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When Neal Rauhauser (@Kookpocalypse) Stalked My Army Son’s Facebook Page

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Regular readers of this blog need no introduction to Neal Rauhauser, the disgraced former Democrat campaign consultant and associate of bomber/progressive activist Brett Kimberlin. Most recently, Bullyville has vowed to put Neal Rauhauser in prison.

Last month, Rauhauser did something so astonishingly vicious even I was shocked, despite my familiarity with Neal’s evil dishonesty. But I put it aside until today — Veteran’s Day — when I saw Rauhauser using one of his (innumerable) Twitter sockpuppet accounts to talk about his admiration for the military, the lying wretch.

Everybody knows how proud I am of my children, and you know that it’s been more than two weeks since we’ve heard from our Army son, who is enduring an ordeal known as “Three Weeks in Hell.”

My wife has been praying constantly, and I’ve been trying to put it out of my mind, because there’s no point worrying about it. But exactly one month ago, on Oct. 11, this is what Neal Rauhauser did on Twitter:


Among other things, this was a deliberate lie. In June, my son made a sarcastic remark about the Supreme Court decision invalidating DOMA, and my response was to remind him to avoid such humor: “You are not allowed to joke about this, soldier!”

Well, we know Neal Rauhauser lies constantly, but what was his motive for this lie? Was he hoping to make my son a target of (mistaken) homophobic violence? Or was he hoping to generate some kind of reaction from me? Never mind that, however.

WHY WAS THIS FREAK NEAL RAUHAUSER
STALKING MY SON’S FACEBOOK PAGE?

Neal Rauhauser deleted those Tweets, like the gutless worm he is, and he is currently lying as @Kookpocalypse. But whatever he does, and wherever he goes, that filthy scoundrel will never escape the stain of dishonor attached to the contemptible name Neal Rauhauser.

P.S.: That tattoo on my son’s torso? A cross, and a few words from the Bible: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil . . .”




 

 

Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Will Face Contempt of Court Charges?

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Bill Schmalfeldt ranting, 2011. (Image via Thomas Anderson at Vimeo)

John Hoge posted updates Friday about legal proceedings against lying felon Brett Kimberlin’s biggest fanboy, Bill Schmalfeldt:

Now, some readers may wonder — indeed, some have complained about it — why so much attention should be paid to an obscure assclown like Bill Schmalfeldt. Here’s your first clue:

For more than two years now, a series of people who have in one way or another found themselves on Brett Kimberlin’s Enemies List — including Patrick Frey, Mandy Nagy, Aaron Walker, Lee Stranahan and others — have complained about what would appear to be a pattern of orchestrated online harassment against them.

Much of that harassment, especially on Twitter, has emanated from pseudonymous entities such as @BreitbartUnmask, @X3n0ph0n and the now-defunct @OccupyRebellion. However, Schmalfeldt (who began cyberstalking Aaron Walker in June 2012) has harassed Kimberlin’s enemies under his own name, and with the encouragement of Melissa Brewer (@catsrimportant), whose connection to Kimberlin’s acknowledged “associate” Neal Rauhauser is beyond dispute.

Now we have, in Schmalfeldt’s own words, the explanation that this harassment (which he absurdly calls “investigating”) was done on behalf of Brett Kimberlin: Just forget Kimberlin exists, Schmalfeldt says — to Frey, Walker, Stranahan, Ali Akbar, et al. — and “no one,” including Bill Schmalfeldt, will continue this harassment.

Keep in mind that, at that time, the following was happening:

“Just forget Brett Kimberlin exists,” see?

In point of fact, however, if it hadn’t been for the constant harassment from Schmalfeldt and others, there would have been little reason for any of us to mention Brett Kimberlin in November 2012. And while I’d have to double-check, I’m reasonably sure that neither the Maryland Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., lawsuit nor the federal RICO suit that Hoge has dubbed Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al., cites anything any of us published in October or November 2012 as being defamatory. In other words, it would appear that the harassment we were enduring at the time of Schmalfeldt’s “just forget Brett Kimberlin exists” threat was in the nature of vindictive retaliation.

Let us then remember a key claim in Kimberlin v. Walker, et al.:

4. Defendants falsely wrote that other targets of theirs were part of “Team Kimberlin” and published that Plaintiff controlled, paid, and directed this vast network of “unsavory” operatives.

