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.
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.
So how did all that lawfare and cyberharassment work out for Team Kimberlin?
Brett Kimberlin is still the Speedway Bomber, as well as a convicted drug smuggler and perjurer.
His music career was a bust.
His web presence has collapsed. As of about 9pm ET last night, the Justice Through Music Project website was ranked 14,315,784, and the Protect Our Elections website was ranked 15,029,580.
And as for former Terror of the Twitterz Bill Schmalfeldt … this comment from yesterday’s TKOPTD summarizes his Internet presence—
I know this is only related to Team Kimberlin in a tangential way, but I find it beyond the bounds of hilarity to see that Bill Schmalfeldt’s most recent Twitter account @ThePortlyPundit was hijacked by crypto scammers about a month ago…and no one seems to have noticed but me.
In yesterday’s TKPOTD, I took note of Brett Kimberlin’s felony convictions that he had racked up prior to the Speedway Bombing trials. Ten years ago today, this post about Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin and Gun Control looked at the weapons in his possession when he was busted for drug smuggling.
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Those who feel that adding more laws to the 20,000+ gun control laws now on the books will have any effect on reducing crime should consider the case of Brett Kimberlin. He was convicted of a felony before he turned 20. As a felon, he is barred by federal law from possessing a firearm. With that in mind, let’s take a look at what Mark Singer writes on p. 106 of Citizen K about what TDPK had in his possession when he was busted for drug smuggling.
… strobe lights, walkie-talkies, a twenty-thousand-watt searchlight, bulletproof vests, handcuff, two Taser electric-shock-inducing stun guns, several military uniforms and berets bearing United States Special Forces and Special Officer and Department of Defense and American flag patches, U. S. Postal Service uniforms, a 20-gauge shotgun, a .22-caliber revolver, a .22-caliber automatic pistol with a silencer, a.38-caliber revolver, a box of silicone-sealed .38-special shells loaded with cyanide, a gas mask, and eight pairs of panty hose.
Other passages in the book mention TDPK in possession of an AR-15 rifle.
TDPK was not impressed by and had no respect for the Gun Control Act of 1968 that outlawed his possession of firearms. You know, it might just be the case that other criminals will be willing to break that law, and enacting more laws probably won’t restrain them any more effectively.
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Of course, The Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin’s legal career consisted of nothing except shooting blanks.
Before he took up bombing, TDPK earned his living as a wholesale dope dealer and drug smuggler. In 1978, he was caught while trying to retrieve 50 lb bales of marijuana that had been jettisoned from a DC-4 flying in from Colombia. The plane had been carrying 5 tons of dope when it ran into trouble and found it would have to land at the wrong airstrip.
It seems that TDPK had been keeping his supply line running via air over the Caribbean.
BTW, 10,000 lb of dope is not the kind of buy made causally on the street. Back in the ’70s, that kind of quantity was cartel business, usually Cali. The other cartels had moved on to coke by then.
<mockery>Given TDPK’s history, please be careful in selecting snacks, especially brownies. Popcorn is always good.</mockery>
Stay tuned. There’s plenty of interesting stuff ahead.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, …
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BTW, Kimberlin pleaded guilty to the dope charge, so even if the Supreme Court were to take his appeal and find in his favor on the Speedway Bombing convictions, The Dread Deadbeat Pirate Pusher Kimberlin will still be a felon.
Brett Kimberlin has a thin skin. He included this bit of whining in his omnibus opposition to the motions to dismiss his RICO 2: Electric Boogaloo LOLsuit.Here’s the part of my motion to dismiss that bothered him so.
BTW, a few days after Kimberlin filed that motion to dismiss, a judge in another case found that Kimberlin’s reputation as a perjurer, drug smuggler, and serial bomber was so bad that it was not possible to injure it, and therefore, it was not possible for him to make a valid defamation claim.
Brett Kimberlin has been in court for the past few years seeking to have some of his Speedway Bombing convictions over turned. Kimberlin case is based on asking for a writ of coram nobis to allow review of “errors” made during his trials. The TKPOTD for nine years ago today published a synopsis of his rap sheet.
