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The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™ Says ‘Defendant Walker Has Gone Rogue’

Posted on | December 24, 2013 | 18 Comments

An interesting aspect of being accused by Brett Kimberlin of being part of two distinct conspiracies — one described in his Maryland suit Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., and the other described in the federal RICO suit John Hoge has dubbed Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al. — is that my alleged co-conspirators have done things without my knowledge or permission, and yet I’m somehow responsible for their actions.

Kimberlin just filed motions expressing his anger that my co-defendant Aaron Walker filed a motion on behalf of co-defendant Kimberlin Unmasked, including this claim:

“Defendant Walker has gone rogue and filed his pleading because of his grandiose and misplaced belief that he is a ‘legal scholar’ who is not bound by the rules. He believes that the lawyers in the case are not blessed with his skills or knowledge so he must file pleadings to educate them and the Court on the facts and laws as only known by him.”

This is rich amusement, indeed. Given the wild hare-brained recklessness of Kimberlin’s own pro se litigation — any competent attorney would have advised him against filing these lawsuits — who is Kimberlin to argue that Aaron Walker, a Yale-educated attorney, is acting on a “grandiose and misplaced belief”?

While I am not qualified to judge the legality or wisdom of Walker’s filings, it seems that Kimberlin is upset that Walker has done something unexpected and unusual, outside the rules of the game as Kimberlin understood them. Given his own demonstrable contempt for law — as evidenced by the crimes for which he served 17 years in federal prison — it’s quite ironic that Kimberlin expects his antagonists to scrupulously adhere to the rules. Is it not possible that Walker understands the rules better than Kimberlin? Could it be that Walker’s filings, while unexpected and unusual, were nonetheless entirely legal?

We’ll have to wait and let the court sort this out, but my own guess is that Kimberlin’s motion is just a continuation of his long-term efforts to damage Walker’s reputation as a lawyer, and will likely fail.

Meanwhile, my co-defendant Kimberlin Unmasked calls attention to this recent outburst by Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser:

This is further rich amusement: In September and October, Rauhauser and his friends were thumping their chests and proclaiming that Kimberlin’s lawsuits were legal tours de force, that the defendants were all guilty and should be terrified at the looming prospect of Kimberlin’s courtroom triumph. Yet now it’s December, the defendants have begun filing motions in the case, and suddenly Neal Rauhauser is on Twitter seeking pro bono legal assistance for the pro se plaintiff, Brett Kimberlin.

As for Rauhauser’s claim that Kimberlin was the victim of a “faked rape charge from some cranks,” the charge in question was filed July 28 by Kimberlin’s estranged wife:

“Brett Kimberlin met me when I was 14 years old. I was
living in Ukraine. Brett Kimberlin courted me and
enticed me to come to Maryland so I could be his
sex partner and bride. I arrived in Maryland
September, 1996, when I was fifteen years old.
Brett Kimberlin had sex with me every single day
between the day I arrived and the day I
turned sixteen, on Nov. 16, 1996.”

This charge — 16 is the legal age of consent in Maryland — was subsequently dismissed, but as it was based on a sworn statement by Mrs. Kimberlin, it would seem that Rauhauser is accusing her of being a “crank.” Nor have Rauhauser or any other Kimberlin fanboys addressed the substance of the accusations that Mrs. Kimberlin made in her July 7 motion for a protective order against her estranged husband:

T. Kimberlin v. B. Kimberlin Petition for Protective Order 7.9.13 (OCR)

Those claims of her husband’s “threatening” and “abusive” behavior were made by Mrs. Kimberlin before I even knew that she had been estranged from Brett Kimberlin and, while the court denied the protective order she sought, her accusations against her husband (a public figure) were nevertheless newsworthy. These charges were highly relevant in light of Brett Kimberlin’s criminal history:

“Plaintiff is a public figure because he has had an authorized biography published about him detailing his exploits. Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin (Singer, Mark, Knopf, New York, 1996) is an authorized biography of Plaintiff Kimberlin. In it the book insinuates that the Plaintiff had an inappropriate relationship with a ten year old girl, (id. at 78.), that he was suspected in having arranged a murder-for-hire of the girl’s grandmother (at 82, 83), and that the subsequent Speedway Bombings were an attempt to distract the murder investigation (at. 89).”

That’s what the Franklin Center said in filing its motion to dismiss Kimberlin’s federal RICO suit. Maybe Neal Rauhauser can explain why these facts should be ignored. Good luck with that.

