Category: Neutral Objective Journalism

Exhibit A: ‘Team Kimberlin’

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“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

As I explained yesterday, I didn’t blog much over the weekend because I was researching my defense against one of the accusations in the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., 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.

Proving the existence of Team Kimberlin will not be difficult, but fresh evidence is always welcome. A week ago, after I replied to a Twitter message from Ali Akbar, the “Breitbart Unmasked” Twitter account (clearly associated with Team Kimberlin) decided to taunt me, in an apparent show of support for fellow Team Kimberlin member Bill Schmalfeldt. Sunday, I noticed that “Breitbart Unmasked” hadn’t sent any further Twitter messages to Schmalfeldt. So I poked, and this morning “Breitbart Unmasked” responded:

So, Bill Schmalfeldt helpfully reveals, he has “regular phone conversations” with his fellow member of Team Kimberlin, which certainly would help to explain a situation I raised again Sunday:

Friday, I pointed out that Bill Schmalfeldt has claimed direct knowledge of Brett Kimberlin’s legal actions against myself and my co-defendants, joining his fellow Team Kimberlin members in premature celebration of their own imagined future vindication.
Bill Schmalfeldt claimed to know that Kimberlin served me with notice of his lawsuit in Maryland, but I don’t live in Maryland, and have not lived there since mid-2012. Therefore the question arises, who told Bill that I had been served at a Maryland address?

Ergo, the identity of “Breitbart Unmasked” (and likewise their fellow Team Kimberlin member “Xenophon”) is quite relevant to my defense in the case of Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., and Bill Schmalfeldt’s statement makes him a direct witness to these matters.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Catch them telling the truth. Catch them telling a lie. Either way, so long as they refuse to exercise their right to remain silent, everything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law.

And their dishonesty is quite notorious.

 

Bill Schmalfeldt’s Latest Meltdown Continues, and Other Birthday Gifts

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Today was my birthday — I’m 54 years old — and other than reminding you of The Five Most Important Words in the English Language (“Hit the freaking tip jar“), I’d like to apologize for the paucity of posting this weekend. I’ve been engaged in deep research for my defense in the Kimberlin v. Walker et al. lawsuit, specifically this:

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.

There are many accusations in Kimberlin v. Walker et al. and, while the burden of proof is on the convicted perjurer Brett Kimberlin, who is litigating pro se, a defense against his accusations — the liar has dared accused me of dishonesty — justifies an extraordinary defense. Counsel may choose to pursue a minimal response, based on narrow legal doctrines, and I would be bound by such legal advice. However, my childhood Boy Scout training requires me to “Be Prepared,”  i.e., to demonstrate conclusively that everything I have written about Brett Kimberlin is quite literally true. (Ken White at Popehat is soliciting volunteers to assist in defending “The Kimberlin Five.”)

So while many readers are weary of hearing about the deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt, his role as a member of Team Kimberlin is quite relevant and, hey, it’s my birthday, OK? Indulge me.

Bill Schmalfeldt’s periodic meltdowns have become so frequent that they are blurring into one continuous fit of incoherent ravings. Friday, I pointed out that Bill Schmalfeldt has claimed direct knowledge of Brett Kimberlin’s legal actions against myself and my co-defendants, joining his fellow Team Kimberlin members in premature celebration of their own imagined future vindication.

Bill Schmalfeldt claimed to know that Kimberlin served me with notice of his lawsuit in Maryland, but I don’t live in Maryland, and have not lived there since mid-2012. Therefore the question arises, who told Bill that I had been served at a Maryland address?

Other questions arise from there, you see.

Bill Schmalfeldt can’t answer any of those questions, or at least he cannot answer them honestly without revealing the source of the false information, because that source must be a member of Team Kimberlin, as is Bill himself. Quod erat demonstrandum.

The Bill Schmalfeldt School of Journalism Ethics teaches many strange lessons, like harassing the wives of journalists who won’t stop telling the truth about convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin:


Notice that he was tweeting on Nov. 23 as “Liberal Grouch” and on Nov. 30 as “Lord of Satire”? He changes his Twitter handle so frequently because he keeps getting himself suspended from Twitter for his habitual cyberstalking and harassment.