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Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt keeps referring to Brett Kimberlin’s “alleged” crimes. Here’s the list of federal crimes of which Brett Kimberlin has been convicted, some on multiple counts.
Perjury
Conspiracy to Possess Marijuana
Intent to Distribute Marijuana.
Possession and Illegal use of Department of Defense Insignia
Illegal use of the Seal of the President of the United States
Impersonation of a Federal Officer.
Receipt of explosives by a convicted felon
Possession of an Unregistered Destructive Device
Unlawful Manufacturing of a Destructive Device
Malicious Damage by Means of Explosives
Malicious Damage by Means of Explosives Involving Personal Injury.
The aggregate sentence for all of those charges (except the earlier perjury rap) was over 51 years. Kimberlin was paroled, had his parole revoked, and paroled a second time in 2001. In 2006 he was released from supervision by the Parole Commission. His sentence will finally expire in 2030.
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Because there is a difference in how different courts of appeals treat the writ of coram nobis, it’s possible the Supreme Court might take the case in order to clarify the law. However …
Even if the Supreme Court were to grant Kimberlin’s petition for a writ of certiorari and were to decide in his favor and order the case reopened, and even if the lower courts wound up granting Kimberlin the relief he is seeking, he will still be a convicted felon, and none of his rights will be restored.
His perjury conviction will still stand.
He pleaded guilty to the drug charges, so they will still stand.
The convictions relating to his arrest for attempting to have false federal IDs printed will still stand.
Brett Kimberlin is the subject of an authorized biography called Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin. This post from nine years ago today provided an Amazon link to purchase a copy.
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Back in the ’90s, before Brett Kimberlin’s parole was revoked, Mark Singer extensively investigated Brett Kimberlin’s background and his claim to have sold marijuana to Dan Quayle. Citizen K is the saga of a master drug smuggler, convicted bomber, suspected murderer, jailhouse lawyer, and media manipulator, whose story about supplying marijuana to a future vice president is only the beginning.
When Kimberlin was served with discovery interrogatories related to the book during one of his LOLsuits, Kimberlin claimed that he didn’t have a copy, so I bought one and sent it to him with discovery interrogatories in another case.
Oh, and here’s an interesting twist. The first copy of Citizen K I acquire was a gift from one of the Gentle Readers who had bought it at a used bookstore. It was marked as having been the property of the public library in Bloomington, Indiana.
It wasn’t the Speedway Bombings that first brought Brett Kimberlin to national attention. It was the claim he made just before the 1988 elections that he had been Dan Quayle’s dope dealer. The TKPOTD for nine years ago today dealt with Mark Singer’s conclusion about the truth of Kimberlin’s story.
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Mark Singer investigated Brett Kimberlin’s claims to a have sold marijuana to Dan Quayle. On p. 337 of Citizen K he writes that
I spent four years asking questions about Kimberlin, and along the way I never met a soul who could offer genuine corroboration of the fable that brought him to my attention in the first place.
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Given subsequent information that has been published here at Hogewash! and at other venues, it seems clear that Kimberlin was lying.
The truth is not only out there, it is uncontrolled. It cannot be beaten into submission by brass knuckles PR management.
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Even if his current attempt to get the Supreme Court to grant him relief from his Speedway Bombing convicts were to succeed, Brett Kimberlin will still be a convicted felon—a perjurer and a dope smuggler.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
It has certainly been a useful weapon against Team Kimberlin, and one of the ways I’ve poked fun at them has been giving them nicknames. While the unconstitutional gag order was in effect against Aaron Walker, I called Kimberlin “Lord Voldemort (He Who Must Not Be Named).” When Kimberlin posted a pirate-themed website, he became “The Dread Pirate Kimberlin.” When he represented himself in his LOLsuits, he became “The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin.” At other times, other P-words—Perjurer, Performer, Publisher, etc.—were part of the title. When he defaulted on sanctions and other moneys owed, “Dread” became “Deadbeat.”
Other members of Team Kimberlin were assigned positions in the pirate crew. One of the Gentle Readers named Bill Schmalfeldt as the Cabin Boy, so he is now Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfedt™.
