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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND
NORTHERN DIVISION
BRETT KIMBERLIN,
Plaintiff ,
v.
NATIONAL BLOGGERS CLUB, et al.,
Defendants.
Case No.: CVPWG-13-3059
MOTION BY DEFENDANTS PATRICK FREY AND MANDY NAGYTO DISMISS THE SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT
Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), defendants Patrick Frey and Mandy Nagel, by
undersigned counsel, submit this Motion to Dismiss the Second Amended Complaint with
prejudice.
In support hereof, defendants shall rely on a Memorandum of Law to be filed
contemporaneously herewith, the certification of counsel with attached exhibits, and the full
docket and record of the proceedings herein and such other proceedings and matters as are duly
incorporated by reference therein and regarding which the Court shall see fit to take judicial
notice.
Respectfully submitted,
GOETZ FITZPATRICK LLP
By: ________________________________RONALD D. COLEMAN (Pro Hac Vice)
One Penn Plaza—Suite 4401
New York, New York 10119(212) 695-8100
T. Bruce Godfrey (Bar No. #24596)
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LAW OFFICE OF BRUCE GODFREY
Box 444
Reisterstown, MD 21136(410) 561-6061
Attorneys for DefendantsPatrick Frey and Mandy Nagy
Dated: August 11, 2014
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND
NORTHERN DIVISION
BRETT KIMBERLIN,
Plaintiff ,
v.
NATIONAL BLOGGERS CLUB, et al.,
Defendants.
Case No.: CVPWG-13-3059
Ronald D. Coleman, under penalty of perjury, testifies and says as follows:
1. I am a partner at Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP, attorneys for defendants Patrick Frey and
Mandy Nagy in this lawsuit. I make this certification based on personal knowledge.
2. Attached as Exhibit A is a true copy of the PDF printout version of a blog post
dated May 25, 2012 on Patterico’s Pontifications, found at
http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-
and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/ as of the date hereof.
3. Attached as Exhibit B is a true copy of the PDF printout version of a blog post
dated June 25, 2012 on Patterico’s Pontifications, found at
http://patterico.com/2012/06/25/aaron-walker-swatted/ as of the date hereof.
4. Attached as Exhibit C is a true copy of the PDF printout version of a blog post
dated October 10, 2011 on Patterico’s Pontifications, found at
http://patterico.com/2010/10/11/brad-friedmans-partner-and-buddy-a-convicted-bomber-
perjurer-and-drug-smuggler-suspected-murderer-and-election-integrity-hero/ as of the date
hereof.
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5. Attached as Exhibit D are three screen shots, each of which corresponds
respectively to Exhibits A, B and C (the “blog posts”) which accurately reproduce the
appearance of the “disclaimer” utilized on Patterico’s Pontifications in the visual context of each
of the respective blog posts as seen on a computer utilizing a standard Internet browser such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer, which was utilized to generate these views. Exhibit D is included
because the blog posts as shown in Exhibits A, B and C were generated, for ease of examination,
in “PDF format,” which omits the right-hand navigation bar present when viewing the respective
posts online and which includes the “disclaimer,” which reads as follows:
The statements made on this web site reflect the personal opinions of the author.They are not made in any official capacity, and do not represent the opinions of
the author's employer.
For purposes of this submission each screen shot in Exhibit D has been augmented with a red
arrow to indicate the disclaimer. The red arrow is not found on the blog itself.
6. Attached as Exhibit E is a true copy of the PDF printout version of an article
dated June 8, 2012 on Breitbart.com, found at http://www.breitbart.com/Big-
Government/2012/06/08/Erickson-CNN-SWATting as of the date hereof.
7. Attached as Exhibit F is a true copy of the PDF printout version of an article dated
June 8, 2012 on Breitbart.com, found at http://www.breitbart.com/Big-
Journalism/2010/10/11/Progressives-Embrace-Convicted-Terrorist as of the date hereof.
I hereby declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the
best of my knowledge. I understand that if any of the foregoing is known by me to be false, I am
subject to punishment.
___________________________RONALD D. COLEMAN
Dated: August 11, 2014
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8/11/2014 Patterico's Pontifications » Brad Friedman’s Partner and “Buddy”: A Convicted Bomber, Perjurer, and Drug Smuggler, Suspected Murderer . . . and Elec
http://patterico.com/2010/10/11/brad-friedmans-partner-and-buddy-a-convicted-bomber-perjurer-and-drug-smuggler-suspected-murderer-and-election-integrit…
10/11/2010
Brad Fr iedman’s Pa rtner and “Buddy”: A Convicted Bomber, Perjurer, and Drug
Smuggler, Suspected Murderer . . . and Election Integrity HERO!!!
Filed under: Brad Friedman,Brett Kimberlin,General,Velvet Revolution — Patterico @ 1:00 pm
[Note: this post is a supplement to the amazing post by Liberty Chick at Big Journalism today. That post
sets out the important facts about Brett Kimberlin and his relationship to Brad Friedman. This post sets
forth many of the same facts in my own way, and highlights a few points not mentioned in Liberty Chick's
piece. But you should definitely read her piece for the definitive takedown. It is tremendous.]
