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Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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The ACLJ has posted a letter from the IRS to a 501(c)4 group that asks for information allegedly needed to verify the groups status. As I was reading the list, I wondered how Brett Kimberlin’s 501(c)4, Velvet Revolution US, would answer some of them.

[D]escribe the activities that your organization will initiate and/or participate in to fulfill your purpose. Your description should include the answers to the following basic questions:
a. What does the activity entail?
b. Who conducts the activity and what are their qualifications?
c. Where is the activity conducted?
d. When is the activity conducted?
e. How significant is the activity in relation to your total activities described as a percentage of time and a percentage of expenses?
f. Who may participate in the activity?
g. How are the participants selected?
h. Is there a fee for participation in the activity? If so, provide a fee schedule.
i. How does the activity further your group purpose?

Let’s see. There are no activities reported on any VRUS Form 990s, but they do seem to have a website that lets people know about their various campaigns to collect donations to support their various campaigns.

Provide the following information for all the public events conducted or planned to be conducted by your organization:
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b. Identify and provide copies of handouts to the audience.
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g. Indicate the percentage of time and resources you will spend on these activities in relation to 100% of your activities.

What public events?

Have you attempted or will you attempt to influence the outcome of specific legislation? If so, provide the following:
a. Provide copies of all communications, pamphlets, advertisements, and other materials distributed by the organization regarding the legislation.
b. Provide copies of any radio, television, or internet advertisements relating to your lobbying activities.
c. Please indicate the percentage of time and resources you have spent or will spend conducting these activities in relation to 100% of all your activities.

Their NRAWatch website advocates for unconstitutional legislation restricting Second Amendment rights.

Do you directly or indirectly communicate with members of legislative bodies? If so, provide copies of the written communications and contents of other forms of communications. Please include the percentage of time and resources you have spent or will spend conducting these activities in relation to 100% of all of your activities.

Brett Kimberlin says that he talks with folks on Capitol Hill all the time.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Sometimes I Wonder Why I Bother

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Since Sunday, I’ve had several posts related to Team Kimberlin. Some seem to have struck a nerve over at Cabin Boy Bill’s reemerging Patriot-Ombudsman site. (No, I won’t link to it.) As of 3 pm ET today, those Team Kimberlin posts of mine have generated 21 comments, 138 likes, and 9 dislikes.

Here’s how his responses are doing:
P-O_OCD P-O_Bitter

There’s always some ramp up in traffic when a site gets rebooted, but … no comments? Not even one? Can’t he even get Texas Tim to stop by to insult me?

Bitter … lonely … useless …

Yep.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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This post is about Team Kimberlin and psychology, that is to say, their crude attempts at the practice of psychology. One of the characteristics that I noticed fairly soon into my coverage of these folks was their continued reference to the alleged mental illnesses of those who wrote about them. This has included such absurd claims as that someone might be dangerously violent because he has ADD. Or that another person has substance abuse problems. I’m supposed to have OCD.

According to the DSM-IV (that’s the psychologists’ diagnostic bible), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a ego dystonic disorder. That means that the sufferer actually suffers because he is distressed by his own behavior. I am pleased to say that I’m not usually bothered by my own behavior, so if I have anything like OCD, it would be Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder which is ego syntonic, meaning that the behavior fits with the person’s self-image and doesn’t cause him distress. Someone with OCPD is not aware of anything abnormal. He explains why his actions are rational, it is usually impossible to convince him otherwise, and he tends to derive pleasure from his obsessions or compulsions. Those around him suffer.

I’m told neither OCD nor OCPD fits me; however, Jerk NOS has been suggested by a friend who is a psychologist. I think she was joking.