Just about every word there is a lie. Such people as Neal Rauhauser, Bill Schmalfeldt and Melissa Brewer were not our targets; rather, we were their targets and why? Because we had written about Brett Kimberlin’s criminal history and, as Schmalfeldt made clear, the harassment directed against us by Schmalfeldt and other members of “Team Kimberlin” was in reprisal for that unwelcome coverage.

Whether this harassment was “controlled, paid, and directed” by Kimberlin personally is a matter of speculation; that it was understaken on behalf of Kimberlin and intended to benefit him (by punishing his targeted enemies) would seem indisputable.

Bill Schmalfeldt’s words and actions are clear evidence thereof and — RES JUDICATA! — Maryland courts have found that Bill Schmalfeldt’s behavior constituted illegal harassment.

Obscure assclown though he may be, therefore, Bill Schmalfeldt’s actions during the past 17 months are quite relevant to the defense in Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., in a way similar to the recent misfortunes that have befallen Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser.

And let’s flash back to the June court hearing where Hoge was granted the peace order against Schmalfeldt:

Brett Kimberlin showed up in court for Schmalfeldt’s hearing. . . .
Walker and others believe they have been the targets of an orchestrated campaign of harassment aimed at Kimberlin’s enemies.
One might argue that Bill Schmalfeldt is merely a nutjob, but Kimberlin’s presence at today’s court hearing certainly suggests that the focus of Schmalfeldt’s madness was not entirely random.

If Kimberlin thought Schmalfeldt was sufficiently important to merit his presence for the Hoge v. Schmalfeldt hearing, what does that tell you? Help us fight this fight. Go hit the tip jar at Hogewash, or hit my tip jar, or contribute at BomberSuesBloggers.com.




 

 


Piss-Poor OpSec for @OccupyRebellion: The @Bullyville vs. Neal Rauhauser Saga

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Late last night, I reported how the popular anti-bullying site Bullyville.com had been targeted by death threats after writing about Neal Rauhauser, the disgraced Democrat operative who has spent two years harassing Brett Kimberlin’s enemies online. What I didn’t know was why Bullyville decided to go after Neal Rauhauser. Given that it is the wee hours, I’ll tell the story as I now understand it.

It involved @OccupyRebellion, one of many sockpuppet accounts Rauhauser has created over the years, and arguably his most successful. As with many other of his “socks,” Neal shared the login information for @OccupyRebellion with various of his associates, including at least one woman who was part of a group of Rauhauser fangirls whom Neal has occasionally referred to as “AnonyMiss.”

Neal Rauhauser has a fetish for online secrecy and deception, and a key part of that is “OpSec” (operational security), meaning the way that anonymous online accounts protect their anonymity, so that they can’t be “doxed” (documented, i.e., exposed).

OK, in May 2012, as soon as I started covering The Kimberlin Files, I was immediately targeted for Twitter harassment, the two most prominent perpetrators of which were @BreitbartUnmask and @OccupyRebellion. The latter of these accounts was arguably more effective, because it had more than 20,000 followers, many of them associated with the “Occupy” or “Anonymous” movements.

In short, @OccupyRebellion was the most precious sockpuppet princess in Rauhauser’s evil troll kingdom. But then . . . @Bullyville.

What happened was this: Reality TV star Kate Gosselin was the target of vicious online harassment. @Bullyville became aware of this “damsel in distress” situation and began “doxing” harassers left and right, rolling up the troll swarm and, at some point, came across @OccupyRebellion. Exactly how that happened, I don’t know. Maybe one of the anti-Gosselyn trolls was a friend of @OccupyRebellion, but however the conflict started, when @OccupyRebellion got in trouble, she evidently called on Neal Rauhauser to try to save her from exposure by @Bullyville.

Alas, it seems, whoever had been operating @OccupyRebellion had not been diligent in practicing the anonymity-protection necessary to online “OpSec” and, because Neal Rauhauser realized that the account was vulnerable, the account got deleted.

“Poof!” Two years of relentless online evil, an account that had collected more than 20,000 followers, was destroyed because of a silly squabble over a reality-TV star and . . . @Bullyville.

That’s the story as I understand it and, amid all that, Bullyville “received a call that entailed a death threat towards his children.”

Oops. The weird thing is how @Bullyville isn’t about politics, and never gave a damn about the whole Brett Kimberlin thing, yet arguably did more real damage to Rauhauser’s operation than any of the rest of us who have tangled with Neal over the years.

