Tips on Participation in Everyone Blog About the Howard County 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.

So next Monday, April 8 (2013) will be Everyone Blog About the Howard County State’s Attorney Day, which was the brainchild of Mr. Hoge at his lovely blog.  Ace was kind enough to promote it, here.  And I wanted to take a moment to talk about some of the different ways you can participate.

One obvious question is “what if I don’t blog?”  Well, here are some ways you can participate, too.

First, you can create your own blog, if only for one post on one day.  Google’s Blogger is free and very simple to use.  And the basic package at Wordpress is also free and simple to use.  You can pay a little to get premium features, but you can create a basic blog for free.

Another approach would be to share your experiences.  I am sure Mr. Hoge will be happy to allow you to leave comments about how it went on his blog.  And while I am bad about comment approvals, here, I will try to really make sure all comments that are appropriate are published on mine.

Or if you would prefer, email me.  Now I will not publish any email where you say you threatened them or otherwise was a jerk, but otherwise as long as it looks genuine, I will publish it.  And if you want me to leave out your name, email address, etc. just say so in the email and I will leave it out.

Or you could even tweet the thing out, or facebook it, or use whatever social media you want.  The hastag on twitter is #BlogHoCoSAO.

Now let's talk about how to contact them, for bloggers and non-bloggers alike. 

You can of course send letters, although it is getting late to do that.  Email addresses work, too.  This is their contact page.  And this is their email address.  If you don’t want it to automatically open your email program, here is the address to cut and paste: sao@howardcountymd.gov.  And here’s their media contact page.  Their PR guy, more or less, is T. Wayne Kirwin.  His phone number is 410-313-3002, and his email is wkirwan@howardcountymd.gov.  (Thanks to Dustyn, with a y, for that pointer.)

And while this doesn’t directly help the cause, you might consider putting one of these bumper stickers on your car.  When people ask what the hell that means, you can explain.

The actual state’s attorney is Dario J. Broccolino, but he was not the one who told me and my tearful, furious wife, that if we were so concerned for our safety to stay out of Maryland.  No, that was Assistant State’s Attorney Jim Brewer, as Becca Lower told you in this piece.  But Mr. Broccolino is ultimately responsible for Mr. Brewer’s conduct and so he’s the one to talk to.

And one more thing.  Maryland is a two party consent state.  So if you would choose to record anyone’s voice (by a tape recorder, or a video recorder with sound), you need that person’s consent (with some exceptions I won’t get into, here).  But it is generally sufficient for consent purposes to tell the person up front that they are being recorded.  So you could, for instance, make a recording of a call you make, upload it to YouTube or a similar service and let us know about it.  Just a thought.

And I want to thank everyone who will participate.  I have no right to expect any of this from you.  Any help I get is a gift, and I owe each of you therefore my gratitude and it is gladly given.

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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.

Follow me at Twitter @aaronworthing, mostly for snark and site updates.  And you can purchase my book (or borrow it for free if you have Amazon Prime), Archangel: A Novel of Alternate, Recent History here.  And you can read a little more about my novel, here.

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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.