Some Linkage in the Kimberlin Saga

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 since last December, 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.

I have a hearing tomorrow so I won’t be able to say very much about any of these, but I wanted to point you toward some important links worth reading.

First, if you are interested in the Kimberlin Saga, go to Hogewash and keep reading.  In fact, this link aggregates all of his posts related to Kimberlin.  Use it often.

But a few posts to call particular attention to.  First, you might ask “what hearing is tomorrow?”  Well, it is about the motion that Mr. Hoge discloses here.

In addition to that, Hoge has been investigating Kimberlin’s organizations and has found strong evidence of shenanigans in regards to his tax filings.  It is not a slam dunk, but it is certainly suspicious.

And for sheer chutzpah, apparently Kimberlin and his organization believes themselves to be First Amendment heroes.  You might have heard about P*ssy Riot (name slightly censored), the Russian punk band who was arrested for “hooliganism” for staging a protest against Putin.  By the news reports I have read, this seems like a valid free speech issue.

And Kimberlin and company have created a Pussy Riot advocacy fund.  They consider it a great injustice that P*ssy Riot is “languishing in prison for exercising their universal right to free expression.”  This is said by an organization run by a man who had me arrested for having exercised my right to freedom of expression.  Brett Kimberlin doesn’t respect freedom of expression in the slightest and certainly doesn’t mind attempting to criminalize disagreement.

No, what this is, is a transparent attempt to latch on to a popular issue to raise money.  None of the money goes to P*ssy Riot or their defense, but to “raise awareness” of their plight.  So in fact well-intentioned people, not reading his fine print, might think they are contributing to P*ssy Riot’s defense when it actually goes to this convicted terrorist and perjurer.  And by siphoning off money that could go to directly helping these women, Kimberlin is actually harming their cause.  They don’t need an anti-free-speech thug to “raise awareness” for them, they need money for their defense.

You can read about this entire scummy affair, here.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Patrick Frey, aka “Patterico” has been sued by Kimberlin ally Nadia Naffe, almost certainly an abusive suit.  I will talk more when I have gathered more information about it.

Convicted Terrorist and Perjurer Brett Kimberlin to Plead the Fifth?

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 since last December, 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.

That’s one of the headlines in the latest installment of Mr. Hoge’s document dump (see here, here and here) from my Virginia case, this time sharing Kimberlin’s motion for a continuance.  And specifically you might review the questions he doesn’t want to answer under oath, here.

Or you just might watch this video by way of explanation:

I can’t write more both due to my attorneys’ request that I hold my tongue and the lateness of the hour, but I will gently remind you that if you want to hold Mr. Kimberlin accountable for his behavior, please give to the Blogger’s Defense Team.

If You Are Wondering Why Brett Kimberlin is Refusing to Comply With Discovery...

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 since last December, 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.

Well, I mean besides the obvious, now you can read the explanation he gave to my attorney by email, two days before discovery was due and you can see how my attorney gave Kimberlin every opportunity to do right or at least offer a better excuse than “Idon’twanna.”

Yep, Mr. Hoge’s work is officially now an ongoing series, having dropped the motion to compel itself on Monday, the discovery requests on Tuesday and now this email exchange on Wednesday.  Now the question is... does he have more?  His post suggests he does.

There are other gems in the thing but as I told you yesterday and the day before, I am being asked to be close-lipped for now, and so I will be.  But we still have a hearing Friday, so… stay tuned.

But I will reiterate once again that if you want to hold Kimberlin and his crew accountable—or just want a cool keepsake—I would appreciate your participation in the Day-by-Day Auction/Raffle.  And I thank all of you good people who have or will support my quest for justice.

If You Wanted to Know What Questions Kimberlin Was Refusing to Answer...

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 since last December, 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.

As regular readers of this blog know, I have sued convicted terrorist and perjurer Brett Kimberlin (and his co-conspirators) for has scattered wrongdoing (which I outline here) and Kimberlin has thus far refused to comply with discovery.  As in, it was due almost exactly a month ago, something I discussed, here.

Again, I am still limiting my discussion of the case in the short term for strategic reasons but you know how Mr. Hoge yesterday released the motion to compel filed in my Virginia case?  You might have noticed that there were a number of exhibits referred to but not seen in Mr. Hoge’s scribd document.

Well, today Mr. Hoge has released some of those exhibits including the very requests for discovery that Brett Kimberlin is refusing to comply with.  And bear in mind, Kimberlin is refusing to comply with them wholesale, not merely objecting to any particular part.