And now Bullyville has vowed to put Neal Rauhauser in prison.

Everybody should follow @Bullyville.

 


Death Threats After @Bullyville Vows to Put Neal Rauhauser in Prison?

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If you don’t know who Bullyville is, it’s a popular Web site and Twitter account (with more than 100,000 followers) that fights against bullying, especially of the online variety. A few months ago, for reasons I still don’t understand, Bullyville became interested in Neal Rauhauser, the disgraced former Democrat campaign consultant, colleague of Brett Kimberlin and general all-around Internet menace.

Sunday, Bullyville published an extensive profile on Rauhauser that called him the “Charles Manson of Twitter” and included this: “You’re not the first bottom-feeding scumbag bully I’ve bullied back, however you will be the first I’m responsible for sending to prison.” That attracted two comments from someone signing themselves as “Long John Silver,”  who had murderous things to say:

I am simply amazed that this Bullyville guy, James McGibney, is still alive. If I was listed on his website I would put a bullet in his head. It’s as simple as that. His home address has been posted online. And he makes scheduled public appearances.

After the first comment drew attention, “Long John Silver” added:

Did you know that over 40% of all murders each year go unsolved in the U.S.? Since I use TOR and a random person’s open WiFi, I can’t be tracked you nitwit.

There was much else and you can read the whole thing. Of course, Neal Rauhauser will deny being “Long John Silver,” just as Neal always denies being any one of the numerous sockpuppet accounts (e.g., the “Gaped Crusader”) he has used to threaten, harass and smear various people over the past three years.

Neal Rauhauser’s warped personality is such that he enjoys causing misery for his victims, and he has been getting away with it so long that he evidently thinks he will never been held accountable. The suspicion that Rauhuser is somehow “protected” by the FBI is gaining traction for various reasons and, while I don’t necessarily endorse those suspicions, I can’t discourage such suspicions, so long as Neal Rauhauser continues running around doing his dishonest evil.

UPDATE: Piss-Poor OpSec for @OccupyRebellion: The @Bullyville vs. Neal Rauhauser Saga.

 




 

 

Things I Have Not Done

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I have not defamed Brett Kimberlin. I have not maliciously prosecuted Brett Kimberlin. I have not harassed Brett Kimberlin. I have not stalked Brett Kimberlin. I have not invaded Brett Kimberlin’s privacy. Nor have I conspired to do any of these things to Brett Kimberlin.

What I have done is to tell the truth about Brett Kimberlin. Insofar as the perjuring bomber does not like anyone telling the truth about him, this may have resulted in “emotional distress,” but the infamous criminal’s absurd $1 million lawsuit is doomed to fail anyway.

“These people are so intentionally and profoundly dishonest,” someone said in regard to Bill Schmalfeldt specifically, and more generally in regard to the collective known as “Team Kimberlin.”

Today, the judge in the case granted Brett Kimberlin’s motion to compel Google to supply the identity of the anonymous blogger Kimberlin Unmasked and you would have thought, witnessing the online reaction of Schmalfeldt and his Team Kimberlin comrades, that this was Game, Set and Match of the lawsuit. Ever since Kimberlin sued, his foolish admirers have been claiming that everything the vicious liar says is a proven fact and that he is certain to prevail, and that anything the defendants say about the suit is just adding to the damages.

This is all a mere continuation of Brett Kimberlin’s attempts to intimidate the innocent. I am not intimidated in the least.

“Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. . . . Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked . . . For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?”
— Proverbs 24: 1-2, 19-22 (KJV)

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Does @FromaHarrop Know About Neal?

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An interesting commentary by a veteran columnist:

As Twitter prepares to issue company stock to the public, investors are trying to size up its future in the social media universe. The microblogging site has a critical flaw anchoring its prospects. Unlike Facebook — which requires members to submit their real names and email addresses when joining — Twitter lets anonymous louts romp through otherwise intelligent conversations.
Thus, it’s become a haven for “trolls” leaving false, nasty and/or moronic comments. Would advertisers want to go near an often foul user experience? . . .
[A]bout 85 percent of the nastiest stuff . . . would simply disappear if participants had to attach their real identities to their words. Numerous news organizations have already banned anonymous comments. Twitter can do likewise.

Harrop is very close to the target, but not quite on it. The problem is not anonymous accounts, per se. The problem is a failure of Twitter to identify and permanently ban certain users from their service, despite repeated and specific terms-of-service violations.