Anyway, we know why Bill Schmalfeldt was “investigating” my wife, just as we know why Bill Schmalfeldt harassed Lee Stranahan.

As for the legality of such behavior, I am not a lawyer, and neither is Bill Schmalfeldt, but he occasionally dabbles in pro se litigation, and is representing himself in the Hoge v. Schmalfeldt case. There will be a hearing Oct. 16 on Schmalfeldt’s motion to modify Hoge’s peace order against him, and Schmalfeldt has been rather imaginative in the premature celebration of what he assumes will be his victory.


Alas, Bill’s pro se Perry Mason fantasies will likely be disappointed:

Since there has been a final judgment in the case, the legal doctrine of res judicata prevents either side from relitigating the court’s previous findings. Those findings must be taken as a given, so, no, neither side gets to tell the judge that he got the facts wrong. The court may permit either side to introduce new evidence that bears on whether or not the order should be changed because of new circumstances, but the initial findings of fact stand. The court may listen to oral argument about how the law bears on any new circumstances.

Hoge schools Schmalfeldt on the established facts:

  1. I did place Schmalfeldt on notice to stop communicating directly with me on 15 February, 2013.
  2. Schmalfeldt was aware of that notice as evidenced by his sending a tweet on 15 February referencing it.
  3. Schmalfeldt continued to contact me directly after being put on notice. Schmalfeldt’s description of how Twitter handled @mentions and @replies was found to be inconsistent with Twitter’s Rules and Best Practices.
  4. Schmalfeldt’s messages to me via Twitter were found to meet the elements harassment as defined by Md Criminal Law § 3-803.
  5. Schmalfeldt’s messages to me via Twitter were found to lack a legitimate political purpose and not to be for the purpose of providing information to others; thus, his messages were not covered by the First Amendment exceptions in the law.
  6. Because all the elements of the crime of harassment were proven, the court found that Schmalfeldt had harassed me during the period in question.
  7. Based on evidence presented concerning Schmalfeldt’s behavior up until the night before the trial, the court found that he was likely to continue to harass me.

Like a petulant child deprived of some hoped-for treat, Bill Schmalfeldt responds to disappointment with tantrums, lashing out wildly in every direction, enraged that his sense of self-pity is not shared by others. Here we see a typical victimhood gesture:

In June, when a Maryland Circuit Court judge granted Hoge’s peace order, Bill Schmalfeldt falsely claimed: “I’ve only used [Twitter] to respond to lies he tells about me on his blog. . . . Flame wars have just been deemed illegal.” Flame wars continue every day on the Internet, of course. Bill’s problem is that he has bought into the bizarre theory of “Troll Rights,” i.e., believing that other people are obligated to provide him access to their own Internet space.

Schmalfeldt can and does write on his own space. The problem is that almost nobody reads his blog, or follows him on Twitter.

He’s banned on Daily Kos. He’s banned at the Examiner. He gets angry about being ignored, and erupts in frothing rage. So then people pay Bill the only kind of attention he deserves — pointing out that he’s a brain-damaged troll — at which point he claims victimhood. Then the cycle begins again, and Bill makes new threats:

So, Happy Birthday to me. And here’s a nice parting thought:

“Neal Rauhauser, Brett Kimberlin, and
their pals are deeply dishonest.”

Glad I’m not the only one who knows that.




 

 

Strange Craziness From @x3n0ph0n, Another Member of ‘Team Kimberlin’

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One of the accusations in the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., 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.

Let us note, and quickly leave aside, several questions: Who has “targeted” whom? Is not the existence of “Team Kimberlin” self-evident? It was evident to me as soon as I began writing about this story in May 2012. My first article about it, in fact, was headlined, “Is Democrat Operative Neal Rauhauser an ‘Associate’ of Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin? (And Why It Matters).”

The association between Kimberlin and Rauhauser is a documented fact and, as soon as I began reporting on this story, my Twitter timeline filled up with harassing messages from two accounts, @OccupyRebellion (now defunct) and @BreitbartUnmask, whereupon I discovered that the latter account was associated with a Web site that had been compiling negative (and in some cases, it seemed, false and defamatory) material about various individuals targeted by Kimberlin and Rauhauser.

