Of ‘Myths’ and Common Sense

Posted on | October 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

One of the basic propaganda tactics of the Left is to identify a cherished traditional belief as “myth,” and use this as a means of suggesting that opponents of leftist ideology are ignorant and prejudiced. We see this, for example, when the Left attacks any patriotic interpretation of American history as based in “myth.” It is a myth, left-wing intellectuals tell us, that the Pilgrims came to America seeking religious freedom, just like it is a myth that industrial capitalism is beneficial to society, and also a myth that radical Islam is a threat to world peace. All of this is about convincing us to trust intellectuals and distrust our own common sense.

The traditional values we learned from our parents and our churches are false consciousness, the Left wants us to believe, and anyone who argues in defense of those values is a hateful bigot in thrall to discredited myths. Feminists often use this tactic, but they certainly have no monopoly on it. Pedophiles also frequently use the same type of argument, and the editor of “Pedophiles About Pedophilia” (!!!) has a nasty habit of dismissing all of his critics as stupid, ignorant, prejudiced, etc. So when “Ender Wiggin” (as he calls himself) invoked the expert authority of “the scientists who actually study sexuality” against one of his critics, the need to defend common sense was apparent:

Because you are personally obsessed with this particular subject, you have accumulated a pile of references to “expert” sources that you can cite in support of your peculiar claims, so as to justify yourself in dismissing all critics as “narrow-minded idiots.” This is a crude tactic of propaganda, which can be (and is) used by advocates of every bogus belief system you could name — Islamic jihadists, Holocaust deniers, “climate change” doomsayers, etc. Bad causes supported by bad people generally produce bad arguments like yours, and your errors of logic and rhetoric are symptomatic of your problem. . . .
Not only are you sexually obsessed with children, but you are obsessed with convincing others that your perverse appetites are harmless, and you don’t want anyone connecting the dots between (a) your weird arguments, and (b) you, the actual human being who is making these weird arguments. You wish to avoid personal responsibility, and this itself is likewise symptomatic.
Pedophiles love to play the victim; they are prone to rationalizing their deviant preferences; and they viciously lash out at anyone who tries to hold them accountable for their wrongdoing. A psychologist coined the term “DARVO” (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) to describe this pattern of behavior, which is quite typical among sex offenders. We do not need any “experts,” however, but only common sense, to realize that the sex offender operates on a basis of secrecy and deception. . . .

Read the whole thing at Medium.com. Trust your common sense, and beware of anyone who calls your common sense belief a “myth.”

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 10.17.16

Posted on | October 17, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.17.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Paris 2016 – Scenes From The Apocalypse
Twitchy: James O’Keefe Exposes Hillary’s Brownshirts
Louder With Crowder: Top Ten WikiLeaks You Need To Know
The Volokh Conspiracy: Chris Cuomo Blathers About How Only The Media Can be Trusted With Wikileaks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Pressure Is Building
American Power: Donald Trump’s Untried Ground Game In Ohio
American Thinker: It’s Not An Election, It’s A War
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Crime Plus Music
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Yes, WikiLeaks Did Hack John Podesta’s E-Mails
Don Surber: 3000 Miles. Five Hillary Signs
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries
Jammie Wearing Fools: NBC Insider – “Trump Was Leading In The Polls, So The Tape Was Leaked To Derail His Bid”
Joe For America: WikiLeaks Catches Media Red-handed Doing What We’ve Been Saying They Do For Years
JustOneMinute: Frack This!
Pamela Geller: WikiLeaks – John Podesta Laments San Bernadino Murderers Were Muslims
Power Line: Who’s Deplorable?
Shark Tank: Bill Clinton Sex Tape With Thirteen-Year-Old To Be Released
Shot In The Dark: Welcome To The New Samizdat
STUMP: On Failed Predictions – Throwing It All In The Bin
The Jawa Report: Crooked Hillary’s Crooked Campaign Is Crooked
The Political Hat: Science And Sexism, Or Why Feminist Science Isn’t
The Quinton Report:
This Ain’t Hell: General James Cartwright Charged In Release Of Classified Information, also, Army Colonel Haring Claims Marines’ Infantry Officer Requirements Unrealistic
Weasel Zippers: Bomb Threat At Arizona GOP HQ, also, Chicago Gets Serious About Sky-High Murder Rate By Banning Western Cowgirl Playset
Mark Steyn: Moderation And The Santa Clause

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Category: Linkagery

The Big Lie: ‘Rape Culture,’ the UVA Hoax and the Democrat-Media Complex

Posted on | October 17, 2016 | 2 Comments

The dishonest journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely and her dishonest source, Jackie Coakley, are both expected to testify in the UVA rape hoax trial that began today in Charlottesville, Virginia:

A defamation lawsuit filed by a former University of Virginia dean against Rolling Stone magazine for its botched article about an alleged gang rape at the Charlottesville school is set for trial starting Monday.
Nicole Eramo was the associate dean of students who counseled “Jackie,” an otherwise unidentified student whose tale of sexual brutality in a fraternity house set off a nationwide firestorm when the magazine published the article in November 2014. Eramo is suing the magazine for almost $8 million, saying A Rape on Campus cast her as the “chief villain.”
Lawyers for Eramo have included Jackie on their witness list. . . .
Charlottesville police investigated and found no evidence of rape. The magazine commissioned the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to study the way the article was handled. That 13,000-word report?—?4,000 words longer than the article itself?—?found a systematic failure by the magazine, starting with relying too heavily on a single source: Jackie. The report also said the magazine, not Jackie, was to blame for the botched piece.
The magazine issued an apology in December 2014 for its failures in reporting and editing. The story was fully retracted four months later.