Brett Kimberlin set off eight bombs in Speedway, Indiana in 1978 over the course of several days. One blew up a
police car. Another blew the right leg off of a Vietnam veteran named Carl DeLong. DeLong’s left leg was also
severely injured, and two of his fingers were blown off and then reattached. DeLong carried shrapnel in his body,
causing him constant pain . . . which apparently became too much for him. DeLong committed suicide in 1983 by
sitting in his van in his garage with the engine running.
Kimberlin was identified by store clerks who sold him bombmaking materials. A search of his car revealed timers
similar to those used in the bombing, as well as traces of the explosive used. He was convicted of the bombings. He
has never been exonerated by any court.
Authorities suspected Kimberlin did the bombings as a distraction from a murder investigation. Kimberlin was
enamored of a pre-teen girl named Jessica [a pseudonym given her by Mark Singer] who went on several
unsupervised out-of-state trips with him. Jessica’s grandmother expressed her disapproval of the relationship, and
insisted that the granddaughters move into her house to get away from Kimberlin. Kimberlin became suicidal. Then
the grandmother was shot in the head at her house. Nobody else in the world had a motive to kill her except
Kimberlin. After police arrested Kimberlin and several confederates in Texas in a massive drug smuggling
operation, the sole eyewitness to the murder identified one of Kimberlin’s confederates as the man who killed
Jessica’s grandmother. But the witness soon died of cancer, and no charges were ever brought against Kimberlin
for the murder.
While awaiting trial on the bombing, Kimberlin plotted with an inmate to murder a prosecutor on his case. He
promised another inmate bail money to go set off another bomb with similar components while Kimberlin was
incarcerated, creating an alibi for Kimberlin.
In addition to his convictions for the bombings, Kimberlin was convicted at trial of impersonating a military official.
(He sometimes posed as a military official as part of his smuggling operations). He also pled to the drug smuggling
charge in Texas. For all these crimes, Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for these and other
crimes, but was somehow paroled in the early 1990s.
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8/11/2014 Patterico's Pontifications » Brad Friedman’s Partner and “Buddy”: A Convicted Bomber, Perjurer, and Drug Smuggler, Suspected Murderer . . . and Elec
http://patterico.com/2010/10/11/brad-friedmans-partner-and-buddy-a-convicted-bomber-perjurer-and-drug-smuggler-suspected-murderer-and-election-integrit… 2
Now Kimberlin is partnered up with Brad Friedman of the BradBlog — the guy who has made such a big deal out
of whether James O’Keefe was wearing a pimp outfit at ACORN. The guy who has repeatedly trumpeted the fact
that O’Keefe was a federal criminal — for O’Keefe’s pissant misdemeanor violation of entering federal property
under false pretenses.
With Friedman, Kimberlin runs VelvetRevolution.us. Together, they report wild-sounding conspiracy theories abou
voting irregularities, and solicit donations. Kimberlin and Friedman offer rewards of hundreds of thousands of
dollars for news of voting fraud. Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story once told people at Democratic Underground:
I know Brett… and I know the story of his arrest and what really happened. he has been funding the
voter fraud allegations, the afterdowningstreet people, etc.
With all this funding of investigations, offering of rewards, and such, Kimberlin to my knowledge has yet to pay
DeLong’s widow any money on the $1.6 million civil judgment she received against him for blowing up her
husband.
Speaking of crazy allegations against political figures, remember the guy who claimed that he had sold pot to Dan
Quayle?
Yeah, that was Kimberlin.
Garry Trudeau made Kimberlin famous by writing a series of comic strips about Kimberlin’s unsubstantiated
allegations about Quayle. Trudeau passed on the story to his friend Mark Singer, a writer for the New Yorker who
wrote a sympathetic article about Kimberlin. Singer then wrote a book about him. But as he wrote the book,
Singer started to realize that Kimberlin is a con artist. As Joe Gelarden, who wrote about Kimberlin during his trial,
memorably stated, Kimberlin “was convicted of perjury – in federal court – before he got out of high school. Think
about that for a moment.” In a passage in Singer’s book , Kimberlin is depicted as encouraging Singer to create
fictional tales about him, saying: “Make it all up. Make the whole thing up.”
This fabulist, this convicted perjurer, is the guy behind many of the blockbuster stories about voter fraud published
at BradBlog.com.
Kimberlin has taken to claiming that he was a political prisoner. For example, he had a band called Epoxy, and the
band’s page of biographies for the band members says this about Kimberlin.
Brett Kimberlin
Epoxy arose out of the hellish depths of Brett’s time in prison for exercising his First Amendment
rights to speech and political activity. Without any trial, Brett was hauled off to federal prison after
being targeted by right-wingers who wanted to punish him for being a musician, writing a book and
speaking out about politics.
From an interview:
5. Your views and political stance landed you time in prison – Did your views and/or ideas
change because of the time you spent in prison?