So between Rauhauser’s involvement, the “Breitbart Unmasked” site, and these two Twitter accounts, there was clearly an alliance that could fairly be called “Team Kimberlin.”

There was also much more than that, but I said I’d quickly leave such questions aside and I’ll not litigate this matter in the blogosphere.

The indictment Thursday of 13 members of the Anonymous hacker collective gave me the occasion to mention how Brett Kimberlin’s 501(c)4 non-proift Velvet Revolution had advocated on behalf of these hackers, and how Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser was also personally associated with the Anonymous movement.

This prompted a new smear by Team Kimberlin member “Xenophon”:

We have to wonder: is McCain looking to add a whole new defamation charge to the lawsuit he already faces by accusing two unindicted persons of taking part in a criminal conspiracy without proof? As we have said before, McCain and his friends actually believe their crazy notion that Kimberlin runs an international hacker ring through Rauhauser on behalf of Islamic terrorists. This would be delightful as a Tom Clancy novel, but as “journalism” it fails a basic sniff-test.
Let us recap the actual history here. After Anonymous attacked the websites of financial institutions that had cut off WikiLeaks from receiving contributions, HBGary Federal CEO (and friend of Andrew Breitbart) Aaron Barr bragged openly that he would reveal the “leadership” of Anonymous, a leaderless collective, and then got smacked around for being a tool who could not even secure his own company’s emails. The FBI made its arrests in that case more than a year ago, arresting neither Kimberlin nor Rauhauser or even naming them in any way.
McCain has connected two very different dots here, turning Kimberlin’s outspoken political support for the stated transparency mission of WikiLeaks into sinister control of Anonymous. McCain’s only “proof” is this lunatic screed by Jennifer Emick, McCain’s favorite source of information on all things Anonymous and all things Neal Rauhauser, which pigeonholes every obscure blogger who ever gave Seth Allen butthurt into a massive conspiracy.

OK, a few points: I have never said, nor do I believe, “that Kimberlin runs an international hacker ring through Rauhauser on behalf of Islamic terrorists.” This is something Neal Rauhauser has attributed to me, in the same way that he has routinely mischaracterized many other things, because Neal Rauhauser is a dishonest sociopath.

This is really a simple deception: “Xenophon” refutes accusations that were never made by me (nor by anyone else I know of), in an effort to discredit me. Did I say Kimberlin and Rauhauser were “taking part in a criminal conspiracy”? Did I accuse Kimberlin of “sinister control of Anonymous?” No, I wrote this:

I know that Rauhauser hates Jennifer Emick, and Neal’s association with Anonymous is something he boasted about. See, for example, his early intimations of familiarity in “Aspects Of Anonymous,” published under his “Stranded Wind” alias at Daily Kos in March 2011. As for this specific aspect of Anonymous, see Rauhauser’s May 2011 Daily Kos item, “Is Berico Sheltering Aaron Barr?”
Once you understand that it was the criminal “Operation Payback” hackings that led Hunton & Williams’s clients to seek the assistance of HB Gary Federal (of which Aaron Barr was CEO) to help protect their clients against such illegal activity, you see that both Brett Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution and Neal Rauhauser were on the side of these criminal hackers. If you want to understand why that matters, I urge you to read my June 2012 article, “‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection.”
Remember: Former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown melted down and was arrested for threatening an FBI agent after Rauhauser (behind the alias “Carlito2000?) provoked Brown with a conspiracy theory involving Jen Emick and other of Neal’s personal enemies.
If you ask around, you’ll find that a lot of people suspect that the FBI “protects” Neal Rauhauser because he is a confidential informant.

All of this is fact. Read what I wrote, click the links there and see for yourself. You can do Google searches, research it as far as you’d care to go, and attempt to refute what I wrote.

For that matter, go read the “lunatic screed by Jennifer Emick” I cited and then do as much research as you’d care to do to ascertain whether her account is generally accurate. And, if you’re in an investigative mood, why not research the time when Kevin Zeese (an attorney with Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution) falsely accused Mike Stack of instigating violence at an “Occupy” protest?

That was a defamatory smear invented by Neal Rauhauser, who has been harassing Stack since June 2011 when Stack was involved in exposing the “WeinerGate” scandal. Rauhauser was the most persistent of the so-called “Weiner Truthers” who believed (falsely, as everyone now knows) that Anthony Weiner was a victim of hackers, and Stack was only one target of Rauhauser’s harassment.

