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“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)

For reasons I still don’t understand, Ali Akbar decided to permit Bill Schmalfeldt to degrade himself as a “guest” on Ali’s podcast today. If you listened to it, you know that Bill proved conclusively (as if it were not already proven) what a twisted deranged freak he is.

Every time Ali referred to one of Schmalfeldt’s grossly obscene smears, Schmalfeldt would begin cackling with insane glee, evidently enjoying some kind of sadistic pleasure at his own perversity. Although I called in for a couple of segments, I did not enjoy it, preferring to avoid direct contact with such evil. At one point, Schmalfeldt was challenged about his repeated false claims that I still live in Maryland and dishonestly denied having made such claims.

“[W]e have no REAL proof that McCain ever moved ANYWHERE, that he STILL lives at his nice litle house . . . in Hagerstown, Maryland . . .”
— Bill Schmalfeldt, Nov. 23, 2012

“There is a large fraud being perpetrated on conservative Internet users. . . . [Robert Stacy McCain] raised money for this ‘flight from Maryland’ on his blog. If he did this and did not actually flee the state as he said, he raised money under false pretenses which is a felony under Maryland laws.”
— Bill Schmalfeldt, Nov. 25, 2012

Those are just two examples among scores — perhaps hundreds — of times Schmalfeldt has made this false accusation, and this is a motif with him: Accuse people of crime based upon his own baseless speculations, and then proceed to harass the target of his lies, claiming this is an “investigation,” demanding “proof” his lie is wrong.

“Tell the bomber where you live, Stacy! And while we’re
at it, let’s talk about your wife and children . . .”

Freak.

Anyway, while Ali Akbar said he plans to use the audio of Schmafeldt’s demented ravings as evidence in future legal action, I was uncomfortable with the cruelty of permitting this mentally ill man to further embarrass himself. At one point, Ali asked Schmalfeldt about his bizarre claim that Ali had a sexual affair with Karl Rove. And as might be expected, Schmalfeldt managed simultaneously to deny having made the accusation, while also suggesting it was true.

Now, I’d often heard this weird accusation mentioned in jest, but as it was obviously untrue, never bothered to see where it came from. And where it started was with an Alabama lawyer named Dana Jill Simpson, who made the claim in a letter she wrote on June 26, 2012. In that letter, Simpson said she got her information when she was “contacted by a political operative on the left.”

Hmmm.

So “a political operative on the left” dreamed up this Akbar-Rove smear, sent it to a lawyer in Alabama, who then repeated it in a letter to Bob Bauer, the top lawyer for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign (!), and from there it metastasized into a delusional rant on a blog called “Legal Schnauzer,” which got multiple comments by Schmalfeldt (as “Liberal Grouch”) and the ubiquitous Matt Osborne:

Matt Osborne said…
While I’m not about to go and say this report of a gay tryst is true, what IS definitely true is that Rove has been deeply connected to the National Bloggers Club since it started. Brett Kimberlin, the man they first tried to frame for their fake SWAT calls, embarrassed the hell out of Rove with one of his “merry prankster” performances back in 2004. I would not be surprised to find out that Rove has been using them for all manner of Nixonian ratfuckery. Anyone who’s been reading my blog lately knows I have been tangling with them over a hoax they tried to pull on me and other people in the #stoprush movement. There is no upper limit to their criminality, IMO, and Rove’s involvement shows that.
June 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM

This claim “that Rove has been deeply connected to the National Bloggers Club since it started” is just a flat-out lie. But because Bill Schmalfeldt is crazy, he can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, between truth and lie. Therefore, in Schmalfeldt’s warped mind, Osborne’s assertion of a Rove connection to the National Bloggers Club became a “fact,” which Schmalfeldt subsequently undertook to “investigate,” and from there, as they say, hilarity ensued.

OK, so who is Dana Jill Simpson? A gadfly conspiracy theorist who, among other things, made unsubstantiated accusations that Karl Rove conspired against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. She also co-authored a recent classic of paranoid kookery, “Black Hat Versus White Hat: The Other Side Of The Snowden/Hastings/Barret Brown Cases.” (Really gives me confidence in somebody’s work when there is a misspelled name in the headline.) Now, ask yourself: Who was the “political operative on the left” who got this kooky lady interested in the bogus Rove-Akbar sex smear?