My views about justice only got stronger in prison. I got to see and feel injustice first hand and spent a
lot of time fighting for the rights of prisoners who were uneducated or from foreign countries. I have
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8/11/2014 Patterico's Pontifications » Brad Friedman’s Partner and “Buddy”: A Convicted Bomber, Perjurer, and Drug Smuggler, Suspected Murderer . . . and Elec
http://patterico.com/2010/10/11/brad-friedmans-partner-and-buddy-a-convicted-bomber-perjurer-and-drug-smuggler-suspected-murderer-and-election-integrit… 3
kept it up since being released, spending a great deal of resources on civil rights and liberties.
6. Many groups and organizations took up your cause and rallied for your release, did this
surprise you and how did the media pick up your s tory?
My case is very convoluted but in essence, I was punished for exercising my First Amendment right to
speech. Fortunately, many enlightened people came to my defense, along with the American Civil
Liberties Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and that is why my band is donating
a portion of each sale to those groups. It did not really surprise because the actions of the AmericanGovernment were so blatant and therefore it was hard to ignore. What does surprise me is that so
many people did and do not care what happened to me. My feeling is that if people don’t stand up to
government sponsored injustice, it will only get worse.
The Indianapolis Star sets the record straight:
Kimberlin was paroled in 1994 after serving about 13 years of his 50-year sentence. But when he
made no effort to pay the DeLong judgment his parole was revoked in 1997 and he went back to
prison for about four more years, released again in 2001.
Many questions remain about the investigations Kimberlin has supposedly done with Brad Friedman. The guy
appears to be a career criminal along the lines of Tookie Williams. The similarities are great: an intelligent violent
criminal involved in multiple acts of deadly violence, who hatches a plot to escape from incarceration by means of
murder. When that fails, he starts a massive publicity campaign, mobilizing the politically strident but fundamentally
naive segment among the left who love to stand up for prisoners. As part of his campaign, he uses lame “art” to
convince people he is a serious person.
The main difference is that Tookie got caught, convicted, and was never let go. Kimberlin? He walked in 1994, and
is now a progressive hero walking the streets.
For more, read Liberty Chick’s post, and poke around the blog of a Socrates, who has been writing about the
connection between Kimberlin and Friedman for months.
NEXT UP: Proof that Friedman is censoring mention of Kimberlin at Bradblog. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: Kimberlin has now threatened to sue me for this post. To be clear: the post is based almost entirely on
published reports from the Indianapolis Star, TIME Magazine, and other news publications. If there are any
errors, I invite Mr. Kimberlin to specify them. I will happily correct and retract any mistakes. However, I will not
remove anything that is true.
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by LIBERTY CHICK (/COLUMNISTS/LIBERTY-CHICK) 8 Jun 2012POST A COMMENT (/BIG-GOVERNMENT/2012/06/08/ERICKSON-CNN-SWATTING#COMMENTS)
Today, CNN featured a story centering around CNN contributor
and RedState managing editor Erick Erickson, the latest victim(http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/05/27/swatting-
the-ericksons/) in a series of incidents in which an imposter
mimics the phone number of a target, then calls the police and
confesses to a violent crime. Such confessions often result in law
enforcement personnel, many times special weapons and tactics
teams (SWAT teams), responding to calls with full force, risking
the life and health of the target. This tactic has been called
SWATting by the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories
/2008/february/swatting020408).The CNN story featured the 911 phone call that led to Erickson’s SWATting on May 27,
2012. It can be heard below.
On the heels of that SWATting, Breitbart News contributor Lee Stranahan decided to
conduct a podcast (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/darby-stranahan/2012/05
/28/patterico-dicusses-swatting-kimberlin) late that same evening to discuss the incident;
the podcast extended into the very early morning hours of May 28, 2012. Stranahan had
invited guest Patrick Frey, a deputy district attorney at Los Angeles County District
Attorney's Office who also blogs under the pseudonym Patterico (http://patterico.com/),
to offer insight into his own experience as a victim of SWATting. Frey was the target of a
similar incident in June 2011, an account that Frey has detailed extensively
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ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/) at his own blog in recent weeks.
Frey has also alleged a much broader, prolonged campaign of lawfare and harassment
against a group of political writers.
What followed on the May 28 podcast was shocking.
Partway into the program, at about 49:28 on the podcast, which can be heard by clicking
here (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/darby-stranahan/2012/05/28/patterico-dicusses-
swatting-kimberlin), a caller with an unidentified phone number greeted the Stranahan
and Frey, and then claimed to be the SWATter from Frey’s June 2011 incident. Here is the
transcript:
CALLER: It’s me. Hey Pat, you remember me, buddy? It’s me that SWATted you, buddy. How about I punk you one more time for old times’ sake, huh? (laughter)
You still there, buddy?
STRANAHAN: Yeah, we’re here. Now why are you saying…now give us some
proof that you’re the person who SWATted Pat. (silence) And, they’ve gone.
