Everyone Blog About The Howard County (MD) State’s Attorney Day?

This is the latest post in what I half-jokingly call The Kimberlin Saga^®.  If you are new to the story, that’s okay! Not everyone reads my blog.  The short version is that Kimberlin has been harassing me for over a year, his worst conduct being when he attempted to frame me for a crime.  I recognize that this might sound like an incredible claim, but I provide video and documentary evidence of that fact; in other words, you don’t have to believe my word.  You only have to believe your eyes.  So, if you are new to the story, go to this page and you’ll be able to catch up on what has been happening.

“If you’re so concerned for your safety, don’t come to Maryland.”

That has to be one of the most stunning things I had ever heard any law enforcement official say in my life.

To set the scene a little, on March 1, 2013, I had filed harassment and electronic harassment charges against Bill Schmalfeldt.  As you know by now, convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin chose that day to stalk my wife as we were waiting to get a temporary peace order, and he stalked me again the next Friday when I had to be in court for a continuance of the peace order hearing.

The next Monday (March 11), I had to meet with Assistant State’s Attorney Jim Brewer of Howard County, Maryland.  I shared the story with Becca Lower and she was kind enough to publish it.  Do read the whole thing, please.  Brewer told us he was going to dismiss the harassment charges against Schmalfeldt.  So I asked him also about the stalking, telling him what Kimberlin had done.  First he said, “it’s a public place” as if that made a difference.  For instance, in Hackley v. State, one of the acts of “stalking” included driving down a public street in front of the victim’s home and the Maryland Court of Appeals upheld that decision.  In fact what the Court of Appeals held was that any activity that created a reasonable fear of any kind of assault would support a stalking charge whether or not it involved following a person around or not.

I tried to explain to him this about the law and somewhere in that conversation is when he uttered that phrase in the face of my tearful wife:

“If you’re so concerned for your safety, don’t come to Maryland.”

You got that?  Good, peaceful, law-abiding citizens who don’t want to be terrorized—or for their wives to be terrorized—shouldn’t come to Maryland.  Indeed by this logic, I guess all the good people presently living there should just leave.

My flippant attitude is hiding, to a degree, my anger about what happened.  What this represents is an abdication of their duty to protect the public.

So if you agree that this is outrageous, then there may be something you can do to help.  My good friend John Hoge has suggested an Everyone Blog About the Howard County State’s Attorney Day.  What he is suggesting, in essence is a blogswarm where we all try to get a comment from the Howard County state’s attorney about the matter and report back what happened.

So please read what Mr. Hoge has to say and consider participating in it.  No state in our union should be off limits to peaceful, law-abiding citizens in favor of unreformed domestic terrorists.  And it is disgusting that we are reduced to fighting for such a basic principle.

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My wife and I have lost our jobs due to the harassment of convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin, including an attempt to get us killed and to frame me for a crime carrying a sentence of up to ten years.  I know that claim sounds fantastic, but if you read starting here, you will see absolute proof of these claims using documentary and video evidence.  If you would like to help in the fight to hold Mr. Kimberlin accountable, please hit the Blogger’s Defense Team button on the right.  And thank you.

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Disclaimer:

I have accused some people, particularly Brett Kimberlin, of reprehensible conduct.  In some cases, the conduct is even criminal.  In all cases, the only justice I want is through the appropriate legal process—such as the criminal justice system.  I do not want to see vigilante violence against any person or any threat of such violence.  This kind of conduct is not only morally wrong, but it is counter-productive.

In the particular case of Brett Kimberlin, I do not want you to even contact him.  Do not call him.  Do not write him a letter.  Do not write him an email.  Do not text-message him.  Do not engage in any kind of directed communication.  I say this in part because under Maryland law, that can quickly become harassment and I don’t want that to happen to him.

And for that matter, don’t go on his property.  Don’t sneak around and try to photograph him.  Frankly try not to even be within his field of vision.  Your behavior could quickly cross the line into harassment in that way too (not to mention trespass and other concerns).

And do not contact his organizations, either.  And most of all, leave his family alone.

The only exception to all that is that if you are reporting on this, there is of course nothing wrong with contacting him for things like his official response to any stories you might report.  And even then if he tells you to stop contacting him, obey that request.  That this is a key element in making out a harassment claim under Maryland law—that a person asks you to stop and you refuse.

And let me say something else.  In my heart of hearts, I don’t believe that any person supporting me has done any of the above.  But if any of you have, stop it, and if you haven’t don’t start.