Hi, Neal.

Somewhere off on the lunatic fringe, Neal Rauhauser is always trolling for gullible kooks like this Jill Simpson who will help publicize his conspiracy theories. And the fact that the Rove-Akbar smear got turned into an actual series of articles at Legal Schnauzer (one of the few places where anyone takes Jill Simpson seriously) tells you just how gullible some people are. And then you have weirdos like Bill Schmalfeldt and Matt Osborne, whose desperate quest for relevance inspires them to repeat stuff they know to be false — e.g., that I didn’t leave Maryland — simply because they know such lies will be applauded by the small circle of kooks who admire Brett Kimberlin.

“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

See, Neal Rauhauser understands that many people are either indifferent to truth or too stupid to know truth from lies. Neal knows that if he can generate enough “smoke” of suspicion around one of his targets, intellectually lazy people (i.e., most people) will jump to the conclusion that “where there’s smoke, there must be fire.” And these people who assist Neal in his games — among them Matt Osborne and Bill Schmalfeldt and, evidently, Jill Simpson — either (a) enjoy helping disseminate falsehoods, or (b) don’t understand the game.

They lie gleefully, because they have no conscience.

They have no decency and they have no shame. Selah.

 

UPDATE: John Hoge replies to Matt Osborne:

I have been to Stacy McCain’s house. It is not in Maryland. Period.

But in Osborne’s depraved mind, this just proves the “conspiracy,” see?

 

This was posted at John Hoge’s Hogewash blog and I don’t know who deserves credit for the production, but it is an excellent summary of the fundamental strategic error in Brett Kimberlin’s latest lawfare:

By the way, BomberSuesBloggers.com announced yesterday it met its first fundraising goal of $2,000 to assist the five defendants in the Maryland Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., lawsuit, and also has sent its first check to an attorney for one of the defendants. This is an important case for Internet free speech rights. Thanks to all who have given so far, and I urge everyone to do what they can to help keep up the momentum against Kimberlin and his “unsavory” operatives.

Yes, among other things he’s suing us for calling his operatives “unsavory.” While we expect that our lawyers can get the case dismissed in the preliminary stages, one smiles at the prospect of a trial, where Kimberlin’s “excellent friend” Bill Schmalfeldt is asked to read aloud his perverse “Butt Stuff” rantings that got him banned from Daily Kos.

 

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After more than a month of Bill Schmalfeldt claiming I was “served” with the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., lawsuit at a Maryland address, Schmalfeldt published the registered mail receipt reproduced below, which proves conclusively that I was not served. Schmalfeldt is now claiming that there is a “story” here, but what could that story be?

If you look closely — click on the image to enlarge — you see that Kimberlin did not check Box 4 (“Restricted Delivery”), and so anyone could sign for receipt. What we are likely to see, alas, is a repeat of the “Who is Jerry Fletcher?” act Schmalfeldt pulled last year:

“By 5 pm today, October 26, Eastern Time, you will write to me . . . and tell me everything you know . . . Is he Jerry Fletcher? WHO is Jerry Fletcher. I want it all, Doug.”

Right. Who is “Doug”? And who is “Jerry Fletcher”? Who is the woman who signed for this package? And why would anyone care?

What this proves is what I said all along: I have not been served in Maryland, because I don’t live in Maryland, and if Schmalfeldt thinks there is a “story” in why a woman in Maryland signed for a package — “WHO is Mrs. Ford? I want it all, Stacy!” — he’s insane.

But we already knew Bill Schmalfeldt is insane, eh?

However, Schmalfeldt has also proven me right in another way: Bill is working closely with his “excellent friend” Brett Kimberlin, and this is a crucial point in the lawsuit:

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.

Hasn’t Bill Schmalfeldt just proven he is part of “Team Kimberlin”? I mean, he’s got privileged access to Kimberlin’s legal proceedings. And, meanwhile, Bill Schmalfeldt has also proven his Team Kimberlin colleague “Xenophon” a liar:

“Robert Stacy McCain never acknowledges errors or mistakes. For example, in May of 2012 he claimed to have left his home in Maryland for fear of Brett Kimberlin. But this week, Kimberlin’s process server found him at the same address where he lived last May.”
— “Xenophon,” BreitbartUnmasked.com, Sept. 20, 2013

Kimberlin didn’t hire a “process server.”

