Mockery has been a significant part of this blog’s coverage of Team Kimberlin’s lawfare and cyberthuggery. The TKPOTD for six years ago today was a mundane report on the progress of one of the LOLsuits. A couple of commenters used it as an opportunity to laugh at Brett Kimberlin.
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The online docket for the Kimberlin v. Frey RICO Remnant LOLsuit shows the Patterico’s lawyers filed their last bit of paperwork related motions for summary judgment in the case.The ball is now in Judge Hazel’s court. If he doesn’t grant summary judgment to either party, the case will go to trial.
AGENT: (Telephone Filter) Mr. Atsign, this is Special Agent Wilson following up on that harassment matter.
JOHNNY: Hi. What can I help you with? And call me “Johnny.”
AGENT: (Telephone Filter) I’ve been working with my counterpart back East, and we need a few more details. I thought you might have something in a related case that would provide a lead.
JOHNNY: Are you talking about the connection to The Bomber or The Grouch?
AGENT: (Telephone Filter) The Bomber. He’s suing our agency.
JOHNNY: That doesn’t make sense, but it has to be true. No one could make up a story like that.
MUSIC: Theme up and under.
ANNOUNCER: The Lickspittle Broadcasting System presents W. J. J. Hoge in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Twitter account, America’s fabulous free-lance Internet investigator …
One of the problems that Brett Kimberlin has had in his court filings is keeping the order of events straight in his imaginary narratives. The TKPOTD from nine years ago today dealt with one example.
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The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin’s original complaint and first amended complaint in the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness were muddled masses of inconsistent allegations. I half-way expected that he would clean up some of his mess with his second amended complaint. Instead, he made it worse.
In the second amended complaint he claims that the following defendants were a part of the RICO conspiracy: “Akbar, Walker, Hoge, Malkin, McCain, Backer, DB Capitol Strategies, Frey, Nagy, Franklin Center, Ace of Spades, Stranahan, Thomas, Erickson and Twitchy.”TDPK defines “relevant times” in his second amended complaint as being from “November 2011 through February 27.2104 (sic).” So Erick Erickson was functioning member of the RICO Enterprise at “all relevant times”—including the 6 months prior to his joining the conspiracy.
#Fail
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Kimberlin never figured out how we were able to get Erick into the conspiracy before he joined it.
This episode of Blogsmoke first ran eight years ago today.
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MUSIC: Theme. Intro and fade under.
NARRATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
MUSIC: Up, then under …
NARRATOR: You’re a Detective Sergeant. You’re assigned to Internet Detail. A blogger has been subjected to harassment by means of a temporary peace order. The blogger claims that false testimony was used to obtain the temporary order. Your job … investigate.
MUSIC: Up then under …
ANNOUNCER: Blognet … the documented drama of an actual case. For the next few minutes, in cooperation with the Twitter Town Sheriff’s Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the good guys through an actual case transcribed from official files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Blognet is the story of the good guys in action.
Of course, the principal reason that none of Team Kimberlin lost all the LOLsuits they filed was that there no evidence to support any of their claims—but even if there had been some there there, neither Brett Kimberlin nor Bill Schmalfeldt ever managed to present a coherent telling of their cases.
The TKPOTD for seven years ago looks at the exhibits Schmalfeldt attached to his motion for summary judgment in LOLsuit VI: The Undiscovered Krendler. Five of the six exhibits are about Aaron Walker, the lawyer representing the defendants. One is about me, a non-party in the case. Nothing has anything to do with the defendants he was suing.
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I’ve had an opportunity to review the exhibits that the Cabin Boy™ submitted with his motion for summary judgment but which seem to belong to his supplement to his motion to disqualify the defendants’ lawyer. Exhibits 4, 5, and 6 are emails that are from the sealed discovery that Brett Kimberlin leaked to Schmalfeldt back in 2012. I will not publish them.
Exhibit 1 is a rehash of an exhibit in an earlier filing.