So you might review what I have written on the subject, here.  And with that in mind, you might then also read what Mr. Hoge has written and the documents he has attached, here.

If you want to make sure he answers these questions, or just want to get a cool keepsake, you might consider contributing to the Blogger's Defense Team Auction and Raffle, here.

If You Wanted to Read the Motion to Compel Brett Kimberlin to Comply With Discovery…

Well, courtesy of Mr. Hoge’s blog, you can.  I have previously discussed that motion, here.  I have been asked for now to limit discussion of the case, and so I will.  So, I will simply say that Mr. Backer and company have shown excellent professionalism in their presentation and I feel well-represented.

And in a programming note, as of today we will be having a hearing on this motion this Friday morning.  There has been an attempt to continue proceedings, but I have no indication that the judge has ruled one way or the other on it.

If you choose to come, you are welcome to watch.  One note: no electronics with built in cameras are allowed in the courthouse.  So, yeah, no iPads.  Heh.

BREAKING: Lee Stranahan Flees His Home

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 since last December, 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 (IV): Thanks to twitchy for the link!  They have much more on this story.

Update: This tweet seems to verify my theory as to the cause:

Short Version:increasing intensity of the threats + public reveal of our address by a Kimberlin-y nut = problem @aaronworthing @rsmccain
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) September 6, 2012

More as it develops.

You might remember a few months ago that Robert Stacy McCain felt the need to flee his home in the face of Brett Kimberlin’s intimidation tactics.  Well, now Lee Stranahan has fled his home too.

My family is being forced to move because of the recent intimidation tactics used against us. More on this soon...
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) September 6, 2012

I have called and tweeted to him seeking a definitive statement about the cause.  I will let you know if there is any definitive answer, but he would seem to be alluding to the recent threats of rape to himself and his wife by Occupyrebellion who is definitely a member of Team Kimberlin and the Liberal Grouch (see here and here). (Update: read where Patrick quotes LG's language and see if that sounds like a threat to you) 

And of course he has been viciously attacked by Brooks Bayne’s crew for months.

In any case, while of course I do want you to donate to my Blogger’s Defense Team auction/raffle, I am honor-bound to promote Lee’s plea for a little financial help.

If you want to help out with these sudden moving expenses, you can send a donation via PayPal to stranahan@gmail.com
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) September 6, 2012

And remember folks, this is a sign we are winning.  They would not resort to these kinds of tactics if they thought they were winning.  This kind of lashing out is a sign of their ultimate impotence.

Update (II): Once again, Liberal Grouch doesn’t like being called on his own language.  Here’s what I considered a rape threat:

But maybe it would be nice for a pro-rape asshole such as yourself to understand the fear a woman faces at the concept of rape.

How many men do you figure it would take to hold you down, Stranny.

I bet one could do it.

As I wrote the other day when Occupyrebellion was making threats against Lee:

Threats don’t have to be “I plan to do X to you” or “do this or I will do X.”  For instance, in Virginia v. Black, the Supreme Court held that merely burning a cross on another person’s yard can be interpreted as a threat, given the historical meaning of the act.  Twelve people of common sense can recognize that even if the magic words are not said, some words are intended as a threat.  In other words, the law is not an idiot.

I think certainly speculating about how easy it would be to rape a person qualifies as a threat.  That’s my opinion, my conclusion based on the facts which I cited.  And just because there is cause to think LG himself can't carry it out, doesn't make it less of a threat. It just suggests he would have to recruit someone else to do it. And indeed Lee was concerned enough about this and other threatening conduct to abandon his home.

The fact is the Liberal Grouch and Occupyrebellion have slipped up.  It is never wise to threaten another or to talk of harming another, even if you don’t mean it.  Seth Allen learned this the hard way back in 2011 (he didn’t technically threaten, but he ruminated about harming Kimberlin), and now they are about to learn this as well.  How long will Occupyrebellion remain anonymous now?

Tick, tick, tick, as Mr. Hoge is wont to say.

Update (III): I meant to say this in the post, but I will add it now.  I spoke to Lee the other day about their claim that he was somehow “pro-rape.”  I knew him and his accusers well enough to assume it was not true, but I had no idea how Orwellian the charge was.  According to Lee, Occupyrebellion started accusing him of supporting rape when Lee was responding to the Akin “legitimate rape” controversy.  By Lee’s telling all he did was point out how common actual rape is in the Occupy protests.  So by his telling, he was not only not making a pro-rape comment, he was making an anti-rape comment (showing more concern for the real thing than someone's words about it), and their dissembling about the Occurape problem at best downplays a serious problem.  Which is not the same as bring pro-rape on their part, but it is certainly not taking the issue as seriously as it deserves to be.  Rape, as with any violence, should be a non-partisan issue.