On Oct. 20, I explained Neal Rauhauser’s latest harassment gambit:

A week ago, Melissa Brewer abandoned her @catsrimportant Twitter account after victims of her harassment exposed Brewer’s 2006 prostitution conviction, which involved a 19-year-old sex offender who was arrested and charged with being her pimp. This was newsworthy because Brewer had been involved in the “Stop Rush” boycott against Rush Limbaugh, had put out a “hit list” against conservative bloggers including Sister Toldjah and Darleen Click and, in June 2012, had encouraged deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt’s harassment of Kimberlin target Aaron Walker.
Brewer quit her Twitter account, and Neal Rauhauser evidently took it over, using it to smear, harass and threaten various of his enemies, including the defendants in [convicted bomber Brett] Kimberlin’s lawsuits.

You can read the whole thing, and I hope regular readers need no introduction to Neal Rauhauser or to such of his previous harassment activities as his “Gaped Crusader” exploits in 2011.

What’s bizarre and perplexing about this is that most people simply cannot imagine someone as dishonest as Neal Rauhauser — the digital sociopath who is adept at deception, and who is especially skilled at creating falsehoods intended to discredit those who expose his malicious activities. Unless and until you have been targeted by Rauhauser, it is difficult to understand what he does, and because what he does is so complex and objectively crazy, any attempt to explain it to others tends to make you sound like a paranoid lunatic.

Those two posts include Rauhauser’s explanations of his own motives and methods and I urge you especially to pay attention to Rauhauser’s writings about “persona management”:

We often feel we’re being clever in constructing a persona but we generally fail miserably due to time constraints. We’re always goal oriented when in character and that is an instant tell to those with situational awareness. If you don’t have time to “be” someone else and remain in character your results will be limited. . . .
Commit to trying to run a persona for a while if for no other reason than to understand what will and won’t work; your situational awareness will be dramatically enhanced. Stick to it until it becomes second nature and you can simply disappear when needed, or protect your friends from unwanted attention with a fog of disinformation.

Simple question: Who does this, and why?

The complex deception involved in creating an online “persona,” the statement that Neal is “always goal oriented when in character,” and the advice to “simply disappear . . . with a fog of disinformation” certainly raises questions of motive: If you’re doing something legal and honest, why the need for such elaborate deception?

True to his sociopathic personality, however, Rauhauser creates news lie to conceal his old lies, explaining his actions by reference to the alleged malice of his enemies. If you do not understand how profoundly dishonest he is, or if your political sympathies are such that you buy into the accusations Neal makes against his enemies, you may be tempted to believe his cover stories. If you keep in mind what Rauhauser wrote about creating a fog of disinformation,” however, you know his explanations cannot be trusted.

With that in mind, then, look at what Neal Rauhauser wrote in August on Twitter’s development bulletin board:

I have a serial harasser who has had four accounts over the last three years. She’s directly mentioned my unique combination of first/last name at least two thousand times and most of the rest of her tweeting involves organizing others to harass me. This isn’t just name calling — I’ve deleted a Twitter account with a Klout in the mid 70s, changed careers, moved twice, faced frivolous criminal charges in two states from other crackpots she’s manipulated into believing I did something to them, a group I used to volunteer for faced an intrusion late last year, and last fall one of my neighbors was swatted. I’m pretty sure I was the target of the false report, as they had the right apartment number, but had transposed the last two digits, causing the raid to hit a guy across the street from me.

Gee, why would a totally innocent person be targeted by “a serial harasser”? A bulletin board commenter helpfully explains:

No, what Neal Rauhauser did was use Twitter to manipulate elections in 2010 and three people busted him doing it. Now he’s blaming everyone who knows about it or talks about it as being the one name he can’t find. The other two have already been SWATTED, harassed, employment screwed with and this man even followed one guy’s wife to work and video-tapped it. Then he put the video up on Youtube but quickly privatized it after someone told an FBI Agent on LA Weekly when that guy made an appearance to tell everyone that the FBI is not Neal Rauhauser’s boogeyman.
In my own case, Neal Rauhauser first mentioned me because I’m a friend of Patrick Read, who busted Neal in 2010. Again, he accuses his target of being someone he has stalked in the past and justifies that as a reason for mentioning me. He then gets his buddies to repeat it, over and over and over, no matter how untrue it is, because repeating it 10,000 times must make it true.
Remember Twitter, this is Neal Rauhauser, the man who falsely accused Mike Stack of hacking Anthony Weiner and embedding his privates into the former Congressman’s YFrog account. Mike Stack was then SWATTED and could have been killed.
This is the same guy who is threatening @Bullyville in DMs that he may also be SWATTED if he doesn’t back off people Neal likes.
If any criminal or civil charges are happening here, they are against this perp. He has outstanding warrants and an FBI Investigation on him. But instead, he’ll come here and have the balls to ask Twitter to help him harass people some more.
Maybe Twitter should go look up the complaints made to them about this guy and if my feeling is correct, they’ll find a long TRAIL of abuse reports.