This post from nine years ago today was about Schmafledt calling the readers of this blog Old Biddies.
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Cabin Boy Bill reads my blog.
RadioWMS Old biddies nattering about nothing on the comment section of Hoge’s blog. A bunch of old women at a quilting bee, gossiping. Seriously.
10:43 PM – 9 Jul 13
UPDATE—An anonymous coward from Team Kimberlin comments:
Nice try, but that nickname won’t stick. I’m Jewish from the waist down.
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Some people just aren’t cut out for … oh, never mind.
The TKPOTD for nine years ago today dealt with birds of a feather flocking together.
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The Gentle Reader should not be surprised to learn that various people associated with Brett Kimberlin “charities” have common interests. Consider marijuana.
Brett Kimberlin pleaded guilty after being caught trying to receive a 5+ ton shipment of Columbian pot.
Kevin Zeese was with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws as Chief Counsel from 1980 to 1983 (his first job after law school?) and as Executive Director from 1983 to 1986.
Hmmmm.
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Kimberlin and Zeese have something else in common. They were both losers. Kimberlin has been batting 0.000 in his LOLsuits and appeals, and every political campaign Zeese was associated with (including his own run for the US Senate from Maryland) was a failure.
Brett Kimberlin already had a felony conviction for perjury during the Speedway Bombings, so it was federal felony for him to posses explosives. It was also a federal felony for him to posses a firearm. The TKPOTD for nine years ago today dealt with how effect such laws are in compelling compliance by criminals.
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As I’ve mentioned before, Brett Kimberlin is running a website called NRA Watch (No, I won’t link to it.) that supports a ban on modern sporting rifles such as the AR15. Back in the ’70s, when he was prohibited by the Gun Control Act of 1968 from possessing firearms because of a felony conviction, Brett Kimberlin had a significant personal arsenal. Here’s a partial description from the appeal of his bombing conviction to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [805 F.2d 210 (1986)]:
ATF Agent Donovan testified that in a search of defendant’s home September 23, 1978, he found a .22 caliber rifle and two shotguns, a box of 12 gauge shotgun shells, a box of .22 caliber ammunition, and a clip containing four .30 caliber rounds. Twelve (12) gauge shotgun shells and 30.06 ammunition had also been found in the Impala. This evidence came in without objection.
Scott Bixler was a co-defendant with defendant Kimberlin in the Texas marijuana case. In rebuttal he testified that in the summer of 1978 he purchased seven AR-15 rifles at $300 each. Defendant Kimberlin supplied the money, and Bixler turned six of the rifles over to him. Days before, Bixler had purchased a shotgun for defendant Kimberlin. This testimony came in without objection. There was testimony that an AR-15 was found at the Patricia Strait residence in Texas, along with apparent bomb components, and that the serial number on the rifle was scratched through. This evidence came in without objection.
On redirect, Bixler testified, over objection, that he and defendant Kimberlin had shot a semi-automatic .22 caliber pistol with a silencer on the end of it. Kimberlin had provided this weapon. They shot it at the “airstrip,” a location which figured in the marijuana operation.
Part of the scam associated with Brett Kimberlin’s not-for-profits has been advocacy for stricter gun control. The TKPOTD for nine years ago today dealt with his history of being a felon illegally possessing firearms.
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One of the latest efforts of Brett Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution US is a website called NRA Watch (No, I won’t link to it.) that is advocating for stricter gun control, including a ban on modern sporting rifles such as the AR15 and standard capacity magazines. Hold that thought while you read the following passage from page 173 of Mark Singer’s Citizen K:
To counter Kimberlin’s claim that he was temperamentally incapable of violence (“not prone to assaultive behavior”), for instance, the government cited the array of weapons that had been seized during the drug bust in Texas. Among them was a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol equipped with a silencer. The testimony of Bixler placed this gun in Kimberlin’s hands, along with the half-dozen AR-15s he said he had bought the defendant.