Breaking: Brett Kimberlin Ally Occupyrebellion Lets the Mask Slip

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 since last December, 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: Liberal Grouch has threatened me with lawfare.  See here for details.

I have often joked that Twitter is the best engine of self-beclownment ever invented.  Of course this only works if you are actually a clown, but Occupyrebellion is just such a person.  And whoever Sheridan/Occupyrebellion is, she has done just that.

Of course the other day Occupyrebellion threatened Lee Stranahan’s wife—a threat that Joe Brooks documented had started with a monumentally stupid blogger/twitterer, named Liberal Grouch (see here and here), who then carried out Occupyrebellion’s threat.  Update: Liberal Grouch is dishonestly claiming I have said he raped Lee's wife.  Occupyrebellion's precise threat, as demonstrated in all of the links above, was to reveal where Lee lived so that rapists could harm Lee's wife.  Liberal Grouch has done exactly that--reveal where Lee lived.  Thanks to FilmLadd to alerting me to corpulent blogger's latest deception.

For some time I have theorized that Occupyrebellion is actually Brett Kimberlin's sock puppet.  But tonight, she made two things clear.  First, she is not Brett Kimberlin.  And second, she is not in the slightest bit an honest broker trying to find the truth.

Of course one might argue that this was obvious by the fact she was defending Brett Kimberlin’s conduct towards me at all.  I mean how can any person possessed of sanity look at this...

...and not think Kimberlin was an untrustworthy person?  But tonight she really let the mask slip, when she wrote this:

Today at 3 p.m. Eastern, I Talk with Lee Stranahan About Brett Kimberlin

This is the latest post in what I jokingly call The Kimberlin Saga^®.  If you are new to the story, that’s okay! Not everyone reads my blog.  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: Let me finish the thought I had been trying to get out when Lee ran out of time.  I know a lot of people have been hurt by this crew.  There are many people hoping that they can finally get justice with the story having erupted as it has.  Let me submit to everyone hurt by Team Kimberlin that my suits against Kimberlin, Rauhauser and Brynaert represent the best chance to get justice for everyone hurt by them.

I know that sounds like I am being self-centered, but let's try to look at this objectively.  In most of the other cases, we have a problem of proof—showing exactly who did what to whom.  That is not to say I am doubting any of those stories, but you need solid proof in a court of law.   By contrast, we know Kimberlin tried to frame me for a crime.  We have the video and we have the transcripts, criminal complaints and so on, where he lied under oath about the incident.  There is no question on this point.  And we have Rauhauser and Brynaert dead to rights conspiring with Kimberlin to defame me, interfere with my business and so on.

So because the proof is so strong here, this litigation represents the best chance to bring all three men to account, which is precisely why I am pushing it.  And who knows?  In the process of litigating it, maybe some light and indeed some proof of the other wrongs they have committed will come to light.  Other lawsuits might follow based on the information we uncover.  It is indeed exactly why I felt it was more important for me than anyone else to go public with what they did to me, because I recognized that this was the best chance in a long time for anyone to bring them to justice.

And here’s the other thing.  They know it, too.  That is why they have been working so hard to destroy me and everyone who is helping me.

So I am asking for everyone's support, both moral and yes, financial.  Some say we should not suggest that justice can be bought.  Well, it can’t be bought, but it does cost money.  So if you are a victim of Team Kimberlin, or you are just someone who cares about justice, please give to the Blogger’s Defense Team on the right and please try to convince others to do the same.

And I thank everyone who has done so and everyone who will do so.

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My good internet friend Lee Stranahan is going to have me on his radio show at 3 p.m. eastern time.  He wants to talk about what has been happening in the Kimberlin saga, and about my book!  You can listen in by going here.

There is going to be light blogging for now because I am doing some writing that is not intended for public consumption... yet.  Still, if you listen and want to help hold Team Kimberlin to account, please donate to the Blogger’s Defense Team on the right.  If you want to see Kimberlin be forced to comply with discovery requests, and so on, hit the freaking donate button!

Exclusive: What the Official July 5 Hearing Transcript Tells You About Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin’s Attempt to Get My Wife and I Killed

This is the latest post in what I call jokingly call The Kimberlin Saga^®.  If you are new to the story, that’s okay! Not everyone reads my blog.  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.

