Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin Files Lawsuit Against Major Conservative Pundits and Bloggers

Brett Kimberlin In Happier Days

Leftist political activist Brett Kimberlin was convicted of planting bombs in and around the city of Speedway, Indiana in the late 1970s.  Before that, Kimberlin was busy smuggling large amounts of marijuana into the country by plane.  See Mark Singer's book "Citizen K" for the complete history of Kimberlin's criminal past.

Kimberlin was released from prison in 2001, on parole, after serving about 17 years of his sentence.  Since then he has reinvented himself as a leftwing politico.  He started two nonprofit organizations and has raised around $2 million in donations from leftist celebrities and other donors.

Kimberlin has enemies, and has filed over 100 lawsuits against people he doesn't like, acting as his own attorney.  If you write anything about him that is uncomplimentary, you run the risk of being sued.  Kimberlin's suits are almost all frivolous, and are designed to damage his enemies by forcing them to expend time and money to defend themselves from the suits.  His goal appears obvious:  intimidate critics to prevent them from writing abut his criminal past, so he can continue to obtain donations from liberal and leftist donors.

This week, ViralRead reports that Kimberlin's irrational behavior shows a sharp uptick, in that he has now sued major conservative pundits like Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck.  ViralRead reports:

Convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that names as defendants syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, Red State editor Erick Erickson, talk radio host Glenn Beck, investigative journalist James O’Keefe and others, claiming they are part of a “criminal racketeering enterprise” under federal R.I.C.O. statutes.

 It appears obvious to this blogger that Brett Kimberlin is a "vexatious litigant," someone who files numerous, frivolous lawsuits, in effect abusing the justice system to pursue personal vendettas or extort defendants.  Now that major figures like Malkin and Beck have been included, perhaps they will get Kimberlin officially designated as a "vexatious litigant."  Vexatious litigants are generally forbidden to file any more lawsuits without the prior approval of a judge, who reviews the validity of the lawsuit before allowing (or disallowing) it to be filed.

Read the ViralRead article here.

Donate to the legal defense fund for Kimberlin-sued bloggers here.

Kimberlin's lawsuit brief is available for viewing here.

FBI Raids and Arrests "Christian" Militia for Planned Violence

There's a story on the news about how the FBI raided a fanatical sect of "Christians" in Michigan who were planning to murder police officers.  Naturally the Left is trying to make political hay, saying that this is evidence of "a rising risk of far-right violence."  Nine men were arrested.  Wow, that's quite an uprising all right.

There have been various kooks and nuts who claimed to be Christians in the past, and yes, such nuts do exist.  Look at the sick group who celebrate the deaths of soldiers by picketing their funerals. However, neither they nor the Hutaree militia are typical and Christian doctrine does not command Christians to commit acts of violence on police officers or anyone else.  This is quite different from Islam, a violent religion that does indeed preach violence, murder, plunder and rape as part of its religious doctrine.  See Moscow for a recent example.  Nevertheless, the Left will bring up the Hutarees as moral equivalents the next time there is a Muslim terrorist attack.

This morning Officer Vic on KSFO radio questioned the timing of the FBI raid -- on the same weekend of the hugely successful Tea Party in Searchlight, Nevada.  One might surmise that the planned raid had a dual purpose: (1) to arrest potentially violent fanatics, and (2) to create a connection in the minds of the public between "Christian" extremists and Tea Party members.

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