Before lunch, I’m sitting here at the computer reading a website. My arms crossed over my manly chest.

Thought of another website I wanted to look at.

Couldn’t uncross my arms.

Couldn’t move.

Thought about yelling for Gail.

Couldn’t speak.

Sat there, frozen.

Thought about my predicament. “This is crazy. I can’t move, I can’t talk.”

Decided to count to three and then thrust my hands into the air.

“One… two… THREE!”

My hands shot into the air. I was free.

Got up. Grabbed my roller walker and headed to the living room.

Told Gail what happened. She had prepared a delicious lunch, so we enjoyed that together.

I got up to take my bowl and the wrapper from a tasty blueberry muffin into the kitchen.

With the bowl and muffin wrapper in my left hand, grabbed the roller walker with my right.

Couldn’t move. Started bouncing. Not on purpose.

“Little help?” I asked Gail.

She came over, took the bowl from my hand. The muffin wrapper fell to the seat of the rolling walker, along with crumbs.

Swarmed by a pack of dogs. Or so it seemed. It was really just the two of them. But Dad’s problem be damned. MUFFIN CRUMBS!

Gail brushed the muffin wrapper off the seat. Shiloh ate it. Gail’s touch got me unstuck.

Raven followed us into the kitchen, hoping we might drop another muffin.

I told Gail she would likely find a dog turd in the yard tomorrow neatly encased in a muffin wrapper.

We laughed.

Gotta keep your sense of humor, ya know.

I am no longer engaged in Internet warfare. I have scrubbed this blog of all reference to the person I blame for intentionally aggravating my Parkinson’s disease. I don’t respond to the occasional live round lobbed over the border. I just send it to law enforcement so they, like me, can do nothing about it.

As far as I’m concerned, my participation in this war ended the day my neurologist told me to knock it off. Which I did. I took this blog offline altogether. I killed my personal and radio station Twitter accounts (although, for some reason that isn’t clear to me, Twitter suspended them AFTER I deactivated them. Whatever). If the boys and girls wanna fight, they can fight with each other.

I feel like London must have felt after the Nazi bombing. I survived. I prevailed. But I was damaged. Repairing a damaged brain is a far more serious matter than rebuilding a school or repaving cratered highways.

I feel better. I don’t feel like I have a constant weight on my shoulders any more. I know law enforcement doesn’t give a shit. I know that my friends feel they’ve done all they can and that I am my own worst enemy. I dig all that. I understand it. I feel no need for revenge. Even if I did, what good would that do when law enforcement abrogates its primary responsibility… to serve and protect?

So, the last several days have been peaceful.

But the damage is done.

Just now, my beloved made a delicious lunch of corned beef hash and eggs. When I was finished, I pushed myself to my feet, holding the empty plate in my left hand and grasping the rolling walker with my right.

And I stood there, trying to figure out just what in the hell it was that I was supposed to do next.

How in God’s name am I supposed to take a step while carrying an empty plate and pushing a walker, my brain puzzled. I stood there, unable to speak.

“You stuck?” Gail asked.

I managed to say, “Yeah.”

She came over, took the plate… with some difficulty because I had AHOLD of that damn thing… out of my hand. My arm and hand just stayed there, hanging in the air. She took my wrist and lowered my left hand to the walker.

“That did it,” I said, and I took a step.

Just one. Frozen again. This time, I concentrated on that next step and took it. Then, I was free. Gail walked into the kitchen with the plate. I followed, but then felt myself tipping backwards. I put the brakes on the walker and managed to keep from falling. Stuck again. Concentrated. Then, was able walk the rest of the way to the kitchen and give my wife a “thank you” hug and kiss… for the delicious lunch and for saving me.

This is why I cannot be left alone. I have this mental image of Gail going to work, I see her off, roll towards the kitchen with my empty coffee cup and freeze. I’m still frozen when she gets home. The dogs have been circling me like an enemy army for the past seven hours.

Nope. That can’t happen.

I saw a tweet today of someone comparing a video of me with my 14 years of what MY DOCTOR calls “Advanced Parkinson’s” compared to a woman who had the thing for 32 years by that point. She had tremor. I do not. Therefore, according to the idiot who tweeted the video, I have no business saying I have “Advanced Parkinson’s disease.”

Maybe if I had some tremor. Then they would think I was faking that, too.

Ah, but it is over. For the person who left traceable information on this e-mail, for one of the two people who checked out my sister’s Linked In account (I knew who Patrick G. is), and for the commenter known on another blog as “Onlooker.”

Like I said. I’m out of the war. But when you threaten my wife, that’s some different shit.

Good luck.

Good for you, NFL. And congratulations to the St. Louis Rams for having the class and the guts to draft the first openly gay player in the National Football League.

Michael Sam of the Missouri Tigers was drafted with the #249 pick overall. He was the 34th pick in the 7th and final round of the draft.

There had been some doubt that Sam would be drafted given his lackluster performance at the NFL combines earlier this spring. But the conventional wisdom is that his combine performance was being used as a smoke screen, a reason why this talented, explosive athlete would not be drafted in the earlier rounds.

Be that as it may, the kid is going to get a chance to prove whether or not he has the stuff to make it in the NFL. The orientation barrier has been broken and whether or not Sam is successful, he is the Jackie Robinson of openly gay NFL players.

Even before the draft, there were boycott threats against whichever team chose him, according to the web site Right Wing Watch.

The Rams will get to look forward to dealing with Washington, DC lobbyist Jack Burkman who, as part of his campaign to pass legislation that would ban openly gay players from playing in the NFL, is vowing to unleash a “relentness” boycott against the team that drafts him.

Burkman says that he has a “coalition of Evangelical Christian leaders from across the nation” ready to go as soon as Sam is drafted who will teach the NFL that “when you trample the Christian community and Christian values, there will be a terrible financial price to pay”.