I have been waiting to write this post for a while, to pick the moment that felt right, and I think this is it.  I want to talk a little more about how convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin tried to get my wife and I killed (in my opinion).

So last week I got a copy of the final transcript of the July 5 hearing.  For those not following along, Brett Kimberlin has been on a nine month campaign of harassment that has included attempting to frame me for a crime.  When I revealed this conduct to the world, he obtained an abusive peace order against me forbidding me from talking about him on the internet for six months on the theory that by merely writing that he engaged in reprehensible conduct, I was inciting violence against him and thus could be stopped with an injunction.  This is not the law, and indeed the judge in that case, Judge Vaughey, actually disregarded controlling Supreme Court precedent by name.  That part of the injunction was vacated even before appeal was heard (after which I was SWATted), and then on July 5, we heard the full appeal.

I have previously reported on the hearing and even made my own attempt to transcribe parts of it, but I have not yet released the official transcript.  So let me give that to you, now:

The Story I Couldn’t Tell, Part V: The May 29 Hearing and Letting Freedom Ring

Update: I made an embarrassing typo when I said that the National Bloggers' Club had given me "$5,0000" so far.  Of course that is one zero too many and it has been fixed.  Thanks to Dustin for pointing out the error.

This is the fifth and final post in a series that I introduced, here.

In the first part of this story, I provided an introduction and then talked a little about the law of peace orders in Maryland.  In the second part, I talked about the petition Brett Kimberlin filed for a peace order.  In the third part, for the first time and exclusive to this site, you got to find out what he said and did at the May 22, 2012 peace order hearing.  In the fourth part, I talked about how he filed false charges that I violated the peace order, and obtained a warrant for my arrest.  And that finally brings us to the hearing of May 29, my arrest and Independence Day.

Of course I didn’t know that Kimberlin had filed these criminal charges and had obtained a warrant for my arrest.  I did sense that something was strange as Kimberlin pointed me out to a woman who was there (I believe she was a victim’s advocate, who apparently never thought to check her “victim’s” story or get the other side of the matter), but I spent most of the day concentrating on my presentation.

I have gotten some criticism for representing myself.  I won’t say I was the most stellar advocate.  Not all lawyers are trial lawyers, and I know I am not one of the great ones yet.  I hope to change that with experience.  But at the same time, I think I did an adequate job.  I don’t believe I lost because of a poor presentation.  I believe I lost because the judge disregarded the law, and it is hard to see how a more experienced lawyer could have forced a judge to follow Supreme Court precedent.  But maybe that is just my ego talking; I report, you decide.

But there was a more basic reason why I didn’t hire a lawyer.  You shouldn’t have to hire a lawyer, damn it—doubly so when you are unemployed.  You shouldn’t have to pay money in order to maintain your freedom.  That’s not freedom!  Judges in the district courts should have been sufficiently solicitous of the First Amendment that they should not have allowed a man like Kimberlin to penalize a person for protected speech.

But I don’t want to get into another rant about the short-comings of the district court system and how it can be improved.  If you are curious about how I would improve things, there, read this post.

The Story I Couldn’t Tell, Part IV: Brett Kimberlin’s Second False Criminal Complaint Against Me

This is the fourth in a series of posts that I introduced, here.

In the first part of this story, I provided an introduction and then talked a little about the law of peace orders in Maryland.  In the second part, I talked about the petition Brett Kimberlin filed for a peace order.  In the third part, for the first time and exclusive to this site, you got to find out what he said and did at the May 22, 2012 peace order hearing.  And now this one brings me to latest false criminal charges Kimberlin filed against me on May 27, 2012.  That would be a Sunday night, at 10:10 p.m. listed on the criminal complaint itself (actually called the “Application for Statement of Charges”), another weekend filing.

And of course I had no idea that these charges had been filed until the cuffs were being slapped on me, but that is getting ahead of the story.

The key thing to get here, the headline that everyone else has been missing, is this: he did it again.  He filed false charges against me, again, and this time got me arrested based on them.  Back in early May, I wrote this to the State’s Attorney’s Office:

As a friend of mine said, Brett Kimberlin is about to figure out that doing this is either a really good idea, or a really bad one.  If he is not prosecuted for this blatant and evil attempt to frame me, then you will be telling him that the laws against perjury—and other false statements—are meaningless.  And you will be telling him that all he has to do is falsely claim another person has committed a crime against him, and the State’s Attorney will put that person through hell.  The State’s Attorney should be offended that Mr. Kimberlin has manipulated this office in this fashion and it should be eager to see Mr. Kimberlin suffer consequences for his conduct.