 

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Category: The Kimberlin Files

Reagan and the ‘Welfare Queen’

Posted on | December 24, 2013 | 19 Comments

One of the things about the Internet Age is that it assists us in determining the truth about circumstances which have historically been the subject of myth-making. Josh Levin of Slate discovered the facts behind a favorite anecdote of Ronald Reagan’s:

[I]n stump speech after stump speech, Reagan regaled his supporters with the story of an Illinois woman whose feats of deception were too amazing to be believed.
“In Chicago, they found a woman who holds the record,” the former California governor declared at a campaign rally in January 1976. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.” . . .
Many accounts report that Reagan coined the term “welfare queen,” and that this woman in Chicago was a fictional character. In 2007, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman wrote that “the bogus story of the Cadillac-driving welfare queen [was] a gross exaggeration of a minor case of welfare fraud.” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews says the whole thing is racist malarkey — a coded reference to black indolence and criminality designed to appeal to working-class whites. . . .
Though Reagan was known to stretch the truth, he did not invent that woman in Chicago. Her name was Linda Taylor, and it was the Chicago Tribune, not the GOP politician, who dubbed her the “welfare queen.” It was the Tribune, too, that lavished attention on Taylor’s jewelry, furs, and Cadillac—all of which were real. . . .
When I set out in search of Linda Taylor, I hoped to find the real story of the woman who played such an outsize role in American politics—who she was, where she came from, and what her life was like before and after she became the national symbol of unearned prosperity. What I found was a woman who destroyed lives, someone far more depraved than even Ronald Reagan could have imagined. In the 1970s alone, Taylor was investigated for homicide, kidnapping, and baby trafficking. The detective who tried desperately to put her away believes she’s responsible for one of Chicago’s most legendary crimes, one that remains unsolved to this day. Welfare fraud was likely the least of the welfare queen’s offenses. . . .

Read the whole thing at Slate. Some of the Chicago Tribune reporting cited by Reagan was done by Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Bliss, and her crimes were reported by the New York Times: with the headline “Welfare Queen Loses Her Cadillac Limousine.” In other words, this wasn’t an obscure case and Reagan didn’t make it up. The Welfare Queen was both real and notorious.

Will Krugman, Matthews and other liberals apologize for smearing Ronald Reagan? Don’t hold your breath.

And one other thing: Linda Taylor was white.

 

Category: History, Journalism

In The Mailbox, 12.24.13

Posted on | December 24, 2013 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
The Looking Spoon: 44 (mostly non-political) Christmas Memes and Another Gig For Phil Robertson If He Wants It
Proof Positive: Phony Budget Compromise Is Selling Us A Bill of Goods


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Five Million Hits
American Thinker: Reality Bites Gays
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Merry Monday Christmas Linkfest
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Obama Signs Up On Deadline Day (Sort Of)
Don Surber: A Grumpy Cat Christmas
Jammie Wearing Fools: Susan Rice Says NSA Officials Didn’t Lie, They “Inadvertently Made False Representations”
JustOneMinute: I Guess Justine Landed
Pat Dollard: CDC Agrees With Phil Robertson On Gay Sex
Protein Wisdom: Pajama Boy Nation
Shot In The Dark: Not In My ZIP Code
The Jawa Report: Al Qaeda Apologizes For Indiscriminate Killings
The Lonely Conservative: Obamacare Popularity Drops To All-Time Low – CNN Poll
This Ain’t Hell: Kalashnikov Passes
Megan McArdle: Gift Giving Is Good For All Of Us


I’ll be off the Internet until Saturday, when I’ll return to do the FMJRA and maybe the long-awaited Burger Post. There will be no Live At Five or In The Mailbox until next Monday, December 30. Deadlines for the FMJRA and Rule 5 Sunday are the same as on any other week.
Thanks to everyone who has bought stuff through my Amazon links this month. It’s nice to be appreciated; makes me think I’m actually doing some kind of a good job here. Y’all behave yourselves in the comments, and have a Merry Christmas.


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Category: Linkagery

@NYPolJunkie Knows Her Some Snark

Posted on | December 23, 2013 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

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One must admit that Pajama Boy looks far more natural here than the original no-talent rodeo clown.

More brutal than this?

Category: Barack Obama, humor

Today’s Ray Of Hope: Baal Going On Enforced Diet, Film At 11

Posted on | December 23, 2013 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


From Operation Rescue (h/t Jeff Quinton on Facebook):

Operation Rescue has concluded an exhaustive survey of abortion clinics in the U.S. and is pleased to announce that it has documented a record number of abortion clinic closures in 2013, during which time 87 surgical abortion clinics halted abortions.