But back to Team Kimberlin …

If I remember my Pysch 101 from 1966 (or there about) correctly, Sigmund Freud defined psychological projection as a defence mechanism by which a person unconsciously rejects his own unacceptable attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world instead. Projection involves psychically expelling one’s negative qualities onto others. It’s a common psychological process, and I suppose projecting one’s own propensity for violence and lying or one’s own obsessive behaviors onto others makes it easier to live with a corrupt personality.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Yesterday, I explained the origin of the title The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. Here’s a repost of the original listing of his crew from last November—Brett Kimberlin’s Ship of Fools.  Note that the relative importance of some characters has changed.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

The Dread Pirate Kimberlin—(AKA Brett Kimberlin, The Speedway Bomber, John Doe 1, Breitbart Unmasked) A Director of and sole full-time employee of Justice Through Music Project and unpaid employee of Velvet Revolution US. Convicted felon with a rap sheet too long for this space. Apparently not a registered voter. [A correction about Kimberlin's status as a registered voter was published after he doxed himself in a court filing and I was able to determine his date of birth. I regret the original error.]

His Crew

First Mate Neal Rauhauser—Tragically-failed wind-powered ammonia plant entrepreneur. Hacker wannabe. Democratic Party operative. Deadbeat dad. [And he may already be a Weiner.]
Crew Member Ron Brynaert—Erstwhile reporter. Possible SWATting suspect. Potential mutineer.
Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt—(AKA Liberal Grouch) Minor, if somewhat grandiose, Twitter troll and selective blogger of sealed court papers. [Recently promoted to major nuisance.]
Imaginary Friend Occupy Rebellion—(AKA Sheridan) Twitter sock puppet.

His Enablers

Jeffrey R. Cohen, Esq.—Intellectual property lawyer and Executive Director of JTMP and VRUS. His signature is on their IRS Form 990s.
Brad Friedman—A Director of Velvet Revolution US.
Myra Lowenthal, CPA—Accountant who prepared the IRS Form 990s for JTMP and VRUS.

Assorted fanboys, wannabes, third- and fourth-rate musicians, trolls, useful idiots, and fools.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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One of the stories that circulates among Team Kimberlin and Brett Kimberlin’s fanboys is the one about how he was secretly exonerated of his crimes. There’s supposed to be some magic sealed documents.

Here’s an extract from Brett Kimberlin’s current file (as of 14 March, 2013) with the United States Parole Commission.

Note the DAYS REMAINING (underlined in red). 10681. Those were the days remaining on his sentence when he was paroled for the second time in 2001. If his status had changed since then, there would have been a recomputation, and the days remaining should have gone to zero. If he had been exonerated, the expiration date of his full term would have passed and would not be 17 years in the future.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Yesterday, I noted a similarity between the Prenda Law case and the Virginia Walker v. Kimberlin, et al. case—that both Penda’s lawyers and The Dread Pirate Kimberlin had taken the Fifth during civil lawsuits. There’s another parallel between Prenda and TDPK.

Porn.

Prenda is a copyright troll going after individuals who have downloaded pornographic videos for which it claims to control the copyrights.

Brett Kimberlin dealt pornography to other inmates while he was in prison and was also involved in a porn related lawsuit. There’s a section (pp., 202, 203) in Mark Singer’s book Citizen K that describes TDPK’s attempted suing of his source for $150,000 in damages because the porn wasn’t sufficiently exciting.

Statement In Re Charges

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I have received a letter from the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office stating that based on the results of the peace order hearings on 28 February and 25 March they do not believe that they can successfully prosecute the charges that I filed. The charges will be dropped.

The peace order petitions are on appeal. If one or more of the appeals to the Circuit Court are successful, further action may be taken.

UPDATE—I wish to express my appreciation to the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Assistant State’s Attorneys who worked with me on these matters for their cooperation and for keeping me informed at every step of the process.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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One of the interesting bits of news yesterday was that the lawyers for copyright troll Prenda Law took the Fifth during a court hearing. It’s unusual to plead the Fifth during a civil trial. You see, remaining silent in a criminal matter isn’t supposed to be held against you, but in civil trial it can be taken as an admission of culpability.