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Moments later, the brazen caller returned, at about 65:40 on the tape
(http://www.blogtalkradio.com/darby-stranahan/2012/05/28/patterico-dicusses-
swatting-kimberlin). Here is the transcript. Note that at this point on the podcast, the
author of this post had called in:
CALLER: Hey, Pat, buddy, what is this, Lee? Alright. You wingnuts make me
laugh. This is all so funny. I mean, Michelle with her cousin still missing, for
what, her cousin offs herself, that’s so funny, I still laugh about that. Hey Pat,
how’d that feel when you got SWATted that night? I was watching from outside,
buddy, that was kinda funny, watching your ass go out in handcuffs. (laughter)
LIBERTY CHICK: Your voice sounds kind of funny.
STRANAHAN: Your voice sounds funny, you’re talking a little too fast.
CALLER: Oh, I’m sorry, am I speaking too fast for you, buddy?
STRANAHAN: Try it slow. Do the whole ‘I shot my’…do what you said on the
call. Repeat what you said on the call.CALLER: What call? I don’t know what you’re talking about, buddy. I thought
you invited me to talk some serious things here. Or are we not?
STRANAHAN: You sound like Sean Penn as Spicoli, that’s what you sound
like. But if you could slow it down a little bit, what did you sound like on the call?
CALLER: I don’t know, buddy.
FREY: Well, well, tell us why you did it. If you’re the guy, tell us why you did it.
(Caller hangs up).
The “Michelle” to whom the caller callously referred was presumably Michelle Malkin,
whose cousin tragically went missing (http://michellemalkin.com/2011/03/07/missing-
marizela-perez/) in March of 2011. During that evening’s podcast, Stranahan had
mentioned Malkin’s recent efforts in bringing exposure to the stories of the SWATtings
and to the alleged broader, prolonged campaign of harassment (http://patterico.com
/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-
campaign-of-political-terrorism/) over the course of the last year against a group of
political bloggers. Malkin had also been tweeting (https://twitter.com/michellemalkin
/status/206981083298926594) about Stranahan’s podcast just moments before the
alleged SWATter called in.
One important detail to note: Stranahan scheduled the May 28 podcast spontaneously, in
response to the Erick Erickson incident that same evening. He announced the program on
Twitter only six minutes prior to its start.
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gained traction last week, after one of the targets was recently jailed for violating a peace
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thought comment in the public domain constituted harassment. An outcry from the
political blogging and activism community – from both sides of the political spectrum –
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This past July, in a formal request
(http://www.velvetrevolution.us/images/GANSLER-
COATS_OKEEFE.pdf) it filed with the prosecutors of Maryland
state and the city of Baltimore, a left-leaning organization known
as Velvet Revolution (http://velvetrevolution.us/) urged
prosecutors to press criminal charges against James O'Keefe and
Hannah Giles for what it says was a violation of Maryland's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act. But the letter also
went a step further, naming Andrew Breitbart as a conspirator in
masterminding the whole operation
(http://www.velvetrevolution.us/images/GANSLER-
COATS_OKEEFE.pdf).
The accusation against Breitbart is of course patently false and baseless. No evidence
exists to even suggest such an accusation, because it simply did not happen that way. Then
again, this story's not about Andrew Breitbart. It's about Velvet Revolution, the source
making the claim.Progressives are also rallying behind Velvet Revolution for another of its most recent
campaigns – AmericanCrossRoadsWatch (http://www.velvetrevolution.us
/acrw/signup.php), which, to the delight of familiar folks like Karoli at Crooks and Liars
(http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/progressives-fight-back-100000-bounty-karl-), has
offered a $100,000 bounty "for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Karl
Rove or any principal of American Crossroads for money laundering, election rigging,
or felony campaign finance violations." It features a WANTED poster:
kimberlin-wanted
Interesting, that the words "felony" and "Wanted" would be used. Again, considering the
source.
You see, while Velvet Revolution has inspired quite a flurry of excitement from its
progressive partners these days, who seem to be frolicking in their apparent muckraking
efforts, their glaring omission and utter hypocrisy is absolutely astonishing. With so much
dirt digging going on, one would be very hard pressed to believe that none of Velvet
Revolution's cheerleaders had any idea whatsoever that a convicted violent felon is one of
its co-founders. In an environment today when the left has repeatedly falsely accused most
opposition of being racist, hateful and violent, how convenient that progressives would fail
to acknowledge the hypocrisy of their own implicit support of real violence and
law-breaking.
The story behind Velvet Revolution begins with musician-activist turned immigrants'
rights defender turned voting rights activist, Brett Kimberlin
(http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima/judges/brett-kimberlin/), who also runs
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the "Justice Through Music Project (http://www.jtmp.org/) (JTMP)." According to
journalist Brad Friedman (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4617) of the Brad Blog, he and
Kimberlin co-founded Velvet Revolution together, a detail Friedman has specifically
noted in a number of posts such as this one from 5/31/2007 (http://www.bradblog.com
/?p=4617).
kimberlin-time2 (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article
/0,9171,1574161-1,00.html)
Once dubbed "The Wizard of Odd (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article
/0,9171,1574161-1,00.html)" by Time Magazine, you may recognize the name Brett
Kimberlin for much more than Justice Through Music or Velvet Revolution,
especially if you're from Indiana. That's because in 1981, Kimberlin, then the owner of
vegetarian restaurant Good Earth, was finally convicted of a week-long bombing spree in
Indianapolis, IN in which eight separate bombs caused extensive property damage,
destroyed a police cruiser, and severely maimed a man, which eventually led to the man's
suicide. Kimberlin's story has so often been overlooked or understated by the national
media, which unfortunately all but failed to follow up on what were later proven by the
same journalist who first reported on his story to be mistruths. But locals to IN know
exactly what happened and have never forgotten it since. It's time the public got the full
story.