At the time that he was busted while trying to smuggle 5 tons of dope in Texas, Brett Kimberlin was already a convicted felon, and it was illegal for him to possess any firearm. Did that law stop him? Straw purchases were against the law then as now. Did that stop him?
Do you think that he would have complied with a 10-round magazine limit for the AR15s he wasn’t supposed to have?
Me neither.
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Incapable of violence? Carl Delong was unavailable for comment.
One of the silliest claim that Brett Kimberlin made in any of his LOLsuits was that he had been a victim of discrimination and entitled to relief under the KKK Act. The TKPOTD for seven years ago today took a look at that claim he made in the RICO Madness LOLsuit.
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In his opposition to Lee Stranahan’s motion to dismiss the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness, The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin tries to keep his Ku Klux Klan Act (42 U.S.C. § 1985) claim alive.
Actually, invidious discrimination is one of the element of a § 1985 offense. Here’s what the Supreme Court had to say:
The language requiring intent to deprive of equal protection, or equal privileges and immunities, means that there must be some racial, or perhaps otherwise class-based, invidiously discriminatory animus behind the conspirators’ action.
Griffin v. Breckenridge, 403 U.S. 88, 102 (1971). There’s nothing in TDPK’s second amended complaint that alleges that any defendant discriminated against him because of his race. (As Stacy McCain noted while Kimberlin had him on the witness stand in the state lawsuit, “You’re white, by the way.”) The closest he’s ever come making a class-based claim was when he tried to sell the idea that he was being discriminated against because of his criminal record, but that isn’t in the second amended complaint. Even if it were, felons are not a protected class.
I expect to see some pretty wild stuff thrown out by TDPK as the we get closer to the end to the RICO Madness. Monday should bring some interesting things to PACER.
Stay tuned.
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One of Kimberlin’s key failings is his delusions of competence.
Brett Kimberlin does not like to take “No” for an answer, especially from a court that has ruled against him. Yesterday, I posted his motion asking for extra time to file a petition for a rehearing of a failed appeal. The court said, “No, get your paperwork in on time if you want it considered.”
The TKPOTD for six years ago today was about a similar Kimberlin filing in the RICO Retread LOLsuit.
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The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin has filed a motion to stay Aaron Walker’s dismissal from the Kimberlin v. Most of the Universe, et al. RICO Retread LOLsuit pending the results of TDPK’s appeal of his loss of the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. nuisance LOLsuit.
The appeal of TDPK’s 2014 loss is now in the Maryland Court of Special Appeal, and a decision is expected in a month or so. TDPK is hoping that a successful appeal would wipe out the use of res judicata as a defense in the RICO Retread case. Even if it did, that wouldn’t help Kimberlin. The case against Aaron was dismissed for res judicata and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Eliminating only one of the fatal wounds will not make the case any less dead.
#Futile
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The appeal in the Seventh Circuit has a similar issue. Kimberlin was seeking to have some of his Speedway Bombing convictions overturned because they were felonies which caused him various legal disabilities. For example, he can’t serve on a jury. His petition was denied because his other felony convictions (perjury and drug smuggling) would has still exist, so his status as a felon would be unchanged.
Team Kimberlin is a bunch of liars, and if the story cited in the TKPOTD from seven years ago is to be believed, they even lie to each other.
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My copy of Animus Nocendi, Bill Schmalfeldt’s latest cut-and-paste opus, arrived Thursday afternoon. I’ve read it. It uses some of his old blog posts and various court papers stitched together with a bit of connective text to attempt to tell his side of “the story.” I can’t really recommend it as an accurate, nothing-but-the-truth, recounting of the interactions between him and me over the past couple of years.
He does share one interesting anecdote. At the very beginning of the book, he relates a conversation he had with Brett Kimberlin in which the subject of Kimberlin’s claim of being Dan Quayle’s dope dealer came up. He quotes Kimberlin as saying, “Of all the things I’ve been charged with, that’s the one thing I DID do!” That summarizes the factually challenged nature of the book. Brett Kimberlin was never charged with selling marijuana (or any other drug) to Dan Quayle, and, if Mark Singer’s research for Citizen K, Kimberlin’s authorized biography, is to be believed, he never sold Dan Quayle any dope either. Similarly, many of the events discussed in the book did not actually transpire as Schmalfeldt describes them.
