Bill Schmalfeldt Admits His Conduct is Harassment

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 today the ever-helpful @Kimberlinunmasked tweeted this out:

Bill Schmalfeldt threatens to dox #BlogHoCoSAO participants kimberlinunmasked.blogspot.com/2013/04/blogho… twitter.com/Kimberlinunmas…
— Kimberlin Unmasked (@Kimberlinunmask) April 8, 2013

Admittedly the picture is hard to read, but the key thing is he is threatening to dox every participant in Everyone Blog About the Howard County State’s Attorney Day after declaring it to be “harassment.”

And in doing so, he has tacitly admitted that he is himself engaged in harassment.  See if you follow this.

For months Schmalfeldt continually emailed and tweeted to Lee Stranahan with accusations of things like him pimping out his wife to prostitutes and attacks on him for the stillborn death of his daughter.  Yes, really.  It was so repellent even self-identified members of anonymous were disgusted.  Then again, this is a man who was kicked off Daily Kos for being disgusting and who desperately attempted to cover up a parody ad where he imagined Lee pimping out his own children, so disgusting is par for the course for Bill Schmuckfeldt Schmalfeldt.

Schmalfeldt’s defense was that he was a journalist who was just trying to contact a source in regards to a story.  This was plainly false, because many of the tweets and emails were nothing of the sort—often nothing more than insults—and moreover as his own lawyer has admitted and I demonstrated, Bill Schmalfeldt is not a journalist.  No, what he is, is a thug—a paid one, if he has any intelligence.

But what is Everyone Blog About the Howard County (MD) State’s Attorney Day?  It is a day in which bloggers (broadly defined) will contact their office and ask for a comment on a story and report their results.  And this is what Schmalfeldt calls harassment!—which is the same thing he (falsely) claimed he was doing.  So by accusing us of harassing the State’s Attorney Office, he is implicitly admitting he has been harassing us.

Well, of course it isn’t for many reasons but the most fundamental one is this: because we the people have a right, guaranteed explicitly in the First Amendment, to petition the government for a redress of grievances and that is all this is.  The government has no right to say, “stop contacting me,” because the First Amendment does guarantee a right to contact them and demand that our grievances be addressed.

Which is not to say the government can never be harassed.  For instance, if people call up and threaten them that counts has harassment and probably breaks a whole slew of other laws at the same time.  But just calling the offices of a unit of the government and asking for a comment on a story?  Of course not.

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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.