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Feminists Silent as ‘Progressive Activist’ Brett Kimberlin Terrorizes His Wife

Posted on | July 10, 2013 | 72 Comments

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

John Hoge reports today that the reason Tetyana Kimberlin was taken into custody at the end of yesterday’s court hearing in Maryland is that Brett Kimberlin tried to have his estranged wife involuntarily committed for 72-hour psychiatric evaluation.

Thankfully, Judge Patricia Mitchell denied this and Tetyana was released in a matter of minutes. Aaron Walker has more background.

If you have not read Tetyana Kimberlin’s petition for a peace order against her estranged husband, please do so now.

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

 

Please also read, Horror: Brett Kimberlin ‘Is Giving His Wife the Full Aaron Walker Treatment’” — if Tetyana says she is being threatened by Brett Kimberlin, the danger to her should be taken very seriously, because Brett Kimberlin is a convicted violent felon.

The shameful silence of feminists about “progressive” Brett Kimberlin grows more disgusting by the minute.

 

Category: Crime, Feminism, The Kimberlin Files

Notorious Bush-Era Anti-War Protester Adam Kokesh Busted on Drug Charge

Posted on | July 10, 2013 | 85 Comments

In 2007, fringe nutjob Adam Kokesh was arrested on Capitol Hill.

In reporting the news, the Washington Post has rather deliberately obscured the reality of what kind of kook Adam Kokesh is, but those of us who first became aware of Kokesh as the poster boy for “Iraq Veterans Against the War” are unlikely to forget him: A self-righteous half-educated egomaniac strutting for the cameras and insulting people with ridiculous “chickenhawk” and “neocon” slurs. The first time I ever saw Kokesh in person was when he showed up to heckle David Horowitz at an event at George Washington University, FWIW.

His narcissistic camera-hogging and anti-social personality made Kokesh an unwelcome crazy even within the far-left millieu of Bush-era antiwar protests, where mental health was by no means a prerequisite for membership. (Hint: “Sociopath” is not a political philosophy.) Like a few other antiwar oddballs — including the dangerous kook Alex Jones — Kokesh drifted into the Ron Paul orbit, speaking at a Paulista rally during the 2008 GOP convention and then getting himself arrested for heckling John McCain during his acceptance speech.

Now, however, Kokesh might finally go to prison where he belongs:

Police searched the Northern Virginia home of activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody on for allegedly being in possession of hallucinogenic mushroom while also having a gun, authorities said.
Kokesh, a former Marine, was held overnight at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, charged with possession of schedule I or II drugs while in possession of a firearm, said Lt. Steve Elbert, a spokesman for the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office. . . .
U.S. Park Police Lt. Pamela Smith said her agency executed a search warrant at Kokesh’s home in Herndon about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, looking for a weapon. The park police are the federal agency responsible for policing Freedom Plaza, the concrete park a few blocks from the White House where — in a video posted to YouTube on July 4 — Kokesh appears to load a shotgun in violation of D.C. gun laws. . . .
Herndon police assisted in the search, a communications technician from the department said. But she declined to provide details.
Charging documents filed in court Wednesday morning said Kokesh was charged with possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Schedule I narcotic, while possessing a firearm. Possession of Schedule I or II drugs is a felony in Virginia, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a maximum $2,500 fine. If convicted of possession of the drugs while also in possession of a firearm, Kokesh would face an additional minimum of two years in prison. . . .

You can read the whole thing. What the Washington Post will not tell you, of course, is that Adam Kokesh is the living symbol of how unscrupulously the Left provoked and exploited antiwar sentiments during the Bush era. It was the same basic tactic they used with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and much of the gay-rights movement: Portray Republicans as evil, gin up protest mobs composed of whatever professional ax-grinders, clueless “student activists” and volunteer nutjobs you can collect, and then rely on the biases of liberal media to portray the orchestrated result as a spontaneous expression of Wholesome Main Street Middle America.