The Gentle Reader who has been following the Saga of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin will remember that Brett Kimberlin invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege during discovery in the Virginia Walker v. Kimberlin, et al. lawsuit last year. How could doing such things as providing access to the books of his “charities” be incriminating?

Watch this space of the answers to such interesting questions as the Saga continues to unfold.

Stay tuned.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Today, we will take a break from the scatological musings of Cabin Boy Bill and stalker photography of his publisher The Watchful Avenger and turn to an archive posting. This is the one that resulted in a SWATting threat on 29 October, 2012.

Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin’s Boss’ Day Job

Court records show an email address for a Jeffrey R. Cohen who has the same street address as Justice Through Music Project. That email address is associated with the law firm of Millen, White, Zellano & Branigan. The firm’s web site gives this information about Mr. Cohen:

Our entertainment practice focuses on music, film and television. Because of our intellectual property expertise, we understand not only the finer points of contract terms but also the significance of the intellectual property issues at hand. Jeff Cohen heads this practice group. Jeff owns Sumerian Records and is a partner in an entertainment management company Outerloop Management.

Here are links about Sumerian Records and Outerloop Management.

UPDATE–Corrected the date of the original post above from 2013 to 2012

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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I really haven’t bothered to look at the noise being generated by Team Kimberlin as they celebrate Mr. Kim’s skillful defense of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin yesterday. Oh, I did see some tweets in my timeline on Twitter, but since I don’t feed trolls, they lost interest before I got home from lunch.

Let’s review the net of the week’s hearings.

First, Bill Schmalfeldt’s defense had the effect of demonstrating that Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt is not a real journalist.

Second, Judge Jones appeared to find that CBBS was engaging in electronic harassment, but that it did not allow her to issue a Peace Order.

Third, Judge Green never considered whether or not TDPK engaged in electronic harassment, again reasoning that it wasn’t a matter for a Peace Order. However, that view of the law means that TDPK’s Peace Order petitions against Aaron Walker were baseless.

Fourth, professional ethics require that since the same lawyer represented both CBBS and TDPK, that lawyer must believe that there are no relevant conflicts of interest between them.

So let Team Kimberlin celebrate. When they get done, King Pyrrhus is waiting to compare notes with them.

The cases continue as they move to Circuit Court. I won’t be able to say much more about these matters until things are finally resolved. But there will be other news.

Stay tuned.

Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin: A Question of Balance

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There’s a hearing on a petition for a Final Peace Order against TDPK in District Court in Westminster, Maryland, scheduled for 10:30 this morning. I am the petitioner. Given that I’ve heard three different judges rule three different ways while denying Peace Orders over the last month, I’m not sure how things will turn out. We shall see.

While I believe that the various charges that I’ve brought against members of Team Kimberlin are valid, they represent only a trivial portion of the … shall we say … interesting … yes, interesting activity that is being turned up by the Vast Hogewash Research Organization and others and that seems to be connected to TDPK and his crew. Also, being involved in litigation has put a severe limit on what I can report. For the past few weeks, I’ve not been able to tell you Gentle Readers all that is going on. As those cases play out, that restriction will end.

Hogewash! will stick with this story, but it’s not the only thing I’m interested in. There are other things that will likely be on the front burner for a while. The Saga of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin won’t go away, but it’s not likely to be much more than a daily update in the near term. It may take some time before the next significant break in the narrative comes. Meanwhile, the investigation deepens.

The recent legal issues are not even the tip of the iceberg bearing down on TDPK’s ship of fools. It may be that Team Kimberlin will evade justice in the short run. Things like that happen, but in the long run Karma wins.

