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The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge

Posted on | October 26, 2013 | 52 Comments

Roger Shuler, Shelby County Jail inmate No. 288928

I reported this Friday at The American Spectator:

Alabama attorney/blogger Roger Shuler was arrested Thursday in Shelby County and held without bond, charged with two counts of contempt of court in a case that has sparked conspiracy theories pointing the finger of blame at Republican officials, including the son of former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley.
Capt. Ken Burchfield of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Friday that Shuler was being held in the county jail in Columbiana pending a hearing. Shuler was arrested “pursuant to a court order,” and was also charged with resisting arrest, Burchfield said. A jail mugshot showed Shuler, inmate No. 288928, with an apparent swollen bruise on his left eye.
Shuler is a liberal blogger who has been sued for defamation by Riley’s son Rob, by lobbyist Liberty Duke and by Republican lobbyist Jessica Garrison. At his Legal Schnauzer blog, Shuler has claimed that Rob Riley had an extramarital affair that led to Duke’s divorce. Schuler has also been sued by Garrison, a divorcee whom he accused of having a “long running affair” with Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange. . . .

You can read the whole thing. It has been reported elsewhere that Shuler was actually arrested Wednesday. The timing of Shuler’s arrest is relevant because I mentioned Thursday night that Shuler’s blog had been used in 2012 to spread the ridiculously false claim that Karl Rove was having a gay affair with Ali Akbar — a claim which originated with “a political operative on the left,” who I suspect to be Brett Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser. And, strange as it may seem, both Rauhauser and Bill Schmalfeldt tried Friday to claim that Schuler’s arrest had something to do with me. Ridiculous, right?

In fact, Shuler had refused to attend a court hearing on a contempt motion by the plaintiffs Riley and Duke, and had continued to publish a lot of conspiracy-theory crap about Karl Rove and Jack Abramoff (neither of whom have anything to do with this case), also alleging that the presiding judge was corrupt, et cetera.  It was kinda like the Barrett Brown case, without the YouTube meltdown.

Guess what? You can’t do that.

I mean, you can’t scoff at the court’s authority and denounce the judge as corrupt and not expect to get a contempt citation. You can’t do that even if you believe the court is violating your rights.

Lots of people feel they get screwed over in court — ask any divorced man ordered to pay child support to his no-good two-timing ex-wife — but they are still required to cooperate in ordinary court proceedings. And it doesn’t matter if you are a journalist or a blogger and the case is about politics, you’re still obligated to respect the court, even though competent authorities advise you that the court’s orders are an unconstitutional “prior restraint” on free speech.

I say this with full knowledge that Brett Kimberlin, The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™, is trying to use both Maryland and federal courts in an attempt to shut me up. Even if you’re being sued by a creepy perjuring bomber, you still have to respect the court.

Or move to Vanuatu, which I still haven’t ruled out.

Anyway, I had nothing to do with the arrest of Roger Shuler, but I’m not going to be suing Bill Schmalfeldt for defamation, because there’s no need to sue a lying scumbag when you can just expose the lying scumbag, and then double-dog dare him to sue you.

The burden of proof is always on the plaintiff, see? Good luck to anyone seeking to prove Bill Schmalfeldt is not a lying scumbag and, as far as Rob Riley’s alleged affair is concerned . . .

No, I’d better not tell you what Karl Rove told me about that.

Shhhh. It’s a conspiracy.

 

Category: Alabama, Bill Schmalfeldt, Conspiracy Theories, Roger Shuler, The Kimberlin Files

Comments

52 Responses to “The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge”

  1. jwbrown1969
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:51 am

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  2. Citzcom
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:51 am

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  3. jerrt16
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:57 am

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  4. rsmccain
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:00 am

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  5. JBiden2016
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:01 am

    RT @rsmccain: The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG

  6. curtandnan
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:08 am

    RT @rsmccain: The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG

  7. Sharkteeth
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:12 am

    Progs are very lonely in BAMA.

  8. ali
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:12 am

    RT @rsmccain: The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG

  9. BobBelvedere
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:17 am

    RT @rsmccain: The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG

  10. AaronWorthing
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:22 am

    I’ll add @rsmccain that when MLK went to jail for defying the court order no one shouted “conspiracy!” http://t.co/V79ybieNvE

  11. AaronWorthing
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:25 am

    Btw if @rsmccain and @ali can get ppl arrested, could they get off their butts and get Kimberlin arrested already? http://t.co/V79ybieNvE

  12. Adjoran
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:45 am

    An attorney, of all people, should know better than to taunt the judge in a case he has pending.