How many times during the Bush years did I go to one of these “mainstream” rallies in D.C. and see the swarms of Marxist organization — the  Workers World Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Communist Party USA, etc. — and their affiliated front groups in broad daylight with banners flying, handing out their newspapers, pamphlets, fliers, bumper stickers and so forth? You quite literally could not walk into the Ellipse or LaFayette Park or wherever else these protests assembled without being approached by people trying to hand you the WWP newspaper Workers World, which was not a coincidence since the WWP’s front group International ANSWER was usually the chief organizer of the protests.

Somehow, the liberal media never found time to report any of that, but would invariably search through the crowds of Commie kooks until they found someone who could be plausibly presented as “mainstream” — the housewife, the retiree, the wholesome-looking college coed — and who might in the course of a three- or four-minute interview say a couple of non-crazy sentences worth quoting.

There was a template to these kinds of antiwar protest stories, you see — a narrative, a meme — and this required ignoring the Marxists and other deranged rabble who formed the actual core of the movement that the media wanted to promote as mainstream.

It was all a Big Lie, and there were many Little Lies that were part of that dishonest liberal propaganda campaign. One of those Little Lies required that reporters not report about the sociopathic personalities of antiwar activists like Adam Kokesh. Yet even with the Bush administration a fading memory and the Iraq War receding in the rearview mirror, these lying bastards still won’t tell the truth.

Adam Kokesh might finally go to prison now, but never mind the genuinely mainstream Americans who always knew he was a kook.

 

 

UPDATE: Readers will excuse my vehemence in denouncing Kokesh, who nowadays postures as a “libertarian.” Maybe you consider gobbling psilocybin mushrooms and brandishing loaded shotguns in public to be “libertarian” and if so, please provide your home address so I can call the cops, OK? Hunter S. Thompson is a personal hero of mine, but you amateur crazies simply aren’t qualified.

You’ll notice I’ve appended Amazon ads for three books that may help you understand why the Politics of Protest invariably attracts dangerous nutjobs, and what evils typically result:

  • The True Believer by Eric Hoffer — An insight into the personalities and motives of those attracted to “mass movements.” If you’ve never read it, you simply must.
  • Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe — What happens when well-meaning liberals encounter cynical opportunists demanding “social justice” on behalf of trendy radicalism? It’s hilarious, if only it weren’t so sad. A classic.
  • Destructive Generation by Peter Collier and David Horowitz — One thing that the liberal media never mention, and which too many conservatives don’t realize, is that younger protesters today are encouraged in their misguided activism by idealized portrayals of 1960s-era movements. Adam Kokesh wasn’t even born until 1982, but believes that expressing “dissent” against the “status quo” is heroic because he has been indoctrinated to believe that this is what Real Heroes do. The true history of the 196os, however, teaches rather different lessons. Collier and Horowitz learned those lessons the hard way as members of the ‘6os New Left. Their account of that era (and its consequences) should be required reading for high school and college students today.

Young idiots trying re-enact a mythical past of which they have no direct knowledge ought not be praised or encouraged, but told to wise up before they get themselves imprisoned or worse.

UPDATE II: Linked by Donald Douglas at American Power — thanks!

 

Category: Books, Crime, History, Media Bias

Gosh, Kind of a Tough Call Here

Posted on | July 10, 2013 | 51 Comments

Which is worse, herpes or syphilis? Herpes is incurable, but the ravages of syphilis can be deadly. This is a story about the liberal media, however, not sexually transmitted diseases . . .

You know how, since Day One of the IRS scandal, every liberal on the planet has been saying it’s not really a scandal? So the umpteenth reiteration of the IRS Scandal (NOT) meme was published Monday by a writer for Salon, the Most Worthless Internet Site, Period.

While AOL paid gazillions for HuffPo, and BuzzFeed is now estimated to be worth gazillion-times-infinity, nobody has ever hazarded a guess of the value of Salon.com, a site that has been losing massive sums of money constantly since the days of dial-up modems.

Because there are no other “progressive” sites on the Internet, you see, and if these investors didn’t keep pouring money into that courageous Salon.com, then Newt Gingrich would take over America and suddenly TV would be in black-and-white again, or something.