Nobody “found” me in Maryland.

They were lying all along, just as I said all along.

UPDATE: John Hoge explains:

Maryland Rule 2-121 requires that service via mail be “by certified mail requesting: “Restricted Delivery — show to whom, date, address of delivery.” The Restricted Delivery box on Line 4 is not checked, so the letter carrier gave the mail to whomever would sign for it. The mail was signed for by someone named Ford, so it was not delivered to Stacy McCain.
One of the lawyers discussing Brett Kimberlin’s performance in the raft of frivolous suits he has filed against my codefendants and me used the phrase “amateur hour.”

May God always grant us foolish enemies.

 

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The Brett Kimberlin Fan Club has spent the past several days doing an online Happy Dance about Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al. The laughable falsehood thereof (see the responses by Ken White at Popehat and Patrick Frey at Patterico) doesn’t stop the perjuring bomber’s fanboys from celebrating what they imagine will be the annihilation of Kimberlin’s targets. My co-defendant John Hoge replies to one such fool:

If by some chance either of the suits survives a motion to dismiss, Brett Kimberlin will have to answer a lot of questions during discovery, and he will provide discovery this time. Because if he doesn’t, that will be grounds for dismissal. So either each suit is dismissed, or Kimberlin is subject to discovery, or he ducks discovery again and each suit is dismissed.
Of course, I suspect that one or more of the defendants is either or both of the suits will have counterclaims, and they will likely multiply after discovery. Also, I suspect that one or more of the defendants in either or both of the suits will be adding parties as part of their counterclaims. . . .

Read the whole thing. That Kimberlin has admirers who rejoice in his deliberate evil is one of the most amazing things about this story.

Fools who boast that their hatefulness will be vindicated by the forthcoming courtroom success of  The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™ are likely to be disappointed. But they have already covered themselves in such shame, they care not about their further embarrassment.

Bill Schmalfeldt’s wicked enthusiasm for anal rape — does anyone need to be reminded why Schmalfeldt is persona non grata at Daily Kos? — is entirely consistent with his depraved sadistic appetite for threatening the innocent and deliberately defaming the honest.

So a week ago, when Schmalfeldt was advised that his attempts to overturn John Hoge’s peace order against him were likely to fail, Schmalfeldt arrogantly and obscenely mocked this wise advice, and thereby accidentally prophesied the ultimate outcome:

Schmalfeldt’s humiliation in last Wednesday’s court hearing — even his hero Brett Kimberlin reportedly laughed at Bill’s clumsy arguments — was a result of his own bad judgment, and the Monday rejection of Schmalfeldt’s appeal made his humiliation complete.

Yet if Schmalfeldt were capable of learning from his own failures, he would never have made himself such a pathetic laughingstock, and so now he has set his heart on the success of Kimberlin’s flimsy RICO claim. Not content with this failure-by-proxy plan, however, Schmalfeldt decided to threaten Ali Akbar’s family — bad move, Bill.

Last night, Schmalfeldt got what he wanted. He got my attention. Over 30 tweets in 30 minutes that were brought to my attention by people concerned with my physical safety.
Schmalfeldt has bragged about beating people in drunken rages, about his weapons and he has written about calling his family members to physically harm people.
He called my mother, someone who raised three boys all on her own, all while going to school and working full-time, a whore.

@cgable63 Him calling my mother a whore because I disagree with his cyberbullying tactics on behalf of a bomber. Evil. @wjjhoge @rsmccain

— Ali A. Akbar (@ali) October 22, 2013

@cgable63 My mother is a veteran, a hard-working single mom, and has degrees he can only dream of. He'll come to account. @rsmccain @wjjhoge

— Ali A. Akbar (@ali) October 22, 2013

See, I don’t believe in suing people, and it’s not my habit to call the cops, when my lawful means of self-defense are entirely adequate. But other people may not feel the same way, and if Bill Schmalfeldt is determined to continue hatefully harassing the innocent, he may be taught a lesson that even such a fool as himself cannot ignore.

 

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