I can’t follow the Billogic that connects these to anything even tangentially related to the Cabin Boy’s™ LOLsuit. OTOH, the popcorn futures have turned out to be a smart buy.
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The judge couldn’t follow Schmalfeldt’s logic either. The court didn’t bother with the merits of the case because it found that he had sued in the wrong venue in the first place. The defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction was granted.
The month of March has not been kind to Brett Kimberlin. March, 2015, was particularly brutal to him. On Friday the Thirteenth, his bogus peace order petition against me was denied, and on the following Monday, his RICO Madness LOLsuit was dismissed except for one claim against only one of the 24 defendant. The TKPOTD for one year ago today chronicled yet another loss in court for the Speedway Bomber.
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The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has published the mandate in Brett Kimberlin’s appeal which it denied earlier this month.
He has 90 days from the date the court’s order was issued (9 March) to file for a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court. (Supreme Court Rule 13)
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Kimberlin got one of the usual suspect law firms to represent him pro bono and filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court. His petition was denied.
AARON: (Telephone Filter) Actually, I’m still up late.
JOHNNY: What kept you up?
AARON: (Telephone Filter) Easter eggs.
MUSIC: Theme up and under.
ANNOUNCER: The Lickspittle Broadcasting System presents W. J. J. Hoge in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Twitter account, America’s fabulous free-lance Internet investigator …
The TKPOTD for for ten years ago today is an example how dealing with Team Kimberlin was often a battle of wits with unarmed men.
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Sigh.
Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt has a moderately fluent potty mouth in English, but his Latin leaves something to be desired. He’s written a four-word sentence with multiple errors. I’ll leave it to someone else correct his attempted insult except to say that the verb he was looking for is futuō, futuere, futuī, futūtum, which is a very naughty word, or paedīcō, paedīcāre, paedīcāvī, paedīcātum, which is even worse.
There’s an article about Brett Kimberlin on Wikipedia. It’s accurate, so Brett Kimberlin has tried to have it taken down. His deletion request was, at least in part, about the effect the article was having on his fund raising.
I have been the subject of a right-wing smear job that lasted years because of my work running a progressive non-profit. Right wingers have used this WP as part of their toolset against me, knowing full well that anyone who considers working with or funding me will consult WP first.
The TKPOTD for five years ago today, dealt with Kimberlin attempt to have the article removed from Wikipedia.
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Brett Kimberlin wants his Wikipedia page taken down. Patterico has details. He quotes at length from The Dread Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin’s whining requests for deletion. The Wikipedia editors all seem inclined to keep the article. One editor notes that the
idea that someone can campaign to have their own article deleted because it contains … accurate … information about them is absurd.
Moral of the story? You can run from your past, but not the internet. If Wikipedia deletes the article, others will republish the truth. Ten years from now, Google Brett Kimberlin, and you’ll still find the truth.
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
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Vigilant Vindex posted this cartoon as a comment to the original post.
Among the silliest things that Bill Schmalfeldt tried was to pretend to be some kind of Internet tough guy. Seven years ago today, he attempted Channelling a Corleone.
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Several people have commented that the Cabin Boy™ seems to be channeling Fredo.
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BTW, when Schmalfeldt sued me and the opportunity to settle came up, he refused. Apparently, I made him an offer he couldn’t understand.
Today is the eight anniversary of the District Cour’s denial of the false peace order petition Brett Kimberlin filed against me on behalf of Tetyana Kimberlin’s elder daughter.
After the hearing, Breitbart Unmasked ran a copy of some tweets that Kimberlin tried to introduced as evidence. They supposedly proved that I posted a comment to an article at the Montgomery County Gazette.Because I denied making such a comment and could not authenticate the tweet as mine, Matt Osborne tried to gen up a false story that I perjured myself.
Bullshit!
I couldn’t authenticate the tweets as mine, because ithey weren’t. They’re retweets. The original tweets (and I presume the comment at the Gazette) was by Lee Stranahan.I took me all of two minutes to find that original tweet via Google.