Nobody ever pays attention to Salon except in the sense of, “Did you see that stupid/gross/utterly wrong thing they published at Salon?”

But why bring up Tracy Clark-Flory at a time like this?

My point is that nobody really pays attention to Salon except gigantic inflatable dildos like Lawrence O’Donnell, who evidently had an apoplectic fit because this IRS Scandal (NOT) story failed to mention that Lawrence O’Donnell invented IRS Scandal (NOT) stories.

This is perhaps a good time to mention that certain progressive bloggers think it’s always necessary to write in the very arch and catty tone that Wonkette and Gawker trademarked circa 2003 back when being a blogger was The Hip Career, before McDonald’s had WiFi.

Call it the Snarktastic mode of discourse. It becomes annoying to adults eventually, because you realize that these people think it’s a signifier of superior hipness, which in turn they imagine is a hallmark of their superior intelligence, as if the ostentatious display of pop-culture references and amped-up attitude — attitude! attitude! attitude! — were a substitute for useful knowledge.

Dude, I can do that, and I’m a 53-year-old father of six with a B.A. from Jacksonville (Ala.) State University. It’s really not that clever.

Anyway, Lawrence O’Donnell, who exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can, felt that Salon had cheated him of the credit he deserved. As the host of a show on a cable TV network somewhat more popular than CNN — a network with more Al Sharpton, but less non-stop murder trial coverage — if Lawrence O’Donnell said the IRS scandal is not a scandal, this was of tremendous significance to . . . somebody.

Yet this article at Salon.com didn’t even so much as mention him.

Which brings me to the “tough call” referenced in the title, about 450 words ago. Herpes or syphilis? Lawrence O’Donnell or Alex Pareene?

It is a measure of my fathomless loathing for Lawrence O’Donnell that I feel he deserves to be mocked by the execrable Alex Pareene.

UPDATE: One of the relevant facts I omitted:

Also, didn’t O’Donnell develop a bad cocaine habit in Hollywood? Or was that some other leftist douchebag I’m thinking of? There is something especially odious about Hollywood liberals preaching socialism while snorting up tens of thousands of dollars of coke a year.

 

Category: MSNBC

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.10.13

Posted on | July 10, 2013 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Egyptian Protesters Criticize Obama

Egyptians in the street not happy with Obama

Anti-Morsi protesters critical of administration’s support of MoBro ex-president

Snowden Headed For Venezuela?
WikiLeaks says not yet

Car Bomb Rocks Hezbollah Stronghold In Beirut
53 wounded in blast; Syrian civil war spreading to Lebanon?



POLITICS
Is Sarah Palin Considering A Run For The Senate?

Definitely thinking about it…

Told Sean Hannity she’s looking at challenging Begich

Nominee For FBI Director Says Waterboarding Is Torture

Purple Heart Quest For Fort Hood Victims Fuels Terrorism Dispute

Illinois Lawmakers Miss Pension Reform Deadline


House GOP Accuses Obama Of Siding With Big Business Over People With Healthcare Law Delay

Gay Marriage Fight Moves From Supreme Court To States

Texas House Provisionally Approves Abortion Law, Final Passage Set For Today

Former Top Obama Aides Join Pro-Hillary Effort

SF Police Probe Whether Fire Truck Ran Over Plane Crash Survivor

Illinois Becomes Last State To Allow Concealed Carry

ABM Interceptor Fails Missile Test



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Slips Slightly On Profit Taking As Egypt Tensions Continue: NYMEX $103.24, Brent $107.32
Asia Stocks Mixed After Dismal PRC Data
Kroger Agrees To Buy Grocer Harris Teeter For $2.5 Billion
Wall Street Rises For Fourth Day On Earnings Hope
NYSE EuroNext Takes Over LIBOR Administration
Big US Banks Face Tougher Lending Rules Than Global Rivals
This Is Not A Test: Emergency Broadcast Systems Proved Hackable
Apple Drops App Store Lawsuit Against Amazon
Blackberry Shareholder Angst In Six Questions
Revamped Google Maps For Android Rolling Out
First Look At “Grand Theft Auto V” In Action (Video)



SPORTS
NBA Free Agency: Winners And Losers

Chris Paul re-signing with the Clippers? Big win.

