I really hate posting anything here in the politics forums these days. But I consider this to be too important not to. This story is not being told by the "mainstream media". In fact it is being actively ignored. But you truly need to hear about this - here’s Erick Erickson of Red State.org on Friday:
So who is behind all of this? The links all seem to converge on one man -
Brett Kimberlin, subject of the book Citizen K,
is the Speedway Bomber. If that is not familiar to you, you might
remember him as the man who claimed he sold Vice President Dan Quayle
drugs. Kimberlin is also, now, decades later, a left of center
activist, former Independent Music Awards Industry Judge,
involved in organizations getting Tides Foundation and Heinz Family
Foundation grants.
In the late 1970's Brett Kimberlin planted bombs all over the town of
Speedway Indiana. One of those bombs was in a gym bag placed outside a
school. Carl DeLong, a Vietnam War veteran, picked up the bag thinking
he would be able to identify the owner and return it. For his trouble he
had his leg blown off, his body filled with shrapnel, and an injured
wife. DeLong was in so much pain he took his own life a few years later.
His widow won a wrongful death suit against Kimberlin, who has not paid
up.
The police who investigated the bombings believed Kimberlin
planted the bombs to deflect attention from another crime – the
cold-hearted murder of the grandmother of a girl he may have molested.
They didn’t have enough evidence to charge him for that crime,
especially after the victim’s husband died. Eventually, Kimberlin was
sentenced to fifty years in prison, but thanks to lax federal parole
laws at the time he got out early. The Indy Star covered the events, and
their reporting is available online.
In more recent times, Kimberlin, after being released from prison in the 90s, has made something of a name for himself among far left activists. Though neither website publicly reveals Kimberlin’s role, tax and
corporate documents show that he is one of four directors who
incorporated the Velvet Revolution, and that he is the registered agent
for the tax-exempt, non-stock company, which is registered at his
mother’s house in Bethesda. In 2008, the last year for which tax records
are available, Velvet Revolution took in $83,000 in gifts and
contributions.Kimberlin is also one of two incorporators of Justice Through Music, as well as a $19,500-a-year employee of the
non-profit, whose purpose is to “shed light on some of the injustices of
the world through music” and which took in more than $550,000 in
contributions in 2008.
I should note that Frey believes it was one of Kimberlin’s associates
who made the SWATing call, not Kimberlin himself. But it’s all tied together and
leads back to Kimberlin. Kimberlin himself is careful not to get involved personally in anything violent these days, considering his past. But he is a "jailhouse lawyer" who has learned how to abuse the legal system to harass his enemies.
SWATting is merely the latest in a long line of harassment tactics these people have been using in recent years to intimidate people into shutting up. Read up on the various links in the above linked articles for more.
It's getting very scary out there these days.
Quote:Ever hear of swatting? It’s a tactic used by left-wing activists and others these days to spoof phone calls in order to get SWAT Teams to show up at houses. It has happened to several conservative activists.And here’s Erickson early this morning — after he got SWAT-ted himself on Sunday evening:
Consider this your must read of the day. It is LA County Prosecutor John Patrick Frey, who blogs as Patterico, describing just what harassment he and his family were subjected to by the online left.
The mainstream media, which has greater sympathies with the left than
the right, would prefer not to cover stories like this. But it is
getting to the point where they ignore the ongoing, sustained harassment
of conservatives because they are conservatives.
Quote:Sunday night as my family and sister’s family were aroundPatterico himself describes the night that someone SWATted him:
the dinner table and playing outside, sheriff’s deputies pulled into my
driveway responding to an accidental shooting at my home.
One deputy was in the driveway. Another blocked the end of the
driveway with his car. A neighbor tells me another was up the hill from
the house.
There was no shooting at my home. Someone called 911, claimed to be at my home, and claimed to witness a shooting at my home.
As the one deputy and I spoke, the other deputy walked up the
driveway, positioned himself behind the car in the driveway, and kept
his eyes on me and his hand on his gun. My three year old ran between us
all thinking it was so cool to have a police car in the driveway with
its blue lights flashing.
Luckily, after I had starting writing about Kimberlin, I advised the Sheriff’s Department to be aware this could happen.
It was a prank, but not just any prank. This is a prank left-wing
activists are increasingly deploying against those who dissent from
their political views. When Barack Obama told his supporters in 2008 to
bring guns to knife fights, some of his supporters took him more
literally than I assume he intended.
The stories of what is happening are not getting much traction
outside of right-of-center blogs and the occasional opinion column at
the Wall Street Journal, D.C. Examiner, and Washington Times.
