SWATting

[Logan Darklighter]

Guys - I want to caution you - don't focus too much on the SWAT aspect of this. That's not the real story here. It's just the most visible, visceral component of it.
The real story here is the abuse of the legal system and the attempted suppression of Free Speech. This is a convoluted, ongoing nightmare that combines abuse of the court
system, workplace intimidation, serial invasions of privacy, perjury,
and harassment of family members.
Over the past year, Aaron Walker (who blogged as “Aaron Worthing”), Patterico, Liberty Chick, and now Stacy McCain
have been targeted by convicted Speedway bomber Brett Kimberlin because
they dared to mention his criminal past or assisted others who did. The
late Andrew Breitbart warned about Kimberlin and company.
McCain was forced to move with his family out of his house last month due to personal threats against him and his family. Aaron and his wife were fired from their
jobs after their employer feared the office would be targeted next.
Convicted bomber Kimberlin has filed bogus “peace orders” against Aaron,
when it is the Walkers who are the victims, not the perpetrators.
Institutional inertia, incompetence, and apathy among law enforcement
officials on both coasts have exacerbated the victims’ suffering. It has
moved far beyond a partisan or political story to a bottomless,
Kafka-esque morass. And, via investigative journalist Matthew Vadum, it
certainly doesn’t help that “progressive,” left-wing foundations that have funded Kimberlin continue to look the other way.
Dan Collins has a very useful summary of Aaron’s plight and the obliviousness of Maryland prosectors:

That Kimberlin lied repeatedly in his sworn charges isn’t a surprise,
but it is a deep disappointment that the Maryland prosecutor seems to
think there’s no substantial public benefit to be procured by making
wannabe mass murderer Kimberlin pay for his false testimony in trying to
frame blogger Aaron Worthing. My opinion is that people who attempt to
use the law and the legal system as a means of tortious aggression
towards other citizens should be summarily sentenced on conviction to
penalties at least twice as high as those they’ve contemplated for their
targets.

And most recently, due to the utter Luddite incompetence of Internet-ignorant and unbelievably arrogant Judge Cornelius Vaughey, Aaron Walker was arrested. For what? Apparently for nothing more than blogging. For posting the objective truth.

This is a clear-cut case of a First Amendment violation — about as clear-cut as you’ll ever hear.

So Brett Kimberlin, knowing that Aaron was coming to court to defend
against a civil “peace order,” lay in ambush with a criminal charge, so
that Aaron would be arrested.

One wonders if this is his new strategy: he sues you for your
blogging, and simultaneously obtains a peace order saying you harassed
him. If you blog about him again, he gets a judge to rubber stamp a
criminal complaint for violating the peace order.

Now, if you don’t show up for the lawsuit, he gets a default judgment. If you do, you get arrested for blogging.

Catch 22. And a nice scam if you can get judges gullible enough to go along with it.

This is, I had thought, the United States of America. I thought we had freedom of speech here.

Please - read all the linked material. As much as you can. Context is everything, especially here.
My goal here is simple:  Spread the word. This is important. It transcends politics. Left or Right doesn't matter. This MUST be stopped. I wish I could do more. But if I can just be a link in the chain, maybe it'll be enough.