Brett Kimberlin, Convicted Terrorist and Perjurer, Writes Me a Note (Part 1 of a Planned 3 Part Series)

So for two days last week Ron Brynaert and I tangled.  It started when he wrote a silly and unhinged post attacking me and I responded with a post, here, exposing his poor logic and serial factual inaccuracies, most of which appeared to be intentional.  Now a grown up man would admit his errors, and move on with his life, perhaps a little humbler.  But we aren’t talking about a mature man, we are talking about Ron Brynaert.

So later that evening he wrote to various officials at Yale University in an attempt to out me, as an act of crude thuggery and I published a post about this attempt, roundly mocking Mr. Brynaert’s serial factual inaccuracies and generally pathetic attempt at outing me.

Later that evening I saw where Ron Brynaert had attempted to contact a long-time internet rival trying to obtain my real identity and being hilariously and humiliatingly rebuffed in his attempt, which became the subject of a new post the next day.

So two days in a row, Ron Brynaert tried and apparently failed to obtain my true identity and you might have reasonably wondered: did he try a third time?

He did not.  His associate Brett Kimberlin did.

You might not know Brett Kimberlin, but he is a lovely person who is...  well, let’s let the Sixth Circuit explain:

Kimberlin was convicted as the so-called "Speedway Bomber," who terrorized the city of Speedway, Indiana, by detonating a series of explosives in early September 1978. In the worst incident, Kimberlin placed one of his bombs in a gym bag, and left it in a parking lot outside Speedway High School. Carl Delong was leaving the high school football game with his wife when he attempted to pick up the bag and it exploded. The blast tore off his lower right leg and two fingers, and embedded bomb fragments in his wife's leg. He was hospitalized for six weeks, during which he was forced to undergo nine operations to complete the amputation of his leg, reattach two fingers, repair damage to his inner ear, and remove bomb fragments from his stomach, chest, and arm. In February 1983, he committed suicide.

After being convicted of the bombings and related offenses, Kimberlin was sentenced to a fifty-year term of imprisonment for manufacturing and possessing a destructive device, and malicious damage by explosives with personal injury in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and (f), and 18 U.S.C. §§ 844(f) and (i). He received a concurrent twelve-year sentence for impersonating a federal officer, illegal use of a Department of Defense insignia, and illegal use of the Presidential Seal in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 912, 701, and 713, respectively, and a five-year term for receipt of explosives by a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 842(i)(1). Finally, he was given a four-year sentence by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on an earlier, unrelated conviction for conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

Kimberlin v. White, 7 F.3d 527 (1993).  And in addition to all of that loveliness, he is a convicted perjurer, too:

Finally, petitioner [Kimberlin] argues that the Parole Commission erroneously computed his salient factor score in 1988 when it awarded only 1 point to petitioner's salient factor score because of 2 prior convictions. The convictions in question are a juvenile conviction for selling controlled substances and a subsequent conviction shortly after his 18th birthday for perjury before the grand jury relative to the involvement of others in the juvenile drug offense.

Kimberlin v. White, 798 F.Supp. 472 (1992).  And really, this is only scratching the surface in all of this.  You will learn more as we go along.  And this was the guy who contacted me just after midnight on the third night (so technically the next day), writing the following in an email:

Justice Through Music   Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:15 AM

To: edmd5.20.10@gmail.com

Dear Mr. Worthing:

My name is Brett Kimberlin and I am writing you regarding a legal matter in which you are a potential witness.  This correspondence is strictly for legal purposes and you do not have my permission to republish this email or its contents in any public venue. 

Um let me break in, here, Brett. I don’t need your permission.  And please note this is just how he wrote it, typos and all:

Last year I sued Seth Allen for defamation, harassment, violation of privacy and interference with business, and, on November 14, 2011, the court issued judgment in my favor and issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Mr. Allen from further defaming me or interfering with my businesses.  Despite that order, Mr. Allen immediately began against defaming me on his own and other blogs, both in posts and comments, and posting in order to interfere with my business.  He also began a relentless attack on Judge Richard Jordan, who has issued the judgment, calling him disparaging names, cursing at him, threatening him, and investigating him and his former law firm. 

I filed two motions for contempt outlining Mr. Allen’s post judgment conduct, and have met with the Montgomery County State’s Attorney about pursuing criminal contempt charges against Mr. Allen.  Judge Jordan recused himself from hearing the contempt motions because of the personal attacks by Mr. Allen.  On December 9, 2011, a new judge issued an Order to Show Cause to Mr. Allen, and ordered a contempt hearing for January 9, 2012.

Mr. Allen has continued his attacks, including a December 14th comment on his own blog stating that he will fight extradition and that Maryland officials can “kiss [his] ass.”

On August 23, 2011, Mr. Allen responded to an email from you in which he made a threat to murder me.  I sought a peace order and the court, on October 13, 2011, made a clear and convincing finding based on the email and Mr. Allen’s behavior in court, that Mr. Allen poses a threat of death and physical harm to me. 

You are a potential witness in the contempt case because of Mr. Allen’s correspondence with you via email, Mr. Allen’s correspondence with you after the judgment was issued, and his statements that he has gotten advice from you over the past year.  Mr. Allen has stated that you are an attorney and that you were advising him on various legal matters.

I would like to ask that you voluntarily appear as a witness in this case to testify about your relationship with Mr. Allen, your advice to him, and whether that advice included your legal opinion that, as Mr. Allen says, he has a First Amendment right to defame, harass, and stalk me because I am a “public figure.”  I would also like you to testify if you advised Mr. Allen that he could attack Judge Jordan with his threats and posts under the First Amendment, and whether you told him that he could not be extradited to Maryland under a contempt order. 

Of course, if you have been acting as Mr. Allen’s attorney, I would ask you to seek a waiver from Mr. Allen of the attorney client relationship so you can testify about these matters. 

If you do not agree to appear voluntarily, I ask that you provide me with your legal name and address so I can serve you with a subpoena to appear. 

If you do not want to provide me with your name and address, I may seek an order from the Court under Brodie v. Independent Newspapers, http://www.courts.state.md.us/opinions/coa/2009/63a08.pdf for your blog provider, email hoster and IP provider to disclose your name and address.  As you may know, the Court issued such an Order to identify Mr. Allen, who had been posting as Socrates.

I want to thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter. I have been stalked for three years by Mr. Allen and it has to stop.  If you or your attorney would like to chat with me about this, please feel free to contact me by phone.   I urge you to let me know your intentions as soon as possible because I have already begun preparing for the hearing, and your decisions could impact those preparations.  With the holidays coming up, I want to make sure that any motions I file have a chance to be decided prior to the contempt hearing. 

Sincerely,

Brett  Kimberlin [phone number omitted]

This is only part one of a planned three part series.  Tomorrow we get to see Mr. Kimberlin’s next communication and then the next day, I plan to show you how I have responded.  Pull up a bag of popcorn, this is going to get fun.

I’ll give you one preview.  Mr. Kimberlin made a serious error tactical error in tangling with me, as he is about to discover.  Stay tuned.