BTW, Kimberlin must be a very slow learner, because he tried to offer the same tweets as evidence in the Walker v. Kimberlin, et al. trial.
BY MR. KIMBERLIN:
Q Did you ever read an article about my daughter in the Bethesda Gazette?
A No. I, I’ve read several comments about it. I was aware of it. I did click on it, and look at it to see that it existed, but I didn’t bother to read it.
Q I’m going to show you Exhibit 31.
A Oh, yeah, these are the forged comments that you tried to introduce in the peace order hearing back in March of 2015.
Q Do you recognize that one?
A I–
THE COURT: He just said that they’re forged, so he can’t authenticate them.
THE WITNESS: I cannot authenticate it; they’re forged.
Insanity is trying the same thing over again expecting a different result.
When Brett Kimberlin filed his first suit against me, I offered to settle the case if he paid me one million dollars. However, my offer was only good until my lawyer had to file either a dispositive motion or an answer to the suit. If were to happen, and it did, the settlement offer would be withdrawn. At that point, my approach to the case became murum aries attigit. The TKPOTD for eight years ago today explained the meaning of that phrase.
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I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: Murum aries attigit.
To understand the historical context of that principle, one should read Julius Caesar’s Commentarii de bello Gallico beginning at II.xxxii.
One of the most stupid things that Bill Schmalfeldt did during his LOLsuit VI: The Undiscovered Krendler was to file a motion seeking to have the defendants’ counsel removed from the case. Of course, his motion was opposed, and seven years ago yesterday, the Cabin Boy™ tweeted that he had prepared his reply to the opposition and that he was “Waiting for the Earth-shattering ‘Kaboom’!”. Seven years ago today, I asked, “Kaboom?”
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The Cabin Boy™ has a post up about his reply to the defendants’ opposition to his motion to disqualify their lawyer in his LOLsuit VI: The Undiscovered Krendler*. He says that it’s well-thought out. It’s even supposed to be highly researched, cited, and sourced.
Uh, huh.
Of course, he hasn’t posted it online because he’s afraid that it will generate the same kind of ridicule as his original motion. If he really filed something, it will eventually appear on PACER for the world’s amusement.
Stay tuned and stock up.
* Note that one of the parties voluntarily dismissed by the Cabin Boy™ was the individual he initially alleged to be Krendler. The dismissal included a statement that the Cabin Boy™ was no longer sure he knew Krendler’s identity. Thus, Krendler truly is still undiscovered. Heh.
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And once again, the best ridicule in the comment section was in the form of a cartoon.Heh.
Today is the eighth anniversary of a post at Breitbart Unmasked Bunny Billy Boy Unread by Matt Osborne trying to put a positive spin on the false peace order petition Brett Kimberlin filed against me on behalf of Tetyana Kimberlin’s elder daughter. He ended his post with this paragraph—
How will Hoge cope with being an adjudicated stalker of teenage girls? How will a six-month peace order affect his gun permit, or his employment at the Goddard Space Flight Center? These are the questions BU will ask and try to answer. Stay tuned!
Ask stupid questions and you’ll get unexpected answers, Bunny Boy.
I’ve never had to cope with being an adjudicated stalker because both a District Court and a Circuit Court judge saw through Kimberlin’s lies. Even if the peace order had gone through, it wouldn’t have affected a Maryland gun permit, but since pre-Bruen Maryland was a may-issue (read, won’t-issue) state, I didn’t have a Maryland carry permit.
I was told that the peace order petition and the Kimberlin and Schmalfeldt emails to NASA did result in criminal investigations being opened, but I was not a target.
Because they didn’t fit Kimberlin’s false narrative, BU never published the answers to those questions.
BTW, Osborne’s post was still up as of 9:30 pm yesterday evening.