I don’t know why “@embryriddlealum” hates my deceased mother. But doesn’t “Mother’s Day” seem like the most inappropriate day of the year to send something like this to a person?

Yeah, I thought so too. Marilynn was my mother. She died on March 8, 2013. I was holding her hand when it happened. Hanger was her maiden name. For some reason, the fact that I loved my mother and she loved me drives “@embryriddlealum” nuts.

But, to tell you the truth? I think he was already insane before he ever heard of me or my mother.  What kind of person sends stuff like this to a person, any person, let alone a person who will die early as a result of complications from Parkinson’s disease?

That one there is my dad. He was 54 when he died of pancreatic cancer in 1983.

This is a shot at my wife, who has lost 150 lbs since she battled and beat cancer a couple years ago.

Also a shot at my beloved.

What kind of person does this? What kind of person thinks this sort of thing is OK? Who laughs at this sort of thing? Mockery has its place in a flame war. There are some acceptable examples.

Ha ha. Very funny.

But then, there is that pathological hatred, that over the line slime that has only one purpose. To so vilify a person, to make him appear so repugnant as to make him into a social pariah.

But in reality, the only person being defiled is “@embryriddlealum.”

Who sends stuff like this?

Who sends tweets like these?

There is something terribly, dreadfully wrong with this person. And it’s nothing I or anyone else caused. This is clearly an insane person. Dangerously so.

And he knows where I live.

HATE HAS A BACKSTORY

This person, who I believe to be Robin Causey of Chino Valley, Arizona, came into my life in late 2011 when I was writing stories about the Facebook “idiot club” known as “Operation Burn Notice.” He is very angry with me because of this particular story.

Time to connect some dots. But first, step into the Way Back Machine with me. Sherman? Set the dial to Dec. 4, 2011. Good.

Now, let’s log on to the wonderful progressive website, AlterNet. We’re looking for this story: “Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and Go Daddy Shield Scott Walker’s Online Guerillas.” It’s a story about how one website copied another website and one Facebook site was trying to interfere with a legal election process. Both websites were attempts to stall the petition drive in the attempt to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. And both were protected by their web hosts. Go Daddy was the registered host of the website that was known as Occupy Madison.com. Here’s what the story says about that site.

On a Sunday night, AlterNet learned from a tipster of a Web site, posing as the online presence of Occupy Madison, that featured a headline claiming that all of the 540,000 signatures required by petitioners for a special recall election of the governor had been collected. This, of course, was a lie.

While the number of signatures activists claim to have gathered in the course of the last two weeks has indeed been impressive, they still need to get at least 200,000 more people to sign onto the effort.

Using the URL, www.occupy-madison.com, the site featured a rotating banner of provocative images: a cop against a fiery background, a young couple kissing on the ground in the middle of a protest, a group of nearly naked young people holding protest signs. Except for the sensational images, the design of the site completely mimicked that of the legitimate Occupy Madison site, www.occupy-madison.org.

What a naughty, perhaps illegal thing to do! Here’s a screen cap of the faux website from the AlterNet story.

Ah! But they were found out! A plucky little independent, citizen journalist called Segway Jeremy Ryan (full disclosure: the author of the story you are reading is a colleague of Mr. Ryan on the website AddictingInfo.org) dished the dirt and buried this cute little scam.

From the AlterNet story.

Blogger Segway Jeremy Ryan wrote that while visiting the fake Occupy Madison site, he clicked on a “Donate” button that took him to an entity called “Occupy Inc.,” a non-profit registered to John C. Ward of Edmond, Oklahoma. A post on the Facebook page of the recall group, Defending Wisconsin, claims that Ward denies having anything to do with the fake Occupy Madison site.

For a time, the www.occupy-madison.com URL directed the user to the login page for Facebook; when last we checked, it took the viewer to a blank page on bing.com.

Not anymore, it doesn’t. More on that later.

I expanded on this theme in a later story.

The phony Occupy site had a donation button on it.  For some reason, instead of directing the button to themselves, they picked a legitimate 501(c)(3) charity called Occupy, Inc., operated by a pastor in Edmond, Okla.  (The pastor says he was in no way connected with the scam and never saw a penny from the phony site.)  But before coming to that realization, I recalled that “Aaron Burr” had told me he was just a “hired gun” being paid to “stir up trouble” in Wisconsin.  He even bragged about it on his Evil Conservatives site, saying he was making a few bucks on all the trouble he was causing, and that he “owned” the state of Wisconsin.  I wondered if the guy whose name was listed on the charity the donation on the phony Occupy site might not be the guy who was the money behind “Burr’s” efforts.

I wrote again to “Burr’s” e-mail.  No response.  So, I checked the WHOIS information on the Evil Conservatives site and found Burr’s name, address, phone number and other information.  Using the web-tracking service Spokeo, I tracked down the information.  It led… not to an Aaron Burr, but to a Robin Wesley Causey of Chino Valley, Ariz.  In one of my communications with “Burr” he mentioned having a PO Box in Chino Valley.  Chino Valley is 17 miles from Prescott, Ariz., where self-professed “rich boy” Operation Burn Notice member “Howard Earl” says he studied at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Having regained access to Facebook, I decided it was time to fight fire with fire.  I created a page which identifies Aaron Burr as Robin Wesley Causey, formerly of Larkspur, Calif., now of Chino Valley, Ariz.

I can generally tell how close I am to my mark when things start disappearing from the Internet.  This morning, Jan. 11, 2012, my Facebook page regarding Causey has been removed from the service.  All references to Causey have been deleted from Operation Burn Notice’s new Facebook presence as well as from Knot My Wisconsin’s Facebook pages. “Howard Earl” states on his Facebook profile that he studied at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz.

And the reaction to outing Causey as @embryriddlealum here on Patriot-Ombudsman has been legendary. I now hold two “Injunctions Against Harassment” filed in Yavapai County, Arizona by Causey and his wife Mary Frances. I called Causey exactly twice. The first time, I told him to remove an image of my deceased mother from his avatar. He hung up on me. I tried calling back, but he let the phone ring. I believe I sent an e-mail to his superaaronburr@gmail.com address. It was polite.

