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Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Brett Kimberlin originally got tagged here at Hogewash! as Lord Voldemort (He Who Must Not Be Named) because of his futile attempt to use peace orders to punish Aaron Walker from writing about him. After Kimberlin put up a pirate-themed Bloggers Offense Team website, I began referring to him as The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. That evolved into The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin, The Dread Perjurer Kimberlin, and more. After Kimberlin began defaulting on payment of sanctions and court costs, Dread became Deadbeat.

Brett isn’t the only member of the Kimberlin family to be sanctioned for misbehavior in a lawsuit. This TKPOTD first ran five years ago today.

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Aaron Walker sought discovery sanctions against Tetyana Kimberlin because of her failure to be deposed during discovery in the Walker v. Kimberlin, et al. lawsuit. Sanctions have been granted.398855v-di_376The Kimberlins sought to recover their expenses defending the suit. Their motion was denied.398855v-di_378Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

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Neither of the Kimberlin’s has paid a dime of the sanctions and court cost they owe.

It would be wise for them to rectify that failure.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Yesterday, we mentioned a couple of the members for Team Kimberlin by the titles they were tagged with as members of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s crew. Ten years ago today, the Dread Pirates Robert and Kimberlin were compared in this post.

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The Dread Pirate Roberts, so the story goes, 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 Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s legal acumen seems to be as fictional as Dread Pirate Roberts’ existence. And no one will surrender to Dread Pirate Kimberlin.

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He’s lost every LOLsuit he’s filed since he made the mistake of tangling with me.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Brett Kimberlin seems desperate to achieve some manner of positive fame. He is, of course, famous, but being known as a convicted serial bomber isn’t the kind of notoriety he wants. The post this clip is taken from first ran nine years ago today under the title Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin—Man of International Consequence.

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Those Gentle Readers who have been with the Saga of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin for lo these many months will know that he had a run in with Aaron Walker in the lobby area outside the 9th floor courtrooms in the Montgomery County Court House back in January. He filed a criminal complaint against Mr. Walker which the State’s Attorney decided wasn’t supported by the evidence. TDPK tried to intervene in the case to force a prosecution.

<mockery>You see, the case was too important to let die. Look at how TDPK began his Motion in Opposition the the State’s Motion to Nolle Pros This Case:

Now comes Victim/Complainant Brett Kimberlin (“Victim”) and hereby opposes the State’s Motion to Nolle Pros this case. In support of this motion, Victim states that this is not simply a run of the mill assault case but rather one that has both national and international ramifications and is being watched by federal law enforcement authorities, State Department contractors, organizations that monitor hate groups, foreign countries with large Muslim populations, and national Muslim and civil rights organizations. There are many aggravating factors present in this case that warrant full prosecution and even consideration of additional charges against Mr. Walker.

Wow! That sure is a heapin’ big burden for a simple assault case to carry. Who knew that Mr. Kimberlin was so important in, for instance, a foreign country with a large Muslim population?

Actually, there are only two of the categories on the list that come close to making any sense. Both of TDPK’s not-for-profits have done work for or funded by the State Department, so they might be the “State Department contractors,” but I wonder what “federal law enforcement authorities” would be following a simple assault case in Maryland. Even if TDPK were still on supervised parole, a parole officer isn’t a LEO.

Hmmmm.

It seems that TDPK may think he’s further up the pecking order than reality would allow.</mockery>

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I filed an FIOA request with the State Department about the work he claimed to have done for them. The State Department claims to have no records of any such work by Kimberlin.

Well, he’s also a convicted perjurer, and perjurers have been known to tell lies.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Before Brett Kimberlin filed his first LOLsuit against me, he filed an Application for Statement of Charges against me falsely alleging that I was harassing him. So before he sued me, he set himself up for my filing a civil action against hime for malicious prosecution. Eight years ago today I posted that #BrettKimberlin Makes My Day.

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I know that Napoleon famously said not to correct your enemy when he is making a mistake, but Brett Kimberlin is gonna need a very good lawyer. As I mentioned earlier this evening, he has charged me with harassment. And he’s similarly charged Aaron Walker. I’ll let Aaron speak for himself, but now that I’ve talked to my counsel, I have this to say.FrenchTaunt

The charge is not only bogus. It’s stupid.

Brett Kimberlin is a convicted perjurer. He can’t give testimony in court. [See note below.] Regardless of what he puts in an Application for Statement of Charges, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office knows that there is no competent evidence in the document because Brett Kimberlin can’t back it up with testimony in court. Gentle Reader, why do you think that the charges he filed against Jay Elliott were tossed so quickly? It could take a couple of weeks, but nolle prosequi is really the only alternative, and that means the charges are dead in the water.

