Shamefully, I don’t know the whole story, but the conservative blogger, Stacy McCain, is the latest in a string of bloggers who have been targeted by some thuggish person called Brett Kimberlin.
Mr. Kimberlin, from the little I’ve read, was convicted in the ’80s of a series of bombings in the town of Speedway, IN. He always maintained his innocence, but a jury of his peers thought otherwise. I have no idea how or when he was released from the fifty-one years, six months, and nineteen days sentence he received, (h/t Liberty Chick at Breitbart.com). During the Bush/Quayle campaign, back in ’88, Mr. Kimberlin said that he had sold marijuana to Mr. Quayle in the ’70s. It is alleged that he was kept away from reporters investigating the story, via the use of means such as solitary confinement. It has since been found that this dope dealing story was a lie and the reporter working the story did not do any fact checking
When bloggers started writing about him, instead of seeking legal recourse, (I assume because he had none), Mr. Kimberlin appears to have gone about, calling the employers of the bloggers and their spouses, in a, sometimes successful, attempt to get those people fired from their jobs.
Being British, I have witnessed the release of numerous IRA terrorists who had subsequently been found innocent, some after decades behind bars, so I have a slightly different perspective than others might. I can’t vouch for any of the alleged IRA bombers who were released upon case review, but I can fully understand how being jailed for a crime you didn’t commit could make a person bitter and twisted, and make one seek justice, in some form against those who put you in such an awful position. That said, working to destroy the lives of people who are talking about you, is an unacceptable extreme. We do not live in a Hollywood blockbuster or Times best seller, we live in the real world, where there are plenty of legal recourses available to a person, if they feel they have been legitimately slighted.
The kind of despicable behavior that is currently being exhibited by Mr. Kimberlin, (and plenty of others too, on all sides of the political spectrum, I’m sure), is unacceptable to anyone with a sense of decency and freedom and cannot be condoned in any way, whether by a written or verbal agreement with that person’s actions, or with monetary support of any organization that they might be in charge of.
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