Or, Six Degrees Of Dwight Howard


Shields Outpitches Sabathia, Royals Whip Yankees Again, 3-1

Exhausted Mets Hang Tough, Topple Giants 10-6

Alex Rios Ties AL Record With Six Hits As Pale Hose Beat Tigers

Mets Pitcher Marcum To Have Season-Ending Surgery


Padres CEO Resigns After 17 Months On The Job

Report: A-Rod, Braun To Be Suspended

Disgraced Bengals Cheerleader Fights Sexcapades Claims

All Bat Dogs Go To Heaven

Beltre Bashes Two Homers As Rangers Top O’s

Tribe Shuts Out Jays 3-0

A’s Edge Bucs 2-1, Winning Pitcher Goes Back To Minors

Cards Pound Astros 9-5

Rays Stifle Twins 4-1

Red Sox Snap Skid In Seattle Slugfest

Nats Bats Silenced By Hamels As Phillies Win Again



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Elizabeth Hasselbeck Ditching “The View”

What took her so long?

Will be co-host on “Fox And Friends”

Intolerant Gay Killjoys Call For Boycott Of “Ender’s Game”

Ken Jonas, Wife Danielle Expecting First Child

Nicki Minaj On Men: “They Want To Be Nourished And Pet Like Dog”

Farrah Abraham Kicked Out Of Rehab For Being A Disruptive Influence

Ellen Page Discusses “Constant” Sexism in Hollywood

Amanda Bynes: Fashion Disaster During Court Hearing

Jennifer Lopez Goes Back To The Bronx

Kanye West Distraught Over Leaked “Black Skinhead” Video



FOREIGNERS
Seoul Calls Pyongyang To Account For Kaesong Shutdown
Worldwide Corruption On The Rise As Public Trust Plummets
Russian Ambassador To UN Claims Syrian Rebels Used Nerve Gas
US Considers Complete Pullout From Afghanistan
Zuma Fires Three In South African Cabinet Shakeup
Criminal Probe Opened In Quebec Oil Train Disaster
Egypt’s Liberal Opposition Rejects Transition Plan



BLOGS & STUFF
Valley Of The Shadow: What #Benghazi Begat
Sultan Knish: Wrong Side Of The Street
Twitchy: John Stossel Schools Obama On Smarter Government With One Tweet
Michelle Malkin: Let Them Starve
Bobby Jindal: Botching Immigration Again
Allahpundit: Polls Show Rubio Losing Support Among Republicans
William Kristol/Rich Lowry: Kill The Bill
Daniel Halper: Senator Harkin Asks, “This Was The Law. How Can They Change The Law?”
Scared Monkeys: Poll Shows Only 12% Still Back ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate
Rodrigo Sermeno: Will Student Loan Compromise Pit Democrat Against Democrat?
Brian Doherty: New Republic Phoney-Baloney Excuse For Propping Up Liberal Arts Education? A Bunch Of Sci-Fi That Has Nothing To Do With A Liberal Arts Education
Weasel Zippers: House Dems Put The Moon In Moonbat, Propose National Park On The Moon
NRO Corner: Cantor Scolds Committee Chairmen For Vote Against Ag Bill
Erika Johnsen: House Might Be Considering Splitting Up The Farm Bill, And The Ag Chairman Might Be Okay With That
Mary Katherine Ham: DC City Council Chases Off 900 Jobs Because They Don’t Like Walmert, So There
The Jawa Report: Report Your Co-Workers


Category: Live at Five

Horror: Brett Kimberlin ‘Is Giving His Wife the Full Aaron Walker Treatment’

Posted on | July 9, 2013 | 100 Comments

Aaron Walker has now published his account of today’s court proceedings in Kimberlin v. Kimberlin and Kimberlin v. Elliott, accompanied by documents in the cases. Aaron says:

Suddenly we saw Tetyana being led away in handcuffs.  . . .
In other words, he is giving his wife the full “Aaron Walker” treatment: try to get her fired, charge her with crimes that are, more likely than not, false, all in an effort to coerce her behavior.