So, we ought to ask, why would Kevin Zeese of Velvet Revolution be repeating Neal Rauhauser’s discredited smear of Mike Stack, if there were no connection between Rauhauser’s “Weiner Truther” obsession and Kimberlin’s 501(c)4 organization? That is to say, why was it in the interest of Zeese to attack Mike Stack this way? But wait — let’s read Rosie Gray’s BuzzFeed article about “Weiner Truthers”:

A major locus of modern Weiner trutherism is BreitbartUnmasked.com . . .
One of its related Twitter accounts, @OccupyRebellion, regularly tweets about Weinergate and the alleged conspiracies therein. . . .

Ah, so the obsession with WeinerGate is connected to BreitbartUnmasked.com and the (now defunct) @OccupyRebellion account, and Mike Stack’s connection to WeinerGate made him the target of Brett Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser’s harassment, and Brett Kimberlin’s associate Kevin Zeese repeated Rauhauser’s smear of Stack. If you further know that BreitbartUnmasked.com has been hosted by the same secretive overseas Internet service providers which host several sites associated with Brett Kimberlin (including VelvetRevolution.us), isn’t the existence of “Team Kimberlin” a rather obvious common-sense surmise? And don’t these various connections furthermore, upon careful examination, form a pattern from which one might infer a motive for all this weird activity?

Here’s another interesting question: Why are Xenophon and BreitbartUnmasked.com obsessed with Patrick “Patterico” Frey?

Probably just a random coincidence, right?

 

Lying Liars and ‘Accuse the Accusers’

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John Hoge calls a pro-Kimberlin troll account a liar, but what does anyone expect from the supporters of a convicted perjurer?

McCain has deliberately distorted the facts about Brett Kimberlin . . . and repeatedly posted false and inflammatory information . . . So far as we know, he has never once contacted Mr. Kimberlin for any kind of comment . . .

(If I’ve “never once contacted” Kimberlin, how then am I accused of having harassed Kimberlin? For the record, the reason I’ve never contacted Kimberlin for comment is because Kimberlin is a proven liar. No one is obligated to help publicize Kimberlin’s lies.)

. . . but McCain and friends have pursued dozens of peace orders and criminal charges against Bill Schmalfeldt . . .

(False. I’ve never pursued any charges against Schmalfeldt.)

. . . for having the audacity to meet that ethical requirement when he wrote about them. Their excuse? “He’s not a real journalist!”

See my April 7 post, “Harassment Is Not Journalism.”

The reason Bill Schmalfeldt harassed John Hoge had no journalistic purpose. Schmalfeldt had been harassing Lee Stranahan, so Stranahan flew to Maryland to file charges. Hoge gave Stranahan a ride from the airport to the courthouse, and this enraged Schmalfeldt, so that Hoge then became a target of Schmalfeldt’s wrath.

Readers may wonder, “Why was Bill Schmalfeldt harassing Lee Stranahan?” Or, for that matter, readers may ask, “Why did Bill Schmalfeldt start cyberstalking Aaron Walker in June 2012?”

Stranahan and Walker are both enemies of Brett Kimberlin and the only purpose Schmalfeldt’s harassment could serve was to assist in Brett Kimberlin’s attempt to intimidate his enemies into silence. Claims that I “deliberately distorted the facts” are just an “Accuse the Accusers” tactic:

This is how the thugs use their weapons of real life attacks: not just as intimidation, but as attempts to delegitimize. They also can report you to the authorities for made-up crimes and ethical lapses, and then describe you as being “under investigation.”
It’s all part of a playbook.

Hey, I’m just covering the story.

And I got sued for one meel-lion dollars.

 




 

 


When ‘Shutuppery’ Fails

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ROCKVILLE, Maryland
Twitchy jumped on the story about Greg Flynn’s attempt to intimidate North Carolina blogger Lady Liberty, featuring Sister Toldjah’s story of how she was targeted by North Carolina Democrat activist Jeanne Bond and her “front group” Moving NC Forward.

When the Left’s attempts to silence dissent are exposed, the thugs who fail in their efforts inevitably claim victimhood: They are being “harassed.” They are being targeted by “death threats.”

