BRETT KIMBERLIN SUES BLOGGERS

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The following joint statement has been authorized:

Convicted felon Brett Kimberlin has filed a Maryland lawsuit naming bloggers Aaron Walker, W. J. J. Hoge, Robert Stacy McCain, National Bloggers Club President Ali A. Akbar and the anonymous blogger “Kimberlin Unmasked” as defendants.
The defendants believe that the suit is without merit and is part of Kimberlin’s continued effort to use lawfare to silence journalists and bloggers who have written about Kimberlin’s criminal past. The defendants will not be made available for comment until they have finished initial consultations their respective legal counsel.

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Media seeking comment may e-mail me (contact info is on the “about” page) and reporters who know my number can call, but as the statement says, I can make no comment for the record without advice of legal counsel. Of course, regular readers already know the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

 

 

UPDATE: John Hoge has also published the statement. The suit was filed Aug. 30. An initial hearing has been scheduled Nov. 27 in Montgomery County Circuit Court, before Judge John W. Debelius III.

UPDATE II: Linked by Kathy Shaidle — thanks!

UPDATE III: Linked by Da Tech Guy — thanks!

UPDATE IV: The Lonely Conservative calls Brett Kimberlin “evil,” so maybe the Speedway Bomber will sue her for . . . accuracy.

UPDATE V: Linked by Matt Ross at Conservative Hideout — thanks!

UPDATE VI: Patterico has done some research:

A search of court records reveals the complaint is for “DEFAMATION, MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, HARASSMENT, STALKING, CONSPIRACY, INVASION OF PRIVACY AND INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.” It sounds like “accuse the accusers” on steroids, doesn’t it?
It will be fascinating to see how Kimberlin tries to assert that his reputation has been damaged — given that he has been convicted of setting off multiple bombs, one of which blew off a man’s leg, causing him to commit suicide. Doesn’t that tend to harm one’s reputation quite a bit more than stuff said by bloggers on the Internet?

No comment at this time.

UPDATE VII: Headline by Zilla of the Resistance:

Perpetually #ButtHurt Free Speech Hating
#ConvictedTerrorist #SpeedwayBomber
#BrettKimberlin Sues Bloggers — AGAIN

You forgot to mention “evil.”

UPDATE VIII: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

And, no, if “unwanted Internet attention” is your problem, trying to sue bloggers into silence is perhaps not a clever strategy. Maybe you could ask Charles Carreon about that.

UPDATE IX: Linked by Maetenloch in the AOSHQ Overnight Thread — thanks! — and now a Memeorandum thread.

UPDATE X: Linked by Donald Douglas at American Power and by Jeff Dunetz at Yid With Lid — thanks!

UPDATE XI: Jeff Quinton reminds me of something I’d forgotten:

I previously blogged about Brett Kimberlin admitting to the sabotage of military equipment and a federal lawsuit that Walker filed against him.

Kimberlin sabotaged military equipment — he said so himself — but then again, Kimberlin is a perjurer, so maybe he made that up.

UPDATE XII: Linked by Evil Blogger Lady and Batshit Crazy News — thanks!

 

219 comments

  2. Don’t forget driving a man to suicide on account of having his leg blown off while Kimberlin was doing his stint as the Speedway Bomber, and skipping out on the payment to the man’s widow that had been ordered by the court.

    In short, the man is a real piece of work who needs to be locked up and the key thrown away.

  5. While I can’t comment on the substance of Brett Kimberlin’s claims, I can say that the bit about the suit lacking merit is not just boilerplate.

    Thank you all for your support and good wishes.

  6. DEFAMATION, MALICIOUS PROSECUTION,
    HARASSMENT, STALKING, CONSPIRACY, INVASION OF PRIVACY AND INTENTIONAL
    INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

  7. I dunno, is there a legal term for the grounds of being a balding, tiny, mean spirited, mutated leprechaun lookin’ bastid who has no life and no real friends and nothing better to do with his time in his sad pathetic excuse for a life?

  9. Depends on who’s being harassed. If he was suing important people instead of “just bloggers”, this nonsense would come to a crashing halt immediately instead of allowed to continue on and on and on. Note that the Youtube video maker blamed for Benghazi is still in jail.

  14. How can he do that? I’m not a lawyer, but won’t discovery open up more cans of worms for him than you can shake a stick at?

  17. I take my extra buttered popcorn with additional extra butter. Got me a new microwave popcorn popper too, so I am now properly equipped for the show.

  19. The suit will go nowhere, as it should, if he ignores discovery. He could find him self held in contempt if he ignores it.

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