You can and should go read the whole thing, including the comments from other people testifying to Rauhauser’s activities. The claim that Rauhauser used “Twitter to manipulate elections in 2010” is an exaggerated description of the episode known as “TwitterGate.”

What is true is that Tea Party activists were obscenely harassed on Twitters by a group of accounts that were in communication with Rauhauser. Neal referred to the harassers as his “beandogs.” At the time, Rauhauser was part of a Democrat campaign consulting firm, and boasted that his speciality was “solving problems in the social media work space for political campaigns and causes.”

After the “beandogs” harassment was exposed, Rauhauser started deleting accounts and — can you say “fog of disinformation,” boys and girls? — convinced Adrian Chen of Gawker that it was just a harmless prank: “Hahaha, silly paranoid teabaggers!”

Unfortunately for Neal Rauhauser, there are people who were witness to the “beandog” harassment, and one of them is “Zapem,” the person Neal describes as “a serial harasser.” This is the exact opposite of truth: It is Neal who has relentlessly harassed her.

In the three years since “TwitterGate,” Rauhauser has gone on to other equally notorious activities (you really should investigate that “Gaped Crusader” episode) creating new enemies for himself, all of whom wonder why Twitter can’t just ban this creep. And considering the nature of his activities, including connections to the Anonymous hackers that Rauhuaser has boast about, others wonder why the FBI can’t do something to stop his online harassment.

So I put @FromaHarrop’s Twitter handle in the headline, knowing that she would see multiple re-postings of this — a sudden burst of activity in her “mentions” timeline — and wonder, “Who is Neal?” Last time I checked, he was using the @catsrimportant account, but whatever you do, Ms. Harrop, don’t listen to that sociopath.

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)

Those who have withstood Neal Rauhauser’s harassment for months, or even years, know what good advice that is. In a characteriztic symptom of a disturbed personality, when Rauhauser is exposed as victimizing others, he invariably claims that he is actually the victim, and then proceeds to allege all manner of evil against those who have exposed him. It is inaccurate to say that Neal Rauhauser doesn’t give a damn about the truth. In fact, he actively hates truth.

“Facts don’t matter, that’s the perception of the situation, and the world is going to act on that basis.”
— Neal Rauhauser (“Gaped Crusader”), Nov. 26, 2011

Pray that someone can do something to stop his war against truth.

 

Why Did Neal Rauhauser Lie?

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Because the previous post strung out to 1,500 words — highlighting Neal Rauhauser’s role in the harassment of Mike Stack — I neglected to ask an important question about Rauhauser’s June 2, 2011, “Stranded Wind” post at Daily Kos: Why did Neal tell this lie?

Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

You see that this is 18 words of pure, deliberate falsehood.

Neal Rauhauser tells lies like that habitually and routinely. This is just one randomly selected lie among thousands, but look at it again:

Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

What could possibly be Rauhauser’s motive for telling that lie? I mean, we now know conclusively that Weiner was never “stalked,” “set up,” and “smeared,” right? Anthony Weiner was guilty, guilty, guilty.

Neal Rauhauser knew this, too. He is not stupid. He knew very well that Weiner sent the Tweets that Weiner was accused of sending.

There was no “set up.” There was no “smear.”

Neal just lied and made that up, but look at the second half of his lie:

. . . this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

“Coordinated”? By whom did Rauhauser say this was “coordinated“?

We see a steady flow of similar crimes – illegal taping, attempts to tap a Senator’s phone, now intrusion into a Congressman’s social media profiles, and the one thing in common? Andrew Breitbart, who is operating a continuing criminal enterprise as defined by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act aka RICO.
And now this gang, this conservative media mafia, has done a hit on a U.S. Congressman, and it’s one carefully timed to protect corrupt Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from scrutiny, and the timing of the delivery was flawless.