    But the left has become “progressively” more deranged over the years. Perhaps they are finally all just going off the deep end. Maybe Neal will have snacks ready when they get there?

  13. JeffS
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:15 am

    I’m thinking BS would look much better wearing an orange jumpsuit. If one can be found in his size.

  14. screwtape1a12
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:17 am

    RT @rsmccain: The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG

  15. Professor_Why
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:38 am

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  16. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    October 26th, 2013 @ 3:23 am

    Jeez Louise, wait at least till the case is over.

  17. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    October 26th, 2013 @ 3:24 am

    There are alternative uses for orange roof tarps.

  18. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    October 26th, 2013 @ 3:25 am

    He looks like a freak. Is he albino and squinting from the lights or just completely #$%*@! up?

  19. wjjhoge
    October 26th, 2013 @ 5:07 am

    RT @rsmccain: The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG

  20. Bradoplata
    October 26th, 2013 @ 5:17 am

    screw that guy.

  21. WJJ Hoge
    October 26th, 2013 @ 5:20 am

    Crackpot blogger jailed for failure to appear in court.

    And in other news … Bears found defecating in forest.

  22. WarEagle82
    October 26th, 2013 @ 10:04 am

    Wait a second. “Roger Shuler,” did you say? You mean as in “RogerS?” Might this be the same genius attorney who posted that fabulous advice to TDPK on 16 October as noted and derided by Patterico yesterday?

    http://patterico.com/2013/10/24/hilarious-sock-puppet-fail-at-pro-kimberlin-site-breitbart-unmasked/

  23. RS
    October 26th, 2013 @ 10:11 am

    “I understand he’s a Crimson Tide fan,” said the Mizzou grad. [Insert good-natured smiley thing here.]

    See you in Atlanta.

  24. sarah wells
    October 26th, 2013 @ 11:28 am

    How very strange. I had independently brought this nut job up, when P. talked about a very silly “RogerS” giving questionable assessments and advice regarding BK’s pro se RICO claims.
    Legal Schauzer’s such a swamp of crazy and he has ties to most of the awfuls and some lesser known ones going back to the voting machine conspiracy theories at least.

  25. sarah wells
    October 26th, 2013 @ 11:30 am

    I thought there was at least a fair chance it was this guy.

  26. sarah wells
    October 26th, 2013 @ 11:33 am

    It’s like a whole Mütter museum of crazy.

  27. thatMrGguy
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:34 pm

    The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge http://t.co/Urxorcle2x

  28. rsmccain
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:34 pm

    I don’t run around calling myself an “investigative reporter,” but this RogerS deal? http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG That’s NEWS @Patterico @SarahWW

  29. mahvros27
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:36 pm

    RT @rsmccain: I don’t run around calling myself an “investigative reporter,” but this RogerS deal? http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG That’s NEWS @Patt…

  30. TomKattman
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:50 pm

    RT @rsmccain: I don’t run around calling myself an “investigative reporter,” but this RogerS deal? http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG That’s NEWS @Patt…

  31. BigRMV
    October 26th, 2013 @ 12:54 pm

    RT @rsmccain: I don’t run around calling myself an “investigative reporter,” but this RogerS deal? http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG That’s NEWS @Patt…

  32. DaveO
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:08 pm

    Confession: I clicked your second link and read the essay, and even checked on Michael Connell. Beyond laying out private corporate emails (usually a crime), and alluding to vast, secret knowledge, this reads like your standard Hollywood “Enemy of the State” script.

    I think the cosmic joke is Simpson is writing a good story, rather like a scout trying to determine the enemy’s edges; but, her perspective and view is being guided by a folks who are masters of misdirection.
    Makes the use of BS as an obscurant rather obvious. So, while the Universe is being sued by BK, what else is TK up to?

  33. ConserAnimal
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:13 pm

    RT @rsmccain: I don’t run around calling myself an “investigative reporter,” but this RogerS deal? http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG That’s NEWS @Patt…

  34. Katie Scarlet
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm

    Are there any sane people left in the Democrat party?

  35. richard mcenroe
    October 26th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm

    I hear the Orange Crush promotion blimp is being decommissioned.

