First, I want to thank everyone for the almost universally positive reaction to my monster post yesterday. If you haven’t looked into it yet, here’s a video that gives you a taste of what went on...
And then please consider reading this post, where I tell you about how convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin attempted to frame me for a crime and how you can help me get justice for this criminal act.
And I thought I would create a post keeping track of new stories about this as it got passed around the internet, whether they are direct links to my posts, or otherwise.
This post will be updated regularly without announcing the change, but I promise the only changes will be to add more links and possibly to fix a minor spelling or grammatical error. So there.
But wow, it has been really impressive the way this has kicked up a hornet’s nest of trouble for Kimberlin. The Army of Davids is out in full force and it is awesome.
Of course I had warned Kimberlin that this would happen. Here’s what I wrote a few months ago when he claimed that he just wanted to be left alone:
Then maybe you should stop trying to brutally suppress anyone who attempts to tell the truth about your life. Because the more you try to suppress the truth, the more people want to know what you are trying to suppress. We call this the Streisand Effect.
So, if you want all of this to go away, then stop trying to suppress the truth. Stop trying to silence people who tell the truth. And stop trying to bully lawyers for nothing more than giving people legal advice. Ask for the judge to dismiss the injunction against Mr. Allen and go away and leave us alone. I barely gave two craps about you before you tried to risk the lives of my wife and I, and if you leave me alone, I will quickly go back to not caring about you again. I can’t tell you what Seth might do, but can’t you see that your conduct has elevated the man?
Of course I wrote that three days before he attempted to frame me for a crime. So at that time, Kimberlin could have stood down and all of this could have dissipated. But now there is no going back with me. I am not going to stop until I get justice. You are going to learn, Brett Kimberlin, that you committed a crime—indeed several of them—against the wrong person.
And I am getting a feeling that there is a sort-of “I am Spartacus” element to all of this support. As I have said before, I participated modestly in the Everyone Draw Mohammed movement. Kimberlin has indeed used my participation in it to falsely claim that I hate all Muslims. That ignores inconvenient facts such as that self-identified Muslims participated at my Everyone Draw Mohammed site and even more expressed support for what we were doing, even if their faith didn’t allow them to participate (something I could totally respect, too). Or you might just follow the link at the beginning of this paragraph and see how I praised moderate Muslims for bravely standing up to terrorism in Egypt.
And when talking about the Everyone Draw Mohammed protest, I wrote this:
From early on, a popular metaphor for this protest was this key scene in the movie Spartacus:
As Bagoh20 wrote toward the beginning:
“I am Spart[a]cus” is the perfect analogy to what this is. The South Park guys are the real one[s] being threatened and the only response that will defeat that is if millions stand up and say: ["]You will not confiscate our pens.”
What we were really doing was calling the terrorist’s bluff. They said that if anyone dares to draw a cartoon of their prophet, even a dinky little stick figure, that they will murder that person. But it was a bluff. Because the truth was that if enough people did it, it would be impossible to kill them all. So around 100,000 people committed the same “offense” on Facebook and 700 did at my site, and you know what? Nothing happened to them.
And, I suspect, something like that is happening here. I think a lot of people have decided that if Kimberlin is going to harass every person who tells the truth about him, they are going to give him more targets than he can handle. I could be wrong, but that is what I suspect is going on, at least in part.
Now watch that movie clip again, and imagine you are Spartacus. Really, Douglas is engaged in some very fine acting. You can see him screw up his courage before he stands up to identify himself and then right at the 1:24 mark you can see his right eye well up and a tear falls down his cheek. You can see he is proud of their willingness to stand with him and profoundly moved by their courage. And perhaps he felt a little stronger knowing he wasn’t going to be alone in this.
Well, right now I know how that feels. So to everyone talking about the story, thank you. I will strive to name everyone I can who has blogged about it, and there are more people on twitter talking about it than I can keep track of. And it only seems to be getting bigger. Which is a very good thing. So consider yourself thanked as a group, tweeps, Facebookers, and the like.
And of course if you do blog about it, let me know at AaronJW72@gmail.com and I will link back to you. If you want that sort of thing...
Of course the blogger who is absolutely not Kimberlin (even though he seems to be obsessed with defending Kimberlin to the point that he even lies and suggests that Kimberlin has only committed one crime and violates the law by putting selectively edited court audio on the net), suggest that all of this is part of some kind of conspiracy. No, what it is, is this. I have proven that Kimberlin has committed a severe crime against me and people all over the internet—on the left and the right—are deeply offended by what you have done. There is no more a conspiracy to denounce you than there is to denounce the Ku Klux Klan.
And Kimberlin will probably bristle at the comparison to the Ku Klux Klan. But like the KKK, Kimberlin left a bomb where children might get hurt. Kimberlin v. White, 7 F.3d 527, 528 (6th Cir. 1993) (“In the worst incident, Kimberlin placed one of his bombs in a gym bag, and left it in a parking lot outside Speedway High School”). Oh, and for that matter, like the KKK Kimberlin discriminates against black people.
But turning now to the support I have received...
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