Well, because Kimberlin so far has faced no consequences for this conduct, the message he has received is that this is a really good idea.  File false charges and you at the very least force them to run up expensive legal bills or if you are really lucky, you can even get them arrested.

And the State’s Attorney’s Office in Montgomery County Maryland, will do nothing about it when the ruse is revealed.

That is why it is vitally important that we put pressure on the State’s Attorney’s Office in Montgomery County to finally prosecute Kimberlin.  So let me repeat my request from Mid-May for what you can do to help:

[Y]ou can write to the State’s Attorney of Montgomery County.  I did not name the subordinate responsible for the inaction, but ultimately it is the responsibility of John McCarthy, the State’s Attorney himself.  You might also consider writing to the Governor, or the Attorney General of Maryland.  Be polite.  You will not help me by being foul or insulting.  Simply state that you believe a grave injustice has been done to me—if you happen to agree—and ask them politely to see to it that justice be done.

This is his office’s contact information:

State’s Attorney for Montgomery County

50 Maryland Avenue, 5th Floor

Rockville, Maryland  20850

states.attorney@montgomerycountymd.gov.

240-777-7300

I mean in a real way it is a bit inaccurate to say that I was arrested for protected expression—and yes, I was arrested based on these false charges.  Instead, the better way to understand it is that I was arrested in retaliation for protected expression.  In other words, Brett Kimberlin didn’t run down to the commissioner’s office and say simply, “he’s talking about me!  Arrest him!”  No, instead he was so angry at the storm of criticism and investigative journalism that I had kicked up that he ran down there and falsely claimed that I had engaged in unprotected speech and conduct and got me arrested based on that.

So let me present to you the charges themselves and then provide a line-by-line fisking of them (in red italics like last time) and you will see that while he complains that I and others are criticizing him, the meat of these charges is a false claim that I had engaged in criminal conduct:

The Story I Couldn’t Tell, Part III: The May 22 Hearing and Brett Kimberlin’s Bigotry Towards Me

This is the third in a series of posts that I introduced, here.

In the first part of this story, I provided an introduction and then talked a little about the law of peace orders in Maryland.  In the second part, I talked about the latest petition Brett Kimberlin filed for a peace order.  In this part, for the first time and exclusive to this site, you get to find out what he said and did at the May 22, 2012 peace order hearing.  Because of complex reasons I outlined in the last post, I chose not to show up at this hearing, so Kimberlin had the floor to himself, with no one there to contradict him.

I'm sure he won't use this opportunity to be dishonest, right?

It's only eight pages, and I will mostly let it speak for itself.  If you read the last post in the series you will already recognize the dishonesty in his testimony.  And if you haven’t read the last post, please do, so that you will in fact recognize all the dishonesty.

For instance, you already know about my comment about how he is going to pay for what he did to me (in a court of law), so you know it is false when he says:

Exclusive: The Police Report on my SWATting

As regular readers following this site know, last week I was SWATted.  If you don’t know the term, it means when someone calls into the police and falsely reports that a crime has been committed at your house.  This is often done by fooling the computers into believing that the call is actually coming from your phone, and pretending to be you, confessing to a crime.  They call it SWATting (with the first for letters in capitals), because of the hope that it will send out a SWAT team, but usually what you get instead is a fairly aggressive response by ordinary officers.  This may sound like a prank, but the real world results are extremely dangerous.  People can get killed and is therefore a crime.

You can read Patrick Frey’s harrowing account of his SWATting here, and listen to Erik Erickson’s SWATting call and his account below:

And of course you can read my account of my experience here.

So today I went and got the police report.  I will warn you it doesn’t say very much and indeed with all the redactions they did and I did, it says very little.  But it does verify that the SWATting did occur.  Look below the fold.

Exclusive: Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin’s Associate Neal Rauhauser’s Attempt to Manufacture the Appearance of a Conspiracy

So, hot on the heels of Patterico’s revelation of Rauhauser’s likely sock puppet “Gaped Crusader” I thought I would release an email I had been holding back.  I didn’t want to release it in my monster post, because I suspected much of what Neal said in the email was defamatory toward third persons.  But I have seen that increasingly it is vital evidence to prove a specific point, and I think most of you are grown up enough to figure out that just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s necessarily true.z

Team Kimberlin has long been officially haunted by the concept of Team Themis, an underhanded proposal put before the Chamber of Commerce but never acted upon.  It was an action plan designed to destroy the US Chamber Watch and Wikileaks, using disinformation and “sabotage” (though what kind of “sabotage” was imagined is hard to determine).  There are many documents and proposals (I mean we could go on and on about this), but one particular tactic that they proposed was to

Connect US Chamber Watch’s radical tactics to Velvet Revolution, explaining that both entities are loosely operating together. Depending on the level of connection established, such an approach may need to be spotlighted as more of a conspiracy rather than a separate, vocal persona.