More from BuzzFeed, the New York Times and Hot Air.

Meanwhile, I’ve shared my own perspective on what the case means:

Erdely’s quasi-religious faith in Jackie Coakley’s gang-rape story shows how many journalists have become True Believers, dedicated progressive activists whose “reporting” is actually political propaganda. Liberal journalists seek to promote narratives that advance the movement’s agenda, and in the case of Erdely’s Rolling Stone story, the narrative was that teenage girls on university campuses are raped routinely raped by “privileged” male students, and that university administrators are complicit in this “campus rape epidemic.” . . .
Highlighting the “campus rape epidemic” clearly served the Democrats’ political interests. It is therefore no coincidence that Emily Renda was directly involved with the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault that Obama created by executive order on Jan. 22, 2014. Renda spoke at a February 2014 University of Virginia event entitled “Sexual Misconduct Among College Students. Another speaker at that UVA event was Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary in the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), who served as the Education Department’s designee to the White House task force. Renda attended six meetings at the White House, including one held on Feb. 21, 2014, was conducted by Lynn Rosenthal, then the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. The connection between Renda, Lhamon and the Obama administration’s campus rape task force is directly relevant to the case of Eramo v. Rolling Stone, et al., because (a) both Renda and Lhamon were sources quoted in Sabrina Erdely’s false story, and (b) it was Renda’s testimony that first called Erdely’s attention to Jackie Coakley’s false claim of gang-rape at the Pi Kappa Phi house. . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree.

Category: Crime, Education, Media Bias, Sex Trouble

MS-13 Gang Terrorizes Town in N.Y.

Posted on | October 17, 2016 | 3 Comments

The New York Times reports:

For nearly two decades, MS-13, a gang with roots in Los Angeles and El Salvador, has been terrorizing [Brentwood, N.Y.], the authorities say, especially its young people. Since 2009, its members have been accused of at least 14 murders, court and police records show.
Tensions simmer here because some residents say they believe an increase in Central American migrants to town has led to the increase in gang violence. According to 2014 census figures compiled by Queens College, Brentwood’s population is 68 percent Latino or Hispanic, with more than 17,000 residents claiming to be from El Salvador.
MS-13 was formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by immigrants from El Salvador escaping civil war. The abbreviation stands for Mara Salvatrucha, which roughly translates to “Salvadoran street posse.”
The authorities say the gang has been in Suffolk County since around 1998, and is organized in cliques bearing names like the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas. Leaders gather to discuss their lines of business — extortion, prostitution, robbery, drug dealing — and to authorize the killings of chavalas, or members of rival gangs like the Bloods and the Crips, court papers say.

Cameron Gray notes that the national media have largely ignored the epidemic of violence in Brentwood, once a tranquil Long Island suburb:

A wave of brutal murders of black and Hispanic teens has gripped the town, and those who live there fear for the lives of their children, as well as their own.
Over two weeks in September, authorities found the bodies of Nisa Mickens, 15, and her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, as well as Oscar Acosta, 19, and Miguel Garcia-Moran, 15. All four deaths are said to be at the hands of Hispanic gangs, and most likely MS-13.

Teenage girls kidnapped and murdered:

BRENTWOOD, Long Island — A teenage girl was found dead Tuesday night and on Wednesday a second body was found matching the description of her missing friend who was allegedly abducted after the teen was beaten to death, police say.
Nisa Mickens, 15, was found dead Tuesday night on the side of Stahley Street, just outside of the gate of Loretta Park Elementary School, and a passing motorist called the sighting into 911. The victim had at least 10 significant injuries that led police to believe she had been beaten to death and may have been struck by a vehicle, investigators say.
Mickens and her friend, 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas, were walking in the area when Mickens’ family say they believe gang members tried to kidnap Cuevas. Investigators say Mickens appeared to try fighting off the kidnappers, but was killed, her body left alongside the road.

If these teenagers had been killed by white cops, instead of being killed by Salvadoran gangsters, CNN would be providing round-the-clock coverage of the nationwide race riots. But not all murders are created equal, and some dead teenagers simply don’t matter to the liberal media.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: Crime, Immigration, Media Bias

Rule 5 Sunday: J Is For Joan Jett

Posted on | October 16, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not going to deny it – while I have great lust in my heart for Debbie Harry, and appreciation for a number of other musically-inclined ladies, there is no doubt that the hardest-rocking woman since Elvis was the King is Joan Marie Larkin, better known as Joan Jett. I mean, what’s not to like about somebody who quit taking guitar lessons because her teacher kept trying to teach her folk songs? So this week’s appetizer is a shot of the Godmother of Punk in her early days with the Runaways.