This is obviously false, and obviously Neal Rauhauser knew it was false. The “timing” of when Anthony Weiner tweeted that photo of his bulging crotch was entirely up to Anthony Weiner, and so Neal Rauhauser’s deliberate falsehood is preposterous. Yet there it is:

“Andrew Breitbart . . . is operating a continuing criminal
enterprise . . . [which] has done a hit on a U.S. Congressman
. . . carefully timed to protect corrupt Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.”

This is a lie, and the question is: Why?

No one has ever backed Neal Rauhauser into a corner and demanded that he answer for all the lies he told about WeinerGate, I have focused here on exactly one of those lies, for a reason: It was in that June 2, 2011, post that Rauhauser threatened Mike Stack.

Three weeks later, Mike Stack was SWATted.

A week after that, Patrick “Patterico” Frey was SWATted.

What do Mike Stack and Patrick Frey have in common?

Neal Rauhauser hates their guts.

Somebody needs to ask Neal Rauhauser a few questions.

 

It’s Halloween: Does the FBI Know Where Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser Is?

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“Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.”
— Neal Rauhauser (“Stranded Wind”), Daily Kos, June 2, 2011

“We’re getting in position to drive part of the narrative for the Occupiers. . . .
“3. Next steps with this will include some of the following
“a. other Velvet Revolution activities — American Crossroads seems most likely to draw their eye . . .
“Keep in mind I work with the guy who triggered the investigation into Clarence Thomas over the Citizens United payoff . . .”
— Neal Rauhauser, e-mail to Occupy Boston organizers, Sept. 30, 2011

“Kimberlin has been targeting Patterico since October 2010, and it was evidently Rauhauser’s anti-Patterico blogging that brought him into Kimberlin’s orbit so that, by October 2011, Rauhauser seemed to be describing Kimberlin as his client. . . .
“Another coincidence: What do ‘SWATting’ victims Patterico and Mike Stack have in common, other than the fact that, as Patterico himself notes, Rauhauser hates their guts?
“Is Rauhauser being paid by Brett Kimberlin — with proceeds from tax-exempt non-profits — to pursue these vendettas?”
— Robert Stacy McCain, June 4, 2012

Anyone familiar with my coverage of The Kimberlin Files knows that it was former Democrat campaign consultant Neal Rauhauser’s involvement with Brett Kimberlin that first drew my attention to this story in May 2012. And anyone familiar with the federal RICO lawsuit Kimberlin v. Universe, et al., knows that The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant’s central claim is that he was the target of a racketeering conspiracy (!) involving everybody from Michelle Malkin to Glenn Beck to Simon & Schuster (!) to falsely accuse him of complicity in the “SWATting” hoaxes against Patrick Frey and others.

Yet there are some curious omissions from Kimberlin’s lawsuit. The perjuring bomber never mentions his role in VelvetRevolution.us, the 501(c)4 activist group he co-founded which, along with his 501(c)3 Justice Through Music Project, shares the Bethesda, Maryland, address where Kimberlin lives in his mother’s basement. Furthermore, Kimberlin’s lawsuits do not mention either Neal Rauhauser or the June 2011 SWATting of Mike Stack. Why is this?

My fellow RICO defendant Patrick Frey, June 3, 2012:

Many people have asked: if all this is about Brett Kimberlin, where does Mike Stack fit in? Why was he swatted? . . .
Rauhauser had several sites with a countdown clock to February 6, including one called “Kookpocalyse” and other sites linked to his name. . . .
The Kookpocalypse site included a video of a simulated beheading . . .
There were train maps with Aaron Walker’s hometown of Manassas, Virginia and Seth Allen’s hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Given Rauhauser’s past comments (as “Iowa Boy”) talking about the need for Republicans to be killed for the greater good, together with the simulated beheading video and the countdown clock, Rauhauser’s ominous web site created valid cause for concern. . . .
Rauhauser had a deep animus towards Stack. And he claimed that Stack was “harassing” certain people, including Brett Kimberlin. Moreover, he connected that to Weinergate. Rauhauser states in the document that one of the reasons Stack allegedly harassed Kimberlin and himself was that “Rauhauser wrote extensively about Stack, Frey, Bloom, and their fabrications regarding former Congressman Anthony Weiner.”
So you can see that from reading Rauhauser’s paranoid rant that, in Neal Rauhauser’s mind, there is a connection between me and Mike Stack (the two swatting victims from 2011), our alleged fabrications about Anthony Weiner, and our alleged harassment of Brett Kimberlin.
Remember that Rauhauser is Kimberlin’s associate and was present at the recent hearing where Aaron Walker was arrested.