Go read the whole ugly thing. The twisted nature of Brett Kimberlin’s personality — his sadistic pleasure in terrorizing and inflicting harm on others — is sufficiently well-known that little more need be said, except to refer to the not-so-mysterious death of Julia Scyphers.

Brett Kimberlin’s wicked character, especially his notorious dishonesty, is such that every decent person must despise him, if they know the truth about him — and Brett Kimberlin hates the truth.

Heaven help that woman who was fool enough to marry him.

UPDATE: Thanks to the keen-eyed commenter who, after reading the documents posted at Aaron’s page, points out that Tetyana’s date of birth is Nov. 16, 1980, while Brett Kimberlin’s date of birth is June 3, 1954. Their eldest daughter was born April 4, 1999. Therefore, when this child was conceived (about August 1998), Tetyana was 17 and her convicted felon husband was 44. Creeptastic!

UPDATE II: Everybody should re-Tweet this:

Feminist hypocrites won’t say a peep about it, but it’s important that this #WarOnWomen be called to their attention.

And say, what about that little Indiana girlfriend of Brett’s?

UPDATE III: Did I say, “creeptastic”? In 1992, Kimberlin was paroled from federal prison. Subsequent events led to him being sent back, but while he was out, he briefly pursued a music career. Jason Vest interviewed Kimberlin for City Paper in 1996:

Not all the songs on his album … have political overtones … others, like “Waiting to Meet” and “Teen Dream” (both about having sex with teenage girls) are lacking in subtlety and tend to make one squirm. But this is exactly what Kimberlin wants.
“I say things a lot of people are afraid to say. Yeah, ‘Teen Dream’ is about f–king a teenage girl. Every guy who’s seen a good-looking teenage girl has thought about it. I’m talking about that lecherous quality that every man, though he won’t act on it, has.”

Thanks to the commenter who pointed this out. Remember that Brett Kimberlin was a 41-year-old parolee at the time of that interview.

UPDATE IV: In the comments below, Aaron Walker says it is believed that Tetyana Kimberlin’s oldest daughter, now 14, was born before Tetyana met Brett, so that she’s his stepdaughter or adopted or something. And there’s nothing at all to be concerned about, right?

UPDATE V: Oh my! Just read more of that 1996 interview, which quotes the lyrics of Kimberlin’s song “Hillary”:

I’d love to tell you that you make me hot.
I’d love a taste of what you’ve got.

You stay classy, Brett Kimberlin!

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Corrupt Virginia Republican Governor’s Son Allegedly a Foul-Mouthed Drunk

Posted on | July 9, 2013 | 25 Comments

When last we heard from corrupt Gov. Bob McDonnell, his spokesman denied reports of a plea deal in which the Republican would resign.

Now, the disgraced governor’s 21-year-old son reportedly has been arrested for public drunkenness. “This is a personal matter and is being addressed by the family,” said Tucker Martin, communications director for the scandal-stained GOP politician.

Neutral Objective Journalism™ . . .

UPDATE: The stench in Richmond grows ever worse.

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Virginia

Brett Kimberlin Accuses His Wife of Adultery; Popcorn Shortage Expected

Posted on | July 9, 2013 | 72 Comments

Everyone familiar with the history of Brett Kimberlin, the Speedway Bomber, knows that his romantic interests have occasionally caused him trouble. And vice-versa. The diminutive criminal/progressive activist once described as “The Wizard of Odd” seems plagued by . . . certain insecurities. Feelings of inadequacy, you might say.

Alas, despite his mad campaign of vengeance against his enemies — or perhaps because of it — Kimberlin has apparently once more suffered from romantic misfortune. Aaron Worthing was first to report that Kimberlin v. Kimberlin and the related case of Elliott v. Kimberlin have become matters of  public record in Montgomery County, Maryland.