From the Grauniad (h/t The Pagan Temple in the comments to today’s Live At Five):

Spain’s conservative government has approved an abortion law that rolls back current legislation permitting the procedure without restrictions until the 14th week.

The law needs to pass the Cortes, but since the Popular Party has a majority there, it’s pretty much a done deal. Of particular interest is that the law will once again require 16 and 17-year-old girls to get their parents’ permission.


It’s easy to grow despondent when looking at the culture war and seeing how many things are now considered normal that were regarded as unspeakably obscene and even insane just forty years ago. As Jerry Pournelle reminds us, though, despair is a sin. The bad guys don’t always win and the good guys don’t always lose. If the Spaniards can roll back the Culture of Death, so can we – one shuttered abortion clinic at a time.


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Category: Abortion, Spain

The Sudden #SouthSudan Crisis

Posted on | December 23, 2013 | 20 Comments

What is stunning about the situation in South Sudan is how rapidly it has spun completely out of control:

Eight days after a mutiny in South Sudan’s capital signaled the start of “unrest” (as reporters euphemistically phrase it), it was reported Monday that additional U.S. troops would be sent to Africa in preparation for possible further action. Four U.S. troops were wounded Saturday when rebels fired on an evacuation flight to the key South Sudanese town of Bor, about 125 miles north of the capital, Juba.
“Defense officials say the U.S. is moving additional Marines and aircraft from Spain to the Horn of Africa to provide embassy security and help with evacuations from violence-wracked South Sudan,” the Associated Press reported. “A defense official says the extra forces moving to Djibouti will bring the total U.S. troops there to 150, with 10 aircraft, including Osprey helicopters and C-130 transport planes.”
Djibouti is on the east coast of Africa next to Ethiopia, nearly 2,000 miles by road from Juba, and it was not clear how many of the U.S. troops would actually be sent to South Sudan. A Pentagon spokesman said the commander of U.S. Africa Command is “repositioning his forces in the region to ensure that we’ve got capabilities necessary to respond to any request from the State Department.” . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 

Category: Sudan

#SouthSudan: It’s Civil War Now

Posted on | December 23, 2013 | 12 Comments

There has been a lot of verbal tiptoeing among journalists writing about the crisis in South Sudan, said to be “on the verge” of civil war, etc. But the country’s former vice president, Riek Machar, has now admitted that he is leading the rebels, some army officers have defected to Machar’s side, bloody tribal violence has erupted, foreign nationals are evacuating, U.S. troops were wounded by rebel fire, a key oil region is reported under rebel control, total casualties are estimated to exceed 1,000 — it’s past the “verge.” This is a civil war:

Rebels have seized the capital of a key oil-producing state in South Sudan, government officials said, as fears grew that the latest violence would spiral into an all-out civil war in the world’s newest country.
The United Nations said it was trying to send more peacekeeping forces to the East African state, as foreign powers urged an immediate end to the fighting.
The violence, which began in the capital, Juba, has spread farther north in one week, killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands.
Military spokesman Phillip Aguer told CNN that Bentiu is currently not under government control, after falling to troops loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar, who was ousted from his post in the summer.
On its Twitter feed, the South Sudanese government wrote: “Bentiu is not currently in our hands. It is in the hands of a commander who has declared support for Machar.”
Bentiu is the capital of Unity state, the source of oil — crucial to impoverished South Sudan’s economy — that flows through pipelines north into Sudan for export.

We’re clearly past the “teetering on the brink” phase:

Civilian helicopters evacuated US citizens from a city in South Sudan that has seen bouts of heavy machine-gun fire, but 3,000 citizens from countries including Canada, Britain and Kenya remain trapped there, a UN official has said.
Toby Lanzer, the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator, said Australians, Ugandans and Ethiopians were also among 15,000 people seeking protection at a UN base in Bor, a city that could see increasing violence in coming days.
The death toll from a week of violence in South Sudan has likely surpassed 1,000, though there are no firm numbers available, he said on Monday. The number of internal refugees is likely to exceed 100,000, said Lanzer, who is seeking urgent financial assistance from the international community.
“I can’t afford any delays from donor capitals right now,” he said in a phone call. “Never has there been a greater time of need in South Sudan.”
Bor is the city where three US military aircraft were fired upon on Saturday, forcing the Ospreys – advanced helicopter-airplane hybrids – to abort their evacuation mission. On Sunday, the US evacuated its citizens by civilian American and UN helicopters.
The US over the past week has evacuated 380 Americans and 300 others from South Sudan, which has witnessed vicious, ethnically targeted violence. Military commanders loyal to the country’s ousted vice-president have defected and say they are in control of areas that hold lucrative oil fields.
Lanzer, who spent the weekend in Bor, said the city was the scene of tense, sporadic clashes and “fairly consistent gunfire and heavy machine-gun fire”.

