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Not Ashamed Of My Country, But ‘Choom-Ba-Yah Diplomacy’ Makes Me Cringe

Posted on | June 1, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

Via The Tatler, the National Review:

Administration officials told the Journal that Walesa is too “political.” A man who was arrested by Soviet officials for dissenting against the government for being “political” is being shunned by the United States of America for the same reason 30 years later.
Meanwhile, one of the recipients of the Medal was Dolores Huerta, the honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. So socialist politics are acceptable, but not the politics of a man who stood up and fought socialism.
This revelation follows an eruption of outrage in Poland after President Obama referred in his remarks at the Medal of Freedom ceremony to “Polish death camps,” a phrase that Poles have battled since the end of the Cold War. The phrase suggests that Poles were complicit in Nazi concentration camps, which of course is not the case. In fact, Poles were exterminated in the camps.

Eschewing even a beer summit with Lech Walesa, #OccupyResoluteDesk had somebody toss off a letter to the Poles. HotAir concludes with Presley covering Sinatra. This blog sees Morrissey’s Elvis and raises him a possible Polish response, Devo covering the Stones:

Update: more at Nice Deb.

Update II: Linked at the Pirate’s Cove, too.

Update III: Linked in a great roundup, pics at What Would The Founders Think.

Category: Barack Obama, Poland

Are Americans Homophobic Because They Won’t Bother To Buy This Noise?

Posted on | June 1, 2012 | 41 Comments

by Smitty

I suppose the newly gay Green Lantern might sell in ‘Frisco, New York, and Addams-Morgan. But how many heterosexual parents with hopes of grandchildren are actually going to expose children to this dead end?

My guess is: not enough to keep the story going, irrespective of the rest of its artistic merit. Fact is, I can’t muster much more than a Sunday installment of Day by Day. I bought a copy of The Watchmen, which is great, and made it about a third of the way through.

The new Green Lantern will join all of those “strainin’ hard, tryin’ to mainstream homosexuality” sitcoms on the scrapheap.

Update: “Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are.” Must be their low replacement rate.

Category: Uncategorized

The Only Answer Is ‘Heh’

Posted on | June 1, 2012 | 9 Comments

Professor Glenn Reynolds asks: “How’s that brass-knuckles reputation management working out for you?” 

The professor links an excellent examination of the legal precedents in Aaron Walker’s case by Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Suffice it to say, Walker got railroaded.

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Radicals Justify Their Evil by Invoking Their Presumed Moral Superiority

Posted on | June 1, 2012 | 47 Comments

“This could happen to you. It could happen in a context utterly unrelated to politics as you understand them. . . . Crazy stalking can happen to anyone for any reason.”
— Popehat, “Brett Kimberlin and Aaron Worthing: Censorship And Retaliation Through Lawfare”

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
In my Thursday account of the connections between Neal Rauhauser and Brett Kimberlin, I noted that within half an hour of Judge C.J. Vaughey’s ruling in Tuesday’s Maryland court hearing — which resulted in the arrest of Aaron Walker — a photo image of the ruling was Tweeted by @AnonyOps. This is a Twitter account “Rauhauser is suspected of using,” I reported, and @AnonyOps subsequently denied this suspicion.

Very well, then — yet we have no explanation of how @AnonyOps obtained that photo first, and this still demonstrates a connection that seems more than coincidental. Selah.

Not content merely to deny being Rauhauser, however, @AnonyOps then put up a blog post denouncing Aaron Walker as “Islamophobic” and calling me a “white supremacist.”

Such accusations, you see, are part of the belief system by which the far Left justifies its lawless radicalism: Because their enemies are all, in one way or another, guilty of political ThoughtCrimes (a category that the Left is always willing to expand and re-define as necessary), the Left need not be scrupulous as to the means by which it advances its goals.

If you buy into the premises of their argument, then the conclusion logically follows that any outcome other than the complete triumph of the Left — the extermination of all resistance — is unacceptable, and whatever foul, unjust and illegal actions are necessary to accomplish that triumph can be justified.

Thus, the infamous radical slogan, “By Any Means Necessary,” which is ultimately a totalitarian formula. David Horowitz, who saw through the Left’s amoral nihilism, once mentioned the humorous sign that a Berkeley businessman put in his shop window after radicals gained control of that city’s municipal government: “That which is not mandatory is prohibited.” Read more

Category: The Kimberlin Files

LIVE AT FIVE – 06.01.12

Posted on | June 1, 2012 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Mitt Hits Obama On Solyndra

Mitt Romney Counts Coup On Choom-Meister's Crony Capitalism

Meanwhile, in Boston…
Indeed, not your father’s GOP.

Jobless Rate Now Leading Political Indicator
Unemployment numbers Obama’s albatross?