Brett Kimberlin, Speedway Bomber
Infamously known as "The Speedway Bomber (http://blogs.indystar.com/starfiles
/2010/09/01/the_phantom_spe/)," Brett Kimberlin exploded his eighth and final bomb
on September 6, 1978, which nearly blew off the right leg of his victim, Carl DeLong, and
seriously injured the man's left leg and right hand, causing his leg to be amputated.
DeLong committed suicide two years later, unable to cope with the pain and devastation of
his injuries. The victim's wife Sandra later won a civil judgment against Kimberlin for $1.6
million.
Police had immediately suspected Kimberlin in the bombing case. He'd been in trouble
since high school, was a suspected drug trafficker and he was already the suspect in a
murder that had occurred only months earlier. As the Indianapolis Star
(http://www.indystar.com/article/99999999/NEWS06/100919013) recounted recently:
On July 29, 1978, Speedway resident Julia Scyphers, 65, answered a knock at her
door. A man she didn't know was standing on her stoop asking about items she'd
recently tried to sell at a yard sale. She let him into the garage to look at the items and
he shot her in the head.
Mrs. Scypher's husband, Fred, 68, heard the bang and came out in time to see a car
pulling out of the driveway. He would later tell police he'd gotten a glimpse of the man
who'd come to the door.
When police began looking for a motive in the Scyphers slaying, they found there'd
been a recent family clash. Julia Scyphers' daughter, Sandra Barton, had become
involved with a man who seemed to Mrs. Scyphers to be inordinately close to one of
Barton's young daughters. Mrs. Scyphers told friends she was so concerned that she'd
arranged for both of her granddaughters to come live with her. Whether or not Mrs.
Scyphers' fears were correct (no charges were ever filed to that effect), this incident
led investigators to start looking at Brett C. Kimberlin.
Investigators had learned that Sandra Barton's pre-teen daughter had accompanied
Kimberlin, in his 20's, on several out of state trips. When the girl moved in with her
grandmother as a protective measure on the family's part, Kimberlin threatened to commit
suicide.
But police still needed to collect more evidence in both the bombing and murder cases.
After he was identified by a store-owner who'd unwittingly sold him the timer for one of
the bombs, Kimberlin was subsequently reported to the U.S. Army by a nearby print shop
owner who had become suspicious when Kimberlin wanted to reproduce military driver's
licenses. And when he returned to that print shop wearing a security guard uniform with
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an illegal Department of Defense insignia, an Army investigator was present to bust him
for violating the law. Police used the opportunity to obtain a warrant to search Kimberlin's
vehicle, where they found the same timers and explosive chemical used in the bombs. A
search of his family's property also turned up a buried steel tank that contained 1,000 lbs
of marijuana. Investigators later found that Kimberlin and some construction workers had
purchased explosives in 1975 to blast away the area so they could bury the tank. Those
explosives were the same as those used in the Speedway bombings.
kimberlin-montage
While police continued to strengthen their case against him for the bombings, Kimberlin
got arrested on drug charges in 1979 in Texas after a plane delivery of 10,000 pounds of
Colombian marijuana went awry. He and several others had been building a makeshift
landing strip in the middle of the desert and rented a small airplane to collect their cargo,
which had been abandoned by its scheduled pilot due to bad weather. When caught during
the drug arrest, police confiscated an arsenal of weapons that included a TASAR (brand
new technology at that time), pistols with silencers, AR15 rifles, poison tipped bullets, and
makeshift security guard uniforms.
The incident gave investigators additional time to piece together more evidence from the
bombing case, as well as the details of the murder case in which Kimberlin was a suspect.
Eventually, in three separate trials, Kimberlin was convicted of the bombings and
sentenced to a fifty-year term of imprisonment for manufacturing and possessing a
destructive device, and malicious damage by explosives with personal injury. He received a
concurrent twelve-year sentence for impersonating a federal officer, illegal use of a
Department of Defense insignia, and illegal use of the Presidential Seal, and a five-year
term for receipt of explosives by a convicted felon. He was also given a four-year sentence
by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on an earlier,
unrelated conviction for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Kimberlin's sentences were
aggregated by the Bureau of Prisons and treated by the Commission as a single aggregate
sentence of 51 years, six months, and nineteen days (http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov
/c/F3/7/7.F3d.527.92-6084.html).
The Scyphers murder case however has remained open. One suspect was identified and
charged at the time, but the victim's husband, the only witness in the case, died of cancer
two weeks later, leaving the authorities without a living witness.
