‘Team Kimberlin’ Meltdown Continues

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Liars hate nothing worse than to be exposed as liars — exposure makes it hard for them to get away with their lies — and three weeks of public attention to lying felon Brett Kimberlin and his associates have put them under extraordinary psychological pressure.

We’ve seen evidence of Neal Rauhauser’s spiraling descent into madness, outlined by Dan Collins at The Conservatory:

In the email, Rauhauser concedes that the SWATting of Stack was likely performed by one of his “beandog” followers, but that he believes the culprit will get off because the call was untraceable. In Rauhauser’s demented mind, Patterico, Stacy and others were actually the cause of the SWATting, according to some as-yet-to-be-invoked legal theory. . . .
Sometime Kimberlin operative Ron Brynaert has been trying to play a double game, quarrelling with Rauhauser on the one hand and threatening Kimberlin critics who associate him with Rauhauser and Kimberlin on the other, and is likelier than Rauhauser to flip, IMO, but this revelation changes the playing field quite a bit. I wouldn’t be surprised to find Rauhauser turning state’s evidence against Kimberlin at the sane advice of legal counsel. Whether he still has the functioning neurons to try to pull his ass out of the fire, though, is an open question.

There is now a Memeorandum thread, and more and more people are beginning to see the connections between the various dots in the bizarre pattern surrounding Kimberlin’s tax-exempt 501(c) operations at Velvet Revolution and Justice Through Music Project. Investigative journalist Matthew Vadum assures me that lying is not considered a charitable activity by the IRS, and one wonders what the authorities would discover in a thorough forensic audit of Kimberlin’s lucrative (although “non-profit”) enterprises.

Kimberlin and his associates constantly claim to be victims of harassment, but who’s really harassing whom? Patterico exposes the vicious harassment of Mandy “Liberty Chick” Nagy by one of Kimberlin’s most vocal and persistent online defenders.

Furthermore — and there are so many dots in this pattern that new connections are sometimes surprising — Patterico demonstrates what would appear to be conspiratorial collusion between Rauhauser and Nadia Naffe, who has claimed that she was harassed by James O’Keefe. This is a connection involving Jay Leiderman, a California attorney with ties to both the Occupy movement and the “Anonymous” international hacker conspiracy.

One of Leiderman’s clients was the criminal hacker known as “Commander X,” who jumped bail and joined the Occupy movement. Leiderman had defended the denial-of-service attacks by “Commander X” as a form of civil disobedience. But now Leiderman’s  another attorney, Ed Fry, is on the hook for the $35,000 bond he signed for this Rosa Parks of hacking.

Cosmic justice is a funny thing that way.

-– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 

 

 

THE KIMBERLIN FILES

UPDATE: Dan Collins has updated to correct a misunderstanding:

Correction: Mike Stack emails to state that he pressed charges against Rauhauser for harassment, but that neither is suing the other.

I’ve also corrected an error. I had previously misread the Talking Points Memo article about Christopher “Commander X” Doyon, which makes clear that it wasn’t Jay Leiderman who signed the bond for Doyon:

Ed Fry, a lawyer who has been involved in the the Occupy movement in Santa Cruz, told TPM he met Doyon during the summer of 2010 and put up the bond to help out a friend. He doesn’t think the law will catch up to Doyon, who joined up with the Occupy movement after being released.
“I don’t expect him to be caught. He’s pretty Wile E. Coyote,” said Fry, adding that he last talked to Doyon around Christmas. He said signing the bond was a risk he had to take.

Our first obligation is to get the facts right, and even minor factual errors — honest mistakes — are regrettable.

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  3. I haven’t finished the article yet, but I got to this point: “one wonders what the authorities would discover in a thorough forensic
    audit of Kimberlin’s lucrative (although “non-profit”) enterprises”.

    Oh, please! Oh, please! I want to watch! It’s needed. It will have all sorts of good effects. Please, let it happen soon.