As you will recall, Velvet Revolution is the name of one of Brett Kimberlin’s charities and one has to assume that any attack on Velvet Revolution would have started with its director’s sordid criminal history.

In a December 30, 2011 email to my lawyer, Beth Kingsley, Brett Kimberlin wrote this (with the caveat that much of what  he writes is a fabrication):

In addition to this, Velvet Revolution, an organization which I am involved, has a campaign called www.StopTheChamber.com, which exposes excesses of the Chamber of Commerce.  We have worked with Chamber Watch, a client of  your partner Gail Harmon, and I have talked with Gail about the Chamber and its IRS issues.  We in fact are presently working with the FBI in an investigation of the Chamber and prepared a White Paper for the Bureau which includes as an exhibit the filing that Gail and Cyrus Mehri prepared.  One of our Board Members also has a connection to Ms. Harmon, I believe through Friends of the Earth.  I will be happy to provide her name to you as well as the White Paper if you need them to make your conflict of interest determination.  The Chamber of Commerce hired military intelligence contractors to attack our group, Chamber Watch, and me personally as part of a six million dollar campaign of destruction. See  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8354

Although Team Themis was exposed, the Chamber continues to fund operations against us and me, and Mr. Worthing is part of the cabal that the Chamber uses for its nefarious purposes along with others such as those cc’d on the death threat email from Mr. Allen to Mr. Worthing.  We are presently in consultation with counsel about filing a lawsuit against the Chamber et al for the Team Themis campaign of destruction, and there is a very real possibility that Mr. Worthing will be named a defendant in that action, which will most likely be filed in federal court.

My Motion and Convicted Perjurer Brett Kimberlin’s Response

If you are just coming in to this story, you are probably more than a little confused by what I posted yesterday.  I apologize for that.  I promise I will take the time to walk you through it soon, hopefully starting today.  But with this post I am going to fill you in on two important pieces of the back story.

For almost a month now—until yesterday—I have been subject to a flagrantly unconstitutional prior restraint on my freedom of speech.

How flagrantly unconstitutional was this restraint?  Well, at the hearing discussing it the judge disregarded controlling Supreme Court precedent by name—something I will talk about later.  I promise, dear reader, I will tell you bit by bit about my experiences on May 29, being arrested on false charges again, in retaliation for having engaged in protected speech (not to mention the SWATting incident last night).

But if you are thinking that a District Court judge in Maryland—essentially a small-claims judge—has no authority to ignore controlling Supreme Court precedent, you would be right.  So I urged my counsel in that case, Reginald Bours III, to file an emergency motion to stay part of the peace order in the Circuit Court where the case is being appealed.  I know it has been around, but here’s a copy of it embedded here for your convenience:

Walker Stay Motion (OCR)

(By the way, I try to redact all personal information from these documents, such as home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses.  I didn’t redact Mr. Bours’ professional contacts, because I figured he would enjoy the free advertisement.  But in the case of personal information, if I missed anything in my redaction, let me know and I will fix it ASAP.)

What Happened Tonight

So anyone following along on twitter know the basics.  I was SWATted tonight.  My wife was down in the basement, and unknown to me she had fallen asleep in an uncomfortable position while watching TV.  I was just finishing up a post where I was going to share Kimberlin’s nutty response to my motion for a partial stay when someone decided to recklessly endanger my life.

I mean again.  Let’s not forget the last time someone intentionally engaged in conduct that they knew could get me and my wife killed.  In that case we know who the culprit was: Brett Kimberlin.  He intentionally and gratuitously revealed my real name, home address, work and work address, in court documents and then told the police in a letter that he believed because of his actions that “there exists the very real probability that Mr. Walker could be subjected to serious harm or death now that his identity has been exposed.”  And then he fought tooth and nail to keep that information from being sealed, and then fought to get them unsealed.

But tonight we don’t know who did it, although I knew who to tell the police to look at.  I won’t say their names here, of course.

I was writing when there was a knock at the door.  A second knock came and it was very insistent.  I went to the door and looked through the peep hole and there was nothing.  I said something like, “hello?” and someone firmly said, “open the door!”