They have done nothing wrong, they believe, because they are liberals and anything they do is acceptable, because . . . shut up!

#ShutUppery and the Drums of #WAR
— Lady Liberty

Why The Doxing of LadyLiberty1885 and
Other Conservative Female Bloggers Matters
— The Jawa Report

Noted douche nozzle @GregFlynn wants
Conservative blogger to “shut up”
— Daley Gator

Being described as a “noted douche nozzle” is just one immediate consequence of failed “shutuppery.” Secondary consequences include:

Democrats like Greg Flynn, Jeanne Bonds and John Burns evidently believe that no one should be permitted to criticize them. So when they try to “dox” bloggers and get caught, the people who expose them are then alleged to be engaged in wrongdoing: “How dare you describe my attempt to intimidate you into silence?”

This is exactly why Brett Kimberlin named me among five defendants in his lawsuit for “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking.” 

My wrongdoing, according to Kimberlin, is to have described his attempted intimidation of Aaron Walker and others.

“If Brett Kimberlin hates you, he will do anything within his power to harm you — even though he derives no benefit from these destructive acts other than the sadistic vengeful pleasure of inflicting harm. Now that Kimberlin is engaged in legal warfare against his wife who left him, we can observe conclusive proof that (a) Kimberlin’s attacks on enemies like Aaron Walker were never really about politics, and (b) the “Accuse the Accusers” method is Kimberlin’s characteristic strategy.
“In an effort to discredit his estranged wife Tetyana, Brett Kimberlin had her taken into custody July 6, seeking to have her involuntarily committed for psychiatric evaluation. This vindictive strategy failed — Tetyana was immediately released by Montgomery County District Court Judge Patricia Mitchell — but Kimberlin has continued this destructive smear against her. In a hearing Tuesday before Maryland District Court Judge Barry Hamilton, Kimberlin claimed that Tetyana is mentally ill, off her medications for bipolar disorder.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, July 18, “Brett Kimberlin’s Enemies List Expands to Include His Estranged Wife: ‘She’s Nuts!’”

That July 18 post is actually quoted in Kimberlin’s lawsuit as evidence that I have defamed and harassed him when, in fact, I have merely described his depraved character, habits and behavior.

Readers may have noticed that this post is datelined “Rockville, Maryland.” I have come here to begin preparing my legal defense against Brett Kimberlin’s baseless accusations, and one must wonder if Brett Kimberlin has contemplated the consequences — primary, secondary and tertiary — that may ensue when “shutuppery” fails.

 

 


Mopery, With Intent to Lurk

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Mopery (noun) — “The action of committing a minor or petty offence, such as loitering, etc.; contravention of a trivial or hypothetical law, esp. when used as an excuse to harass or arrest a person against whom no more serious crime can be charged.”

Whenever citing the list of heinous torts alleged against us by lying felon Brett Kimberlin — “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking” — John Hoge always hastens to add, “Mopery, with intent to lurk.”

Perhaps even aggravated mopery, in the first degree.

Alas, being sued by The World’s Most Evil Pro Se Litigant™ does not spare defendants the hassle and expense of defending ourselves, and so getting this absurd case laughed out of court is far more serious business than these lighthearted jests might suggest.

“Kimberlin’s malicious prosecution and conspiracy to abuse process claims appear to be a classic ‘accuse the accuser’ tactic — he filed a series of ‘peace order’ requests and criminal complaints against his critics, and when some filed requests against him, he calls it malicious prosecution and abuse of process. The complaint’s description of this chain of events dishonestly omits Kimberlin’s own filings.”
— Ken White, “The Popehat Signal: Help Fight Evil In Maryland

Ditto, says defendant McCain, as to every other spurious claim in Kimberlin’s suit. Who has harassed, defamed and stalked whom? And who has organized a conspiracy against his enemies? This is why Neal Rauhauser’s confessed role in Kimberlin’s lawsuit is so important.

Perhaps you should ask Patterico what manner of mischief Neal Rauhauser has perpetrated over the years or, for that matter, you should read for yourself what Rauhauser (alias “Stranded Wind”) wrote on July 4, 2011: “Weinergate: Patterico’s Penalization.”