As I said, I can’t recommend Animus Nocendi. Howerver, if you insist on buying a copy, may I suggest that you use the Amazon shopping link on the Home page? I’ll get a cut of the action, and any earnings from sales of the book will be sent to Bomber Sues Blogger. [expired link] to help with the expense of defending against The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin’s vexatious lawsuit aimed at suppressing the First Amendment rights of bloggers.
One more thing … animus nocendi is Latin for “intending to harm.” That appears to be an accurate description of the purpose of the book.
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Animus Nocendi is a print on demand book. It really can be ordered from Amazon.
All the members of Team Kimberlin have inflated perceptions of their intelligence and abilities. Brett Kimberlin’s arrogance has led to many of his failures. The TKPOTD for eight years ago today dealt with one serious failure.
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Mark Singer’s book Citizen K paints a picture of a fairly smart guy who turns out to be too smart for his own good. Or too arrogant. This is found on p. 107 in a discussion of Brett Kimberlin’s drug bust in Texas:
Kimberlin knew that he and Bixler and the landing strip were under surveillance from the moment they rented the Cessna for their reconnaissance. He knew that Customs agents followed him to McAllen. He knew they rented rooms in the same motel where he and his crew stayed in Alice. But he refused to conclude that the venture was doomed. Eventually, the government put together a case file whose narrative terminated, inexorably and triumphantly, with Kimberlin squarely nailed. No matter. In Kimberlin’s cosmology he was always several IQ points and steps ahead of the law. If the plane had landed on time and unloaded and departed without mechanical complications, all would have been right with the world.
Lies can have serious consequences. This TKPOTD from eight years ago today dealt with the fallout of an early lie Brett Kimberlin told during a legal proceeding.
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So far this year, there have been over 700 hits on my original Who is Brett Kimberlin? post from last May. Clearly, there are people stopping by who aren’t familiar with the Saga of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin, so over the next few days, I’ll be posting some highlights of his career.
In May of 1972, a few days before he turned 18, Brett Kimberlin was indicted on a charge of selling cocaine. The charge was handled as a juvenile matter. In October, 1972, during testimony before a grand jury, Brett Kimberlin said that he had not sold LSD. In November, 1973, Brett Kimberlin was convicted as an adult of perjury relating to that grand jury testimony. That was his first felony conviction.
Kimberlin maintained that the two individuals he was accused of selling LSD to were actually manufacturing LSD, but the prosecutor in the case didn’t believe that. On p. 316 of Citizen K, Mark Singer writes:
The government’s general impression of Kimberlin was corroborated by Tim Young, who told me Brett was his source in several “multithousand-hit deals.”
“I probably sold fifty to seventy-five thousand hits of acid in my life, over a year and a half period,” Young said. “Purple microdot and orange sunshine are two that I remember. How much from Brett? All of it. I don’t remember ever buying acid from anybody but Brett. He sold it to me about ten thousand hits at a time. If he said he never sold acid, he’s a lying [redacted]. Guarantee.”
A lying [redacted]. My experience tends to confirm that view.
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The Gentle Reader may remember that Mrs. Hoge received her B.A. in Audio Production from Indiana University in Bloomington, the town where The Dread Deadbeat Pusher Kimberlin started his career as drug dealer. While I was dating her in 1978, I happened to cross paths with both individuals Kimberlin tried to frame with LSD manufacturing. No one I’ve met who knew them when they were dealing LSD believed they were capable of running a manufacturing operation. No one ever said anything that might have corroborated The Dread Deadbeat Perjurer Kimberlin’s story.
It was just a year ago today that Brett Kimberlin lost yet another court case as reported in this TKPOTD.
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Note: This post was originally set for 12:02 am ET on the 4th, but I’m putting it up a few hours early.
Back in 2018, Brett Kimberlin filed a civil case in the Southern District of Indiana seeking to vacate some of his convictions related to the Speedway Bombings. Last Friday, Judge Tanya Walton Pratt denied his petition. Eugene Volokh has some commentary here.