Despite the evidence (http://indystar.com/assets/pdf/BG164276919.PDF) authorities
were gathering, Kimberlin never would be formally charged with the murder. Still, he did
serve nearly 17 years in prison for both the bombings and the drug case. After the
conviction, more details were revealed about the case that unraveled a complex and creepy
series of additional crimes that Kimberlin planned against numerous targets, most notably
the chief government prosecutor, Bernard (Buddy) Pylitt, who happened to have political
ambitions for governor. Indianapolis Star reporter Joseph Gelarden (http://indystar.com
/assets/pdf/BG164276919.PDF) thoroughly documented the entire plot based on
information and documents that were provided by the investigators after Kimberlin's
conviction. It reads like a fictional made for TV movie, complete with a hit list of "six to be
killed, two or three to be roughed up and one or two to be robbed," according to the article
(http://indystar.com/assets/pdf/BG164276919.PDF).
indystar2 (http://indystar.com/assets/pdf/BG164276919.PDF)
During his time in prison, Kimberlin certainly made a name for himself in a variety of
other ways. His claim to fame as "the guy who said he sold pot to Dan Quayle" eventually
hoisted him into the fictional character of political prisoner and supposed "victim" of the
Republican establishment, a character the left was all too eager to create just before the
presidential election of the senior George H. W. Bush. And while the pot-smoking
allegations were later dismissed by the public as fiction, Kimberlin continues to this day to
recycle that myth to the left.
As the Indianapolis Star (http://blogs.indystar.com/starfiles/2010/09
/02/the_bomb_that_m/) recounted on September 2, 2010:
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Five years later, in 1988, Kimberlin vaulted himself into the national news when he
claimed he’d once sold pot to Dan Quayle, then a U.S. Senator and candidate for vice
president. Quayle vehemently denied the charge and Kimberlin produced no proof
except his own word, which wasn’t worth much to those who knew this story. But
most people outside of Indiana had never heard of Kimberlin and the national
political press gave it some play for a while.
Kimberlin was paroled in 1994 after serving about 13 years of his 50-year sentence.
But when he made no effort to pay the DeLong judgment his parole was revoked in
1997 and he went back to prison for about four more years, released again in 2001.
Where is he now? Last we heard he was living in Bethesda, Maryland. And living in Bethesda, Maryland he is. So what's Kimberlin doing today?
After Prison: Brett Kimberlin, Progressive Activist
Before being returned to prison in 1997 for violating his parole, Kimberlin had been
lobbying Capitol Hill in 1994 (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-03-13/features
/9403130267_1_brett-kimberlin-prison-convicted) on behalf of a fellow prisoner friend,
David Sushansky (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-03-13/features
/9403130267_1_brett-kimberlin-prison-convicted), an illegal immigrant of the former
Soviet Union, using his new-found fame to wrangle top legal support for Sushansky's
"rights" as he waited in limbo in an INS detention camp. Sushansky's former country
refused to take him back due to his heroin conviction.
Having been released from prison again in 2001, Kimberlin now runs the Justice Through
Music Project (http://www.jtmp.org/) (JTMP), which describes itself as "an organization
that works with famous bands to inspire youth to participate in the political process by
voting and supporting civil rights." IRS records identify JTMP as a community foundation
(http://bestpractices.cof.org/community/ViewStandard.cfm?itemNumber=901) "which
receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
170(b)(1)(A)(vi)," under the classification of "Voter Education and Registration."
According to its most recent 990 Tax-Exempt Organization filing
(http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/270/270051467
/270051467_200812_990EZ.pdf) for 2008, on which Kimberlin is listed as a director,
JTMP has received a total of over $1.3 million in public gifts and grants since 2005 for
these efforts.
kimberlin-JTMP1
As we know, Kimberlin also co-founded Velvet Revolution (http://velvetrevolution.us/)
with Brad Friedman of BradBlog (http://www.bradblog.com/). This organization is
funded by, among others, the notable Tides Foundation (http://www.tidesfoundation.org
/fileadmin/tf_pdfs/Tides-Foundation-List-of-Grantees-2009.pdf). By 2007, Kimberlin
had received notoriety as an "election and campaign reform activist," monitoring voting
processes and raising electronic tabulation issues. He runs the very organization that
today is demanding the prosecution of Andrew Breitbart, Karl Rove, and many others who
happen to oppose progressive policy, while often basing accusations on little else than
opinion.
Between the time he was released from prison and today, Kimberlin has been involved in anumber of progressive causes through his organizations. Among these are election and
campaign finance reform, electronic voting investigation, immigration rights, anti-war
activism, and a variety of other civil rights causes.