Quote:At 12:35 a.m. on July 1, 2011, sheriff’s deputies pounded on my frontFolks, this is nothing less than an attempt to have a man "murdered by cop".
door and rang my doorbell. They shouted for me to open the door and
come out with my hands up.
When I opened the door, deputies pointed guns at me and ordered me to
put my hands in the air. I had a cell phone in my hand. Fortunately,
they did not mistake it for a gun.
They ordered me to turn around and put my hands behind my back. They
handcuffed me. They shouted questions at me: IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE
HOUSE? and WHERE ARE THEY? and ARE THEY ALIVE?
I told them: Yes, my wife and my children are in the house. They’re upstairs in their bedrooms, sleeping. Of course they’re alive.
Deputies led me down the street to a patrol car parked about 2-3
houses away. At least one neighbor was watching out of her window as I
was placed, handcuffed, in the back of the patrol car. I saw numerous
patrol cars on my quiet street. There was a police helicopter flying
overhead, shining a spotlight down on us as I walked towards the patrol
car. Several neighbors later told us the helicopter woke them up. I saw a
fire engine and an ambulance. A neighbor later told me they had a
HazMat vehicle out on the street as well.
Meanwhile, police rushed into my home. They woke up my wife, led her
downstairs and to the front porch, frisked her, and asked her where the
children were. Then police ordered her to stand on the front porch with
her hands against the wall while they entered my children’s bedrooms to
make sure they were alive.
The call that sent deputies to my home was a hoax. Someone had
pretended to be me. They called the police to say I had shot my wife.
The sheriff’s deputies who arrived at my front door believed they were
about to confront an armed man who had just shot his wife. I don’t blame
the police for any of their actions. But I blame the person who made
the call.
Because I could have been killed.
The weirdest part of the whole thing was that I halfway expected this
might happen. Because I was not the first one it had happened to.
Quote:Although I am an L.A. County Deputy D.A., it is certain that I was
“swatted” because of my blog and not because of my job. As Andrew
Breitbart noted, this happened to two people within the course of a
single week: a man in New Jersey and myself. Both of us had had contact
with Andrew Breitbart. Both of us were writing about the same story. And
both of us received email threats days before we were swatted. The
threat to me said, in part: “Please think about your family. This story is not worth it. I can assure you that.”
So who is behind all of this? The links all seem to converge on one man -
Brett Kimberlin, subject of the book Citizen K,
is the Speedway Bomber. If that is not familiar to you, you might
remember him as the man who claimed he sold Vice President Dan Quayle
drugs. Kimberlin is also, now, decades later, a left of center
activist, former Independent Music Awards Industry Judge,
involved in organizations getting Tides Foundation and Heinz Family
Foundation grants.
In the late 1970's Brett Kimberlin planted bombs all over the town of
Speedway Indiana. One of those bombs was in a gym bag placed outside a
school. Carl DeLong, a Vietnam War veteran, picked up the bag thinking
he would be able to identify the owner and return it. For his trouble he
had his leg blown off, his body filled with shrapnel, and an injured
wife. DeLong was in so much pain he took his own life a few years later.
His widow won a wrongful death suit against Kimberlin, who has not paid
up.
The police who investigated the bombings believed Kimberlin
planted the bombs to deflect attention from another crime – the
cold-hearted murder of the grandmother of a girl he may have molested.
They didn’t have enough evidence to charge him for that crime,
especially after the victim’s husband died. Eventually, Kimberlin was
sentenced to fifty years in prison, but thanks to lax federal parole
laws at the time he got out early. The Indy Star covered the events, and
their reporting is available online.
In more recent times, Kimberlin, after being released from prison in the 90s, has made something of a name for himself among far left activists. Though neither website publicly reveals Kimberlin’s role, tax and
corporate documents show that he is one of four directors who
incorporated the Velvet Revolution, and that he is the registered agent
for the tax-exempt, non-stock company, which is registered at his
mother’s house in Bethesda. In 2008, the last year for which tax records
are available, Velvet Revolution took in $83,000 in gifts and
contributions.Kimberlin is also one of two incorporators of Justice Through Music, as well as a $19,500-a-year employee of the
non-profit, whose purpose is to “shed light on some of the injustices of
the world through music” and which took in more than $550,000 in
contributions in 2008.
I should note that Frey believes it was one of Kimberlin’s associates
who made the SWATing call, not Kimberlin himself. But it’s all tied together and
leads back to Kimberlin. Kimberlin himself is careful not to get involved personally in anything violent these days, considering his past. But he is a "jailhouse lawyer" who has learned how to abuse the legal system to harass his enemies.
SWATting is merely the latest in a long line of harassment tactics these people have been using in recent years to intimidate people into shutting up. Read up on the various links in the above linked articles for more.
It's getting very scary out there these days.