As of the drafting of this post, Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt has not made any effort to distance himself from Pedi Officer No-Class Gillette, another member of Team Kimberlin who did federal time for possession of child pornography and who has now apparently failed to register as a sex offender. The Cabin Boy himself has published images that are not merely pornographic; some, he admits, were designed to be obscene.
I have been the subject of at least three such images. When he received a DMCA takedown notice from the copyright owner of the first image he had altered, he retaliated by photoshopping my face into a homoerotic image. (Gay sex and anal sex seem to be a recurring theme with Schmalfeldt.) He took that down at the request of the copyright owner of the video from which my face had be taken, but when a public domain image of his face remained posted here at Hogewash!, he retaliated again by photoshopping a different image of my face into a second homoerotic picture. Use of my likeness without my permission in that case violated the Terms of Service of the web hosting company he was using, so I filed a complaint. I’m not sure what exactly happened, but the picture came down.
Bill Schmalfeldt says he doesn’t work for Brett Kimberlin. That may be literally true. He could be paid by Justice Through Music Project. Or Neal Rauhauser. Or he could be an independent contractor, as if these guys would send him a 1099 instead of a W-2. Or he might be getting in kind payment, such as free web hosting on the Team Kimberlin Dutch server. Or paid legal support. Or he might be stupid enough to be an unpaid volunteer. Regardless of how (or if) he is compensated, he certainly seems to be an associate of Brett Kimberlin and to be doing his bidding. That would mean that he is teamed with a pedophile and a convicted child pornographer.
He’s denounced pedophilia, but claims The Dread Pedo Kimberlin isn’t a pedophile. (He hasn’t seen the evidence that I have, and by evidence I don’t mean the uncorroborated testimony of a single individual.) However, he has not denounced child pornography, and Craig Gillette pleaded guilty to possession of kiddie porn.
Given the Cabin Boy’s own affinity for porn, one wonders why he won’t simply say that child pornography is over the line in the same way pedophilia is. Unless, of course, …
UPDATE—Bill Schmalfeldt has finally come out against child pornography.
RadioWMS Child pornography is worse than murder, in my POV. It means you have scarred an individual for his or her life. Murder leaves someone dead.
7:04 PM – 3 Aug 13 GMT