Warren: “I Won’t Deny Who I Am”
Campaign message completely drowned out by ethnicity gaffe



POLITICS
Edwards Unlikely To Be Retried After Jury Deadlocks

"...there is no one else responsible for my sins."

Acquitted on corruption charge; jury deadlocked on remaining five charges

County Attorney Declines To Prosecute “Sister Wives”

Feds Order Halt To Florida Ineligible Voter Purge

House Rejects Ban On Sex-Selective Abortions, But GOP Makes Its Point

Gay Marriage Fight Likely Headed For Supreme Court

Former President Clinton Looks To Fire Up Milwaukee Democrats For Recall Vote

Kaine Has Cash Edge Over Allen In Virginia Senate Race



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Gasoline Ticks Up On Seasonal Blend Change As Oil Continues Slide; NYMEX $86.35, Brent $101.76
Asia Stocks Fall As PRC Manufacturing Weakens
Europe Markets Seen Mixed As Debt Crisis Continues
Liberty Media Steps Up Effort To Control Sirius XM
Student Debt Up 8% To $904 Billion
Free Food Alert: Today Is National Doughnut Day
Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Preview
Judge Torpedoes Oracle’s Android Suit: API Can’t Be Copyrighted
Nokia Dismisses Claims Of Collusion With Microsoft
Ratchet & Clank Returning In “Full Frontal Assault”



SPORTS
Spurs’ Invincibility Vanishes As Thunder Take Command

Oklahoma City's Russel Westbrook

Westbrook leads attack in 102-82 win

Tigers Get Last Laugh, Avoid Sweep In Boston With 7-3 Win

Greinke Goes Six As Brewers Sweep Dodgers 6-2

Lidstrom Retires From Red Wings After 20 Years

Thunder Says Rapper Lil Wayne Welcome – But He Needs To Buy A Ticket Like Everyone Else

SEC Renegotiates TV Deal, Own Network Possible

Norris Struggles As Astros Lose Again

Big 12 Not Shutting Door On Expansion

NASCAR Starts Sprint Cup Summer Grind In Dover

Hines Ward Joins NBC Sports

Nationals In No Rush This Year At MLB Draft



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kate Walsh Poised To Depart “Private Practice”

Kate Walsh

Will shoot sixth season’s 13 episodes before departure

Bieber Knocks Himself Out In Paris

Bus Driver Drops Her Suit Against Matthew Fox

Martin Short Reacts To Gifford Gaffe: “People Make Mistakes”

“The Devil Wears Prada” Getting A Sequel

Tour Kickoff Shows Madonna’s No Lady (Gaga)

Beyonce, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Steven Tyler Lead Voice Cast For Fox’s “Epic”

Anne Vyalitsina Joins “Die Hard” Sequel

Superhero Impersonator Dies When Bizarre Sex Game Goes Wrong



FOREIGNERS
Britain Prepares For Left-Field Diamond Jubilee
Aung San Suu Kyi Urges “Healthy Skepticism” Over Burma Reforms
Will Ireland Rebel Against EU’s Imposition Of Austerity?
Putin Visits Germany And France Amid Syrian Divide
Mubarak Trial Verdict May Divide Egypt
Chen: CCP Must Obey Its Own Laws
Labour To Force Vote On Jeremy Hunt



BLOGS & STUFF
NRO Corner: President Clinton Says Romney “Had Sterling Business Career”
Weasel Zippers: Heh – Romney Makes Surprise Visit To Solyndra HQ
American Glob: Axelrod Drowned Out By Romney Supporters In Massachusetts
Ed Driscoll: Not Your Father’s Republicans
Power Line: With An Enemy Like This, Who Needs Friends?
NewsBusters: Where’s The Outrage Over NBC/MSNBC Attack Ad On Romney In February?
Weekly Standard Blog: Media Circles The Wagons Amid Accusations Of Anti-Romney Bias
Sister Toldjah: #WarOnWomen – WH, 168 House Memebers Vote Against Sex-Selective Abortion Ban
Mediaite: CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield Says Incest, Pedophilia “Not By Choice” But Being Gay “A Lifestyle Choice”
Moe Lane: I Wonder If David Axelrod’s Found The Mole Yet?
James Pethokoukis: Another Dose Of Sickly Economic News Weakens Obama’s Reelection Odds
GayPatriot: Dan Rather Dubs Notion Of Liberal Media “A Sham”
Donald Sensing: The New York Times And The Boy Scouts
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Predicts Obamacare Will Be Upheld 6-3 “Because I Know The Constitution”

Category: Live at Five

#BloombergMovieTitles (Last) Straw Wars

Posted on | May 31, 2012 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

Because nothing says ‘the Mayor is a soup nazi‘ quite like having the jackwagon decide the size of your drink. Me, I nearly died from White Castle. I guess that edict will come next week.