I opened up to find two cops hugging the front of the house.  They had M4’s as I recognized from video games (see?! They are good for something!) and they later confirmed.  They were not pointed at my face like it had been with Patrick.  They were pointed at the ground.

(When I told my mother that, she said not to minimize it.  No, obviously whoever it was doing their best to get me killed.  Fortunately the police were not so easily tricked.)

How Brett Kimberlin Tried to Frame Me for a Crime (And How You Can Help!)

Update: A few readers complained that this post is too long--that it was straining their computers' performance. So I created a new version that broke it down into little pieces, here.


[Important Note: I have uploaded a number of documents onto the internet and reference them in this post.  In all cases, I have endeavored to remove all personal information from these documents, such as addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.  If I have by oversight included any personal information, please inform me in the comments or by email and I will seek to rectify it immediately.  I have also redacted certain information that was privileged.]

Dear reader, I have been holding back a story from you for over four months.  A crime was committed against me—indeed, several have been—but I was afraid to publicize it, because it would have the effect of fully and completely “outing” me.

Well, today I break that silence, starting with my name.  It’s Walker.  As in Aaron Walker, not “Aaron Worthing” as you have known me for now over two years.

And I am going to tell you about how Brett Kimberlin attempted to frame me for a crime.  He attempted to make authorities in Maryland believe that on January 9, 2012, as we were both exiting a courtroom, I essentially beat him up.  You will see him claim that I “decked” him, that the sheriff’s deputies had to separate me from him, that I kept coming at him and the deputies had to restrain me.

And then you will see video of the incident and realize that all of this is a lie.  I will even show you a second video that contrasts Kimberlin’s words with the video footage.  That is right, you are not going to have to believe my word.  You will only have to believe your eyes.

This is a long post, but that is because there is a lot to tell.  And we do have to start with some background.

Part 1: Background.

Even if you have been following the posts in what I am calling “The Kimberlin Saga,” there are some things I didn’t share and in any case it helps to put it all in one place.  Of course if you want to go back and read all the posts in this “saga,” I suggest you use this link. But I am going to take a few minutes to give you the major points of what happened before.  And I am going to write this as if you know nothing about me, because hopefully I will be attracting many new eyeballs with this post.

Julian Savulescu of the Journal of Medical Ethics Whines That All this Speech is a Threat to Freedom of Speech

So yesterday I told you about a horrifying piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics entitled “After-Birth Abortion: why should the baby live?”  In it they argued that well some babies are so deformed or whatever that they really shouldn’t be allowed to live and so we should be allowed to kill them and call it After-Birth Abortion to make it sound less horrifying than the correct term (which is infanticide)?

You think I am exaggerating?  Well, go and read the original and judge for yourself.

One aspect I didn’t get into in my original post is that, well, this shouldn’t surprise you but some people have had some very strong reactions to it.  So we get Julian Savulescu, Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics writes a piece entitled “Liberals Are Disgusting”: In Defence of the Publication of “After-Birth Abortion.”

Now he starts off reasonably enough talking about how they got death threats.  “This article has elicited personally abusive correspondence to the authors, threatening their lives and personal safety.”

That is undoubtedly wrong, and I hope they have reported such death threats to the authorities and that the authorities take it appropriately seriously.

But then he complains about “abusive emails” writing:

The Journal has received a string [of] abusive emails for its decision to publish this article. This abuse is typically anonymous.

I am not sure about the legality of publishing abusive threatening anonymous correspondence, so I won’t repeat it here. But fortunately there is plenty on the web to choose from. Here are some responses:

“These people are evil. Pure evil. That they feel safe in putting their twisted thoughts into words reveals how far we have fallen as a society.”

“Right now I think these two devils in human skin need to be delivered for immediate execution under their code of ‘after birth abortions’ they want to commit murder – that is all it is! MURDER!!!”

“I don‘t believe I’ve ever heard anything as vile as what these “people” are advocating. Truly, truly scary.”

“The fact that the Journal of Medical Ethics published this outrageous and immoral piece of work is even scarier”

(Comments from http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ethicists-argue-in-favor-of-after-birth-abortions-as-newborns-are-not-persons/#comments)

He goes on (and on) but here is the real whopper, folks, when he says this:

What is disturbing is not the arguments in this paper nor its publication in an ethics journal. It is the hostile, abusive, threatening responses that it has elicited. More than ever, proper academic discussion and freedom are under threat from fanatics opposed to the very values of a liberal society.