Together with other progressives, Kimberlin's Velvet Revolution even championed the call
to investigate the death of Michael Connell (http://www.velvetrevolution.us
/prosecute_rove/) as a potential homicide. Connell, a former IT consultant for Karl Rove
who'd also developed Internet strategies for the 2000 and 2004 Bush-Cheney campaigns,
was killed in December 2008 when the plane he was piloting alone crashed on his way
home to Ohio from Washington DC. Velvet Revolution and other progressive sites like
BradBlog (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6765) have insisted it was a deliberate act of
sabotage to protect White House "secrets." Official NTSB reports
(http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x690800544/Errors-weather-cited-as-factors-in-Dec-
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2008-fatal-plane-crash) eventually showed that there was no evidence of sabotage, and
cited the pilot's spatial disorientation as the cause of the crash.
Some progressives maintain to this day that Kimberlin was persecuted by a Republican
conspiracy hell-bent on silencing him from speaking to the press about his allegations that
he sold Dan Quayle pot. It's conspiracy theory that has since been spun into urban legend.
But court records from the US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit (http://ftp.resource.org
/courts.gov/c/F3/7/7.F3d.527.92-6084.html) clearly spell out the truth.
As for Kimberlin's allegations about Vice President Quayle supposedly creating an
appearance of political vindictiveness in the Commission's decisions, the district
court correctly concluded that Kimberlin, not the Commission, created
this appearance. He has neither proven nor alleged that the Commission's
decisions were actually influenced in any way by his statements about the Vice
President--indeed, Kimberlin's counsel did not mention Quayle during oral argument.
In the absence of proof or an allegation of actual vindictiveness, no lawful basis exists
to set aside the Commission's sentence. Alabama v. Smith, 490 U.S. 794, 799-800,
109 S.Ct. 2201, 2204-2205, 104 L.Ed.2d 865 (1989) (where Pearce presumption does
not apply, burden remains upon defendant to prove actual vindictiveness). Were it
otherwise, any prisoner could make public accusations prior to a Commission's
decision, and then argue that the decision was tainted by an appearance of
vindictiveness.
Supporters insist that Kimberlin was exonerated under a "special secret deal" of some sort
with the Justice Department then his parole revoked as a conspiracy by Karl Rove and thefirst Bush administration to keep Kimberlin quiet. The truth of the matter is that
Kimberlin's parole was revoked in 1997, as noted earlier, because he refused to make
payments on the DeLong judgment in relation to the Speedway bombings . No
such exoneration exists.
Much of this history and Kimberlin's creative imagination is captured in the book by Mark
Singer, "Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin
(http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Deeply-American-Journey-Kimberlin
/dp/0679429999)." Singer, who initially believed Kimberlin's story and reported on his
claims to have sold marijuana to Dan Quayle while a student in law school, eventually
realized he'd been conned and wrote a repentant book in response. Kimberlin also
received a portion of the advance for the book. In a review for Salon, Charles Taylor
(http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Citizen-K/Mark-Singer/e/9780679429999) summed
up the book as follows:
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The farce Mark Singer describes in Citizen K might be called a journalist's version of
the Stockholm Syndrome, the psychological phenomenon where captive bonds with
captor. The irony in this case is that Singer's "captor" was himself a prisoner, Brett
Kimberlin, a suspected murderer and bomber and a convicted pot smuggler and
dealer. In the weeks before George Bush's 1988 election, Kimberlin told the press that
one of his early '70s customers was then-law-student "Danny" Quayle.
In 1992, Singer, a New Yorker staff reporter, wrote a 22,000-word article for the
magazine detailing Kimberlin's claims that Bureau of Prisons officials had denied his
constitutional rights by preventing him from making his claims about Quayle to the
press. The article led to the deal for this book, a deal that gave Kimberlin a cut of theprofits. But, as Singer investigated his subject's drug-running past - and
transformation into a jailhouse lawyer with a prodigious taste for litigation as well as a
would-be player on the national political scene - he felt a dawning certainty that he
had been had.
Citizen K - the title refers both to Kimberlin's view of himself as Kafkaesque victim
and to his talent for the noble posturing of Charles Foster Kane - is a very sly piece of
work. It's not often that journalists, the most defensive of professionals, admit to
being conned. Singer alerts us from the start that there's something off in Kimberlin's
stories, but by allowing him the room to spin his tales, he lets us experience
Kimberlin's seductive powers. Singer's public revelation that he was a willing sucker
will almost surely prompt other journalists to claim that they would never have beenfooled. But his demonstration of how easy it is to be taken in by a master prevaricator
like Kimberlin should also make them uncomfortable. Here is a con man who can
convert every evidence of his guilt into proof of his innocence, who can flatter the
press and lawyers who take up his case that they are serving not only their profession
but American justice…
Repudiation?
Today, the impact of Kimberlin's influence can easily be seen online in progressive
initiatives. He's often praised for his efforts to bring about peace in the world , his anti-war
song/video "Happy Springtime: Bush is Over (http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=Jco4etlHwaE)" frequently touted on progressive websites. Be sure to note the
"BrettSongs/Innocent Music" credit at the end. (Does anyone else see the irony in this?)