On April 19, I sent this:

Robin:

Cease using the photo of myself and my late twin brother on the Hogewash blog. Cease using it anywhere under whichever of your socks you may be using. Cease all harassment of myself or anyone in my family.

Failure to abide by this cease and desist will result in legal difficulties for you.

You had your fun. Now stop it.

Bill Schmalfeldt
Elkridge, MD

I sent this on April 28.

Gone! By 5pm.

(A disfigured picture of my late mother he was using as an avatar.)

@embryriddlealum

Are we clear?

Then, when he refused to do so, I called the authorities in Yavapai County. They said there was nothing they could do. (Sound familiar?) But they could issue the Injunction against harassment, even though I have never contacted Causey’s wife nor do I have any reason to.

Does this seem normal to anyone?

Back in the old Operation Burn Notice days, I tried to deal with Causey. How do I know Aaron Burr is Causey? He said so.

OK? So, Aaron Burr is, without a reasonable doubt, Robin Causey.

I chronicled my conversations with him.

Operation Burn Notice: Can we have permission to reprint or share your articles? I am sure you will agree because: 1. I asked nice and 2. You have probably made more money the last two weeks then at any time since you started writing for the examiner.

Bill Schmalfeldt: No. You do not have permission to reprint my articles.  Now, if there were a retraction about every negative thing you’ve written about me, and you grant me an exclusive interview where real names can be used, and verified, not only can we get past all this nonsense, maybe we can even come out of this as better people, both of us. Sound good?

Operation Burn Notice: We probably will anyway.

Bill Schmalfeldt: If you do, you are in violation of copyright law, the violation made even more egregious by the fact that the copyright holder gave you fair warning. Now, do we want to be adults? Or do we want to continue acting like children?

Operation Burn Notice: Children




Operation Burn Notice: What’s one more broken law among friends?

Bill Schmalfeldt: I mean, if you work with me on this story, maybe we can lighten your burden of liability. You can express your support for Walker, you can explain why you took this extraordinary measure, you can apologize to anyone you offended, and tell everyone, once and for all, that you were just kidding and you’re sorry. Can’t you see the benefit in that?  Right now, the national narrative about OBN is that they’re a bunch of juveniles, having fun with daddy’s computer. If that’s the image you want to leave, the image you want to attach to Scott Walker, fine with me. But this is your chance — your last one, btw — to tell your side of the story. I submit e-mail questions, you answer them. Or, we can do it right here. I just need to be able to verify who I’m talking to.

Operation Burn Notice: Or we can keeping shredding and burning petitions. We already have two bonfires planned. All of our operatives will be disappointed if we cancel.

Operation Burn Notice: Actually from the last article I read about us, accordingly to the DA, FBI, CIA, ABC, XYZ we were protected under the 1st amendment because nobody could verify that we were actually burning or shredding anything.

Bill Schmalfeldt:  I think you were reading the “comments” section in one of the stories. Not actually researched opinion. And here’s your chance to talk about it. Tell your side of the story.  And I think you were reading the “comments” section in one of the stories. Not actually researched opinion.

Operation Burn Notice: If we do tell our story, it will be to a “real” writer; certainly knot you.

Bill Schmalfeldt: That’s your choice, son. Right now, I seem to be the only “real” writer willing to talk to you and let you tell your side.

Operation Burn Notice: Can’t wait to comment on your first poorly written article.

That intentional misspelling of “not” as “knot” was a little inside joke among this group of morons.

Further conversations revealed that Aaron Burr was a “hired gun” for the “Knot My Wisconsin” group of chumps.”

In their fine story about OBN, printed Dec. 4, 2011, Alternet.com described my dealings with “Burr.”

…like the fake Occupy Madison Web site, the Operation Burn Notice page appears to have its origins out of state, this time in Prescott, Arizona. Bill Schmalfeldt, a citizen journalist on the liberal team of the otherwise-conservative Examiner.com, connected some dots and found that one of the OBN administrators, who goes by the handle Aaron Burr, claims to be the same person who runs an Arizona-based Web site called EvilConservatives.net. In an e-mail to Schmalfeldt, “Burr,” who Schmalfeldt initially engaged by commenting on the OBN page, not only claimed to be an administrator for the page, but said he was being paid for the trouble. From the e-mail Schmalfeldt reported receiving from “Burr”:

I wish I could divulge the name of the client who hired me, but due to the confidentiality clause in the contract, I simply cannot. However, it ain’t the tea party, the GOP, Scott Walker or anybody you’ve ever heard of. It’s just some random guy. He liked my writing style and wanted to have some fun. Simple as that. Haven’t you ever ghosted an article?

“Burr.” according to Schmalfeldt, also said that he would reveal the name of his patron if Schmalfeldt would pay him enough for the information. More from the missive by the self-described EvilConservatives.net proprietor:

Can you begin to see it from our side? Possibly mine? I’m smacking seriously stupid people around on the net and it’s boring the Hell out of me. I’m just a hired gun for this brouhaha. I could care less what Wisconsin does. Unless you guys need a couple hundred “pray for islam” bacon grease votive candles. Che’ Guevara shootin’ targets?  Whiskey stones.

We’re a full service website of malice.

At Operation Burn Notice, Burr proved his adeptness in malice-trafficking, finding a handful of Wisconsinites willing to join in the fun, which includes mocking and threatening opponents. One posting suggests throwing union members onto a pyre of burning petitions.

I have already detailed how I made the leap from Aaron Burr to Robin Causey. But how did I make the connection from Aaron Burr back to “Howard Earl”?

