Blogmocracy in Action
Guest Post by: Doriangrey
On Friday, June 8th 2012 many Conservative bloggers are encouraging the conservative blogging community to have a day of silence in support of Arron Walker and the other victims of Brett Kimberlin and those responsible for Conservative Blogger SWAT’ing. Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but, isn’t getting the conservative blogging community to shut the hell up the entire point behind Brett Kimberlin and the whole SWAT’ing concept?
Now, perhaps I’m not the smartest Blogger on the planet, but can someone please explain to me, how surrendering even for an hour to the demands of thugs like Kimberlin or those responsible for SWAT’ing constitutes a victory in any stretch of the imagination? Somebody care to remind me exactly how well the whole surrender appeasement thing worked out for Neville Chamberlain? Or anyone one else for that matter?
I mean, ok, if you are a bank robber, and you’re holed up in the bank with a bunch of hostages, and every damned cop in the world is outside just praying for a chance to fill you full of lead, then yeah, surrendering just might be a good option, but it also means you lose. While losing is definitely better than dying, when the stakes are not life and death, surrendering really is a pretty stupid idea.
Sorry Ace, a day of silence really does rate up there pretty high on the scale of stupid responses to people who are trying to get you to shut the hell up. Like I said before, I might not be the smartest blogger on the planet, but this is really pretty much of a no brainer. Hell no I will not be silent seems to me to be the correct response. But hey, that’s just me, somebody once rather indigently asked me if I minded, I responded then, just as I do now, “Not very well or very often”.
I am not trying to pick a fight with anyone in the conservative blogosphere who wishes to show their support for Aaron Walker or any of the other victims of Brett Kimberlin and the thugs that are supporting and helping him. If you feel that a day of silence is the right thing to do, knock yourself out. As for me, I will not go quietly into the night, not for one day, not even for one hour.
If you have read my blog before you know I don’t update it with any predictable regularity, I write when I see something that I think is important to speak out about. Thugs and criminals trying to crush the first amendment rights of individuals whom they do not agree with seems to me to be pretty high on the list of things that are important to speak out about.
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey has this over at Hot Air, Bloggers protest bizarre court ruling in Walker case, SWATting
Michelle Malkin, (God bless that woman) has several incredible posts on the subject, they are in-depth filled with facts, names dates ad links.
ACLJ steps up to defend bloggers targeted over Brett Kimberlin coverage
The Blogmocray has hit on it several times as well.
The Jawa Report has likewise thrown their hat in the ring covering it.
Kudos to everyone out there who has taken the risk of covering this story, because as Arron Walker, Patterico, Erick Erickson, and Robert Stacy McCain can all testify from first hand expereince, blogging about Brett Kimberlin and his thug pals is anything but safe or comfortable.
-Doriangrey
(cross posted from The Wilderness of Mirrors)
Tags: Bret Kimberlin, Doriangrey, Free Speech
Here is my opinion of Brett Kimberlin….
Obama: “The Private Sector Is Doing Fine” Keep on saying that, Preezy
Put this on the previous thread. Might be worthy of a headline.
Stay classy Zero…
Obama started at about 7 p.m. with an off-color joke about Ellen DeGeneres and his wife, who recently beat the comedian in a pushup contest on her talk show. He said DeGeneres had complained “that Michelle didn’t go all the way down.”
You guys should check out the threats being thrown down on Ali Akbar, Patterico has the bloody gory details here.
@ MikeA:
Breitbart has actually gone to bat for the President here. They don’t think he meant what he said as a joke. I tend to agree with them. Obama is that socially inept. If he was speaking without a teleprompter, I could see him going there without meaning to.
Posting helps
Ace’s idea of silence has been misunderstood. I think the idea was just to post about this topic (once) and that would lend emphasis to it. But posting at all helps too. It is all good.
And Brett Kimberlin is a lying felon.
OT, but I’m goin’ where the action is.
More of Chris Christie’s problems with Islam.
Iron Fist wrote:
Fine is something that like Bill Clinton’s “IS” has to be carefully defined. When a Marxist (read Barrack Hussein Obama here) talks about the “Private Sector” doing fine, what he really means is that despite his best efforts it simply refuses to die.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That is why Chris Christie should not be the VP candidate. I suspect he’s a Muslim Brotherhood/House of Saud agent.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Picking Chris Christie for VP is about the only thing that Romney could do to dampen my enthusiasm for his Presidency. I don’t think that is going to happen, but Romney could fuck it up.
@ doriangrey:
I was talking about his saying Michelle Antoinette “doesn’t go all the way down”. I don’t think he meant that crudely, though with his target audience I guess it is possible.