I’ve included the judge’s order below. She quotes Kimberlin as having claimed:
For example, because these convictions bear on the issue of fraud, Petitioner is unable to apply for or receive government grants
Oh, really?
Isn’t the petitioner the same Brett Kimberlin who claimed that my codefendants and I in the Kimberlin v. National Bloggers Club, et al. (I) RICO Madness LOLsuit had interfered in his relationship with the State Department and its International Visitor Leadership Program? Yes, it is, but if you look very carefully at his filings in his LOLsuits against me, he never explicitly claims that either Justice Through Music Project or he was an actual State Department contractor, and when I filed a FOIA request for the any contracting details, the State Department said they had nothing on record.
Oh, one more thing … Kimberlin was represented by counsel in this case. Perhaps he’s been taught a lesson about his pro se skills.
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Here’s another quote from that order:
But because he has been convicted of multiple felonies in separate trials, including a 1974 perjury conviction in this Court, Case No. IP 73-cr-132, and the 1979 conspiracy to distribute marijuana conviction in Texas, (as referenced in Kimberlin, 805 F.2d at 225), neither of which are at issue here, a successful challenge to any one conviction will not relieve him of these impediments. See United States v. Keane, 852 F.2d 199, 205 (7th Cir. 1988) (“a single felony conviction supports any civil disabilities and reputational injury [a convicted felon] may have to endure”).
The only person who ruined Brett Kimberlin’s reputation was Brett Kimberlin.
I probably should have titled this post Brett Kimberlin and the Case of the Missing Websites. Seven years ago today, I had a couple of posts about Kimberlin-related websites. The TKPOTD was about a site that had disappeared.
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The Gentle Readers who have been following The Saga of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin lo these many months may remember posts about a website called globalpharma dot biz. This was a site for a company that appeared to have a physical presence in Arizona but whose website was hosted in Holland on the same server as the Kimberlin-related off-shore sites. It’s name server was unmaskedhosting dot com, a domain apparently owned or controlled by Brett Kimberlin. globalpharma dot biz offered to sell me Schedule IV prescription drugs for sale with no prescriptions required.
When I checked yesterday afternoon, the website was missing.A bit of digging turned up this interesting information about the domain’s name server history.Change of ownership?
Hmmmmm.
UPDATE—Here’s a couple of interesting thoughts that popped up while reviewing The Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s RICO suit against me. Neither it nor the state lawsuit he has filed mention any of my writing about globalpharma dot biz.
Also, there’s an interesting coincidence in the timing of globalpharma dot biz going dark. It happened around the time the RICO suit was being drafted and filed. I wonder if a review of 18 USC 1961 had anything to do with the site going down?
As used in this chapter—
(1) “racketeering activity” means (A) any act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act), which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year; … (D) any offense involving fraud connected with a case under title 11 (except a case under section 157 of this title), fraud in the sale of securities, or the felonious manufacture, importation, receiving, concealment, buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act), punishable under any law of the United States …
… but it looks kinda shady. The Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s “charity” Justice Through Music Project runs a website called pussyriotdefensefund dot org. Just looking at the name, it would not be unreasonable for someone to assume that the site was involved in raising funds to help with the legal defense for members of the Russian rock band that have been prosecuted.
Here’s the top of the site’s home page. (Click on the image to embiggen it.)Zooming in on the text show this:See, Gentle Reader, the site’s not really a fraud because it comes right out and tells you that the donations go to JTMP.
BTW, TDPK has filed a federal RICO accusing me of mail fraud and wire fraud because I asked you to donate to funds supporting other bloggers and because I am now one of the beneficiaries of a fund to defend against a frivolous and vexatious lawsuit from Kimberlin. If you believe that the BomberSuesBloggers fund is a scam, please don’t contribute. If you think that blogs such as Hogewash! should be able to publish about potential scams, even if they might be run by Brett Kimberlin, then please go over to the BomberSuesBloggers [Dead link. We took the site down after we won the LOLsuit.] site and find out how you can help.
