FMJRA 2.0: Aces High

The three-day Walker v. Kimberlin lawsuit trial ended Friday. Although the jury reportedly found that Kimberlin had committed falsehoods, this was insufficient to find in Walker’s favor. Kimberlin “won” the case, but not before the judge lectured the “Speedway Bomber” in a conference that the jury did not hear, but which was transcribed by John Hoge:

Don’t tell me what to do. OK? You have made the fact of the bombing case admissible because you have misled the jury by saying you were never prosecuted, convicted, or sentenced for any crime that he blogged about. And one of the primary crimes he blogged about initially, the reason he refers to you as a terrorist has to do with this bombing. I kept it out because I felt that, potentially, it was more inflammatory that it was probative, although, frankly, I felt that probative because I felt that it explained why, as you say, he’s obsessed with you. That’s a fairly unusual crime. But in trying to be fair, I kept it out. You took the stand and told the jury, basically, you had never been convicted, as I say, you’d never been sentenced, never spent time. In addition to which, you volunteered in your statement to the jury when you’re describing yourself for your background that you committed or you had some trouble or you did some things wrong when you were a juvenile. But that’s sort of all, and you referenced the perjury, that’s sort of all behind you. So you leave the jury with the impression that as a young kid you made a false statement and did your time and there’s nothing else there, which also I think is potentially misleading. . . .

You can read more about the trial at Hogewash. This verdict in this case, more than four years after I first started covering the Brett Kimberlin saga, is a Pyrrhic “victory” for the convicted bomber.

As the pro se defendant, Kimberlin was forced to spend countless hours preparing motions, etc., in effect being compelled to repay the hours of legal effort that Walker and others (including myself) had expended in our defense when Kimberlin filed state and federal lawsuits against us in 2013. And what, we may ask, has Kimberlin gained during all these years of court proceedings? Nothing of value, and certainly nothing that would compensate for the many thousands of hours he must have spent on his pro se pettifoggery. If we assume that he spent at least 20 hours week working on his various lawsuits, both as plaintiff and defendant, over a period of more than three years, then his legal work has amounted to more than 3,000 hours. This is a low-end estimate, as any observer might suspect that Kimberlin has done almost nothing else except pursue such pro se pettifoggery the past three years. And why?

“For three consecutive summers, 1974 through 1976, they took vacations of a week or longer in Disney World, Mexico, and Hawaii. Sandi couldn’t get time off from work, so on these summer trips it was just the two of them — Brett and Jessica.
“Eyebrows levitated. A drug-dealing colleague had memories of conversations with Kimberlin that struck him as odd: ‘We’d see a girl, who was pubescent or prepubescent, and Brett would get this smile and say, “Hey, what do you think? Isn’t she great?” It made me very uncomfortable.’ Another recalled Kimberlin introducing Jessica as ‘my girlfriend,’ and if irony was intended, it was too subtle to register. To a coworker . . . Sandi confided that Kimberlin was ‘grooming Jessica to be his wife.’ To another, Sandi explained that although Kimberlin’s relationship with Jessica was chaste, he intended ‘to wait for her and would marry her.’”
— Mark Singer, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, Page 78

In July 2012, after I had spent six weeks covering the Kimberlin saga, the question of motive had begun bothering me. Why was Kimberlin pursuing what appeared to be a personal vendetta against Aaron Walker? And why did Kimberlin (and his various associates, including Neal Rauhauser) lash out against anyone who called attention to Walker’s plight? People who became aware of the case as a result of “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day” were proposing different theories to explain Kimberlin’s actions, but all of those theories were insufficient or factually flawed.

