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Terror by Any Other Name - Convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin now targets conservatives online
The American Spectator ^ | May 29, 2012 | Robert Stacy McCain

Posted on 05/29/2012 4:50:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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My plan that Thursday had been to travel to Camp David to cover the G8 Summit that was convening just 15 miles from my Maryland home. But when I began reading Walker's account of his tangle with Kimberlin, I soon spotted the name of a Democrat campaign consultant, Neal Rauhauser, described as an "associate" of Kimberlin. This was clearly newsworthy, and raised the story above the level of a squabble between bloggers. Rauhauser is a self-described "hacker," and in 2010 was accused by Tea Party activists of organizing a campaign of online harassment known as "TwitterGate." This apparent connection between a Democrat political operative and Kimberlin, a convicted domestic terrorist, was certainly troubling. The story was convoluted and hard to explain, however, and it took me nine hours to write a 2,400-word synopsis on May 19. In the meantime, I learned that Breitbart had warned less than six months before his death about the connections between Kimberlin, Friedman, and Rauhauser.

Kimberlin's critics say his litigation against Allen and Walker, and threats of action against others, are a type of "lawfare," which is defined as "the illegitimate use of domestic or international law with the intention of damaging an opponent, winning a public relations victory, financially crippling an opponent, or tying up the opponent's time so that they cannot pursue other ventures such as running for public office." And this is part of what many see as a wide-ranging strategy of intimidation waged against conservatives, including such tactics as "SWATting" -- making hoax calls to police, pretending to be a targeted individual and claiming to have committed a domestic shooting. The intended result is that police swoop down on the targeted address with guns drawn, prepared to shoot it out....

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brettkimberlin; brietbart; erickson; frey; giles; internet; intimidation; okeefe; speedwaybomber; terrorists; walker
Read to learn who has been targeted.
1 posted on 05/29/2012 4:50:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is really serious. Another conservative blogger was targetted with “Swatting” over the holiday weekend.


2 posted on 05/29/2012 4:59:32 AM PDT by comps4spice (Liberalism is a threat to life and liberty in the USA.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Well, what goes around comes around. Just saying....


3 posted on 05/29/2012 5:07:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: comps4spice
Another conservative blogger was targetted with “Swatting” over the holiday weekend.

That was Erick Erickson of Red State

Recent photo of Kimberlin (man on left).


4 posted on 05/29/2012 5:08:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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This is real “brown shirt” stuff” and will surely get worse. Democrat party operatives are likely involved or getting involved and the goal is the deaths by SWAT of some conservative bloggers and commentators to make the rest of them shut up. Somehow I think Rush and others at that level are targeted, too, though peripherally as they will be much harder or impossible to just SWAT. The bomb warning to Rush’s house in the wake of the slut thing comes to mind.


5 posted on 05/29/2012 5:21:36 AM PDT by arthurus ( Read Henry hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson")
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Wikipedia has this paragraph about Kimberlin's attempt to take down VP candidate, Dan Quayle:

In November 1988, while Kimberlin was in federal prison, National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg reported that Kimberlin claimed to have sold marijuana to Republican Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle, while Quayle was in law school in Indianapolis. Kimberlin was put in administrative detention on three separate occasions when he had planned to hold press conferences regarding his claims, leaving him unable to speak to reporters during the next week, until the week after the election. Kimberlin's charges received renewed attention prior to the 1992 election, when Quayle was running for re-election. During this time, Kimberlin proclaimed his innocence with regard to the Speedway bombings and blamed his late younger brother, Scott, for the presence of the evidence that linked him to them. After Kimberlin’s parole the next year, he signed a contract with ‘’New Yorker’’ staff writer Mark Singer, who had written a positive profile of Kimberlin in 1992, to publish a book about his claims regarding both his conviction and his relationship with Dan Quayle. However, during the writing process Singer “decided that [he] had been lied to repeatedly by Kimberlin” and concluded that Kimberlin had “enormous skill as a liar.” His ultimate conclusion was that Kimberlin “was not telling the the truth about Quayle.” In print, Singer said that he believed that Kimberlin had known someone who had claimed to sell marijuana to Quayle and had then appropriated the story as his own.

What I've learned from wiki is that 1)even the DEMS are uncomfortable with this lying creep and 2)even when the DEMS see a monster, they won't reject its bloodthirsty tactics they'll consistently find some way to excuse it.

6 posted on 05/29/2012 5:21:36 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The excellent photochoppers on here should include his updated ugleeee mug on that poster!


7 posted on 05/29/2012 5:23:22 AM PDT by spankalib (The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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Kimberlin v. Walker Hearing Scheduled: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Rockville, Maryland

http://theothermccain.com/2012/05/26/kimberlin-v-walker-hearing-scheduled-830-a-m-tuesday-in-rockville-maryland/

May 29, 2012 -— Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. in Montgomery County District Court (191 E. Jefferson St., Rockville, Md. 20850), according to the court’s official Web site.


8 posted on 05/29/2012 5:28:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

we can help conservative bloggers by subscribing and donating

obviously they are attracting the attention of people we need to see exposed, discredited, and defeated


9 posted on 05/29/2012 5:38:05 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sociopaths attempt to control by intimidation. They fail when they’re finally found out.


10 posted on 05/29/2012 6:02:55 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: comps4spice
It is more serious than it lơks. Other lefties will take up these tactics until it is SOP for the left in general. Soros has plenty of money to fund unlimited lawsuits and such and SWATting is just too easy to do. SWATting is especially dangerous in a place like Chicago. The police can respond to such a call and shoot conservatives and "I felt threatened." This is all starting to look like a real war now.
11 posted on 05/29/2012 10:39:20 AM PDT by arthurus ( Read Henry hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson")
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