@ Iron Fist:
And it is not something for DeGeneres to complain about
Look at what the Republican Party’s darlings in Syria are up to. This is who they want Americans to die for.
@ Iron Fist:
I don’t trust the GOP Establishment. Christie is a Muslim Brotherhood supporter.
Rodan wrote:
All’s fair in Love and War…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I can think of a few reporterts I’d like to set up to get shot. They’re with the Media, after all…
The unhhh President gets a terrible review of his Press Conference. And in the Washington Post, no less. He must have sucked the chrome off a bumper…
WH admits to “hundreds” of closed-door meetings with CAIR.
@ Iron Fist:
The Pharaoh’s divinity is diminishing!
Iron Fist wrote:
I saw part of it and thought the same thing. He looked clueless.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, Like I’ve been saying, I am starting to feel good about the coming election. It is still five months to November, and a lot can happen between now and then, bu tthe economy isn’t going to suddenly take off (it is too late for that, anyway) and Obama’s god-head is fading fast. I still think the election will be close. I don’t see Romney winning as handily as Scott Walker did. But I do see him winning. I wouldn’t have though that possible three months ago.
@ MacDuff:
Maybe he’s chooming again! I bet the President gets primo weed. Probably directly from the DEA, given the way the Obama Administration operates…
Dorian, I’m with you on this one. Coincidentally, I haven’t written a post today because of my day job’s pesky habit of taking up my time, and my significant other’s bizarre insistence that I participate in an activity which actually brings in an income. So, don’t take my silence as acquiescence. Take it as, holy crap, I’m busy.
@ doriangrey:
Dorian I’m with you too…I don’t understand why we should not blog especially on a Friday when a lot of news is dumped. I say blog to the hilt!!!!! Because this is excatly what Kimberlin WANTS.
@ MacDuff:
He’s not that smart as people make him out to be. He’s just a puppet of far Left forces.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Oh WOW!!!!
/no I am not surprised at this …. this president seems to hate the United States with every fiber of his body.
Rodan wrote:
Listen to any of his speeches and he sounds like an idiiot. But he is very good at destroying this country.
@ Lily:
PIMF…IDOIT.
/darn keyboard again.
@ Lily:
Notice that Obama picked Today to have the first Press Conference he’s had in forever. He refused to take questions on Wisconsin, too. And the reviews have universally panned him. He wanted to bury it on a Friday, when no one would notice. I wonder what else is going to get dumped today? Think Holder might be more forthcoming about F&F? ME, neither
MikeA wrote:
Tasteless and trashy all at the same time. Even my husband would never make that kind of joke in public or in private. Just goes to show how non-classy he is.
/he really is trying to get the young male vote here…but hate to tell it to him the young male voters (those that aren’t brain dead) do not care for him in the least. Maybe potheads and thugs will find it funny…but those types normally don’t vote anyway.
@ Iron Fist:
I wouldn’t hold my breath on Holder saying anything that even looks like the truth.
/yep you don’t go dark on a Friday especially with this administration.
Rodan wrote:
I’ve seen no evidence of this keen intellect; only reports from others. Kinda like the Loch Ness Monster.
@ Lily:
While he may not have understood the context, I think he was trying to be cute. Just shows that he is not fit to be president on so many levels.
Lily wrote:
I guess you do not think he is “the smartest guy” in the room then? I know I am going out on a limb in asking that.
@ MikeA:
I really think he is socially inept enough to have not gotten the double-entendre, or not realized it until after everybody laughed. His social skills are sub-par for a politician. It goes to that report out yesterday about him being so introverted/narcissistic. He doesn’t look at other people as real, and so he doesn’t interact with them well.
Iron Fist wrote:
Romney is really popular with the younger ones. The ones in between 20-30…especially with my sons. Because Romney is doing what he needs to be doing hammering daily on the economy …..
Contrary to what the media and especially the obama administration tells the public there is a big grass-roots among this age group who do not believe in willy-nilly abortion…and are sickened with obama’s okay on abortion because of the sex of the baby and sickened with late-term abortions…even early term abortions. My daughter-in-law is very VOCAL and so are her friends and she is only 24.
Lily wrote:
“Even my husband”?? C’mon Lily, cut ‘im some slack!
Seriously, though, were I to make a similar joke, my wife would give me the face and I’d share the fate of Lott’s wife.
Iron Fist wrote:
I think he is a verbal klutz.
MacDuff wrote:
Which, I daresay, was a much better fate than what happened to Барни Франк when he saw Oprah nuke S&G!
@ Speranza:
Did you catch his “The private sector is doing fine” gaffe today? Romney pounced on it like a kitten with a new toy mouse. An incredibly stupid thing to say right after unemployment shot up a tenth of a point. I guess he doesn’t get that unemployment over 8% is a bad thing for the private sector…
Speranza wrote:
Uhmmmmmm I wavered on that for some time and came to the conclusion that the only person who thinks he is the smartest person in the room is him.