At that time, I was being harassed on Twitter by numerous troll accounts, making all sort of defamatory accusations against me, and my friends were being subjected to similar online harassment, and why? Stepping back from the swirling madness — as I was unpacking boxes, having relocated my family to the “Undisclosed Location” — I had time to contemplate what this was really all about. Then I published a relatively brief post entitled, “When ‘Jessica’ Was 10, 11, 12,” which quoted Mark Singer’s Kimberlin biography Citizen K. Singer used the pseudonym “Jessica” for Sandi Barton’s daughter Debbie, and I summarized the reporting that Joe Gelarden of the Indianapolis Star had done in 1981:

[Debbie Barton] was 10 years old when Kimberlin, 20 at the time, entered her life in 1974, and she was 14 when her grandmother, 65-year-old Julia Scyphers, was murdered — a crime that remains officially unsolved to this day.
[Debbie Barton] had an older sister who, according to Singer’s account, seems to have objected to Kimberlin’s weird interest in the younger Barton girl. It may have been the older sister who expressed concern to Mrs. Scyphers. As Gelarden reported, Mrs. Scyphers “violently objected” to the strange relationship between her daughter, her granddaughters and Kimberlin, a notorious drug smuggler. Mrs. Scyphers had the two girls move in with her, forbade them to see Kimberlin and, reportedly, Kimberlin became so despondent over this separation from the youngest Barton girl that he threatened suicide.
Then on the morning of July 29, 1978, a man shot Julia Scyphers dead, in a crime that investigators believed was a murder for hire.
Nobody ever said Kimberlin himself shot her, but his conflict with Mrs. Scyphers over the Barton girl made him the only person with a motive to wish her dead and he soon came under suspicion by detectives. A few weeks later, a weeklong series of bombings struck the small Indiana town and, when Kimberlin was apprehended for those otherwise unexplained explosions, police believed they understood the connection: The bombings had been a ill-conceived effort by Kimberlin to distract police whom he knew to be investigating the Scyphers murder.

What seemed to be happening in 2012, it occurred to me, was a continuation of the same pattern. Since his conviction on federal charges in 1981, Kimberlin had undertaken extraordinary efforts to depict himself as the victim of an unjust prosecution. At first, Mark Singer had been deceived by Kimberlin, but eventually recognized the truth, and it is a matter of record that Brett Kimberlin sought to prevent Singer’s book Citizen K from being introduced as evidence in court.

Everything that was happening in 2012, I concluded, went back to Kimberlin’s attempt to conceal the nature of his interest in Debbie Barton. This in turn had made him a suspect in the death of Julia Scyphers which, detectives told Joe Gelarden at the time, was what they believed had inspired the “Speedway Bomber” to commit the acts of violent terrorism for which he was convicted in federal court.

So I published “When ‘Jessica’ Was 10, 11, 12” and, whenever the Twitter trolls popped up (“participating in targeted abuse”), I would just tweet quotes from that with a link to the post, and guess what? The harassment ceased, at least in that particular form. You see, what I had deduced was that the troll attacks, intended to discredit me by defamation, had the effect of drawing attention to my Twitter account and, if I responded by using this to highlight the very information that Kimberlin wished to suppress, this would defeat the purpose of the troll attacks.

Later, I was targeted by different harassment tactics, but the fact that the Twitter troll-swarm tactic could be stopped by brandishing the story of Debbie Barton and Julia Scyphers seemed to confirm my hunch about what led to this controversy. Kimberlin had spent years convincing his “progressive” supporters that his federal convictions were the result of wrongful prosecution. Yet the people who contributed to Kimberlin’s 501(c)3 non-profits had obviously never researched the question of what inspired “The Speedway Bomber.” And then, in 2010, Kimberlin made the mistake of targeting Andrew Breitbart:

Using two popular leftist blogs, the 56-year-old from Bethesda, Md., has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from the public and left-leaning foundations by promising to put conservatives he disagrees with in jail, often with offers of large rewards. So far — without success — he has called for the arrest of Karl Rove, Andrew Breitbart, Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue, Massey Energy Chairman Don Blankenship and other high-profile public figures.
A review of tax filings for Kimberlin’s blogs, “Velvet Revolution” and “Justice Through Music,” raises troubling questions about whether his “nonprofit” operations are dedicated to public activism — or are just a new facade for a longtime con artist.

