Joining with Michelle Malkin, RSM, William Jacobson, Patterico and others to expose the kind of ruthless and dangerous lengths the anti-American Left will go to to silence dissent.
Patterico’s tale makes perfect sense of RS McCain’s moving his family.
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. […]
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.”
Breitbart’s Liberty Chick, Mandy Nagy, investigative pieces on Kimberlin are invaluable as this Tides Foundation grantee’s continued harassment and terrorism of critics goes studiously ignored by fellow travelers in the Lamestream press.
Indeed, Time magazine did a disgusting whitewash of Kimberlin in 2007.
Despite a spotty past, Internet activist Brett Kimberlin has played a central role in the debate over electronic voting.
Spotty? Spotty?!
Good lord.
You call that Time article a whitewash? I thought it pretty clearly called Kimberlin out as a serial liar and a domestic terrorist. If that’s a whitewash, I’m not sure I want to know what you consider hard-hitting investigative journalism.
The picture caption is laughable, sure. But the article sure doesn’t pull a lot of punches.
http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/05/brett-kimberlin.html Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Wow. Time Magazine is several times worse at their job that I thought. Of course they did nuzzle the Unabomber a bit and they like to mention how Ayers has changed since his radical days so I guess it’s not all that surprising now that I think about. Oh look! Titty! Thanks Time! Wait, that was last week.
I respectfully disagree, Squid … of course Time had to address the stuff that is in public records, but then they swaddle it in how successful this guy has been in organizing “like minded activists” on line in “getting results” about voting machines and spreading the meme that GOP is “stealing votes.” The author’s tone is that Kimberlin is just some sort of mild-crackpot with a mission who’s “raw material” is helping the Democrats.
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The author lays out Kimberlin’s “spotty past” in pretty clear detail, and it was clear to me that the author found Kimberlin an unvarnished kook. I also thought the description of how a delusional convicted felon could use the freewheeling Intarwebs to push ideas and policies through people who would never be seen associating with him in public to be pretty damn perceptive:
The above, to me, represents the thrust of the article. And it doesn’t seem to me that either Kimberlin nor those he influences come off in a positive light.
Your mileage may vary, obviously.
I’m seeing a tremendous lack of information gathering on the part of the bandwagoneers that are supporting Kimberlin. Speedway Bomber and serial law-breaker? Ain’t no thing.
The Times piece did have a nice, usable curtain-faced Brett Kimberlin. There’s no decent recent picture of the guy!