  36. ali
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:09 pm

    This guy gets a letter from my Alabama attorney next week. Alabama Kook Arrested on Contempt Charge via @rsmccain http://t.co/cV6kpDF3zA

  37. rsmccain
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:11 pm

    RT @ali: This guy gets a letter from my Alabama attorney next week. Alabama Kook Arrested on Contempt Charge via @rsmccain http://t.co/cV6k…

  38. dontfundit
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:13 pm

    RT @ali: This guy gets a letter from my Alabama attorney next week. Alabama Kook Arrested on Contempt Charge via @rsmccain http://t.co/cV6k…

  39. CattyIdiot
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:13 pm

    RT @ali: This guy gets letter from my AL attorney next week. Alabama Kook Arrested on Contempt Charge via @rsmccain http://t.co/32XQa6P8wY

  40. EricStrobel
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:14 pm

    This is an interesting development: http://t.co/Feg8DzJrGp @TheDaleJackson @YHPolitics (via @rsmccain)

  41. Ivanalaska
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:14 pm

    RT @ali: This guy gets a letter from my Alabama attorney next week. Alabama Kook Arrested on Contempt Charge via @rsmccain http://t.co/cV6k…

  42. robertstacymccain
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:23 pm

    Not since 2002, at the latest. It’s now just a big mob of kooks, thieves, liars, perverts and fools.

  43. TheDaleJackson
    October 26th, 2013 @ 2:55 pm

    RT @EricStrobel: This is an interesting development: http://t.co/vjCNfc4gwO @YHPolitics (via @rsmccain) // DJ: Non-story about a non-person

  44. BobBelvedere
    October 26th, 2013 @ 3:30 pm

    RT @rsmccain: I don’t run around calling myself an “investigative reporter,” but this RogerS deal? http://t.co/nzfMw8Z3MG That’s NEWS @Patt…

  45. Bob Belvedere
    October 26th, 2013 @ 3:43 pm

    Q:”Why are conservatives opposed to gun control?”

    A:”In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.” — P.J. O’Rourke

    Tip: Drumwaster:

    http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=51712#comment-1027643

  46. Legal Woes Mount for Alabama Anti-GOP Conspiracy Theory Blogger Roger Shuler : The Other McCain
    October 26th, 2013 @ 4:22 pm

    […] Schnauzer” blogger Roger Shuler, which I reported Friday at The American Spectator and blogged about here in the wee hours, has tipped over quite an interesting row of […]

  47. La Pucelle
    October 26th, 2013 @ 9:31 pm

    And many times, all 5 at once!

    Take Kimberlin and his merry band of imbeciles, for example.

  48. dyrnych
    October 27th, 2013 @ 12:11 am

    First of all, Roger Shuler is not an attorney (even though it looks like he’s trying to convince some of the fringier websites on the left that he is). He’s a frequent pro se litigant here in Alabama who takes basically every opportunity he can to pretend that he’s the victim of a giant conspiracy that consists of every judge and attorney in the state of Alabama. And whenever something doesn’t go his way in court he chalks it up to the conspiracy instead of the fact that he’s literally always wrong about his interpretation of the law.

    Secondly, I’m a liberal and I can comfortably say that Roger Shuler is basically just a lunatic. He’s not promoting liberalism or advancing an ideology; he’s just gossiping about Republicans and–without any sort of evidence–accusing them of being involved in extramarital affairs.

  49. Guest
    October 27th, 2013 @ 12:25 am

    That’s because the cops beat him up in his own garage. Maced him, beat him up.

  50. Jason
    October 27th, 2013 @ 10:50 am

    They are lamenting Shuler’s troubles on his Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/roger.a.shuler

    Maybe Neal Rauhauser will show up as @catsrimportant with his Rove-Stack-Republicans-in-General-Hater-Attorney, Andrew Kreig and scare everyone off. IIRC, Mr. Kreig wrote enough libel about Mike Stack that he scrubbed prior to advancing to writing libel about Rove for Rauhauser. Kreig scrubbed it right after Kevin Zeese scrubbed his libel about Stack after Stack got an attorney and wrote him a demand letter. Zeese immediately got rid of it. On Shuler’s Facebook, they’re talking about actually using Kreig to represent Shuler.

    Oh, the photos in Shuler’s Facebook are typical. Stalking, collect photos, nudes. You know, the usual.