/no that was sarc about me wavering…have always known he was the worst ever candidate for president and worst ever president since he won the election. Didn’t care for him from the get-go. All you have to do is scratch the surface of him to know he is anti-American and a pinko.
Iron Fist wrote:
Romney is hammering him and pushing him in a corner…the more this is done watch for more mistakes he makes and more gaffes. Because the worship/love for him isn’t there anymore and he can not handle BAD PRESS or LACK OF WORSHIP FOR HIM.
/yeah he is running scared.
hey ya’ll
just a drive-by post
need some prayers again
just found out my brother has colon cancer
back later after work
should know more then
This is day two of the meeting in Prodvidnce RI
of Netroots Nation. It is the Left equivalent of
CPAC.
Johnson couldn’t make it because two airplane seats are
too pricey.
USA Today was reporting that there are grumbles that
Obama is not far enough to the left!
@ rain of lead:
Prayers, man. Sorry to hear that.
MacDuff wrote:
If my husband said something like that in public…a big heavy purse would come flying through the air and hit him square in the head.
/oh and that is not an idle threat. He knows it would happen. Not to mention he would never disgrace the mother of his two sons with a comment like that. He would never want to hurt his sons with such a comment.
@ rain of lead:
Prayers for your brother rain. So sorry to hear that.
Rodan wrote:
Good grief. Take your meds…
@ rain of lead:
Prayers coming your way. Tough, tough disease.
RIX wrote:
It’s an even so friggin’ huge that only Rhode Island could accommodate it!
@ RIX:
Oh, oh, oh….Rix talked to younger son he loved the 7 billion comment about Chuck Norris and told me to throw this back at ya..
Fear of spiders….Arachnophobia
Fear of heights….Acrophobia
Fear of Chuck Norris….logic
rain of lead wrote:
I offer my prayers. ….
MikeA wrote:
Indeed. But how can a man of his age NOT understand the context??
/says a whole lot if he doesn’t. Dingle-berry is what he is.
@ Lily:
Socially inept. He’s Urkel made good. He’s always been given a pass because of the circles he’s moved in.
@ Iron Fist:
Oh I agree. The press has always been to the left but I have never, ever seen them cover for a president like they do for obama.
They may as well just come out and say they are part of obama’s re-election campagin.
/unreal. The British press as hard left as they are, are stunned at the lack of vetting by our media and are doing a better job at vetting obama than our own press.
@ MacDuff:
Unprecedented! They probably could have done the whole thing t a Holiday Inn Express.
Lily wrote:
Oh that’s beautiful. Thank your son for me, I’ll use it.
Only two things prevent guys from pounding on Chuck Norris,
fear & common sense
@ RIX:
I thought you would like it. He loved the 7 billion people comment.
/and since he isn’t here I can’t throw anything back at ya!
Iron Fist wrote:
Say what you want about Romney -- he is in it to win it. McCain would be too much the “gentleman” to say anything, too interested in “reaching across the aisle” and “staying above the fray”.
rain of lead wrote:
Bummer. I had a colonoscopy last week and thankfully every thing turned out ok. I hope he is in the early stages so they can cure him.
New thread.
Rodan wrote:
No he’s not. He is naive but not an agent.
@ Speranza:
My friends!
@ Lily:
OK, but you owe me a Chuck Norris joke.
@ Speranza:
I’m not giving him benefit of the doubt. I’ve seen too much evidence of prominent Republcians supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
I don’t trust them on this.
@ Mike C.:
Hi, Mike C.,
what do you think about redox flow batteries to storage energy from solar-and windpower ?
Lily wrote:
The many bitch slaps the obama administration has delivered to Great Britain might have helped them along.
Lily wrote:
He is the worst president ever, even worse then Jimmy Carter. he also is the least qualified man to ever be president.
@ Speranza:
Carter as a Governor, was qualified. He was horrible, but still qualified.
RIX wrote:
I’ll probably talk to him again this evening…he’ll give me another I’m sure. His little baby girl is real sick..and he really needed that. He threw a bunch of them at me. But that one caught my attention!
@ Rodan:
Obama was no where near qualified
Speranza wrote:
No kidding. He makes Jimmy Carter look good and frankly that says a whole lot.
Guggi wrote:
I don’t even know what they are. Most funtional storage method I know of is pumping water uphill and letting it flow back down through turbines when you need what’s left of the energy.
citizen_q wrote:
Mike C. wrote:
Vanadium redox battery
Lots of acid would be needed.