Yesterday’s TKPOTD looked back at Brett Kimberlin’s attempt to portray my codefendant Stacy McCain as a racist during the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. trial. Judge Johnson tired to reel in Kimberlin’s non-germane questions, but The Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin doesn’t like to take “No” for an answer. What followed was one of my favorite moments in all of the Kimberlin lawfare. The cast of the following transcript is Judge Johnson (The Court), Patrick Ostronic (the lawyer representing Stacy McCain, Aaron Walker, and me), Brett Kimberlin, and Stacy (The Witness).
Q: Have you ever been identified as a member of the hate group League of the South?
THE COURT: I’m sorry, what was that, what group?
MR. OSTRONIC: Objection.
MR. KIMBERLIN: League of the South.
THE COURT: League of the South?
MR. KIMBERLIN: It’s like an offshoot of the KKK.
MR. OSTRONIC: Objection, Your Honor.
MR. KIMBERLIN: It believes in —
THE COURT: What’s that relevant to, sir?
MR. KIMBERLIN: Well he brought it up.
THE COURT: He didn’t bring up the League of the South.
MR. KIMBERLIN: Huh?
THE COURT: He didn’t bring up the League of the South.
MR. KIMBERLIN: He talked about he’s not a racist.
THE COURT: Well the fact that he brought it up without objection doesn’t make it relevant. I mean what is the jury going to do with this? We’re not here about whether anybody is a racist or not, are we?
MR. KIMBERLIN: Well no, but he’s tried —
THE WITNESS: You’re white by the way.
Zing! It was all I could do to keep from bursting out laughing, particularly when the foreman of the jury, who was black, started to shake his head and chuckle.
Speaking of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Brett Kimberlin tried and, of course, failed, to cite them as an authority during the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. nuisance LOLsuit. As noted in the TKPOTD from six years ago today, Judge Johnson (photo at left) wasn’t buying what The Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimber was selling.
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For the last couple of days, I’ve been posting examples of The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin’s incompetence structuring his arguments in court. TDPK was foolish enough to call Stacy McCain as a plaintiff’s witness in the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. LOLsuit. During his direct examination of Stacy, TDPK tried to introduce evidence from the Southern Poverty Law Center. That resulted in the following exchange among Judge Johnson, Patrick Ostronic (the lawyer representing Aaron Walker, Stacy, and me), and Kimberlin—
THE COURT: So what does the Southern Poverty Law Center have to do with this case? I’m not asking you about Mr. McCain, I’m asking you about why are you asking him about the Southern Poverty Law Center?
MR. KIMBERLIN: I’m asking him the Southern Poverty Law Center is the leading, one of the leading civil rights organizations in the —
THE COURT: I understand all of that but what does it have to do with this case?
MR. KIMBERLIN: Because —
THE COURT: And the claim that you are making against these gentlemen?
MR. KIMBERLIN: Because Southern Poverty Law Center regularly outs racists –
MR. OSTRONIC: Objection.
THE COURT: So what if they do. What does that have to do with this case? This case isn’t about racists or racism.
MR. KIMBERLIN: It’s about hate. It’s about hate. These people hate me and they do anything to destroy me.
THE COURT: Well but why are you asking this witness about the Southern Poverty Law Center? First of all he couldn’t testify as to anything they said or did because it wouldn’t be an exception to any hearsay rule. So you would never be able to get that in evidence anyway.
MR. KIMBERLIN: All right.
THE COURT: Your objection’s sustained.
The Rules of Evidence are not about virtue signaling.
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There are interesting intersections among domestic terrorists.
The TKPOTD for three years ago today dealt with on aspect of Brett Kimberlin’s latest failed attempt to attack his Speedway Bombing Convictions.
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For the past couple of days, we’ve been looking as some of the filings in two cases from the U. S. District Court in Indianapolis: United Staves v. Brett Kimberlin, 79-CR-0007 (S.D. In.) and Brett Kimberlin v. United States, 18-CV-1141 (S.D. In.). The first case is the originally Speedway Bomber trial which was reopened in 2018 when Kimberlin sought to have some of his convictions vacated. The second case is a parallel civil case which also sought to have some of his convictions vacated. Last Friday, a judge denied all of Kimberlin’s motions in the cases, including his motions to vacate. Kimberlin tried to claim that there were errors in the trial that justified setting aside some of his convictions.