Those questions led Mandy Nagy to write an October 2010 article at Breitbart.com, “Progressives Embrace Convicted Terrorist,” and thus set in motion a series of events — including Kimberlin’s threat to file lawsuits — which has played out over the past five years. Kimberlin evidently saw the exposure of his criminal past as a threat to his non-profit, tax-exempt livelihood, and it seemed that Kimberlin especially disliked any attention to the Debbie Barton/Julia Scyphers element of the story as reported by Joe Gelarden and Mark Singer. If Kimberlin was hoping to airbrush out of existence certain unflattering facts about himself, his hopes were in vain. Although some online materials have disappeared, and the numerous legal wranglings that Kimberlin has gone through during the past few years have produced mixed results, there is still an abundance of available information about Kimberlin’s criminal history and, the courts have been consistent in finding that it is entirely legal (not defamation, harassment, etc.) to cite the known facts. Truth always defeats the liar.

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Feminist @samanthapfield Wants to Remind You: Pat Robertson Was Right

Posted on | October 15, 2016 | Comments Off on Feminist @samanthapfield Wants to Remind You: Pat Robertson Was Right

“I’m a liberal, pro-choice feminist with socialist-considering-Marxism political tendencies. I think the Democratic party isn’t liberal enough. I’m almost of the opinion that capitalism (at least in its current cis-hetero-white-supremacist-patriarchal incarnation) is evil.”
— Samantha Couchoud Field, March 25, 2015

“One of the events that helped me heal from my toxic religious upbringing was discovering feminism for myself. . . . I encountered feminism as affirming, powerful, and truth-filled.”
— Samantha Couchoud Field, Sept. 26, 2016

“Every year I think more and more about the Witch and what she’s come to mean to me. The women who were drowned, burned, tortured, murdered, slaughtered . . . they were my mothers and sisters. They were the women who dared, who questioned, who argued. . . . I am proud of every woman who dares to follow this path.”
— Samantha Couchoud Field, Oct. 8, 2016

In March 2014, Samantha Couchoud Field made headlines by writing about how she was allegedly raped by her boyfriend while attending Pensacola Christian College (PCC), where she says the administration blamed her and protected her rapist. By the time she publicly made this claim, however, it was nearly five years since Field left PCC (where she graduated in 2009 with an education degree) and she had subsequently gotten her master’s degree in English from Liberty University in 2012 before starting her personal blog in January 2013. One of her first posts there (“How Purity Culture Taught Me to Be Abused”) described her ex-boyfriend, a PCC student, as “handsome, charismatic, an excellent musician, talented, popular, and respected.” They began dating in February 2008 and became engaged in August 2008, but Field says he was “emotionally, verbally, physically, and sexually abusive”:

There was no consent. He knew there was no consent, that I did not want to have sex with him, at all. He just didn’t care. . . .
I didn’t realize he raped me until years later. . . .
I also loathed our physical relationship. Everything he asked me to do made me feel degraded and dirty and hardly anything felt good. . . . But, I figured I was just one of those women where sex would be a sacrifice for my husband.

She says her fiance “also raped at least one other woman while we were engaged,” and then dumped her two months before their planned wedding, blaming her because she “was not ‘submissive’ enough.”

Field is “now married to the most amazing, loving, gentle, tender man” (“Tall, red-headed, the swimmer’s physique”). She and the husband she calls “Handsome” are into BDSM “kinky” sex; she describes herself as a submissive “bottom,” so I guess now she is “submissive enough.”

Field calls herself “bisexual” and is an activist with the Gay Christian Network. She is now attending United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, a bastion of “ecumenical” liberalism in Minnesota, “so that I can get the stinking cesspool that is Liberty University off my resume.”

“Witchcraft IS the sin of rebellion. I rebel.”