But pretend that through some silly error the State’s Attorney decides to prosecute. If the information in the Maryland Judiciary Case Search database is correct, proving the charge to be false will be a trivial matter.

Yes, the charge is facially false. That opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities. Knowingly filing a false charge is a criminal offense in Maryland, and it should be easy to prove that Kimberlin knew or should have known that the information he gave was bogus.

Also, I am a potential witness in legal matters relating to Team Kimberlin in three counties in Maryland and at least two other states. Is this charge an attempt to intimidate me? If so, it won’t work, and witness intimidation is frowned upon in Maryland.

Those are only two of the possible criminal liabilities that Kimberlin may have just created for himself, as if he doesn’t have enough on his plate with sexual offense in the third degree. Of course, I have possible civil remedies as well, as if a divorce and Bill Schmalfeldt’s frivolous motions, peace order appeal, and DMCA tomfoolery wouldn’t be enough to keep him Acme Legal busy. (Meep, meep!)

popcorn4bkThen there’s a potential problem stemming from how he may have used corporate assets of Justice Through Music Project to engage in his harassment aimed at BlogBash last March. Advocacy is one thing. Stalking is something else.

The Team Kimberlin ship has a big hole below the water line, and it looks like The Dread Pirate Kimberlin has opened the scuttlecocks.

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During the time that Kimberlin was suing me, Maryland was the last state with a law prohibiting convicted perjurers for giving testimony in court. He found out about his disability when my lawyer prevent him from testifying in the Hoge v. Kimberlin peace order hearing. He was never able to offer testimony in any of the state LOLsuits he filed against me.

However, the state senator representing Kimberlin’s district offered legislation repealing the ban on testimony from perjurers which passed in time to allow Kimberlin to be subjected to cross examination in the Walker v. Kimberlin, et al. and Hoge v. Kimberlin, et al. lawsuits.

Kimberlin’s felony convictions are so old now that they can’t be used to impeach his reliability as a witness in a Maryland proceeding—except for one—his conviction for perjury. A court and jury can be told of a prior perjury conviction regardless of how long ago it occurred.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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One of the ways that I’ve ridiculed Brett Kimberlin was to begin referring to him as The Dread Pirate Kimberlin after he put up a pirate-themed website called the Bloggers Offense Fund. As time went by, I also tagged him with other The Dread P_____ Kimberlin nicknames where P_____ might be  something likePerjurer or Pro-Se or Performer. Because he has yet to pay sanctions and court costs taxed against him, Dread has been changed to Deadbeat.

The TKPOTD for five years ago today was about The Dread Deadbeat Performer Kimberlin.

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Here’s another silly claim that keeps reappearing in The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin’s LOLsuits.ECF 135-147

That’s from his second amended complaint in the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness LOLsuit. It’s repeated word-for-word as paragraph 122 in the complaint in his Kimberlin v. Most of the Universe, et al. RICO Retread LOLsuit.

Ear-plugs“… in order to interfere with Plaintiff’s business relationships and his prospective advantage … as a musician.” Oh, please! Now, I will admit that I have published a review of one of his CDs and that it was unfavorable, i.e., honest. The Dread Performer Kimberlin’s lack of talent is the most significant impediment to his music career. This is not to say that I think he should abandon his attempt at a career in music. This is from my earlier review—

While he didn’t do especially well with the acoustic guitar on Keyhole, Brett Kimberlin is actually a reasonably good guitarist. He probably couldn’t cut it in Nashville or LA, but could make a living in a minor market (such as Seattle) or playing the Holiday Inn circuit. Indeed, the world would be a better place if he did ignore the usual advice and give up his day job.

‘Nuff said.

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Yeah, Seattle might be just the place for Kimberlin.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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The whole point of Brett Kimberlin’s campaign of brass knuckles reputation management via lawfare was to prevent truthful reporting about him, his associates, and their activities. He was determined to control the narrative. He failed. This post, Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin’s Failing Narrative, showed how his effort was beginning to fail eight years ago today.

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This was captured from the Bloggers Offense Team website (No, I won’t link to it):

Note the most recent post is almost three weeks old. The events of the last few weeks simply don’t fit the narrative that Team Kimberlin have been trying to spin. Justice draws nearer.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, …

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Of course, the piracy site was abandoned as have many other of Kiberlin’s failed web ventures.