When the army announces a “major offensive”? It’s a civil war:

South Sudan’s army was poised for a major offensive against rebel forces, the president said Monday, as the country slid towards civil war despite international peace efforts.
Expectations of a major upsurge in fighting came as the United Nations warned that the situation in the world’s youngest nation was fast unravelling, with hundreds of thousands of civilians now at risk.
Fighting has gripped South Sudan for more than a week, after President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar, who was fired from the government in July, of attempting a coup.
Machar denied the claim and accused Kiir of carrying out a vicious purge of his rivals. Vowing to oust Kiir, his forces have since seized the town of Bor, capital of the powder-keg eastern Jonglei state and located just 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Juba, as well as the town of Bentiu, capital of crucial oil-producing Unity state.
The army is “now ready to move to Bor,” Kiir told parliament, adding that the counter-attack was delayed until US citizens had been airlifted out.
The comments came despite days of shuttle diplomacy by African nations and calls from the United States, Britain and the United Nations for the fighting to stop in the country, which won independence from Sudan just two and a half years ago, in July 2011.
US special envoy Donald Booth arrived Monday in Juba in a bid to push peace efforts, as the top UN humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, Toby Lanzer, said the situation was rapidly deteriorating.
“It would have been difficult one week ago to imagine that things would have unravelled to this extent,” Lanzer told AFP. “There are hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese who’ve fled into the bush or back to their villages to get out of harm’s way.”

So the “peace efforts” have so far failed, Machar’s rebellion is an ongoing enterprise, and everybody can stop pretending that this is merely a “crisis” and call it what it is: A civil war.

 


Category: Sudan

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.23.13

Posted on | December 23, 2013 | 18 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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Won’t be funding any opposition parties

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10th Circuit denies stay pending hearing today


Senator Manchin: Obamacare Could Suffer “Complete Meltdown”
WV Democrat pushing for a one-year delay of the Abominable Care Act



POLITICS
GOP Finds Filibuster Alternatives To Fight Obama Nominees

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Judge Deals Blow To Obamacare’s Contraceptive Mandate

Huge Backlash Mounts Over Suspension of “Duck Dynasty” Star Phil Robertson

Huckabee To Decide On 2016 White House Run After Midterms

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Broncos’ Manning Sets NFL Record With 51st TD Pass

Peyton Manning acknowledges the crowd’s cheers

Also, Denver beats Houston 37-13


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Romo Flips The Script, Cowboys Stun Redskins Again

Canucks Edge Jets Even After Losing Luongo In 1st

Panthers Jolt Saints To Make Playoffs

Blue Jackets Rally Past Flyers But Lose Gaborik In First Game Back

Nats Sign Catcher Chris Snyder To Minor League Deal



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
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Taylor Swift Collaborating Again For Fifth Album

Three 6 Mafia’s Lord Infamous Dies, 40

Rachel Zoe Welcomes Second Son

Gabrielle Union Engaged To Dwyane Wade

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Selena Gomez “Happiest I’ve Been In A While” Since Canceling Tour

Ex-Danity Kane Singer D. Woods – I Got Screwed Out Of The Reunion

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Kate Upton, Maksim Chmerkovsky Split Up After Six Months

Beyonce Holds Private Album Release Party At Dave & Buster’s In Times Square



FOREIGNERS
Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina Freed
Dennis Rodman Leaves The DPRK
Brits, Canadians Still In South Sudan City Evacuated By US
Thai Protesters Step Up Efforts To Disrupt Elections
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The Necropolitan Sentinel: Dan Savage Won’t Shut Up About Gay Sex, But Phil Robertson Is A Monster?
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, December 20
Jammie Wearing Fools: Democrats’ War On Women – “I Got A Boner When I Walked Into The Office Today When I Saw You”
JustOneMinute: Spreading The Wealth
Pat Dollard: Kid Rock Defends Phil Robertson – Time To Stop This Bullshit-Ass PC Game
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The Lonely Conservative: An Inner City Tea Party?
This Ain’t Hell: Re Bateman On Guns
Megan McArdle: Would You Pay $2500 For The Perfect Cup Of Joe?


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