She is 29 years old, so we cannot dismiss Samantha Field’s advocacy of witchcraft as a “youthful indiscretion.” She has now publicly dedicated herself to feminism, abortion, bisexuality, BDSM. socialism, and witchcraft, “the sin of rebellion.” Gosh, this sounds familiar . . .

“[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
— Pat Robertson, 1992

Well, she’s not a lesbian . . . yet. However, now that Mrs. Field is into bisexuality and witchcraft, we may suspect her marriage to “Handsome” Mr. Field won’t have a “happily ever after” ending.

“Ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5) was the false promise of Satan’s original lie. https://t.co/t77KB9H1NI pic.twitter.com/xkCzVSBGDR

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) July 4, 2016

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Category: Religion, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 10.14.16

Posted on | October 14, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.14.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrats, GOPe, And Media Try To Finish Off Trump
Twitchy: FAIL – Gloria Allred Tries To Damage Trump, Hurts Hillary Instead
Louder With Crowder: Protester Holds “Rapist” Sign At Clinton Rally – “Tolerant” Liberals Attack!
Monster Hunter Nation: Countdown For NOUN!
According To Hoyt: The Tocsin Is Sounding

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #22 – The Marriage Episode
American Power: “Sharia-Compliant Soldiers For Allah Who Want Me Dead”
American Thinker: Hillary And The Fundamental Legal Premise Of Tyranny
Animal Magnetism: Rule 5 911 Friday
Da Tech Guy: C.S. Lewis And The Fourth Doctor Answer J.D. Rucker On Voting Trump
Don Surber: Fritz Krauthammer
Dustbury: Twice As Decadent
Jammie Wearing Fools: More Than One Million To Lose Health Insurance As Insurers Quit Obamacare
Joe For America: THEY TRIED TO HIDE IT! – Wikileaks Reveals Single Email That Hits Hillary Hard
Pamela Geller: Islamic Girls’ School Outed As Training Ground To Beat Women, Kill Gays
Power Line: Ms. Clinton Forgets
Shark Tank: AZ GOP Chair Scolds RNC Trump Defectors
Shot In The Dark: The Source Of All Slime
STUMP: Chicago And Illinois Update – Strike Averted, But At What Cost?
The Jawa Report: All Is Fair In Love And War, But Politics Is Dirty, also, Rogue One – Trailer #2
The Political Hat: Why The Alt-Right Doesn’t Get Conservatism
This Ain’t Hell: General Mark Milley Saving The World, also, Phony Soldier In Boston Shootout
Weasel Zippers: State Dept. Acknowledges Hillary Never Turned Over E-Mails Between Herself And POTUS, also, Clintons Made Man Who Dug Up Dirt On Gennifer Flowers An Ambassador
Mark Steyn: The Gelded Age

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In The Mailbox: 10.13.16

Posted on | October 13, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Bob Dylan Gets Nobel Prize For Literature
Twitchy: Hillary’s Going To Hate This Tweet From Toure – Yeah, Really, Toure
Louder With Crowder: CORRUPTION! FBI, DOJ Wanted To Investigate Hillary, But Comey & Lynch Intervened