It’s now 2020, and the Kimberlin narrative spin at @itstime_2020 continues to get no real traction. However, that might be a good thing for Kimberlin because it will people from seeing the sort of promoted tweets that Twitter is place on the accounts home page. I had to chuckle when I was served this tweet while checking on @itstime_2020 yesterday evening—

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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In the beginning of my writing about Brett Kimberlin, I jokingly referred to him as Lord Voldemort because his illegal gag order against Aaron Walker made him “he who must not be named,” at least by Aaron. I teasingly referred to Kimberlin’s followers and enablers as Death Eater Wannabes. Not long after that gag order was quashed, Kimberlin started pirate-themed fund-raising website, so I began calling him The Dread Pirate Kimberlin, and certain of his followers were made members of his crew. One of my readers started calling TDPK’s main PR flack Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt, and that tag has stuck.

One of the reasons that Team Kimberlin has failed at almost every enterprise they’ve undertaken is the members inability to understand their lack of competence. Six years ago today, I ran this post called #BillSchmalfeldt: Delusions of Adequacy.

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Let’s back up for a minute and reexamine that Cabin Boy quote from 18 February.

It’s all horseshit. It’s all absolute horseshit. And I and my family have been put through pain and suffering because Lee Stranahan has a grudge. Because somebody, in my opinion, is paying Lee Stranahan to file these charges against me, in the hopes that I will either break or die.  I got some fucking news for you, Stranny [pause] Walker, Hoggy, Frey [pause] and Frey [pause] beware the Ides of March.

Somebody paid Lee Stranahan to file charges? Oh, come now. Who would care enough about a loser like Bill Schmalfeldt to want to spend the money?

Bill Schmalfeldt is a failure. Other than people who are dealing with his harassment and a few others who enjoy laughing at his gaffes, almost no one cares about him and the ways he blights the Internet. He’s a functional nonentity with a vanishingly small readership and essentially nonexistent listenership.

He is, at most, a vile insect, and some of us who he has annoyed have taken swats at him, but no one had to pay us. Certainly, the filthiness the Stranahan family endured from the Cabin Boy was sufficient motivation for Lee Stranahan to seek redress, and it’s not surprising that the Walker family sought relief either.

I have been able to bring a bit of justice to Schmalfeldt via a peace order. No one paid me to do so. I brought legal action because I was tired of being harassed. I’ve paid every cent of the my legal expenses out of my own pocket. Sore Loserman Bill has filed a Motion to Modify the peace order. I won’t speak to the merits (if there are any) of his motion while it is before the court, that’s my lawyer’s job, but I will say that it strikes me as foolish attempt to relitigate the case. The judge ruled on the facts and the law and issued the peace order. Schmalfeldt is also appealing the case. It will be interesting to see if the appeals court gets to the case before the peace order expires and makes his appeal moot. Meanwhile, the Cabin Boy continues to misrepresent the terms of the peace order in a lame effort to justify his ongoing violations.

Although some of his associates are troubling, I’m not afraid of Bill Schmalfeldt per se. I’m annoyed by him. I intend to use all lawful means to make sure that he stops bothering me. If that shuts him down so that he can’t bother anyone else, it will be a nice bonus.

No one hopes that Bill Schmalfeldt will “break or die.” He not that important to anyone. His victims just wish the grossly inadequate loser would quit wasting Internet bandwidth and leave decent people alone. As Mr. T says,

I pity the fool.

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I have to say that my view of the Cabin Boy™ has changed over the years. Whatever pity I had has been dissipated.

And I’m not done with him yet.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Before he was tagged with the nickname Dread Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin, Brett Kimberlin was mocked at this blog as The Dread Pirate Kimberlin because of a pirate-themed blog he tried to operate for a few weeks in late 2012. Six years ago today I ran this post titled Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin of the Caribbean.

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The paragraph at the bottom of page 55 of Mark Singer’s book Citizen K contains the following.

The only plane he ever owned was a single-engine Piper 235. For one six-month stretch, he leased a twin-engine Piper Navaho. The latter had a cargo capacity of two thousand pounds, but Kimberlin said the most exotic agricultural product he ever hauled was organic mangoes. He flew all over the country and in the Caribbean, occasionally doing smuggling reconnaissance, sometimes carrying cash, but never moving drugs.

Sometimes carrying cash. I wonder where. One reasonable suggestion would be to vendors to pay for the dope he was buying. Another possibility would be to a bank or banks in a jurisdiction with good privacy laws in order to have a bankroll to use if he had ever fled the country using his false passport.