Bad causes attract bad people, and Neal Rauhauser’s association with Brett Kimberlin shows what manner of “progressive” client a disgraced Democrat campaign consultant inevitably finds. Kimberlin’s “accuse the accusers” tactics in the courtroom furnish fuel for online defamation by the army of slanderous sockpuppets that Rauhauser has helped assemble. John Hoge cites a typical example:

I will say that essentially all the “facts” cited by Xenophon are not factual. They are demonstrably false. Of course, this doesn’t surprise me. On multiple occasions, I’ve watched Brett Kimberlin lie in court, so why would I expect him or his lackeys to tell the truth any place else.
I’ll make sure that Xenophon’s post gets archived and forwarded to my lawyers.

Tell the truth about Brett Kimberlin, and he then enlists liars like Rauhauser and “Xenophon” to lie about you. The lies that have been endlessly repeated about me, I will not specify here, but the purpose of such smears is obvious: In order to explain why honest people say bad things about Kimberlin, his army of liars must discredit the truth-tellers. Once you know their motives, their methods make perfect sense.

“There’s nothing left-wing monsters hate more than people shining the truth on their acts of godless hatred, harassment, and intimidation.”
— Donald Douglas

“I have watched how the Left rolls: Target, Isolate, Attack and Destroy.”
— Lady Liberty

As Sister Toldjah says, this is all about “shutuppery.”

Can you guess what I don’t plan to do?

One million dollars — that’s the amount of punitive damages that convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin is seeking from myself and four other bloggers in a lawsuit recently filed in Maryland. Kimberlin filed this lawsuit pro se (charging “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking”) more than two weeks ago, but I haven’t written much about this suit because I haven’t yet retained counsel.
The fact that Democrats and their liberal allies in the media will not condemn Brett Kimberlin has angered me since May 2012, when I first started covering the story . . . Because Kimberlin once claimed to have sold marijuana to Dan Quayle, he was celebrated by many liberals — including Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau — as a political prisoner of sorts. Liberals ignored the facts about the crimes of which Kimberlin was convicted in 1981 and sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. He eventually served only 17 years of that sentence, and since his release in 2001, Kimberlin has promoted himself as a progressive, an “activist-musician” as the Washington Post’s Monica Hesse called Kimberlin in a 2007 feature profile.
The true story of the “Speedway Bomber” who terrorized an Indiana town, planting a bomb that blew off the leg of a Vietnam veteran, evidently isn’t something the Washington Post considers newsworthy. And neither has the Post shown any interest in Kimberlin’s legal war against blogger Aaron Walker that resulted in Walker being briefly arrested last year and ordered by a Maryland judge to stop writing about Kimberlin. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

Today, I’m planning a road trip from the Undisclosed Location to a Mysterious Destination for Journalistic Purposes I Can’t Reveal. Loyal readers have been supporting the Shoe Leather Fund generously for years, and your contributions have been profoundly appreciated, even if I haven’t found time to thank each of you directly. I always figure that you’re paying me to keep blogging, and time spent writing “thank you” e-mails is time not spent providing the work you’re paying me to do. Nevertheless, please do not doubt my gratitude, nor the gratitude of my family, for every $5, $10, $20 contribution.

Let’s do the math: If 500 readers gave $20 each, that’s $10,000. And if that happened twice a week, every week for the next year, by September 2014, that would be One Meel-lion Dollars — with $40,000 left over for coffee, cigarettes, cheap motels and road food.

What the hell, huh? Nobody ever thought I’d make it to Wasilla.





 

BOOM: Neal Rauhauser Admits Playing Key Role in Brett Kimberlin Lawsuit

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Neal Rauhauser’s role in Brett Kimberlin’s war against Aaron Walker and other bloggers was the “hook” that originally got me involved in this story in May 2012. I’d never heard of Kimberlin until then, but I knew very well how evil, crazy and deceptive Neal Rauhauser was from the “TwitterGate” episode in 2010. (See, “‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection.”) So when Brett Kimberlin filed a lawsuit in Maryland Aug. 30, the possibility that the case would expose Rauhauser’s role was  . . .