Stay tuned.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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I note that it was left-wing blogger Seth Allen who first blew the whistle on Brett Kimberlin. Ken White from Popehat, who no sentient being would confuse with a right-winger, has sent up the Popehat signal to summon help for at least one conservative blogger I know who was threatened by The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. Here’s what Captain Obvious had to say in a comment yesterday:

I’ll just say right up front, I am not a conservative and tend to lean much further to the left (except on issue such as gun control and taxes), nevertheless, I can respect the opinions and positions of others and engage in spirited and intelligent debate. I may convince someone of my position, and if not, we agree to disagree.

However, recently a number threats to conservative bloggers has been brought to my attention. I don’t mean comments where someone disagrees with a position on an issue and proceeds to explain why, I mean threats that include the blogger’s physical address and a clear threat to do harm.

Free Speech should be encouraged. However, Free Speech does not mean you are free from the consequences of that speech. Such blatant threats of physical harm only seek to chill free speech. Such threats are the mark of a coward who lacks the ability to engage in meaningful debate.

To those who engage in these acts of cowardice I make this statement – my skills in the area of internet forensics is not insignificant. These are skills I will make available to anyone who has been seriously threatened. That information will be provided to the individuals being threatened for them to take to the authorities. My suggestion to anyone tempted to engage in such threats, don’t. Just don’t.

In a followup email, he added this:

[T]his is not based on any political support on my end of any political position nor does it mean I support anyone’s views.  This is plain and simply because I believe threats like this chill free speech and meaningful dialog to move issues forward.  I would have the same reaction if someone in the conservative camp did the same thing.

People of goodwill across the political spectrum support the First Amendment and are willing to stand up to thugs who would trample it. I am proud to work with them on bringing Team Kimberlin to justice.

And one more thing … Captain Obvious is one of several top notch forensic experts working on the identification of harassers who have tried to hide behind stolen identities.

Stay tuned.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Just because I’m not discussing some things doesn’t mean that I won’t discuss any thing.

One of the things The Dread Pirate Kimberlin complained about in his filings in the Virginia Wlaker v. Kimberlin, et al. lawsuit was that he was being mocked on the Internet. If Judge Zwaig’s interpretation of the Maryland harassment and misuse of electronic communications statutes is good law, then TDPK probably needs to just suck it up and go about his business. He’s a public figure and should not expect any better protection from the courts than Aaron Walker received last Friday.

There will be more developing on how the Maryland courts interpret that law with respect to the Internet over the next few days.

Stay tuned.

What I Heard in Court Today

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Today, Judge Zwaig ruled that because Aaron Walker is a public figure he is not entitled to demand that Bill Schmalfeldt stop communicating with him via email and Twitter. I note that seems to be at odds with Judge Rasinsky’s dicta in his warning to Schmalfeldt on 28 February. Maryland’s misuse of electronic communications law is only recently on the books, and the courts are still sorting out how it will be interpreted.

I heard Bill Schmalfeldt say some interesting things under oath. He said that he is not paid for his work with Breitbart Unmasked. He also said that he does not know the identity of Breitbart Unmask’s publisher, The Watchful Avenger.

The Saga of Team Kimberlin continues to unfold. We will turn another page on Monday.

Stay tune.

UPDATE—While reviewing my notes, I was reminded that Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt seemed genuinely surprised that Aaron Walker had only one Twitter account.

Another Pro Surveillance Tip

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There’s a video over at Breitbart Unmasked (I read it so you don’t have to, and, no, I won’t link to it.) that shows about an hour of the comings and goings at the door to Blog Bash last Thursday. It claims to show the majority of the attendees arriving.

It doesn’t.

For example, I was there, and the video doesn’t show me. Jeff Dunetz (Yid with Lid) was there, and the video doesn’t show him. Aaron Walker, The Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s current stalkee, was there, and the video missed him too. The reason for our being missing from the video is quite simple. It begins well after guests had begun arriving. It ends well before the last guest arrived. Indeed, it ends before the Photographer in Blue came to the door and began taking shots of people arriving.

So here’s another pro surveillance tip: Arrive for your stakeout well before the expected arrival time of your target(s).

UPDATE—And be prepared to stay until you see him/them.