  4. Thanks for yet another great post distilling 50 billion facts in a way people can actually absorb reasonably well.

    Yeah, yeah, you’re just doing your job.  I know, I know.  Thanks anyway.

  5. Is this for real?  I didn’t know RSM is in the hiding….

    Please get a cure for this Kimberlin obsession….

  6. ‘Breitbart Unmasked’ just published a rambling post about taking the high road, i.e. they will no longer publish adresses and photos of those they consider enemies etc… Its a load of nonsense as they have not removed the posts they now say they regret posting. It’s interesting nonetheless perhaps the white flag is slowly being unfurled. 

  9.  When Kimberlin is back where he belongs – and all his crime family with him – you can go back to sleep.

    Or perhaps you ought to start thinking. I know it’s hard – you haven’t had an original thought in years – but you need to make the effort.

  10.  They’re trying to take advantage of the tendency of conservatives to believe in personal repentance and reformation. I think this modified limited hangout should be treated with the contempt it deserves.

  14. To quote that liberal writer Steven King: “Done bun can’t be undone”.
    A bell, once rung, cannot be unrung.

  16. Ah, such is the way of groups of liars and criminals. They all think they’re the smartest. They all think they’re the leaders, the real muscle behind the operation. They think they’re “loyal” but when the *hi* hits the fan, they will turn on one another.

    What progressives, and those who claim the progressive mantle as the motivation for evil deeds, fail to understand about conservatives is that we do NOT take kindly to injustice and the theft of our constitutionally granted rights. We do NOT like bullies, we do NOT like intimidation, especially to silence free speech. For ANYONE. And that is another point we’re different on.

    We truly believe that free speech applies to everyone, not just our side.

    Kimberlin and gang thought they had us cornered. They thought they were smarter. They were wrong.

  17.  Tut tut, Anamika, tut tut!

    This is why you should not go on those long benders.  You miss all the exciting news when you spend days on end in a drunken, drug enhanced stupor. 

    Tut tut, Anamika.  Substance abuse is not your friend.  Tut tut!

  18. High road?

    They must mean the road that goes through the dirt and mud as opposed to the road that goes under it.

    Either that or they just picked up some good-quality marijuana.
     

  19. The linked article indicates one “Ed Fry” is on the hook for the $35,000, not  Leiderman…

  22. Mighty funny how these names keep popping up.  Jay Leiderman was involved in past litigation involving Brad Friedman, who has been keeping a very low profile this year after his ties to Kimberlin became problematic for his career.  Small world, ain’t it?

  24. What does this have to do with the widespread use of the E-word to project and rationalize extreme dislike as if backed by God, the ulitmate authority?

    Some of my best thinking *happens* when I do housework as thoughts just flow in and out…. (Once I would have gone straight to hell for doing (house)work on Sunday). I digress.

    I say the universe is a cradle of compassion. Allowing birth and destruction, the death of nations, civilizations, individuals… It has been said that Death is the great equalizer.

    If one stops the madness for a moment, one sees what a mysterious dance it all is! Perhaps it’s a compassionate dance of evolution… the idea of evil is embraced in compassion…. how could I forgive if not for the idea that there was something/someone to forgive? And how could I forgive myself for not forgiving?

    How could I beg indifference, an opening seed to peace, unless I am beleaguered with the idea of justice and punishment. And so it goes… Even if one’s life ultimately *takes sides*.

  25.  Tut tut, Anamika, tut tut!

    The “streams of consciousness” approach is not an effective means of responding to a simple question.  It merely emphasizes your need of extensive counseling for substance abuse.

    Tut tut, Anamika!  Why would you be so sensitive to the word “evil”?  Tut tut!

  26.  OK, Dearest Spiritual Sister DD, thanks for pointing that out.

    I shall in the future try to come up with some original words and thoughts.