Go read the whole thing. Who could forget Neal Rauhauser’s February 2012 “Kookpocalypse” threat which, in the end, proved to be the publication of Rauhauser’s notorious conspiracy theory, “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?” That document was part of a package of information Rauhauser sent to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. In it, Rauhauser claimed that he, Kimberlin and others were the targets of a criminal conspiracy involving Mike Stack, Seth Allen, Aaron Walker, Sean Tompkins, Patrick Frey, Patrick Read, Mandy Nagy, Thomas Ryan, Aaron Barr and others.

Keep in mind, now, that this “Kookpocalypse” scare was Feb. 6, 2012, more than three months before I got onto the Kimberlin story.

Rauhauser sent to the FBI, and published online, a completely baseless series of criminal accusations against his enemies list, claiming a “conspiracy” involving at least 10 people, some of whom did not even know each other. Yet now we have Kimberlin suing people — claiming conspiracy as well as defamation — while ignoring the deliberate defamation published by his associate Rauhauser?

But again, Patterico’s question: “Many people have asked: if all this is about Brett Kimberlin, where does Mike Stack fit in? Why was he swatted?” This is crucial to understanding why Kimberlin v. Universe, et al., says nothing about Rauhauser or Velvet Revolution. To discuss either would be to raise the question of why, in June 2011, Rauhauser was using his Daily Kos “Stranded Wind” account to promote Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution’s petition to impeach Clarence Thomas?

It would also raise the question of why, in September 2011, Rauhauser was representing himself as an agent of Velvet Revolution in e-mails to organizers of Occupy Boston?

In other words, from mid-2011 onward, Rauhauser appears to have been acting on behalf of Kimberlin and Velvet Revolution, and so if Rauhauser were suspected in the SWATtings of Stack and Patterico, then the question of Kimberlin’s culpability for Rauhauser’s actions would constitute an entirely reasonable suspicion. But guess what else Rauhauser alleged in June 2011?

These are the particulars of the latest event, but look at the big picture. We see a steady flow of similar crimes – illegal taping, attempts to tap a Senator’s phone, now intrusion into a Congressman’s social media profiles, and the one thing in common? Andrew Breitbart, who is operating a continuing criminal enterprise as defined by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act aka RICO.

Oh, Breitbart was “operating a continuing criminal enterprise” under RICO, the same thing Brett Kimberlin alleges in his lawsuit? Do you think it’s just a coincidence that Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser are promoting these very similar conspiracy theories? And do you think that it’s also just a coincidence, that in that same Daily Kos diary, Rauhauser invoked “Anonymous” to threaten Mike Stack?

So it was a short process from getting contacted by this anonymous person with a hushmail account until I had this guy’s full name, his home address, his date of birth, and a collection of phone numbers. I wrapped it nice and neat and forwarded it to the FBI. . . .
And one final thing … the person or persons behind the hushmail account that knew so much about Mike Stack? They’ve asked me to include a few words and an image in this diary.

We are Anonymous.We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us. . . .

Plain and simple, people, I write things up in an orderly fashion, I address them to someone with an @ic.fbi.gov address, and I hit send.

Isn’t that weird? On June 2, 2011, Neal Rauhauser basically “doxed” Mike Stack at Daily Kos and quoted the Anonymous creed.

Three weeks later, Stack got SWATted.

The whole time, Neal Rauhauser was boasting about the frequency of his contacts with the FBI. And it’s probably just a coincidence that the FBI has been unable to solve the SWATtings of Stack, or Patterico, or Aaron Walker or Erick Erickson, or some other people who have been SWATted, but haven’t gone public about it.

Some people have told me they suspect Neal Rauhauser is being “protected” by the FBI. They have actually named two FBI agents they suspect are involved in protecting Rauhauser. Frankly, these suspicions strike me as somewhat paranoid, but if you were someone who (a) had been endlessly harassed by Neal Rauhauser and also (b) had been SWATted, wouldn’t it make you paranoid if (c) FBI agents professed themselves hopelessly incompetent to solve these SWATtings even while (d) Rauhauser was bragging about his FBI contacts?

So it’s Halloween, and Neal Rauhauser is still at large.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.