Today, I’m posting the the U. S. Attorney’s Response in Opposition to Kimberlin’s petition in the case. The Background section of the response is a concise history of Kimberlin’s career as a dope dealer, serial bomber, and vexatious litigant. It’s worth reading.
For those of you who would prefer at bit of TL;DR, here are some of the better quotes:
… Kimberlin has received an abudance of process. He had three trials, and at least four direct appeals, five collateral attacks, and four habeas petitions. … Put differently, “Kimberlin is no stranger to appellate proceedings.” United States v. Kimberlin, 898 F.2d 1262, 1264 (7th Cir. 1990) (Kimberlin VII). As of 1990, he had “averaged two appeals per year in [the Seventh Circuit] over the last decade. Id.
Now he is back. Decades after his convictions, Kimberlin returns for another inevitable round of litigation. Dispersed over at least 10 filings, he launches a fusillade of claims—complete with typical conspiratorial bent—that range from merely incorrect to actually misleading. He does so under the writ of coram nobis—”[the] criminal-law equivalent” of a “Hail Mary pass.” United States v George, 676 F.3d 249, 251 (1st Cir. 2012). None of his passes finds a target.
Also, under the heading—Kimberlin’s Litigiousness: “I have filed over a hundred lawsuits and another one will be no sweat for me”—
He managed to save time for several vexatious lawsuits. For example, he sued the Bureau of Prisons fro preventing a pre-election press conference regarding his claim to have sold marijuana to former Vice President Dan Quayle, Kimberlin v. Quinlan, 251 F. Supp. 2d 47 (D.D.C. 2003); he sued U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley regarding the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Kimberlin v. McConnell, No. GJH-16-1211, 2016 WL 8667769, a *1 (D. Md. June 3, 2016), aff’d, 671 F. App’x 128 (4th Cir. 2016); and he claimed that a criminal enterprise was spreading defamatory stories about him, Kimberlin v. Frey, No. GJH-13-3059, 2017 WL 3141909, a *1 (D. Md. July 21, 2017), aff’d, 714 F. App’x 291 (4th Cir. 2018). “There are many other unpublished decisions.” Kimberlin VII, 898 F.2d at 1264.
And under the heading—Kimberlin—Not the government—Introduced the Hair Analysis He Now Complains About—
Kimberlin’s hair analysis claim is a paradigmatic example of chutzpah. He says the hair analysis testimony was “false evidence’—but audaciously neglects to mention that he was responsible for its introduction at trial.
Nine years ago today, this post titled Not What the Judge Has Ordered … engaged in mockery of Brett Kimberlin’s incompetence as both a litigator and a musician.
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Everybody’s filin’ nuisances suits in court now.
(Come on, Pro Se, file your loco motions!)
You know the judge will rule if you give him half a chance now.
(Come on, Pro Se, file your loco motions!)
Acme Law will represent you in the suit for free.
It’s easier than learning your ABCs.
Come on, come on, do the loco motions with me.
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A year or so later, Vigilans Vindex (aka the Cockroach) picked up on the theme.
Eight years ago today, Breitbart Unmasked publish the first of a series of defamatory articles about me. This Prevarication Du Jour was my initial response.
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Matt Osborne has published a blatantly false and defamatory article over at Breitbart Unmasked (safe link) titled William Hoge Stalking A Teenager For His Conspiracy Theory. This paragraph is among the most egregious.
Mrs. Kimberlin’s Application for Statement of Charges (available here) does not allege anything about a bomb factory or BDSM. Osborne’s assertions are utter rubbish. More important, they are lies.