Well, it was potentially newsworthy. Little did I suspect, however, that Neal Rauhauser would make public his own role in the suit:

“You will find a suit against @AaronWorthing, @Ali, @rsmccain, @wjjhoge, and @KimberlinUnmask. I provided the plaintiff with the Twitter forensics for this suit. If you’re not being sued like this, I am probably not looking at you at all. . . .”
— Neal Rauhauser, Sept. 17, 2013

Yeah, Neal: Go ahead and delete that — too late. Screen-capped it:

You can click that image to enlarge full size. What Rauhauser is doing — beyond his inevitable habit of bragging about his exploits, of course — is attempting to intimidate other bloggers into being silent about Kimberlin’s latest “lawfare” attack on bloggers:

“Don’t get manipulated into being entertainment
for trolls, don’t get set up as a target for a lawsuit, and
definitely don’t get caught in the middle of what appears
to be a lover’s spat between Ali Akbar and Karl Rove.”

That nonsense is just the small change of Rauhauser’s disinformation efforts, which have been continuous since 2011, at least.

Neal’s claim that he is the victim of “a conspiracy theory by a single delusional, obsessive woman in New Jersey” is the exact opposite of truth. Neal is the one who keeps manipulating people, spinning conspiracy theories about his enemies, in order to create a plausible explanation for his own evident wrongdoing.

And in the process of his manipulations, Rauhauser has burned more than a few bridges with his former allies on the Left, including many members of Anonymous who realized (too late) that Neal was using them as pawns in his own selfish games, including the “Carlito2000” scam that contributed to Barrett Brown’s September 2012 meltdown.

It was always likely that Rauhauser’s association with Kimberlin would become part of the Kimberlin v. Walker et al., lawsuit. However, by admitting that this association has been active as recently as Aug. 30, now Rauhauser has practically guaranteed this.

Well, I could say more, but don’t want to say too much.



 

 

 

The Fact of Evil: @Popehat Describes Brett Kimberlin’s Lawsuit Against Truth

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Brett Kimberlin could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison

“Kimberlin seemed to be the only one with a possible motive — to distract police attention from the Scyphers murder and delay or halt their quiet investigation of him.”
– R. Joseph Gelarden, Indianapolis Star, “Kimberlin case a maze of murder, deceit,” Oct. 18, 1981

Liars hate truth, and the wicked fear justice. Every honest man must oppose harassment and intimidation intended to silence those who call evil by its right name, because if truth is silenced, the righteous and innocent shall become prey for the wicked and dishonest.

God bless Ken White at Popehat, who hates evil liars:

One of the problems with Kimberlin’s complaint about being called a pedophile is that his detractors disclosed the factual basis for using that epithet against him. Among other things, they pointed out that (1) Kimberlin has said sexually creepy things about teenaged girls; (2) Mark Singer’s book about Kimberlin describes a relationship with an underaged girl that some find inappropriate and suggestive of pedophilia; (3) Kimberlin’s wife accused him of having sex with her before she was 16, and in 2013 filed charges against him on that basis, although prosecutors declined to prosecute the case and she apparently later retracted and disavowed the charges after the defendants wrote about them; and (4) even accepting Kimberlin’s position that he did not have sex with his wife before she was 16, by his own version of events it appears that he met her in Russia before she was 16 when he was in his 40s, she traveled to the United States, and they married when she was 16 and he in his 40s. . . .

Please read the whole righteous truth.

UPDATE: Let me slightly disagree with Ken White:

People follow and support Brett Kimberlin for several reasons. First, like many sociopaths, he is superficially charming and socially adept. People support him for the same reason that people got into Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen Bug.

Clever, but somewhat inaccurate. People who support Brett Kimberlin are either spectacularly stupid or active agents of evil.

Which is to say, they’re Democrats.

That statement of fact probably won’t endear me to any Democrat lawyers who may be considering taking on the battle against Brett Kimberlin, but it is important that anybody who gets into this thing know exactly what they’re getting into, eh? Whereas a sociopath like Brett Kimberlin will tell any lie to achieve his evil purposes — and falsely accuse others of doing the wrongs he is himself actually doing — an honest man will speak truth even at his own peril.

Even at this very minute, Brett Kimberlin’s vicious allies are lying about me, and why? Because I keep telling the truth about them.

Go read the rest of Ken’s post, and thank him in the comments for help.