If you take a look at the AmericanCrossRoadsWatch (http://www.velvetrevolution.us
/acrw/signup.php) website, an initiative of Kimberlin's and Brad Friedman's Velvet
Revolution that intends to intimidate the right-leaning political advocacy organization
American Crossroads (http://americancrossroads.org/), you'll see that its partners include
notable groups like StopTheChamber.com (http://stopthechamber.com/), an
anti-Chamber of Commerce group initiated by Change to Win
(http://www.changetowin.org/) unions, and Democrats.com (http://democrats.com/),
among many others. The buzz of going after these Velvet Revolution targets has got
everyone from Rachel Maddow (http://www.americancrossroadswatch.org
/index.php?q=node/62) to David Axelrod (http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter
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/statements/2010/sep/28/david-axelrod/david-axelrod-independent-groups-behind-
ads-attack/) jumping on the bandwagon to try and expose what they perceive as the evil,
scary "Shadow RNC."
ACW (http://www.americancrossroadswatch.org/index.php?q=node/62)
So how is it that 18 years later, here we are again, the media, and now the blogosphere, are
being fooled by the same character? While the left falsely accuses the Tea Party and similar
groups of being racist and violent, here they have organizations founded by a convicted
terrorist leading progressive campaigns that are smearing the right, once again.
Has anyone in the mainstream media or in the progressive blogosphere bothered to take
notice that this infamous character who once fooled noted journalists into launching afalse right-wing smear campaign is now at the center of a number of progressive
campaigns to stifle the right?
Is anyone challenging the popular progressive bloggers from sites such as Crooks and
Liars (http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/progressives-fight-back-100000-bounty-karl-)
and BradBlog (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4617) who have been riding the coattails of
Kimberlin while at the same time hiding behind the anonymity of his organizations'
names? While some have pushed stories that have been suspected to have been sourced by
Kimberlin, the media turns a blind eye to this individual's long, criminal history of lying
and spinning tall tales. Perhaps we should be revisiting some of those stories and their
sources.
And how about the famous bands and musicians (http://www.jtmp.org/) who team up with his organizations? Are they even aware of Kimberlin's history?
Why are notable left wing philanthropy organizations like The Tides Foundation
(http://www.tidesfoundation.org/fileadmin/tf_pdfs/Tides-Foundation-List-of-Grantees-
2009.pdf) (which also funds Media Matters) funding a group associated with a
convicted domestic terrorist?
tides2 (http://www.tidesfoundation.org/fileadmin/tf_pdfs/Tides-Foundation-List-of-
Grantees-2009.pdf)
While the left-wing media spends countless hours of its production time trying to create
the picture of impropriety around topics like American Crossroads and Andrew Breitbart,
why not spend even just one hour researching the groups accusing such impropriety?
Will anyone come out and repudiate their association with a convicted terrorist? In the
end, this isn't so much about Kimberlin, but about the hypocrisy of the left.
And of course, what must the citizens of Indianapolis think about Kimberlin's recent
success, all of the money his organizations have been awarded by donors who seemingly
embrace a convicted criminal who caused their community such devastation and
heartache? What must DeLong's family think? In 2007, when Time Magazine featured
Kimberlin in its "Wizard of Odd Story," noted Indianpolis Star reporter Joe Gelarden
(http://indiana.typepad.com/fwob/2007/01/subject_of_time.html), who closely covered
all of the Kimberlin cases in great detail at the time, had something to say
(http://indiana.typepad.com/fwob/2007/01/subject_of_time.html) about the public's
embrace of Kimberlin:
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Brett Kimberlin is a terrorist. While I firmly believe in the doctrine of redemption and
conversion, I remember a few things about Brett that give me great pause.
First, he was convicted of perjury - in federal court - before he got out of high school.
Think about that for a moment.
Second, he was not convicted of smoking a couple of joints when he was in high
school. He was a major drug dealer who officials believe got into terrorism to throw
officials off the trail of a murder.
Third, he planted a series of bombs in Speedway, Indiana that not only endangered alot of lives, but, when a guy bent over to pick up a gym bag in a school parking lot -
Carl DeLong just wanted to turn in the bag to the school because he thought it
contained a pair of $50 sneakers - it exploded.
The blast shattered DeLong's body and that of his lovely wife Sandra.
These assertions are not just words on some blog, they are in the record of the state
and federal courts…
I think that pretty much says it all, from a respectable Indianapolis journalist who lived
through the story himself.
Follow the entire Kimberlin history as it happened at the Indianapolis Star:
"The Speedway Bomber Part 1 (http://www.indystar.com/article/99999999/NEWS06
/100919012)" and "Part 2 (http://www.indystar.com/article/99999999/NEWS06
/100919013)."
"Kimberlin Guilty; Could Get 230 Years" - The Star, 10/16/1981 (http://www.indystar.com
/assets/pdf/BG164275919.PDF)
"Kimberlin case a maze of murder, deceit" - The Star, 10/18/1981
(http://www.indystar.com/assets/pdf/BG164276919.PDF)
"Kimberlin Gets 50 More Years" - The News, 12/30/1981 (http://www.indystar.com
/assets/pdf/BG164277919.PDF)
"Mystery Still Clouds Kimberlin Case" - The News, 12/31/1978 (http://www.indystar.com/assets/pdf/BG164278919.PDF)
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