT @rsmccain: @LadyLiberty1885 Hope you’ll blog about The #Shutuppery Files http://t.co/V1VG4Q3iiZ

  11. Tex Lovera
    October 14th, 2013 @ 9:36 am

    The latest addition to The Douchebag Collective.

    Welcome, Melissa!!

  12. Johnny Alamo
    October 14th, 2013 @ 9:39 am

    Stacy;

    It’s worse than you think. She has PTSD,sure, but also as a cluster of symptoms that add up to a whole lot of crazy called Borderline Personality Disorder. I’d bet real money on it. I can see the entomologist just in reading her stuff.

    You can Google it, or think of Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.”

  13. A #ShutUppery Files Update | Lady Liberty 1885
    October 14th, 2013 @ 9:48 am

    […] noted Stacy McCain’s article yesterday, The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin. The main screenshot is of Melissa In DC  @SubcultureStuff and thought I’d add an update […]

  14. Johnny Alamo
    October 14th, 2013 @ 9:52 am

    Damned Spell check!! “Ideology”

  15. richard mcenroe
    October 14th, 2013 @ 10:06 am

    No, you had it right, she’s buggy.

  16. sarah wells
    October 14th, 2013 @ 10:56 am

    Raison d’être:
    spread the pain.

  17. sarah wells
    October 14th, 2013 @ 10:58 am

    I wouldn’t get hung up on that diagnosis if I were you.

  18. Wombat_socho
    October 14th, 2013 @ 11:55 am

    Paul at least had the grace to make a public apology. Brewer…not so much.

  19. bet0001970
    October 14th, 2013 @ 1:42 pm

    I will never publicly “go after” one of you. If I am truly angry at something you have done, I will tell you so privately. Because, I don’t believe in settling internal sqabbles in the town square. In this, I will let those who were actually harmed be the ones to judge.

    And one thing should be known. I was shown something from around a week ago. It was Breitbart Unmasked openly threatening Lemmen under his RMNixon persona. In it, he named Paul as RMNixon and threatened to go to his parole officer. Again. Another Kimberlin outing and more threats. How…unexpected.

    And now one of you has done Kimberlin’s work for him. This is why I adhere to the 11th. Not because I am a Republican or a Christian. You all know I am neither. But because it is so easy for bad actors to get decent people to cause harm to their own causes. I imagine Kimberlin is laughing his ass off right now about all of this.

    Oh, and I can NEVER say this enough….

    FUCK YOU KIMBERLIN.

  20. Quartermaster
    October 14th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm

    Mr. Belvedere – The above is why I have removed your blog from my bookmarks and will be removing your email from contacts. You’ve stepped in a big steaming pile my friend.

  21. stayofftheinternet
    October 14th, 2013 @ 3:40 pm

    Same here. That guy reblogged your blog quite a bit. Did you ever ask him not to?

  22. stayofftheinternet
    October 14th, 2013 @ 3:44 pm

    I wonder how Neal feels, now that someone else admittedly from his crew has all of the traits that he hates? “Mental illness, alcoholism, drug use, prostitution”???
    Projection–it ain’t just for the movies…

  23. Quartermaster
    October 14th, 2013 @ 3:54 pm

    I don’t have a blog yet. I was planning on putting one up this fall, but I may be teaching again next semester and if so, I won’t have time to maintain it, so I’m waiting to see if the program I teach for part-time needs me for the spring semester.

  24. That Guy
    October 14th, 2013 @ 4:33 pm

    Neal fails miserably to realize that his behavior and the behavior of his trolls in threatening and intimidating and stalking people in real life tends to bring his victims and their supporters together regardless of political affiliation. Neal wants to make this all about politics when the reality is most of us who have stepped onto this battlefield have done so for every reason except for politics.
    The downside for Neal is that all of these people coming together make an incredible research machine filled with all kinds of talent. The harder he and Kimberlin and associates go after everyone the harder everyone will push back.
    It’s called the Streisand Effect. They purport to be aware of what it is but their actions indicate they have yet to truly understand its meaning.

  25. stayofftheinternet
    October 14th, 2013 @ 4:45 pm

    That’s who I meant also..I was directing it at Bob too…Sorry if the reply hit your comment. I like Paul and have no beef with him. Thanks for clearing it up also…

  26. stayofftheinternet
    October 14th, 2013 @ 4:47 pm

    Good post. Good reply.