Now, Gentle Reader, if you had a stash of money overseas and wanted to repatriate it without incurring any tax liability, how would you go about it? Would you consider setting up a “charity” with loose accounting that could receive “donations”?

It’s just an idea.

UPDATE–

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Yeah, like Hal Holbrook said when playing the role of Deep Throat, “Just follow the money.”

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Here’s a post from five years ago today—

Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin

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Team Kimberlin has a new website called Bloggers Offense Team. (No, I won’t link to it.) The site’s logo is shown on the left. The choice of the pirate-related logo is interesting. Pirates aren’t semi-sympathetic, comedic characters from a Johnny Depp movie. They are criminals.

It think a mask just slipped.

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And that’s how Brett Kimberlin came to be called The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. That nickname later expanded to include The Dread Performer Kimberlin, The Dread Pedo Kimberlin, and The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin. A couple of days later, I published this further explanation—

The Dread Pirate Roberts, so the story goes, 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 Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s legal acumen seems to be as fictional as Dread Pirate Roberts’ existence. And no one will surrender to Dread Pirate Kimberlin.

And that’s been pretty accurate thus far.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Every once in a while, I find it useful to present a review of some of the names used for Brett Kimberlin and Team Kimberlin and how they have evolved. After all, not all the Gentle Readers have been following The Saga since May, 2012, as I have.

Back in May, 2012, Brett Kimberlin had secured an unconstitutional gag order against Aaron Walker that prohibited Aaron from even speaking or writing about Kimberlin publicly. I began referring to Kimberlin as Lord Voldemort (i.e., “He who must not be named”) and his supporters as Death Eater Wannabes. After the gag order was overturned, it wasn’t long before Kimberlin put up a pirate-themed fundraising website called the Bloggers Offense  Fund. (That was an attempt to play on the name of a site called the Bloggers Defense Fund.) That’s when I began referring to Kimberlin as The Dread Pirate Kimberlin.

TDPKVarious members of Team Kimberlin have earned positions on the crew. These include First Mate Neal Rauhauser, Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt™, Very Ordinary Seaman Ferguson, Chief Pedo Officer Gillette, and 57F Osborne.

In mid 2013, Kimberlin upped the ante in his campaign of lawfare. He filed suit against Aaron Walker, Stacy McCain, Ali Akbar, Kimberlin Unmasked, and me. He sued us in a Maryland state court for $1,000,000 claiming a bunch of stuff that boiled down to defamation and false light invasion of privacy in the end. Following the Team Kimberlin lawfare strategy, TDPK sued us without hiring a lawyer. Self-representation is referred to a acting pro se. Thus, The Dread Pirate Kimberlin morphed into The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin.

TDPK has also been referred to as The Dread Pedo Kimberlin and The Dread Performer Kimberlin in reference to the charges filed against him by his wife and to his singing, respectively.

I’ll conclude with these words which were originally posted in September, 2012—

The Dread Pirate Roberts, so the story goes, 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 Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s legal acumen seems to be as fictional as Dread Pirate Roberts’ existence. And no one will surrender to Dread Pirate Kimberlin.

UPDATE—As Ron Coleman notes in his comment below, some of the defendants in the RICO Madness have surrendered to TDPK. However, most have not. Four of us beat him in state court. The same four and our codefendants will also beat him in federal court.

Mismanagement at the State Department

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The Washington Examiner reports that the State Department Inspector General has uncovered rampant mismanagement of grants by the department under Secretary Clinton.

Why am I not surprised?ECF 135-152UPDATE—I should tell the Gentle Reader who may not be familiar with Brett Kimberlin’s (The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin) vexatious lawsuit against over a score of bloggers and media entities (including me) that paragraph 152 above is from the second amended complaint in that lawsuit. Search on the term <RICO Madness> in the search box above to learn more.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Toward the end of his direct examination of me during the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. trial, The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin brought up the subject of Bill Schmalfeldt.

MR. KIMBERLIN: Have you filed any — do you know a reporter named — or an individual named Bill Schmalfeldt?

MR. HOGE: Yes.

MR. KIMBERLIN: Have you filed 367 —

MR. OSTRONIC: Objection.

THE COURT: Sustained —

MR. KIMBERLIN: — criminal charges against Bill Schmalfeldt?

THE COURT: — that is the most leading question I’ve ever heard.

MR. KIMBERLIN: Okay. Have you filed any charges against Bill Smallfeld?

MR. OSTRONIC: I’m still going to object.