The list of additional false statement in the post includes, but is not limited to—
That I have stalked Kelsie Kimberlin.
That I have taken any action with respect to Ms. Kimberlin’s music career.
That the process server employed by my lawyer was sent to photograph Brett Kimberlin.
Matt Osborne owes the truth to what few readers he has. He needs to back up the assertions in William Hoge Stalking A Teenager For His Conspiracy Theory with documentary evidence or he must retract them and apologize. He should do so not later than midnight Saturday Eastern Time.
Finally, because Breitbart Unmasked does not publish a snail mail address, I hereby notify Breitbart Unmasked and Matt Osborne that they should preserve all documents, records, files, etc., relating to me personally, the Hogewash! blog, Brett Kimberlin, and/or Kelsie Kimberlin that may be in their possession or under their control.
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A few days later, Kimberlin made the mistake of filing a false peace order petition against me on behalf of Tetyana Kimberlin’s older daughter.
This episode of Blognet first ran six years ago today. It now can be presented with some of the originally redacted parts restored. That additional material is included after the main body of the original post.
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MUSIC: Theme. Intro and fade under.
NARRATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
MUSIC: Up, then under …
NARRATOR: You’re a Detective Sergeant. You’re assigned to Internet Detail. A group of cyberstalkers have been contacting the employers of several bloggers, and the employers are becoming concerned by the harassment. Your job … get the facts.
MUSIC: Up then under …
ANNOUNCER: Blognet … the documented drama of an actual case. For the next few minutes, in cooperation with the Twitter Town Sheriff’s Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the good guys through an actual case transcribed from official files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Blognet is the story of the good guys in action.
Around 9:30 ET pm, yesterday, I took a look at the websites on the Netherlands-based server that hosts almost all of the surviving Team Kimberlin web domains. Here’s some of what I found. I find it amusing that Bill Schmalfeldt’s defunct brietbitnews dot com, which has fewer than 200 hits per day, is drawing more traffic than the other sites, even empr dot media which has current coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Also, note that the two worst performers are the sites with active DONATE pages.
Even if Brett Kimberlin’s recent attempt as having his Speedway Bomber convictions overturned had been successful, he would still have been a convicted felon. He was convicted of perjury when he was 19, and he pleaded guilty to drug charges when he got caught during a failed smuggling attempt in the late ’70s.
Speaking of dope and Team Kimberlin …
Nine years ago today,I wrote about An Interesting Correlation that Bill Schmalfeldt (writing as Matthew Lillefielt at The Examiner) noted between opposition to the legalization of marijuana and people who voted for Mitt Romney.
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Matthew Lillefielt has a piece over at The Examiner about some of the lobbying done by law enforcement officials during the current session of the Maryland Legislature. He notes that those lobbying against loosening the state’s marijuana laws seem to be from the counties that voted for Mitt Romney, while those favoring liberalization are from … well … liberal counties that voted for Barack Obama.
Of course, correlation doesn’t prove causation, but does Lillefielt mean to say that the parts of our state where people are more likely to be clean and sober are the places that vote Republican?
NOTE—I live in one of those few red counties, but I support decriminalizing marijuana in order to make it less of a moneymaker for criminals. While I think dope should be a legal substance, I view it as a potentially destructive one similar to alcohol. I would like to know how marijuana DUI would be handled before I would be ready to change the law though.
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Here’s another interesting coincidence.
Maryland subsequently legalized possession of small amounts of dope.
After Bill Schmalfeldt violated the second peace order issued against him on my behalf, the State’s Attorney charged him with failure to obey the order. When he got his day in court, the case that was heard immediately before State v. Schmalfeldt was the first marijuana DUI trial in our county after pot legalization. The perp had previous DUI busts for alcohol, and judge sentenced him to 30 days in jail.
About four years of Kimberlin’s 50+ year sentence were for the drug bust.
The episode of Blognet first ran nine years ago today.
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MUSIC: Theme. Intro and fade under.
NARRATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
MUSIC: Up, then under …
NARRATOR: You’re a Detective Sergeant. You’re assigned to Internet Detail. Strange documents are being filed in court cases against bloggers. They seem to be forgeries. Your job … expose them.
MUSIC: Up then under …
ANNOUNCER: Blognet … the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next few minutes, in cooperation with the Twitter Town Sheriff’s Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the good guys through an actual case transcribed from official files. From beginning to end. From crime to punishment. Blognet is the story of the good guys in action.
MUSIC: Up and out.
SOUND: Footsteps in corridor.
FRIDAY: It was Saturday, January 11th. It was sunny and cold in Westminster. We were working the day watch out of Internet Detail. My partner’s Liz Smith. The boss is Twitter Town Sheriff, W. J. J. Hoge. My name’s Friday. It was 6:58 am when I got to the office that morning. Continue reading →
The TKPOTD for six years ago today dealt with the 2015 IRS Form 990 for Velvet Revolution US.
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I’ve had several readers ask me when I’ll be publishing the 2015 Form 990 for VelvetRevolution.US. The answer is probably never. VRUS’s income has been so low for so long that it probably now e-files a Form 990-N. The last paper 990 showed that the not-for-profit had assets of $8.
Given the piddling level of web traffic to the VRUS website, one wonders if its DONATE button generates enough cash flow to make the site worth keeping.
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It turns out that I was wrong. VRUS did file a 990 for 2015 which the IRS eventually posted at irs dot gov. It showed VRUS had net negative assets of ($4.492). The sole transaction reported was a $4,500 loan from Brett Kimberlin.
(Kimberlin has claimed in court filings that his only income is the $19,500/year he pays himself from Justice Through Music Project and rather minimal Social Security retirement income. He was not old enough to be receiving Social Security in 2015. It seems odd that he would have nearly four months take home pay available to lend.)
Since 2015, the entity formerly known as VRUS (now Protect Our Elections/EMPR Inc) has not filed any Form 990s, and the IRS has revoked it’s 501(c)(4) tax exemption. I have not found any evidence that the entity has filed any state or federal tax returns on income received since 2015, and it falsely claims to have both 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) status on it’s website’s Donation page.
Back in the ’70s, Brett Kimberlin ran a health food store as money laundry for his wholesale drug dealing. There is some evidence that he actually believes in dietary quackery, and that my explain why he set up the citizensagainstgmo dot com website. This post about Brett Kimberlin and Vitamin A Deficiency from nine years ago today to a look at that site.
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One of the most promising genetically engineered crops that has become available over the past decade or so is golden rice. It has been modified to produce beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. This is an important innovation for the third world where where vitamin A deficiency kills upwards of 600,000 children under 5 each year.
It is also a major bête noire of the anti-GMO food crowd.
Take a look at this:This is a page from the website citizensagainstgmo dot com. It lists golden rice as number 5 among the top 10 GMO food products.
This site is hosted on the same server as the sites for Justice Through Music Project, Velvet Revolution US, Breitbart Unmasked, NRAWatch, Pussy Riot Defense Fund, and other Kimberlin-related sites.
Hmmmmm.
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The site’s DONATE button must not have generated enough revenue to keep the site viable. It’s among the dozens of failed web domains Kimberlin has allowed to expire.
The ball is now in Judge Hazel’s court. If he doesn’t grant summary judgment to either party, the case will go to trial.
Heh.
Of course, he hasn’t posted it online because he’s afraid that it will generate the same kind of ridicule as his original motion. If he really filed something, it will eventually appear on PACER for the world’s amusement.
Heh.
Speaking of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Brett Kimberlin tried and, of course, failed, to cite them as an authority during the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. nuisance LOLsuit. As noted in the 
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I find it amusing that Bill Schmalfeldt’s defunct brietbitnews dot com, which has fewer than 200 hits per day, is drawing more traffic than the other sites, even empr dot media which has current coverage of the war in Ukraine.