    But you’ll have to bear with me b/c this may take some time, since I haven’t had an original thought in weeks, maybe months. Or come to think of it–you maybe right–perhaps even longer than that.

    Thanks for enlightening me.

    You are indeed a buddha.

    Pranams.

  28.  I’m not sure I’m following you here, JS.

    Can you explain it in the context of your memories of substance abuse and obsessions.

    And what you currently promote regarding it?

    I’m particularly interested in how the meanings we may attach to the old stuff tends to influence our promotions today.

    As I see it, it’s not the memory itself that drives current promotions, but rather the meanings we attach to them.

    Those meanings tend to be extremely reliable in the promotion of ‘new stuff’.

  29. I think that I wrote here before that if the same stuff was being done to them they wouldn’t think that it was so cool.  

  30. Perhaps this whole web of lies and decit will come undone publically and let us know what happened.

  31. My spidey sense says this:

    from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296742/bio 

    Ed Fry 

    Fry is a Vice-President of the New York Local of SAG-AFTRA, a member of the national Board of Directors, national legislative and public affairs committee and co-chair of the national SAG-AFTRA Communications Committee.

  34.  Bill James once said that the only difference between secret, “insider” information and information anybody can find in the open is time. I think we’re seeing that at work here – more people are looking at these dirtbags, writing about them, drawing attention to them…and they’re starting to leak information as the posse closes in.

  36.  JeffS is trying to give you some credit by assuming your nonsense is a result of substance abuse.  He’s just too darned polite to note that you are, in fact, a blithering idiot.

  37.  Tut tut, Anamika, tut tut!

    Long benders also impact your cognitive capabilities, yet another reason to seek suitable counseling.

    Tut tut, Anamika!  And short term memory as well.  Tut tut!

  38.  Looking further, it turns out Friedman was only mentioned in  passing and not a direct party to it.

      Leiderman did represent Nadia Naffe in an alleged harassment suit against Patterico and his boss at the LA County DA.  So he’s been in it from early on.

    Friedman has tried to keep his name out of it since Patterico highlighted his associations with Kimberlin & Co in February, I think, but he’s a principal in Velvet Revolution and has been closely involved with these chaps for years.

  45. I’m with you, Adjoran. Stone consciousness just likes to hear himself talk, eventhough he has nothing much to say.

    I’m sorry I said that. I don’t know what came over me. It must be the fact that I can’t get Stone(d). If I only had a little taste, I’d surely be much more mellow.

    So Stone head, if you seem to think and feel that i’m a f***ing blithering idiot, please go deep within and find that place, I mean, that space, of unconditional love and forgiveness with which to bless this most unworthy and worthless pseudo-entity and silly monkey all in one.

    I am most contrite and heartily sorry if somehow I have offended thee.

    I intend to do 5 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys as a down payment of the vast amount of penitent offerings that I intend to make over the weekend while watching Euro 2012 Soccer and generally f***ing off this weekend.

    Can you find it in your heart of hearts to forgive me, eventhough you find my bullshit more than a little puerile and tiring?

    I humbly thank you in advance, you f***ing asshole.

  47.  RE. Ladd Ehlinger Jr.

    … so desperately try to be the smartest person…

    I don’t ‘own’ tendencies. A tendency is a potential or a trigger for harm or bad karma, and we all have them all, given the right circumstance; they belong to what we call “culture”, not a private option that makes me special.

    By opposition: The gist of spiritual effort is the impulse that is witnessed as it arises yet does not trigger three days of despair, anger, or three years of grudges.

    The trigger itself, the defect itself, the bad tendency itself is clear awareness, without it, the body goes in the garden or around the house minding its own business eventually dying with little ripple and notice as possible.

  50.  Tut tut, Anamika, tut tut!

    An appreciation for receiving the benefit of the doubt is the hallmark of a civilized person.  Alas, you have no such appreciation.

    Tut tut, Anamika!  You bite the hand that feeds you.  Tut tut!

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