THE COURT: Sustained. You can’t tell the person the answer to the question in the question. That’s what a leading question is.

MR. KIMBERLIN: Do you know Bill Schmalfeldt?

MR. HOGE: Yes.

MR. KIMBERLIN: Have you ever filed any charges against him?

MR. HOGE: Yes.

MR. OSTRONIC: Objection.

THE COURT: Overruled.

MR. KIMBERLIN: How many?

MR. HOGE: It’s some place north of 360 for multiple violations of a peace order.

MR. KIMBERLIN: So, 367 criminal charges. My question, what were the results? Simple question. Were they nolle prosed?

MR. HOGE: At my request.

MR. KIMBERLIN: And you — why did you file — what got Smallfeldt on —

MR. OSTRONIC: Objection, your honor. This —

THE COURT: Sustained.

MR. OSTRONIC: — can’t be possibly be defamation —

MR. KIMBERLIN: Okay, I’m only trying to show that these individuals attack anyone. Innocent question. He’s a reporter. He wrote a story.

MR. OSTRONIC: Objection.

THE COURT: Well, that’s not a —

MR. KIMBERLIN: Okay. And what happens?

THE COURT: — cause of action. It’s not a cause of action whether they — even if they did that —

MR. KIMBERLIN: It goes to malice.

THE COURT: — that’s not a cause of action.

MR. KIMBERLIN: It goes to malice, sir.

THE COURT: But — for someone else to be — no. Ask another question if you have one.

TDPK got off that topic and moved on briefly to something else. My lawyer only had one question during cross examination.

MR. OSTRONIC: I just have one question, and — on the Bill Schmalfeldt bit. Your charges were — what was the brief disposition of those?

MR. HOGE: Because of — things were getting so out of hand, at the suggestion of the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office, Mr.Schmalfeldt and I engaged in a mediation session. At the mediation session, Mr. Schmalfeldt agreed to abide by the peace order going forward. If I was going to get him to abide by the peace order, there wasn’t any reason to go any further, and so I — if you’re going to do this, then let’s dismiss the charges.

This was the second instance of TDPK trying to make the case that my attempts to enforce the peace order against Bill Schmalfeldt demonstrated malice toward Brett Kimberlin. (The first was in a filing in the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness.) I find this more than a little interesting.

Now, it is true that the first time I wrote about Schmalfeldt, I was covering the news of his publication of sealed court documents on Kimberlin’s behalf. However, the basis of the peace order had to do with Schmalfeldt’s subsequent harassment of me. It was not based on any actions taken by TDPK—unless Schmalfeldt was acting as Kimberlin’s agent while harassing me.

Of course, that’s not an unreasonable assumption. Schmalfeldt famously proclaimed that he would not have to be “investigating” folks if they would leave Brett Kimberlin alone.

Whatever.

Bill Schmalfeldt is now effectively sidelined. He knows that any further attempts at using extortionate tactics for his “investigations” will result in pushback, the least of which could be yet another restraining order or peace order. He has no significant following. He sputters and rants about what he reads online to a minuscule audience. No one takes him seriously, and, except for a few people who poke fun at him, almost no one looks at his tweet feed or blog. Essentially all the copies of his recent books that he sold were purchased for use as evidence against him. None of his “friends” have answered any of his tweets for over a week. He’s last year’s train wreck.

He’s also is, or should be, an object lesson to the rest of Team Kimberlin. Their lying, cyberthuggery, and lawfare is doomed to failure when it meets determined opposition. The smarter members will likely try to disentangle themselves. The rest will go down with The Dread Pirate Kimberlin on his sinking ship.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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bot_logoSome of the newer followers of The Saga of The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin may wonder why he is called that. The nickname descends from an earlier one—The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. That came about after he put up a spectacularly unsuccessful pirate-theme fundraising website called 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.

TDPKThe 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.

Unanswered Questions

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Over the past weekend, Breitbart Unmasked (No, I won’t link to it) published a series of documents related to The Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s attempt to take over several entities associated with Ali Akbar. This particular document caught my eye.

Why would Velvet Revolution US be interested in having an interest in a business called Pundit Syndication, LLC? What would it do with such a trade name? And who are the other members of the limited liability company beside VRUS?

I directed those questions to Jeffrey Cohen, the Executive Director of VRUS. (Mr. Cohen is a lawyer who practices in the area of trademarks and related intellectual property.) I have not, as yet, had a response.

Brett Kimberlin, Racketeer?