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Kimberlin eventually pulled the plug on pussyriotdefensefund dot org. Perhaps it wasn’t generating enough cash flow to bother paying for its hosting. Or Kimberlin may have let lapse through inattention.
Whatever.
Meanwhile, the Justice Through Music Project website was still missing in action as of 9:30 pm ET, Saturday.
This TKPOTD from six years ago today explains how Brett Kimberlin came to be referred to as The Dread Pirate Kimberlin.
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Those Gentle Readers who haven’t been following the Saga of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin since last summer may not understand the piracy references. One of the organizations that raised money to help defray the legal expenses for the Virginia and federal Walker v. Kimberlin, et al. lawsuits last year was the Bloggers Defense Team. Team Kimberlin responded with a piracy themed website called the Bloggers Offense Team. I found Kimberlin’s choice of the pirate-related logo at left is interesting. Pirates aren’t semi-sympathetic, comedic characters from a Johnny Depp movie. They are criminals. Was the mask slipping?
That got me to thinking … While Brett Kimberlin’s unconstitutional peace order prohibiting Aaron Walker from blogging about him was in place, I had taken to referring to Kimberlin as Lord Voldemort (“He who must not be named”). Why not a piracy themed nickname? The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. I used it, and it stuck—not only with my readers, but other bloggers began using it occasionally too.
As fans of The Princess Bride know, The Dread Pirate Roberts is a pirate of near-mythical reputation, someone feared across the seven seas for his ruthlessness and swordfighting prowess, and who is well known for taking no prisoners. Ships immediately surrender and give up their cargos rather than be captured, a fate they imagine to be certain death.
The Dread Pirate Kimberlin is more like a legend in his own mind, a pretender who wishes to be feared for his ruthlessness and legal ability and to be known for vanquishing all comers in court. Critics, he thinks, should immediately stop telling the truth about him and give up their First Amendment rights at his command.
It turns out that The Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s legal acumen seems to be as fictional as The Dread Pirate Roberts’ existence. And no one is willing to surrender to The Dread Pirate Kimberlin.
UPDATE—From Bill Buckler’s The Privateer via Zero Hedge:
No tyrant on any level can handle derision, it deflates them utterly by reducing their stature to its proper level in a way which they cannot escape.
Yep.
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As part of the continuing ridicule of TDPK, his other activities also came under the banner of dreadness—The Dread Pro-Se/Prerormer/Protector/Protestor/Pedo/Publisher/etc.—but as he failed to pay the sanctions and court court due after his campaign of lawyer, Dread became Deadbeat.
He’s now the Deadbeat P______ Kimberlin. The Gentle Reader may insert his word of choice.
Note: This post was originally set for 12:02 am ET on the 4th, but I’m putting it up a few hours early.
Back in 2018, Brett Kimberlin filed a civil case in the Southern District of Indiana seeking to vacate some of his convictions related to the Speedway Bombings. Last Friday, Judge Tanya Walton Pratt denied his petition. Eugene Volokh has some commentary here.
I’ve included the judge’s order below. She quotes Kimberlin as having claimed:
For example, because these convictions bear on the issue of fraud, Petitioner is unable to apply for or receive government grants
Oh, really?
Isn’t the petitioner the same Brett Kimberlin who claimed that my codefendants and I in the Kimberlin v. National Bloggers Club, et al. (I) RICO Madness LOLsuit had interfered in his relationship with the State Department and its International Visitor Leadership Program? Yes, it is, but if you look very carefully at his filings in his LOLsuits against me, he never explicitly claims that either Justice Through Music Project or he was an actual State Department contractor, and when I filed a FOIA request for the any contracting details, the State Department said they had nothing on record.
I’m informed that a news website covering the bustling megalopolis of Macomb, Illinois, has posted reporting by a certain GS-13 Editor about Western Illinois University’s new program Cannabis Biology and Production. (No, I won’t link to it.) Ag Students will be able to minor in cannabis production beginning with the upcoming Fall semester.
No former dope importers with midwestern distribution operations were available for comment.
Here’s the part of my motion to dismiss that bothered him so.