I wrote again to “Burr’s” e-mail.  No response.  So, I checked the WHOIS information on the Evil Conservatives site and found Burr’s name, address, phone number and other information.  Using the web-tracking service Spokeo, I tracked down the information.  It led… not to an Aaron Burr, but to a Robin Wesley Causey of Chino Valley, Ariz.  In one of my communications with “Burr” he mentioned having a PO Box in Chino Valley.  Chino Valley is 17 miles from Prescott, Ariz., where self-professed “rich boy” Operation Burn Notice member “Howard Earl” says he studied at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Coincidence? Hardly. What in God’s name could cause two Arizona boys to have an interest in the Scott Walker recall effort?

I can generally tell how close I am to my mark when things start disappearing from the Internet.  This morning, Jan. 11, 2012, my Facebook page regarding Causey has been removed from the service.  All references to Causey have been deleted from Operation Burn Notice’s new Facebook presence as well as from Knot My Wisconsin’s Facebook pages. “Howard Earl” states on his Facebook profile that he studied at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz.  The legal department at ERAU says nobody by that name ever graduated from that university.   They don’t seem to care much for someone misidentifying himself as an alumnus, especially given the things “Howard” has written on his various Facebook pages, so “Howard” can expect to be contacted to “explain himself”.

“Burr/Causey” even admits a lifetime ban from Facebook as a result of his shenanigans.

After operating on Twitter for a bit as @HowardEarl1, he went silent for awhile. From June 27, 2012 until mid-November 2013 Earl/Burr/Causey was dormant.

A REUNION OF TROLLS

Then his buddy, Chris Heather of Racine, Wisconsin, who was outed by his own “Knot My Wisconsin” pals as being the loathsome “@guntotingteabag” got involved with WJJ Hoge III and the harassment he was bringing down on me, he must have naturally felt obliged to bring his old buddy from Arizona back in on the fun.

Remember, we knew from 2011 that Howard Earl was part of the “Knot My Wisconsin” glee club.

And suddenly, like a turd that refuses to stay flushed…

Since November 2013, the newly rebranded @embryriddlealum, calling itself “Howard Earl” at first before realizing he could be more vile and despicable by insulting my deceased family members, has been a particularly vicious little piece of filth on the Internet.

He was briefly suspended this morning for using my sister’s picture of my mother on his Twitter account. There is no evidence of his ever being on Facebook, except for some of his old Knot My Wisconsin posts.

He consorted like a giggling little girl with his old buddy from Racine until yours truly revealed Chris Heather’s identity to the world. Now, he’s back to trolling liberals in his home state.

WHAT’S TO BE DONE?

But there’s a special kind of insanity at work here in the head of Howard Earl/Aaron Burr/Robin Causey that has found a home with the other people in WJJ Hoge’s sad cadre of followers with more hate than brains. People like the silly and dimwitted Nancy Gilly (LibraryGryffon) and the deranged Paul G. Grady (PalatinePundit) and the recently outed “Onlooker” (Andrew Reed of Harvest, AL), not to mention Tom Puzio (Perfect Tommy) the felon Kyle Kiernan, the Parkinson’s afflicted Rick Buchanan, and the other misfits and morons who feed Hoge’s ego by paying obeisance to his every dropping.

There’s something truly depressing about the fact that there are people in this world, walking around free, who survive on hate. People like Howard Earl/Aaron Burr/Robin Causey. People who make for perfect acolytes for the WJJ Hoge’s of the world who will use their hatred, their madness and their status as misfits to use as weapons to be hurled at his enemies.

As a person in Hoge’s sights, therefore subject to daily attacks by his minions, there’s not all that much I can do about it except try to make the world aware that it’s not just teenagers who are subjected to cyber bullying. But they are the only ones, at least in Maryland, who get any level of protection against it. Disabled adults can sue, if they can afford to. If not, their choices are to just try to bear up under it or, as Earl/Burr/Causey prescribes:  “Take the Cure!”

Some things just speak for themselves.

Sometimes, when I’m feeling blue after the relentless attacks of feculent right wingers who have decided that MY family is fair game for vile, filthy attacks, I like to soothe my angst with a little artwork. This is my latest work. I call it “Karma and L’il Baby Karma.”

And you know what they say about “Karma,” right? She SURE is!  I am also a big fan of outdoor scapes!

Have some of your own cereal, Robin. It’s really, good! Nom nom nom!

Our friend @embryriddlealum, who I believe is actually Robin Wesley Causey of Chino Valley, Arizona, has been yukking it up over in Hogestan, where the Hogeists have been congratulating him for sliming my deceased mother on Mother’s day. I thought an intervention was called for, but I knew it would take something to sufficiently irritate Causey to get him to respond and keep responding. Try to follow the conversation.

And with that, he was gone.

So, let’s review.

Causey responded to an altered picture of what I believe to be his wife and son with another “your mother is a whore” remark. Of course, since he’s not Robin Causey, he has no idea who the people are, but he knows who to send them to… a very thinly veiled threat to insinuate I have violated the Injunction Against Harassment he and his wife lied to obtain. But since @embryriddlealum DENIES he is Robin Causey, no law broken.

I told him that despite his decrepit morals, I did not hate him. I advised him that normal people do not carry a hatred like that for three years for no reason. I suggested he doesn’t even know why he hates me.

He responded by insulting my mother, my wife, my home and my health.

I promised him I will live longer than he will.

I asked him to explain his desire for me to kill myself. Is it because he doesn’t have the guts to do it himself? Is he projecting? Is it HIMSELF he really wants to harm?

He said he would not explain his reasons for hating me because it bothers me that I don’t know. I assured him that it didn’t bother me at all. I was just trying to understand what motivates a person to hate someone as much as he hates me.

Then he said when I die, he will come to Maryland for the express purpose of defecating and urinating on my grave. That’s a normal thing to tell someone you’ve never met and have no reason to hate, right?

I told him he would be wasting a trip, since I’m donating my body.  This led to another crude “your mother donated her body” attempt to hurt.