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It appears that The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin has reverted to being The Dread Pirate Kimberlin and has taken steps to attempt to achieve control of the National Bloggers Club. Since TDPK alleges that the NBC is a racketeering enterprise, I suppose Kimberlin intends to add its nefarious operations to his existing suite of corporate entities.

Also, is he now suing himself?

This may get to be interesting.

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

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Actually, several months late and a million bucks short. The Gentle Reader who has been following The Saga of the Dread Pirate Kimberlin all the way through the Dread Pro-Se phase may remember that I offered to settle with him if he paid me a million dollars when TDPK first filed his Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. nuisance lawsuit. That offer expired when my lawyer had to get involved and file a motion to dismiss. I tried to let TDPK off cheap. He ignored my offer and doubled down with the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness.

So where are we now?

In the state lawsuit TDPK has been caught submitting an altered document as an exhibit. The apparent forgery caused him to lose the motion connected with it, and he now faces a motion for sanctions related to submitting it.

popcorn4bkIn the RICO Madness TDPK has been caught serving an apparently forged summons on a non-party to the lawsuit. He’s been caught sending more that one defendant a version of his amended complaint that is not consistent with what he filed with the court. He’s been caught neglecting to serve court papers on defendants. He’s been caught filing an erroneous report on the status of service of process with the court, and that report contains exhibits which do not support the report’s claims and which may be altered. He’s been caught misquoting his own exhibits in other filings. And he continues to ignore the judge’s admonition to properly sign his filings.

The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™ should have taken my offer while it was still on the table.

UPDATE—I’m hitting Stacy McCain’s tip jar as a royalty payment for use of his trademarked phrase above. Speaking of Tip Jars …

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Things will be cooking along on the back burner for the next few day in both the state and federal lawsuits filed by The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin against my codefendants and me. It’s not that there’s nothing going on—there is—but some things are best left to be discovered by surprise.

Meanwhile, we still need all the help we can get defending these frivolous and vexatious lawsuits. If you would like to help us with the Maryland suit, go to Bomber Sues Bloggers to find out how. If you’d like to help with federal RICO Madness, please drop me a line at the email address shown on the DMCA Contact page.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Last Thursday, The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin filed a status report with the U. S. District Court concerning his service of process on the defendants in the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness. He included the following among his exhibits in that report.AliService

This appears to be a copy of the returned envelope of his attempted service on Ali Akbar. It appears to have sufficient postage that both the federal and state complaints could have been enclosed.

The Maryland state rule requires that service of process by mail be by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, Restricted Delivery. Note that the Restricted Delivery “Yes” box is not checked.AliServiceZoomThat means that the attempt as service was defective.

One of the motions heard yesterday in the Maryland Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. lawsuit was TDPK’s motion for alternate service declaring that Ali had been served. In support of that motion, TDPK submitted what was purported to be a copy of the same envelope, but that copy showed a check mark in the Restricted Delivery “Yes” box. When the Judge Burrell was made aware of the fact that Kimberlin has previously filed an exhibit containing a copy of the envelope that, like the federal filing, did not have the check mark, she noted the inconsistency between the two exhibits and denied TDPK’s motion.

It has been suggested that the exhibit filed with the motion for alternate service on Ali Akbar was forged. That is not inconsistent with the evidence.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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Nice try, but a real losing proposition …P-O20131210

“Knowing what the outcome would be …” My, my, my … that’s almost an admission by Bill Schmalfeldt that the charges filed were knowingly false. Still, you have to admire the chutzpah of Team Kimberlin that allowed them to so brazenly attempt to put one of the defendants in The Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s vexatious Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. under the same disability to offer testimony as TDPK.

(For those of you just beginning to follow the Saga of The Dread Pirate Kimberlin, Brett Kimberlin is a convicted perjurer, and Maryland has a law that prohibits convicted perjurers from testifying in any court proceeding.)

Brett Kimberlin is suing four other bloggers and me for writing truthful things about him. You can help us defend ourselves and the First Amendment from his lawfare. Go to Bomber Sues Bloggers to find out how.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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RICOMadnessHere’s how The Dread Pirate Kimberlin begins his description of the “RICO Enterprise” in his Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. lawsuit.BKvNBC115NOVDEC11Note that TDPK alleges that the all of the 20+ defendants were a part of the “RICO Enterprise” from November, 2011. If true (stop laughing), that would mean that I was recruited into the enterprise at a time when my monthly traffic was less than 40% of my current average daily hit rate.

I wonder what the masterminds of the outfit saw in my blogging back then?