I think it is time for a Rule 5 facepalm:

Now of course one of the comments he quoted above borders on an actual threat, saying “I think these two devils in human skin need to be delivered for immediate execution...”  I am not sure that is an actionable threat—and indeed the answer might vary wildly by jurisdiction—but I think perhaps a police officer should go by this person’s house and discuss his or her intent in writing that.

But the other comments?  They are nothing more than citizens expressing their opinions.  And contrary to what Mr. Savulescu says, criticism is not a threat to freedom of speech.  That is indeed, what is supposed to happen in a free society.  When someone says something you don’t like, you don’t threaten them or bomb them, you just counter them with your own speech.

The Journal of Medical Ethics Imitates South Park (By Advocating “After-Birth Abortions”)

I have only started to read the article by Alberto Guibilini and Francesca Minerva, entitled (risibly) After-Birth Abortion: why should the baby live?, but it is so full of evil I am likely to fisk it at a spare moment.  Seriously, it is so bad that it falls into a rare exception to Godwin’s Law.  As you might know, Godwin’s law stands as an injunction against comparing anyone or any policy to Hitler, the Nazis, etc.  But there is an exception: when they actually sound like Nazis.

You know, like this:

Euthanasia in infants has been proposed by philosophers for children with severe abnormalities whose lives can be expected to be not worth living and who are experiencing unbearable suffering....

Although it is reasonable to predict that living with a very severe condition is against the best interest of the newborn, it is hard to find definitive arguments to the effect that life with certain pathologies is not worth living, even when those pathologies would constitute acceptable reasons for abortion. It might be maintained that ‘even allowing for the more optimistic assessments of the potential of Down's syndrome children, this potential cannot be said to be equal to that of a normal child’.  But, in fact, people with Down's syndrome, as well as people affected by many other severe disabilities, are often reported to be happy.

Nonetheless, to bring up such children might be an unbearable burden on the family and on society as a whole, when the state economically provides for their care. On these grounds, the fact that a fetus has the potential to become a person who will have an (at least) acceptable life is no reason for prohibiting abortion. Therefore, we argue that, when circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible.

So living with a “severe condition” including Down’s Syndrome is not really in the interest of the person with that disability.  But they aren’t willing to endorse killing a full “person” with Down’s but if you can kill a fetus for having Down’s then it is fully justifiable to kill a newborn for the same reason.

See what I mean?  Its evil stuff.

And I actually shivered at the phrase “lives can be expected to be not worth living” given how similar it sounded to the phrase “life unworthy of life” used by the Nazis when justifying first the murder of the handicapped and then later the slaughter of the Jews.

Although to their (limited) credit their use of the term “after birth abortion” is acknowledged to be bull____ designed to make the concept more palatable than the correct term which is infanticide:

In spite of the oxymoron in the expression, we propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide’, to emphasise that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus (on which ‘abortions’ in the traditional sense are performed) rather than to that of a child.

Which is where life truly becomes absurd.  Because did you know that South Park has a parody of this?  Here’s a scene from an unofficial script that lines up with my memory of the episode, when Mrs. Cartman decides to get an abortion:

Liane:              I want to have… an abortion.

Receptionist:   Uoh well, we can do that. This must be a very difficult time for you, Mrs.…

Liane:              Cartman. Yesuh- it's such a hard decision, but I just don't feel I can raise a child in this screwy world.

Receptionist:   Yes, Ms. Cartman-if you don't feel fit to raise a child, then abortion probably is the answer. Do you know the actual time of conception?

Liane:              About - eight years ago.

Receptionist:   [processing] …I sseee, so the fetus is…

Liane:              Eight years old.

Receptionist:   Ms. Cartman, uh- eight years old is a little late to be considering abortion.

Liane:              Really?!

Receptionist:   Yes- this is what we would refer to as the - "fortieth trimester"

Liane:              But I just don't think I'm a fit mother.

Receptionist:   Wuh… But we prefer to abort babies a little- …earlier on; in fact, there's a law against abortions after the second trimester.

Liane:              Well, I think you need to keep your laws off of my body.

Receptionist:   Hmmmmm. Tsk, I'm afraid I can't help you, Ms. Cartman-if you want to change the law, you'll have to speak with your congressman.

Liane:              [rises from the chair] Well, that's exactly what I intend to do! Good day! [exits]

So yeah, they are proposing what South Park already parodied... in 1998.  I mean that episode had Mrs. Cartman sleeping with various politicians in order to lobby them to change the law, including...  President Bill Clinton.  That is how old that parody is.

I think the only thing left to do, is show a South Park facepalm…

Really, words are failing me on this one.

(H/t: Hot Air.)

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