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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.

Six AR15s?

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Some how, I’ve managed to get by with only one.

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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.

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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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handrolled2Mark 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.

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A man’s got to know his limitations.

—Inspector Harry Callahan

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Now that it seems that The Dread Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin has had his butt kicked in enough LOLsuits, it looks as if he’s tried to make a career change to protecting our elections. He’s renamed VelvetRevoultion.US as Protect Our Elections/EMPR Inc. and is trying to make a go of the role of The Dread Deadbeat Protector Kimberlin. However, he doesn’t seem to be making much impact providing “oversight of elections,” something Protect Our Elections claimed it does in a suit against the Federal Election Commission.

The Protect Our Elections website has so little traffic it can’t be reliably ranked. None of the content posted in 2019 was original. The half dozen posts were lifted from Politico (twice), The Daily Beast, The Rolling Stone, Salon, and the Puffington Host. The last post that appears to contain any original content was about the disputed North Carolina House District 9 contest. I went up last December. Nothing posted in the past year has generated a single comment. Not. A. Single. Comment.

Moreover, The Dread Deadbeat Protector Kimberlin did not properly oversee this week’s special election to settle the NC-09 House election. Brett Kimberlin isn’t doing any better protecting our elections than he did smuggling dope into South Texas. Kimberlin, as Judge Hazel said, “has failed …”

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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.

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

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handrolled2Mark 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.