As usual, this post is chock-full of links to pics generally described as Not Safe For Work. The management is not responsible for whatever horrible fates befall you should you be indiscreet with your clicking.

Joan Jett: the early years

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off this week with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Kelly Hu, Animal Magnetism with Rule Five 911 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and The Last Tradition with Leah Francis and Gigi Hadid.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Nancy O’Dell, Sexy Burkas (banned on Amazon), Talulah Riley, Kellyanne Conway punching back twice as hard, Tape Leaker Campbell Brown, Susannah York, Cassie Jaye and The Red Pill, and Vintage Hollywood Halloween.

A View from the Beach submits A Disney Princess, Caitlin O’Connor, What Does a 100 lb Catfish Eat?, From Russia With Love, Another Great Idea I Forgot to Patent, ‘Client 9’ Gets Girl in Trouble, Ariel Winter Flashes, Then Bashes, Monday Paint Job, Beltway Battle, and “When the Rain Begins to Fall” for our enjoyment this week.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, a Fall Foliage Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation’s Going Blind, Humpday In The Park With Georgia, Falconsword Fursday Close Shave, Latent Lingerie, and a Weekender in Red.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Daisy Lea, his Vintage Babe is Tina Louise, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Marina and the Diamonds with Harris Faulkner.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Rock & Roll Is Now ‘Rape Culture’

Posted on | October 16, 2016 | Comments Off on Rock & Roll Is Now ‘Rape Culture’

A few years ago, I saw a story (I could find a link, but don’t want to bother right now) about how groups like Led Zeppelin more or less habitually had sex with teenage groupies back in the 1970s. Given the rock-n-roll outlaw attitude — a cultural leftover of the Sexual Revolution back in hippie days, “the Summer of Love” and all that — no one could dispute that many teenage girls were eager to say they had been with Jimmy Page or whatever other rock icon they could get backstage to meet.

Flash-forward to the 21st century, when most Baby Boomers like me are already grandparents, and our hindsight reflection on that era of drugs, sex and rock-and-roll is blurred by more than the after-effects of whatever hallucinogenic substances we ingested back in the day. There are feminists who would tell you that all those rock icons were sexual predators, and that all those teenage groupies were victims.

Whatever. Feminists now agree with every fundamentalist tent-revival preacher that rock-and-roll is evil, and it is a well-known fact that Jimmy Page sold his soul to Satan and — let’s just get right down to it, OK? — America has been going straight to Hell ever since Elvis Presley started singing that Wicked Negro Devil Music, inciting girls to ungodly carnal lust with all those savage jungle voodoo rhythms and gyrating dances.

So it seems 21st-century feminism has brought us full circle to Eisenhower-era prudery, except everybody’s gay now, and heterosexuality is now the dreaded menace to America’s Youth. Such were the thoughts that inspired my most recent Medium essay:

Talia Borodin, now 37, has decided that an incident that occurred when she was 20 was rape. Far be it from me to dispute her right to tell her own story, and to share her own beliefs. What troubles me about her story, and about the current feminist “rape culture” discourse in general, is that it essentially exempts women from responsibility for their own sexual behavior.
Ms. Borodin describes a situation in which she was alone with a “cute boy” and they “fool around.” He was wearing only boxer shorts, and Ms. Borodin was evidently naked. Despite her insistence — she “vocalized it many times” — that she only wanted to “fool around,” he attempted to have sexual intercourse with her. She yelled at him to stop and he stopped.
The question is what we are supposed to learn from Ms. Borodin’s story. What is the didactic purpose? And this is a question that applies to feminist “rape culture” discourse in general. Is the purpose (a) to help prevent rape, or (b) to demonize heterosexual males, per se? . . .

Please read the whole thing, and if this makes me an accessory to “rape culture,” you can blame it on those savage jungle voodoo rhythms.

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Aces High

Posted on | October 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Tuesday: Birthday Edition
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Boomerang: NBC Suspends ‘Today’ Host Billy Bush Because …
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Now That the Election Is Over…
The Political Hat
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Function Creep
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 10.10.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Learning Not to Argue
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

‘My Inherent Feminine Wisdom’: Witchcraft and Academic Feminism
Batshit Crazy News

High-Priced Humiliation
inversionsuicide
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

Meet Caroline Contillo (@spacecrone), the ‘Buddhist Witch’ Who Destroyed @devincf
Hollywood Elsewhere
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 10.11.16
Proof Positive

Never Trust a ‘Male Feminist’ (And Relevant Thoughts About @JayaSaxena)
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

Outrage After Emails Show Top Clinton Campaign Aides Insulting Catholics
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 10.12.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

When It Rains, It Pours
The Lonely Conservative
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 10.13.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 10.14.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

‘You Have Misled the Jury’

Posted on | October 15, 2016 | Comments Off on ‘You Have Misled the Jury’

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.