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: What Happens When Students Brainwashed With Cultural Marxism Find Jobs?
American Power: America’s Most Consistent Outlier – USC Dornsife/LA Times “Daybreak” Presidential Poll
American Thinker: The GOP – Bastion Of Piety?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
Da Tech Guy: Ten Unpleasant Facts About The Election And The Future
Don Surber: Cleveland Indians – Best Value In Baseball?
Dustbury: Don’t Buy That
Fred On Everything: Space Aliens! More Undocumented Immigration
Jammie Wearing Fools: Five Women Claim To Have Been Sexually Assaulted By Trump
Joe For America: One Million Democrats Have Switched To Trump
JustOneMinute: Can’t Make It Up
Pamela Geller: Wikileaks – Podesta E-Mails Discuss Scalia Assassination Days Before His Death
Power Line: The Real Tom Steyer
Shark Tank: Republicans Stoking Democrat Joe Garcia’s “Communism Works” Remark
Shot In The Dark: If They Gave Pulitzers For Great Writing About Important Topics
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Seek Medical Help For Erection Lasting More Than Four Hours
The Lonely Conservative: It’s Official – Facts And Reality No Longer Exist In Politics
The Political Hat: Quick Takes On Academia – Purging The Unfaithful, Purging H8rz, Purging Academic Study
The Quinton Report: Kellyanne Conway’s Weird Defense Of Todd Akin
This Ain’t Hell: 2LT Wyatt Koch And SPC Robert Shook Saving The World, also, The Real Story About That Lack Of Trump Lawn Signs
Weasel Zippers: Podesta E-Mail – Great To Be Able To Feed Stories To Media Like Maggie Haberman To Tee Up For Us, also, WikiLeaks – Clinton Campaign Plotted To Threaten SCOTUS Over Obamacare Ruling
Megan McArdle: FLOTUS’ Garden, Like Obamacare, Will Be Hard To Uproot
Mark Steyn: We Shall Fight On The Beaches

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When It Rains, It Pours

Posted on | October 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

Five days ago, I said that the release of the “hot mic” incident with Donald Trump effectively guarantees his defeat in the election and was denounced by commenters for stating this obvious truth. Yet if we look back now, we see Oct. 8 as the beginning of a torrential rainstorm.

Physically Attacked by Donald Trump –
A PEOPLE Writer’s Own Harrowing Story
— People

Two Women Say Donald Trump
Touched Them Inappropriately
— New York Times

Palm Beach Post exclusive: Local woman
says Trump groped her
— Palm Beach Post

A Fifth Teen Beauty Queen Says
Trump Visited Dressing Room
— BuzzFeed

And here is yet another story along the same lines:

Donald Trump deliberately walked in on two young Miss USA 2001 contestants while they were naked and getting dressed for a rehearsal, one of the former beauty contestants has claimed in an interview with the Guardian.
The two women were putting on their outfits to rehearse the opening number, the former contestant recalled, when Trump, who owned the pageant at the time as part of the Miss Universe family of pageants, burst into the room without a word.
Just before he entered, the former contestant said, she heard the security detail outside the dressing room tell someone approaching the door that the women inside were naked.
“Mr Trump just barged right in, didn’t say anything, stood there and stared at us,” she recalled. Trump’s attitude, she said, seemed to be: “I can do this because I can.”
“He didn’t walk in and say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I was looking for someone,’” she continued. “He walked in, he stood and he stared. He was doing it because he knew that he could.”
The alleged incident happened in her shared dressing room behind the stage at the Genesis convention center in Gary, Indiana.
The woman — who did not wish to be identified — is the second competitor from the 2001 Miss USA pageant to claim that Trump took advantage of owning the pageant, which he broadcast on NBC, in order to view the contestants naked.

This isn’t about “objectification” or “misogyny” or some other feminist buzzword. This involves issues of trustworthiness and character. The fact that Hillary Clinton is ultimately as untrustworthy as Trump is irrelevant in terms of the impact these stories have on undecided voters, and issues of policy are even less relevant in that regard. We simply cannot expect a majority of Americans to elect as their president a man who cannot be trusted with their teenage daughters. Therefore, they will elect Bill Clinton’s wife, which makes no sense at all, but that’s just the way it is.

Show me on the doll where Donald Trump touched you.

— fraudfeasor (@fraudfeasor) October 13, 2016

Category: Donald Trump, Election

High-Priced Humiliation

Posted on | October 13, 2016 | 4 Comments

“Masculinity can be extremely toxic to our mental health, both to the people who are pressured to perform it and the people who are inevitably influenced by it. . . . Relevant to this discussion is how masculinity can harm our relationships with people and one’s ability to cope when relationships are difficult or end.”
— Claremont College, Oct. 3, 2016

Annual tuition at Claremont College is $50,945 and room and board cost $15,740, and the question is why any parent would pay $66,685 a year to send their son to such an avowedly anti-male institution. If masculinity — the normal behavior of normal males — is inherently “toxic” and harmful in its influence, why shouldn’t Claremont ban males from campus altogether? Well, the school’s football team is currently 4-0, so apparently masculinity has its uses in academia, and as long as parents don’t mind their sons being insulted by the administration of this elite private college, the cognitive dissonance will continue.

