Posted on | June 24, 2012 | 12 Comments
FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Three years ago, progressive blogger Seth Allen was in communication with Mark Singer, whose 1996 book Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, had exposed Kimberlin as pathologically dishonest ? a ?top-flight con man,? as a reviewer for Publisher?s Weekly put it.
A February 2009 e-mail exhange published by Allen shows that Singer was approached by investigative reporter Joe Lauria, who was impressed by Allen?s writing under his ?Prepostericity? pseudonym. Lauria wrote to Singer that Allen had ?emerged as a player??by?exposing the falsehoods promoted by Kimberlin?s tax-exempt 501(c) non-profit Velvet Revolution. Kimberlin was threatening to sue Singer for his alleged involvement with Allen and Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck.
Arnebeck had supported Kimberlin?s claims that Republicans ?stole? the 2004 election by rigging the vote in Ohio, but there was a subsequent falling-out between the two. Sources have told me that Arnebeck suspected Kimberlin of financial wrongdoing.
For?some reason,?it appears Lauria never wrote anything about Kimberlin or Velvet Revolution, and Singer has remained silent for more than three years, even while Kimberlin has waged an escalating war of harassment against bloggers, including Allen.
Monday morning, there will be a hearing in Montgomery County (Md.) Circuit Court on an appeal by attorney/blogger Aaron Walker, who was arrested last month after he was accused of violating a peace order obtained by Kimberlin.
UPDATE: Walker will be represented by attorney Reginald W. Bours III?at Monday?s hearing at Circuit Court (Judicial Center, 50 Maryland Avenue,?Rockville, MD 20850). David Hogberg of Investors Business Daily reported Friday that Bours has filed an emergency motion?in Circuit Court seeking ?a partial stay or a modification of Kimberlin?s peace order that would in effect lift the peace order until the Appeals Court hears the case on July 5th.?
In a May 29 ruling that outraged First Amendment activists, District Court Judge C.J. Vaughey effectively imposed a gag order that prevents Walker from writing or speaking about Kimberlin.
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UPDATE II: Aaron Walker became a target of Kimberlin?s ?lawfare? strategy after Walker offered volunteer legal assistance to Seth Allen. In October 2010, Kimberlin sued Allen, who had been criticizing Kimberlin?s Velvet Revolution (whose director is blogger Brad Friedman) in a variety of liberal Web forums, including Democrat Underground. Allen blames Friedman and former Raw Story reporter Larisa Alexandrovna for getting him banned at DU and other sites, including Daily Kos.
Walker had been a co-blogger at the Patterico blog, whose proprietor Patrick Frey had written critically of Kimberlin. The escalating legal conflict, driven by Kimberlin?s efforts to silence his online crtitics, resulted in Walker publishing on May 17 a 28,000-word blog post entitled, ?How Brett Kimberlin Tried to Frame Me for a Crime (And How You Can Help!).?
In addition to his appeal in Maryland state courts, Walker has filed for an emergency preliminary injunction in federal court.
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