It would appear that Mr. Kimberlin believes the actions of his estranged wife’s alleged lover constitute crimes:

Aaron Walker and John Hoge attended this morning’s court session. A brief excerpt of Mr. Hoge’s account of the proceedings:

Brett Kimberlin was quite explicit in presenting salacious details to the court. I was surprised that he did this with his 9- and 14-year-old daughters in the room.
It appears from one of the documents filed with the court that Mr. and Mrs. Kimberlin have been separated for several months. Until recently, she continued to have some sort of position with one of the Kimberlin “charities,” and, as part of her compensation, she had the use of a company vehicle, a 2013 Toyota Highlander. When Brett Kimberlin found that his wife was in a relationship with another man (Jay Elliott), he fired her from her position with the “charity” and demanded the return of the company car.
The details become salacious at this point, but the net is that various criminal and civil complaints were filed. . . .
Mrs. Kimberlin was arrested by Sheriff’s Deputies at the end of the hearing.

The “salacious details” should make for lively reading, sources say.

UPDATE: Horror: Brett Kimberlin ‘Is Giving His Wife the Full Aaron Walker Treatment’ — this is actually frightening, because we know what kind of evil that bastard is capable of.

Linked in Maetenloch’s AOSHQ ONT — thanks!

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Fight the Fight You’re Fighting

Posted on | July 9, 2013 | 98 Comments

Blame it all on Wilmot and his damned Proviso.

Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon has a profile of Jack Hunter, a.k.a “The Southern Avenger”:

A close aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) who co-wrote the senator’s 2011 book spent years working as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist, raising questions about whether Paul will be able to transcend the same fringe-figure associations that dogged his father’s political career.
Paul hired Jack Hunter, 39, to help write his book The Tea Party Goes to Washington during his 2010 Senate run. Hunter joined Paul’s office as his social media director in August 2012.

The point of Goodman’s article is that Rand Paul is being discussed as a serious contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and that his association with Hunter is therefore either (a) an indication that Rand’s candidacy is a Trojan horse crammed full of kooks, or (b) a hindrance to Rand’s “pragmatic” appeal.

Having myself dealt with the “neo-Confederate” issue, my perspective on this controversy is perhaps unique. And the most interesting aspect of Goodman’s article may be how it chronicles the rather nuanced shift in Jack Hunter’s views over time. She links to a blog post Hunter wrote in January of this year:

Some say Rand is not Ron because he is “willing to play them game.” That’s exactly right. That’s the point — to play it, influence it and win it as much as you can. The neoconservatives certainly do, to their advantage. Even Ron Paul “played the game” to some extent by becoming a Congressman, running for president and being engaged in practical politics. In the end, we’re all playing a “game” of some sort, even if it means trying to prove we’re the most pure in our ethos. The question is — is the endgame simply to satisfy our own egos? Or to achieve loftier, principled and tangible political ends?

What Hunter is talking about is the question of whether people will cling so fiercely to the purity of their beliefs as to exclude themselves from meaningful participation in the political process. When Jack Hunter entered the fray 15 years ago as an avowed secessionist radical, he obviously never expected to find himself one day making these arguments for pragmatism. But that’s the way the American two-party system works, you see.

My long interest in the political fringe derives from the  knowledge that, historically, movements that make a difference always begin on the fringe. The forces that elected Barack Obama president, after all, were the same left-wing radicals whom we saw smashing windows in Seattle in 1999 and marching beneath the banners of Marxist organizations during the anti-Iraq War protests.

Democrats have been so successful at “mainstreaming” left-wing fringe movements that we tend to forget these movements were ever on the fringe. Republicans, meanwhile, are so beholden to notions of bourgeois respectability that they often assist Democrats in denouncing and marginalizing the rightward fringe. This is how we find ourselves with a president whose bestselling memoir was quite probably ghost-written by the unapologetic terrorist Bill Ayers, and who was re-elected by a campaign that smeared the harmless moderate Mitt Romney as a dangerous menace to the common good.

So the Democrats not only never cede an inch of their radical past, but are forever pushing forward with new radicalisms, while Republicans habitually assume the strategic defensive. But should we blame this on the GOP, or blame it on the fringe? Jack Hunter, bless his heart, was trying to speak truth to kookery. Read more

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