In a statement to the Claremont Independent, Sabine Scott, a leader of the “Masculinity + Mental Health” event, said it was “a productive conversation” which “empowered both the men and women.”

Exactly how it is empowering to men to insult them as “toxic,” Ms. Scott did not explain, but no one expects college girls to make sense nowadays. Daddy spends $66,685 a year to send his precious princess to one of the most expensive schools on the West Coast, where she learns to spew a lot of trendy jargon and nothing else is required of her.

If nothing else, this administration-approved insult to male students — and the failure of anyone on campus to object to it — probably answers my question, “Why Does Claremont Need a ‘Queer Resource Center’?”

Claremont: They’re here, they’re queer, for $66,685 a year.

UPDATE: Oh, I guess there was at least one complaint:

“If masculinity is described as something negative — a mental illness — then this is sexism against men,” stated Will Gu [a freshman] in an email to the Independent. “Safe spaces . . . are supposed to make everyone feel comfortable. Criticizing masculinity makes males who adhere to traditional gender norms uncomfortable.”

Whining about “sexism against men” is weak sauce, Will. Male students at Claremont are being insulted by Sabine Scott and her feminist allies, and this insult — anti-male hate propaganda — is tacitly endorsed by the official authority of the college administration. Claremont collects $66,685 a year per student, thus requiring parents of male students to pay for these insults against their sons. Indeed, the anti-male agenda promoted by Sabine Scott is a regular part of the Claremont curriculum, thanks to the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

Do not whine about being insulted, Mr. Gu — do something.

If there is still any male student at Claremont who has any shred of self-respect, he ought to withdraw from the college, and publicly announce this in a letter to the student newspaper explaining that the reason for his departure is the vicious hostility toward males on campus fomented by hate-filled feminist fanatics like Sabine Scott. It would be better for a young man to attend a community college or a second-tier state university than to be expected to tolerate insults for $66,685 a year at a posh playground for Special Snowflakes™ like Claremont.

Hell, boy, I’d rather drive a forklift than to put up with that nonsense.

UPDATE II: It seems young Will Gu is a conservative troublemaker on the Claremont campus. He recently went to report on a “safe space” event hosted by Pomona College’s Asian American Resource Center (AARC), where he was told that journalism was not permitted:

The process of stifling free press begins right as a journalist walks through the doors into the safe space. While I was initially welcomed when I asked if I could record the event and take notes, further questioning revealed I was trying to cover the event for a student-run publication. Even then, the event facilitators extended their warm welcome, until it was brought to light that this student-run publication was The Claremont Independent, a conservative-leaning paper. No more warm welcome and no more recording allowed, but I was still permitted to take notes. . . .
I was told that taking notes made participants uncomfortable, and that I should respect the AARC as a “safe space.” . . .
Despite making it clear that speech at this event should make all participants comfortable, attacks on capitalism and “capitalist violence,” the “heteropatriarchal” society, and traits of the “model minority” (like working hard and obeying the law) were left unchecked, without the slightest consideration of whether I, with differing political views, would feel comfortable listening to endless assaults to values which I hold dear. Yet with free press dead, who dares challenge this hypocrisy?

Well, while it is still my opinion that no self-respecting man would pay money to attend an anti-male school like Claremont, if your parents insist on sending you there, I suppose you should get your money’s worth by raising as much hell as possible. Never let those social-justice goons have a moment’s peace, Mr. Gu. Keep a close eye on them and, whenever you get a chance, force them to account for themselves. Make them sweat with fear at your presence on campus. And then laugh at their fear.