Again, I asked him to explain his hatred, not just for me, but for my deceased relatives. How can you hate the dead mother, father, brother and sister of someone you’ve never met?

He offered me a tampon.

I asked again, what’s going on in that head. I asked if he really wanted me to kill myself. He replied, “Yes.” I asked why, and he responded with an odd reason, “On(e) usually mourns the death of a pet.”

I asked him if that is what he saw himself doing, leading me around on a leash? Is that why he hates my father so much, because he hates his own father? Did he poop the bed and his father made him wear a dog collar and leash? And what’s this fixation about my mother and Marines? Was his father a Marine? Is that why he was so mean to the young lad and his mommy? Is that why he wants to kill himself?

All of a sudden he had to go play golf.

I told him I pitied him. I think that will sting the most.

Have some of your own cereal, Ali. It’s really, good! Nom nom nom!

BREAKING NEWS: According to the always accurate and timely blog whose name escapes my memory for the moment, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Creighton found that Ali Akbar has sufficient connection to Maryland for the Circuit Court to have personal jurisdiction over him. Therefore, she denied his motion to dismiss based on lack of jurisdiction.

This will no doubt be spun into ANOTHER startling, unexpected VICTORY for Team Lickspittle, which now has to wonder what they have to do to get an actual win.

The same aforementioned unmentionable blog continues to comfort itself with:

The next step will be for Ali to file a formal answer to the suit.

Meanwhile, The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin failed to meet his discovery obligation by close of business yesterday. Appropriate measure are in process.

We’ll double-check that “failure to meet” thing, since this particular blogger is known far and wide as being a decrepit liar.

Akbar tries to sneak away from Maryland Jurisdiction, to no avail.

Whether or not co-defendant WJJ Hoge threw co-defendant Ali Akbar under the proverbial bus intentionally is a topic for discussion that can’t really be answered without getting into Hoge’s head. But one thing is certain.

Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Audrey A. Creighton rejected Akbar’s motion for dismissal from Brett Kimberlin’s lawsuit, largely due to the testimony of his co-defendant.  Akbar had filed a motion to be dismissed from the lawsuit, stating Kimberlin hadn’t proven Akbar had enough of a connection to the state of Maryland for the state to claim jurisdiction over him. Thanks to Hoge’s testimony, the judge decided Maryland did, in fact, have jurisdiction.

Kimberlin is suing Akbar and Hoge, as well as Robert Stacy McCain, Aaron Walker, and the mother/daughter team of Peter Malone and Lynn Thomas for a variety of charges, including malicious prosecution, abuse of process, intentional infliction of emotional distress, libel and harassment.

According to eyewitness accounts, Attorney F. Patrick Ostronic, representing Akbar (who was not present in court), told the judge that Akbar had only used Twitter to refer to events happening in Maryland. Kimberlin called WJJ Hoge to the stand, and — according to his post on the event in his Hogewash.com blog — Hoge’s son, WJJ Hoge IV asked which Hoge was being called to the stand. A cute move, but not effective. Kimberlin stated, “the elder,” and the 67-year old Hoge was sworn in.

The eyewitness account and Hoge’s telling of the tale are identical, if spun differently. Hoge testified that Akbar had — despite what his attorney said — done more than merely “Tweet” about things going on in Maryland. He testified that Ali had attended Blog Bash in Maryland in 2013 and 2014. Hoge admitted Akbar’s involvement in the “Bomber Sues Bloggers” fund, but denied any involvement by Akbar in the ill-fated “Tetyana Fund,” which Hoge and co-defendant Aaron Walker created, according to Kimberlin, to fund Tetyana Kimberlin’s legal expenses in her short-lived separation from her husband. Kimberlin has also alleged that Hoge and Walker offered to pay money to Mrs. Kimberlin if she would lie under oath. Hoge and Walker deny that allegation. What they haven’t denied, however, is that Mrs. Kimberlin asked them to stop raising money in her name, return it to the people who donated it, and to remove her name from their blogging as Hoge and Walker were harming the family.

It can be asked what Hoge meant by saying Akbar was not involved in the “Tetyana Fund” as Akbar actively promoted the fund on a number of occasions on his Twitter account, and on co-defendant McCain’s “The Other McCain” blog, of which Akbar claims at least part ownership interest. In fact, if Kimberlin wanted to press the issue of Hoge lying under oath by saying, in Hoge’s words as he wrote in his blog this afternoon, “Ali was not involved in Tetyana’s Fund”, it seems there is evidence that Akbar was, in fact, “involved.

This is my opinion, but if I’m using a podcast to raise money for a fund, I’m “involved.”

On cross examination, Ostronic asked Hoge why they called their defense fund the “Bomber Sues Bloggers” fund. Kimberlin’s objection was sustained.

Hoge also testified that he has not received any money from the fund and that no money had been paid to any third party from the fund, a fact that will likely either be confirmed or contradicted by a forensic accountant later in the lawsuit.

As this is an opinion blog, a fact that disturbs many of the “Hogeists” who inhabit the comment section on the Hogewash.com blog who can’t seem to tolerate an opinion not shared by the leader of their cult, I believe Hoge not only damaged his own chances of prevailing in the end, he certainly did not help his co-defendant and self-described “friend,” the felon Ali Akbar who started all this trouble by launching the fraudulent National Bloggers Club, claiming a 501(c)3 status the group did not have, and lying to his donors about his status as a felon.

As Kimberlin said, if Akbar is able to travel to Maryland to be witness to a hearing between himself and his wife, Akbar can certainly travel to Maryland to answer the charges in this lawsuit.

It seems odd to this writer that Hoge would answer truthfully about Akbar’s more-than-causal connection to Maryland, and then place himself at risk of perjury by saying Akbar “was not involved” in the Tetyana Fund when he clearly was at least involved in fund-raising. A more cynical writer might suggest that Hoge senses a weakness in Akbar’s position and threw him under the bus in order to assume some sort of leadership, capo di tutti capos if you will, over this allegedly criminal organization, which Kimberlin is also suing in Federal Court in a different case with a larger number of defendants.