Update: get you a 16 oz. shot of Ace’s finest.

Update II: So that’s how you do it!

Category: New York

Court Declares Clinton-Era Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional

Posted on | May 31, 2012 | 20 Comments

“Progress” is happening so fast nowadays, eh? Back in the 1990s, President Clinton implemented “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and DOMA, which stood uncontested through the remainder of Clinton’s term and all through the eight years of Bush, but now — in the Obama era — these measures have been declared dreadfully oppressive.

Hope! Change! And it’s probably only a matter of time before homosexuality is declared compulsory, so that turning down an offer of sodomy is illegal “discrimination.”

Category: Gays

Aaron Walker Court Hearing Confirms Kimberlin-Rauhauser Collaboration

Posted on | May 31, 2012 | 63 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Democrat campaign consultant Neal Rauhauser accompanied convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin to a Tuesday court hearing in Maryland, confirming their continued collaboration in an apparent effort to harass and intimidate conservative bloggers.

Kimberlin appeared in Montgomery County (Md.) District Court for a final hearing Tuesday on his “peace order” against blogger Aaron Walker, who was arrested at the conclusion of the hearing on charges that he had violated terms of a previous peace order through “incitement.” Judge C.J. Vaughey ruled that Walker’s blog was responsible for encouraging death threats to Kimberlin, who was convicted in 1981 for a series of bombings in Indiana.

Investor’s Business Daily reporter David Hogberg attended the Maryland hearing and reported that he spoke to “Kimberlin and his associate Neal Rauhauser” at the courthouse in Rockville. Kimberlin was spotted earlier this month at a New Jersey courthouse where Rauhauser faced charges of harassing Mike Stack, an Internet activist who played a prominent role in exposing the Anthony Weiner sex scandal.

The partnership of Kimberlin and Rauhauser is one of the elements of a lawsuit Walker filed in January against them and former Raw Story editor Ron Brynaert, which alleges:

“Defendant Kimberlin had on some date prior to November 14 [2011] formed a conspiracy with Defendants Brynaert and Rauhauser to stalk, harass, defame, intentionally inflict emotional distress and commit other illegal and/or immoral acts against any person perceived as an ‘enemy,’ particularly anyone who dared to accurately describe Defendant Kimberlin’s criminal past and any person seen as helping any target of this conspiracy.”

Walker, a Virginia attorney, was apparently targeted for harassment after he provided legal assistance to Seth Allen, a liberal who had blogged about Brett Kimberlin’s criminal history. Like Walker, Allen was also arrested on charges of harassing Kimberlin. Patterico writes of Kimberlin’s “abuse of process” in such proceedings:

Kimberlin learned a technique that he later used against Walker: namely, having your critics arrested in civil court.
Namely, this serial litigant [i.e., Kimberlin] forces his critics into his jurisdiction with a frivolous civil action. If Kimberlin’s critics complain that the action is frivolous, he calls that criticism “harassment,” and through a process of seeking frivolous peace orders and/or filing frivolous criminal complaints, obtains an arrest warrant for the critic. When the critic shows up to court as required, he or she is arrested on the trumped-up charges.
Success! The story becomes about the critic’s arrest. The critics look worse because authorities seem to take Kimberlin’s side; and he gets the satisfaction of putting his critics behind bars, even if for a short time.
Alternatively, Kimberlin and his supporters can use the threat of arrest to try to frighten civil litigants into staying out of court.

Patterico — the blog name of Los Angeles deputy district attorney Patrick Frey — has accused Kimberlin, Rauhauser and Brynaert of engaging in a “campaign of political terrorism.”

Frey was the target of “SWATting,” wherein hoax phone calls are used to deceive police into believing the target has committed a violent crime in his home, resulting in police raiding the location in anticipation of a confrontation with an armed suspect. The late Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, who was identified as an enemy by Kimberlin, discussed “SWATting” in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt shortly before Breitbart died in March. Frey and Walker discussed their experiences with Kimberlin in an interview last week on the Glenn Beck radio program.

Rauhauser is a Democrat social-media consultant who has described himself as a “hacker.” Rauhauser is a founder of the consulting firm Progressive PST and was a speaker at the 2010 “NetRoots Nation” conference sponsored by Daily Kos, a popular liberal blog. Using the blog pseudonym “Stranded Wind,” Rauhauser in September 2010 urged DailyKos readers to “put an end to [Glenn] Beck’s career.” (Rauhauser’s Daily Kos blogging privileges were revoked in July 2011.)

