One Metric on Impact: SWATting

    Last week I wrote about the Speedway Bomber and current left-wing activist Brett Kimberlin. In 2011, after writing about Kimberlin, LA County Prosecutor Patrick Frey was rousted out of bed after midnight by the LA County SWAT Team. Someone had called 911 claiming to be Frey saying he’d just murdered his wife. Sunday night as my family and sister’s family were around the dinner table | Read More »

    SWATting the Ericksons

    Last week we spent a lot of time writing about Brett Kimberlin and the incident involving blogger Patterico where someone spoofed his phone number and told 911 he had shot his wife. Tonight, my family was sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner when sheriffs deputies pulled up in the driveway. Someone called 911 from my address claiming there had been an accidental shooting. It | Read More »

    Neal Rauhauser, Bomber Brett Kimberlin, and Political Terrorism

    Ever hear of swatting? It’s a tactic used by left-wing activists and others these days to spoof phone calls in order to get SWAT Teams to show up at houses. It has happened to several conservative activists. Consider this your must read of the day. It is LA County Prosecutor John Patrick Frey, who blogs as Patterico, describing just what harassment he and his family | Read More »

    Relief Fund For People Harassed By Brett Kimberlin

    The other day I mentioned Speedway Bomber Brett Kimberlin’s ongoing harassment of bloggers who dare to point out his sordid past. Several have lost jobs due to harassment and still others have felt the need to flee for their safety. A relief fund has been set up you can contribute to right here. As the site notes: Blogger Aaron Walker and his wife lost their | Read More »

    Bomber Turned Left Wing Activist, Brett Kimberlin, Tries to Silence Conservative Opposition

    Tip of the hat to Michelle Malkin, whose May 23 column does one of the best jobs I’ve seen of laying out the convoluted tale of a low-level Democratic activist named Brett Kimberlin and his attempts to shut down those who criticize him. She applies the “disinfectant of sunshine” to a seamy story that deserves mainstream play. Brett Kimberlin, subject of the book Citizen K, | Read More »