Now, as usual when Hoge and his side are dealt a defeat by Kimberlin, I will sit and await the inevitable flood of filth, obscenity and harassment I tend to receive from the Hogeists for daring to question the veracity of their Lord. The reaction so far has been typical.

Of course, that is not going to happen. For one thing, I haven’t done anything wrong. For another thing, the very last thing any of these alleged criminals wants is me on the stand talking about what Hoge and his pals have put me through these last 15 months. They most definitely do not want that in a trial where they are being charged with the things mentioned earlier in this story.

Seeing the image this morning on the Hogewash blog, I think I have a list of books that will be of particular interest to his cult of Hogeists. What do you think? Would YOU buy any of these?

Is this a picture of Robin Wesley Causey’s daughter?

Because this is exactly how the image appears in my book “WJJ Hoggy Teaches You How to Slap Around a Disabled Liberal and Get Away With It.”  Poor child, born with that disfiguring blur on her face. How sad the parents must be.

Here is exactly how the picture appears on Page 106 of the book.

So, did Mr. Causey take that picture? Did he own the camera with which the picture was taken? Or was the picture taken by the hospital staff?

Actually, the image was published in the online edition of Prescott Daily Courier.

To be fair, we’ve disguised the baby, like we did in the book.

So, the question becomes, did Mr. Causey or Ms. Causey take this picture? Or did the Hospital take it?

Let’s find out. I have placed a call to the hospital where this child was born. We are going to find out who takes the pictures that are provided for birth announcements. I left a message, so let’s try calling the Daily Courier and seeing what they say.

Now, here we have a problem for Mr. Causey. According to Les Stuckenberger, the photo editor at the Prescott Daily Courier, all photos of newborns are taken by and submitted by the hospital.

So, Mr. Causey has just committed an unforced error. All DMCA takedown requests are made under penalty of perjury. As the aggrieved party, I get to file perjury charges against him right here in Good Old Howard County.

See, here’s the thing. You cannot claim, under penalty of perjury, that you own a photo you do not own.

The hospital has returned my call. They verify that the photo was taken by the hospital, not the parents. They had the photo published in the Prescott Daily Courier, not Mr. Causey. Mr. Causey has no ownership of the photo, and has just stepped in a great, big pile of poopy.

This is your humble correspondent 5 days after having electrode implanted in my brain as part of a clinical trial to see if deep brain stimulation can help people in the earlier stages of PD. I did it because someone had to. I feel the same way about this new battle I am about to undertake.

All across the nation, people have discovered the simple fact that if they file a takedown request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the takedown request is automatically honored. And why not? Most publishers are in the business of making money and not getting sued.

The DMCA was created to keep people from stealing the intellectual property of other people. And it does that well.

What it also does is allow people to file false complaints to take down something they don’t want other people to read or see. Do a Google search for “False DMCA Takedowns” and see how seriously law enforcement takes it.

The typical response from law enforcement seems to be, “Look, we have real criminals to catch. Get a lawyer and sue the bastards.”

Well, there are folks like me who are under relentless attack, folks like Alan Colmes and myself and others, who get slimed on a daily basis by folks who could just as easily NOT read the things we’ve written. But that’s not good enough for them. They want to cause difficulties.

Alan has a little more money than I do. I am a retired government worker, getting by on Social Security and my meager pension. My advanced Parkinson’s disease has made it impossible for me to commute, so any work I do has to be done from home.

I’ve written books about the hassles I’ve had with some of the people who don’t want you to read the things I’ve written. In one instance, an individual who blogs under a pseudonym didn’t like the fact that I took the filthy things he wrote about me, my wife, my family in his blog and included them in my book, “Intentional Infliction.” So, he was contacted by a right wing extremist and between the two of them concocted a scheme to pull my book off the shelves. Person B claimed that Person A “sold him” the “world book and e-book rights” to the blog. I am forbidden to contact Person B as the result of a peace order that expires one month from today, and Person A refuses to provide proof that he did, in fact, sell the rights.

I had no way to prove otherwise.

Today, I’m sitting here working on my radio station, and I get another e-mail from my self-publishing platform indicating that they are taking another book of mine off the shelves because Person C — who I have pretty good evidence to show is the person who sent me filthy Tweets about my deceased mother on Mothers’ Day — objected to my publishing a photo of his newborn daughter that was published in the Prescott, Arizona, Daily Courier. I altered the photo to make the child unrecognizable.

The book was pulled from the shelves. And I decided that I have had quite enough of these right wing thugs coming into my house, taking my stuff, and walking out the front door with impunity.

Every DMCA takedown request is, by definition, filed under penalty of perjury. Perjury is against the law in Maryland as well as in Arizona.

I called the hospital listed in the newspaper birth announcement. I called the photo editor at the Prescott Daily Courier. They both told me what I already knew from my days of working in newspapers.

The photo which Person C claims ownership to does not belong to him.

It was taken by the hospital staff and provided, with the parents’ permission, to the newspaper for publication. I do not need Person C’s permission to publish something that has already been published. And I have the newspaper’s permission.

I am sick and damned tired of people filing unfounded DMCA complaints. I am sick of them getting away with it because I cannot afford a lawyer.

So, this afternoon I’ve been in touch with the Howard County, Maryland, State’s Attorney’s office. Tomorrow I am going to file perjury charges, as well as electronic harassment and whatever else I can make stick against Person C.

As long as I’m filing charges, I think I’ll see what I can do about Persons A and B while I’m at it.

As I told the State’s Attorney’s office, I am looking at this the same way I looked at having deep brain stimulation surgery as part of an experiment in 2007. I am one of 15 people in the United States who had this surgery. I did it because, I decided, someone had to. And if not me, who?