  27. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:24 pm

    Dear @VivintHome & @thelcms, #stoprush uses prostitutes to abusively harass advertisers.
    Report them for spam.
    http://t.co/ytnifmVc0v

  28. VTwinCrucible
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:27 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: Dear @manarinonmoney & @TheMuttMatcher, #stoprush uses prostitutes to harass advertisers.
    Report them for spam.
    http…

  29. VTwinCrucible
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:27 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: Dear @saucemans & @IDrive_Online,Did you know #stoprush uses prostitutes to harass advertisers? Report them for spam. …

  30. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:29 pm

    Dear @TandTNews & @ConsumerAffairs, #stoprush uses prostitutes to abusively harass sponsors.
    Report them for spam.
    http://t.co/ytnifmVc0v

  31. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:32 pm

    #stoprush Cat Lady charged her customers $200 for “full service”
    http://t.co/rm6495dpjs

  32. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:34 pm

    NOW we know why they pretend to be offended by the word “SLUT”
    #stoprush http://t.co/rm6495dpjs …

  33. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:40 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: NOW we know why they pretend to be offended by the word “SLUT”
    #stoprush http://t.co/rm6495dpjs …

  34. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:41 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: #stoprush Cat Lady charged her customers $200 for “full service”
    http://t.co/rm6495dpjs

  35. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:41 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: Dear @TandTNews & @ConsumerAffairs, #stoprush uses prostitutes to abusively harass sponsors.
    Report them for spam.
    h…

  36. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

    @IvanFollows LOL…No,it’s true.
    Scroll down to the bottom of the article http://t.co/ytnifmVc0v
    #stoprush It’s all detailed.

  37. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: @IvanFollows LOL…No,it’s true.
    Scroll down to the bottom of the article http://t.co/ytnifmVc0v
    #stoprush It’s all d…

  38. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: Dear @VivintHome & @thelcms, #stoprush uses prostitutes to abusively harass advertisers.
    Report them for spam.
    http…

  39. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: Dear @trans_Siberian & @QualityChevy, #stoprush uses prostitutes to harass advertisers.
    Report them for spam.
    http:…

  40. thejenn999
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:51 pm

    The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/ASlfmO6cXg

  41. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 5:57 pm

    RT @thejenn999: The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/ASlfmO6cXg

  42. DaveO
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:00 pm

    This saga is circling the drain quite quickly now. A couple of things I have learned about PTS: the paranoia and rage make one controllable; and, Brewer were sought out specifically for their mental issues, and from there learned how to commit their online character-assassination raids.
    I’m not excusing Brewer, but there are thousands of such men and women out there who’s paranoia makes them readily listen to conspiracy theories and who’s anger needs to be vented. Those two attributes make them controllable, and infinitely dangerous because they have to continue attacking until someone comes along who will calm them and replace the raids with something else. They are a ready-made army. Someone into mind-f*cks like BK and NR know this and have a system of recruiters – folks who channel the Brewers to them.
    And that’s the scarier part: there are folks who are out there recruiting, who’ve been taught what to look for, and under the guise of sympathy and empathy, send the mentally ill on to Team Kimberlin.
    Brewer can free herself, and move on. Interesting to note that a number of handles on here that agreed or civilly argued with each on here are busy banning each other and such, all over the apology of Paul H. Lemmen. I don’t know who’s genuinely whom, but this in-fighting is the fruit I was looking for: a mind f*ck of great effect.

  43. thejenn999
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:18 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: NOW we know why they pretend to be offended by the word “SLUT”
    #stoprush http://t.co/rm6495dpjs …

  44. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:18 pm

    RT@JadedByPolitics The #Shutuppery Files: ‘Twitter Gulag’ #StopRush Crew Joined Team Kimberlin http://t.co/BdZKczdm1U …

  45. bet0001970
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:20 pm

    I don’t think there is a ban war going on. That’s a bit dramatic. But the point should made for future reference. And as I said, bad actors get decent people to harm to their own causes.

  46. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:23 pm

    Dear @HomesteadGolf & @slso , #stoprush uses ugly & obese prostitutes to harass sponsors.
    Report them for spam.
    http://t.co/ytnifmVc0v

  47. scarymatt
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:24 pm

    I’m so confused now. Are we still at war with EastAsia?

  48. KottersParadise
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:28 pm

    Dear @HomesteadGolf & @slso, #stoprush spammers use prostitutes to harass sponsors.
    Report them for spam.
    http://t.co/ytnifmVc0v

  49. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:28 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: Dear @HomesteadGolf & @slso , #stoprush uses ugly & obese prostitutes to harass sponsors.
    Report them for spam.
    http:…

  50. rushtruthdotcom
    October 14th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm

    RT @KottersParadise: Dear @HomesteadGolf & @slso, #stoprush spammers use prostitutes to harass sponsors.
    Report them for spam.
    http://t.c…