In September 2010, blogger Patrick Read described how Rauhauser “organized a squalid group of anonymous twitter-users as a means to attack the tea party and conservatives alike.” Rauhauser’s so-called “beandogs” used Twitter messages with what Read described as “extremely graphic language including masturbation, pedophilia, violent threats, racism, sexism, religious bigotry.” Read observed that Rauhauser’s “beandogs” showed “a penchant for exposing personal information about their targets and misrepresenting factual information.” Rauhauser’s activities, exposed by Read and Tea Party activist Michelle Lessick (@ZapEm on Twitter), became known as “TwitterGate,” which I wrote about in October 2010:

Rauhauser has claimed that the TwitterGate accusations were a “smear” and a “paranoid delusion.” Claiming that Allen’s writings about Kimberlin were a “smear,” Rauhauser falsely asserted that Kimberlin “was cleared of” his criminal convictions “almost 20 years ago.”

The collaboration between Rauhauser and Kimberlin apparently began, sources say, because of Kimberlin’s use of his tax-exempt non-profit group Velvet Revolution (of which liberal blogger Brad Friedman is director) to attack the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the cybersecurity firm HBGary, alleging among other things that “Gary was hired . . . by the Chamber to infiltrate and destroy [Velvet Revolution] and its staff.”

HBGary’s Internet accounts were hacked by members of the “Anonymous” criminal conspiracy last year, and several members of the group (the so-called “LulzSec” hackers) have been indicted on felony charges. As I reported last week, federal officials are continuing to investigate the “Anonymous” conspiracy, and those sympathetic to “Anonymous” say they suspect that the group’s former public spokesman Barrett Brown may be one of the unindicted co-conspirators identified in court documents as providing evidence against the accused hackers. Since publishing my May 24 post about the “Anonymous” probe, I have been told that investigators have been working for “six to nine months” to “build evidence” against additional suspects in the hacking conspiracy.

Rauhauser is suspected of using the “@AnonyOps” Twitter account. On Tuesday, after the Maryland hearing where Walker was arrested — a hearing that Rauhauser reportedly attended — “@AnonyOps” posted a link to an image of Judge Vaughey’s ruling in the Kimberlin-Walker case:

The “@AnonyOps” Tweet was sent at 11:31 a.m. Tuesday, just half an hour after Judge Vaughey’s ruling was issued, and was re-Tweeted 12 minutes later by “@OccupyRebellion,” another Twitter account believed to be associated with Rauhauser and/or Kimberlin.

In February, Rauhauser posted an eight-page PDF document entitled “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?” The acronym “ISR” apparently refers to the military term “Intelligence, Security and Reconnaisance.” In that document, Rauhauser suggests that Breitbart was doing the bidding of HBGary, with Thomas Ryan of Berrico Technologies acting as a “cut out” between Breitbart and HBGary CEO Aaron Barr. This suspicion on Rauhauser’s part was apparently based on a single e-mail from Barr to Ryan — one of the thousands of e-mails that the “Anonymous” hackers stole from HBGary — in which Barr cited an October 2010 article about Brett Kimberlin by Breitbart.com contributor Mandy Nagy, written under her Internet pseudonym “Liberty Chick.”

In October 2011, Rauhauser described himself as doing “protective service work” for a client who is “the head of a Washington D.C. NGO” — a description that might fit Kimberlin, whose 501(c)3 Justice Through Music Project has collected about $1.8 million in contributions since its founding in 2005.

If indeed Kimberlin is now a “client” of Rauhauser, this would explain their evident collaboration in targeting Aaron Walker, Patrick Frey, Seth Allen, Mandy and other critics of Kimberlin for harassment and intimidation. Whether fees paid to Rauhauser involved the use of tax-exempt funds obtained by Kimberlin’s non-profit organizations, and whether such “protective service work” — which looks very much like an orchestrated effort to stifle First Amendment rights — would be legal under IRS regulations, remains to be determined.

It was Aaron Walker’s 28,000-word account of his ordeal with Kimberlin on May 17 that drew my attention to the case of Brett Kimberlin, the infamous “Speedway Bomber” terrorist who briefly gained notoriety in 1988 by claiming to have sold drugs to Republican Dan Quayle. While I had never heard of Kimberlin before May 17, the mention of Rauhauser in Walker’s account caught my eye because of Rauhauser’s previous involvement in the “TwitterGate” controversy and the fact that Rauhauser has worked for a number of Democrat candidates.

— Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

 


UPDATE: Linked by The Rhetorican, Dan Collins at the Conservatory, Bill Quick at Daily Pundit, Perpetually Aggreived, Damn Dirty RINO and Hogewash — thanks!

UPDATE II (Smitty): welcome, Instapundit readers!

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Category: The Kimberlin Files
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