It’s about time someone made some noise and forced law enforcement to enforce the law. If you’d like to join me in this effort, any support you can give will be appreciated. You can reach me at brainslices@comcast.net.

Enough is enough. It’s time to fight. This is my last stand. This last two years has caused my PD symptoms to progress faster than they would have without the 367 criminal charges and the constant harassment. I am going to see justice done, or I am going to die in the attempt.

Yes. It’s that important to me.

Thank you.

Yesterday, Robin Wesley Causey of Chino Valley, Arizona, caused CreateSpace and Amazon to remove my book, “WJJ Hoggy Tells YOU How to Slap Around a Handicapped Liberal (and get away with)” by making a false representation of copyright ownership of a photo of his daughter, which I altered in the book to disguise the infant. I obscured her face out of respect for the family. But I had the right, under “fair use” rules of US Copyright Law, to use the photo in my book. The segment I used was the property of the Prescott, Arizona, Daily Courier. And yesterday, I received oral permission from the photo editor to use it in my book.

Here is the page in question.

Recently, WJJ Hoge III of Westminster, Maryland caused CreateSpace and Amazon to remove publication of my book “Intentional Infliction” because I used a portion of a blog post by a pseudonymous “Paul Krendler” in the book to highlight the filth and depravity the people who have been harassing me will stoop to. Mr. Hoge claims he “purchased” the “world book and e-book rights” to that blog by Mr. “Krendler” and forced CreateSpace to remove the book.

These actions have a far-reaching effect. While we are certainly not talking about “The DaVinci Code” here, by removing these books from the CreateSpace and Amazon shelves, they have also removed the books from the CreateSpace distribution network, which would place these books on Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and dozens of other online booksellers around the world. Since Mr. Causey lied about his ownership of the photograph, and Mr. Hoge and Mr. “Krendler” refuse to provide proof of Mr. Hoge’s ownership of the blog, they have caused me significant personal harm. (Even if Mr. Hoge did purchase the rights, the portion of the blog would still be considered “fair use.”

Therefore, in accordance with DMCA rules, I have filed this notice with the copyright lords at CreateSpace/Amazon and have provided a copy to the Howard County (Maryland) State’s attorney. The upshot is, Mr. Hoge and Mr. Causey have 14 days from today to file a lawsuit in the district court of MY jurisdiction to prove their ownership of the material and prove I used it improperly. Failure to file the suit within 14 days means CreateSpace/Amazon are required to relist my books and make them available for purchase once more.

Here is my letter.  And I am dead serious about this. Mr. Hoge will be required to prove he purchased the rights from an actual individual, not a pseudonym. Mr. Causey will have to defend not only the photo, but he will have to explain the vile filth sent to me under his twitter handle @embryriddlealum. And if I am incorrect and he is NOT @embryriddlealum, he knows who the individual is. And he will have to say so under oath.

Again, these cases must be filed in United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore Division by May 29. And I am asking the publisher to consider taking whatever action they can take against Mr. Hoge and Mr. Causey for filing false DMCA takedown requests. I will pursue perjury charges at the Howard County District Court level.

Adrian Garver
1200 12th Ave. S.
Suite 1200
Seattle
Washington 98144
May 15, 2014
RE: Mistaken Removal
Dear Adrian Garver;
Please find attached to this letter a list of material removed by you pursuant to 17
U.S.C. Section 512. I have a good faith belief that this material was removed or disabled
in error as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material. I declare that this is
true and accurate under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of
America.
For the purposes of this matter, I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District
Court for the judicial district in which I reside. I also consent to service of process
by the person providing notification under Section 512(c)(1)(C) or that person’s agent.
However, by this letter, I do not waive any other rights, including the ability to pursue an
action for the removal or disabling of access to this material, if wrongful.
Having complied with the requirements of Section 512(g)(3), I remind you that
you must now replace the blocked or removed material and cease disabling access to it
within fourteen business days of your receipt of this notice. Please notify me when this
has been done.
I appreciate your prompt attention to this matter. If you have any questions about
this notice, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
______________________________________
William M. Schmalfeldt
Elkridge
Maryland 21075
Enclosure

THE WORKS WHICH WERE WRONGFULLY REMOVED ARE:

“Intentional Infliction” which was removed from CreateSpace, Amazon, Amazon Kindle and the CreateSpace distribution network when William John Joseph Hoge III of 20 Ridge Road, Westminster, Maryland, falsely claimed that he had purchased the “world and e-book rights” for a portion of a blog entry I used in that book. Mr. Hoge and the original blog author, “Paul Krendler” (a pseudonym for an anonymous blogger) have never produced proof that Mr. “Krendler” sold any such rights to Mr. Hoge. This was an attempt by Mr. Hoge and Mr. “Krendler” to kill publication of the book for no other reason than they were embarrassed by the content since most of the book is about Mr. Hoge’s harassing behavior toward me over the past 15 months.

“WJJ Hoggy Shows You How to Slap Around a Handicapped Liberal (and get away with it)” was mistakenly removed from the CreateSpace, Amazon, Kindle, and CreateSpace distribution network when Mr. Robin Wesley Causey, 2320 Canta Libre Rd., Chino Valley, AZ, claimed copyright ownership of a photo I used in the following context.

As you can see, the infant’s face was obscured in the publication. But the point is, Mr. Causey does not own the photo. The photo was taken by the hospital staff at Yavapai Regional Medical Center. According to the photography editor at the Prescott (AZ) Daily Courier, this is always the case that the newspaper will not print photos of newborns unless they are submitted by the hospital. Mr. Causey can not claim copyright to a photo he did not take. Therefore, the photo was not only used under “fair use” terms of US Copyright Laws, the photo editor at the Daily Courier gave me oral permission to use it.

Please abide by the law and restore my books, unless either Mr. Causey, Mr. Hoge or Mr. “Krendler” bring a lawsuit before a district court within 14 days of this letter.

