Final Peace Order Hearing Between Jay Elliott and Brett Kimberlin

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.

[Update: Please note that I have removed the first name of Ms. Kimberlin at her request and left only her first initial, “T.” She is, after all, a victim of sexual abuse and those kinds of reasonable requests will be honored.  While the moral right to privacy of rape victims is not absolute, it seems to be reasonably asserted here.]

If you were following by twitter you probably know the basics.  Last week Jay Elliott successfully won a temporary peace order against Brett Kimberlin, but that meant he would have to come back in a week to seek a final peace order.  And like last time the language is going to get a little raw.  I know that turns off some people which is why I don’t usually go there, but sometimes it really is necessary.

The jovial figure I observed in Mr. Elliott the week before was now subdued.  I mean how would you feel after watching your girlfriend (meaning Brett Kimberlin’s wife) get arrested for bogus reasons?  Overall, Elliott seemed a little overwhelmed by events.  In all bluntness, this guy needs a lawyer.

Judge Hamilton presided and seemed to have difficulty communicating with Mr. Elliott.  He wanted proof of communication from Brett Kimberlin directed to Elliott himself and Elliott was unable for whatever reasons to summon that.  The petition was ultimately denied although he could still re-file or appeal.  There is a long history in this case of District Courts getting it wrong, and Circuit Courts getting it right.

We also heard from T. Kimberlin, which brought out a few details.  Apparently my reading of her writing was wrong.  She had been separated from Brett Kimberlin for “around eight months” and she repeated the allegations that he was visiting both of their places of employment and saying awful things about them, trying to get them fired.

Brett Kimberlin, despite being forbidden from testifying in Maryland, was able to present testimony of his own.  What he revealed is the creepy depths he goes to when he is angry at someone, trying to smear their reputations.  I won’t recount every vile thing he said about Elliott and his wife, because I suspect he was hoping Mr. Hoge and I would repeat it, but it will suffice that he made ugly, unsubstantiated and ultimately irrelevant allegations about them both, the kinds which would be familiar to anyone who has been watching how he has stalked myself, Lee Stranahan, Stacy McCain, Ali Akbar and others over the last year.  As he was defaming this man and the mother of his children, the judge actually cut him off, saying, “I don’t care about that.”  Once again, it was Brett Kimberlin who was attacking his wife, not any of us and we will not give him the satisfaction of publicizing his presumptively false accusations.

And while I won’t repeat every vile accusation, of particular interest is his bizarre accusation that Elliott was a Mormon who planned to make Ms. Kimberlin part of his polygamous harem (because he is apparently unaware that the Mormons swore off polygamy decades ago).  I have no idea whether Elliott is a Mormon... or did Kimberlin think he could make all these accusations because he has ties to Utah?  In any case, I don’t mind repeating the allegation because it is so idiotic it makes Kimberlin look bad.  And it is certainly rich that after he attacked me for criticizing Islam that he would attack Mormonism on those terms.  I mean isn’t Islam a polygamous religion (though I don’t know any American Muslims who practice polygamy)?

He also had the nerve to call Elliott a “predator.”  This from a guy who once called a ten year old girl his “girlfriend.”  But this is typical of Brett Kimberlin: accuse the accusers of doing what you actually did.  By all evidence, Mr. Elliott is just a guy who fell in love with woman who was trapped in bad marriage.

So what starts to emerge from their testimony is this.  Brett and T. separated for whatever reason around November of last year.  So, contrary to Brett Kimberlin’s story before the court last week, she didn’t run away from him on June 20.  She was already living her own life.  But she chose to go on a vacation and when Brett Kimberlin found out it was with Mr. Elliott he went into a rage.  Brett Kimberlin might have believed he was taking her to the evil Mormons, or that might be a stupid lie he told in court to make his actions seem (in his mind) more reasonable.  In all this time she had evidently been allowed to use the Toyota Highlander Brett claims is owned by one of his charities.  So he decides to try to control his wife, again, by claiming her right to use the car was revoked and threatening criminal charges if they didn’t interrupt their vacation and return it.

And Brett Kimberlin is naturally upset at Mr. Hoge and I because he hoped to use the apparatus of the state to abuse these people without anyone noticing.  Well, the world is taking notice.

Anyway, as you might suspect from the forgoing, Kimberlin won this round, but we will see if Mr. Elliot and Ms. Kimberlin end up getting the help they deserve.

And finally as a coda.  Do you remember the salacious text messages that Kimberlin claimed Elliott sent him last week?  You know, described sex acts between Mr. Elliott and Ms. Kimberlin and Brett Kimberlin read in front of his nine year old daughter?

Elliott didn’t even send them.  So Brett Kimberlin exposed his daughters to words like “sucking his dick” and “fucking your wife” and the guy didn’t even say those things.  What does that say about Brett Kimberlin’s character that he would do that?

And one more thing.  Mr. Elliott evidently is commenting on Hoge’s post on today’s proceedings.  So you might want to check it out.

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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.