In as much as the statements made by Mr. Causey and Mr. Hoge were made under penalty of perjury, be advised that I will pursue legal action against them for lying to you, and I suggest your legal department consider the same recourse. False DMCA takedown claims are becoming a national problem, and until someone puts his foot down and says “enough” and holds these people responsible for misusing this law intended to protect copyrights, then the problem is only going to get worse. Some brave person somewhere must step up to the plate and make examples out of people who commit these blatant acts of fraud and perjury.

William M. Schmalfeldt

Bullies HATE it when you fight back!

I had my Facebook account taken down because I am writing about Robin Causey and WJJ Hoge III, the great Free Speech crusaders. I re-established it last night and posted NOTHING! This morning, it was gone again, because these Free Speech crusaders do not want their story told.

They have filed false DMCA complaints against me. This morning, I was discussing that with friends on my Twitter account. Now, that has been taken from me as well.

I guess this is going to turn into one of those games where the effort to shut me up is going to be like “whack-a-mole.” If I put up a new Twitter account, Causey/Hoge will just get it taken down. If I put up a new Facebook account, Causey/Hoge will just have it taken down. Because they love free speech.

Anyhoo…

The point I was going to make is, I have filed the appropriate DMCA counterclaim with CreateSpace and Amazon. Hoge/Causey are required to prove they have taken steps to file a court order, filing suit against me for violating “their copyrights” within 14 days. After checking with intellectual property attorneys, since the State of Arizona has no jurisdiction over me. I don’t live there. My book was not directed at the state of Arizona. Therefore, according to the precedent set down by the US 10th Circuit Court in Dudnikov v. Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Causey will have to file in the US District Court for the District of Maryland by May 29, or the book goes back online.

And if our Free Speech Loving Hoge and Causey don’t want me to have the platform of Twitter or Facebook to express my opinion, I yield to their bullying. I have other options.

See ya in court!

This was filed today. It was received today. That means, according to Title 17 of the US Code, § 512, Limitations on liability relating to material online, several things will have to happen within the next 10-14 business days. That would be the period of May 29 through June 4.

This is not “Acme Law,” as the Hogeists squawk and bleat. This is FEDERAL law.

(g) Replacement of Removed or Disabled Material and Limitation on Other Liability.

(2) Exception. — Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to material residing at the direction of a subscriber of the service provider on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider that is removed, or to which access is disabled by the service provider, pursuant to a notice provided under subsection (c)(1)(C), unless the service provider —

(A) takes reasonable steps promptly to notify the subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to the material;

(B) upon receipt of a counter notification described in paragraph (3), promptly provides the person who provided the notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) with a copy of the counter notification, and informs that person that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it in 10 business days; and

(C) replaces the removed material and ceases disabling access to it not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days following receipt of the counter notice, unless its designated agent first receives notice from the person who submitted the notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) that such person has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the service provider’s system or network.

(3) Contents of counter notification. — To be effective under this subsection, a counter notification must be a written communication provided to the service provider’s designated agent that includes substantially the following:

(A) A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.

(B) Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.

(C) A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.

(D) The subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

(4) Limitation on other liability. — A service provider’s compliance with paragraph (2) shall not subject the service provider to liability for copyright infringement with respect to the material identified in the notice provided under subsection (c)(1)(C).

Ah, but there ARE PENALTIES for knowingly filing a false DMCA Takedown Request!

http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Well, enough teasing. Here is my official DMCA Takedown Counterclaim. Hoge and Causey have until June 4 AT THE LATEST to file suit against me in US District Court for the District of Maryland. (Causey cannot file in Arizona, as Arizona has no jurisdiction in this case. The book was not specifically aimed at Arizona, it was not written in Arizona, it was written in Maryland, and for DMCA purposes, I am subject to the US District Court for the District of Maryland, so that’s where the suit must be filed.)

So, what happens now? Either Hoge and Causey decide it’s worth spending thousands of dollars to sue me in a case they can not win, or they do nothing and the books go back online where they belong. What Amazon does regarding sanctions is up to them.

What I do involving prosecuting Hoge and/or Causey for perjury and harassment? That’s up to me and the Howard County State’s Attorney.

So, for those who are opinion over at Hogeland that I am going to do “nothing,” you lose.

I already have.

They killed “My Slow, Journalistic Death.” Because I used a sentence from WJJ Hoge’s blog.

They killed “Intentional Infliction”. Because “Paul Krendler” claims he sold the rights to a blog to WJJ Hoge.

They killed “WJJ Hoggy Tells You How to Smack Around a Handicapped Liberal (and get away with it).” Because Robin Wesley Causey claimed a copyright he doesn’t own.

And now, “Cyber Ins@nity” has been tossed off of the lists at Lulu.com. They won’t tell me why, except that someone claims it “invades” his or her privacy. As a journalist, I wrote this book as a news feature devoted to encouraging the legislature to provide the same protection to disabled indigent adults as they do teenagers. If journalists had to get permission to write about everyone they write about, there would be no more journalism.

All of this, because of the First Amendment Fighters, the Free Speech Lovers defending their right to libel and smear.

The Hogeists. THEY get to decide what I publish and sell. Not the publisher. Not you, the reader. The Hogeists will decide what you can read.

Get “Cyber Ins@nity” while you still can. It might be worth something after I’m dead.

Let’s start the day on a positive note with a short list of things that I really, really like a whole lot.

1. I like it when a person with one court victory to his name (lumping the whole bogus peace order mess into one victory) tells his readers what the Maryland Court of Appeals will and will not do.

2. I like it when a pack of dribbling morons, without a single success to show for themselves in their miserable lives, think they know more about everything than I do. Even the things I’ve had success with, they know more about.

3. I love it when pudgy, plain little librarians who finish dead last in a school board election mock my accomplishments.

4. I am thrilled when people with lifelong records of failure mock my provable record of achievements.

5. Nothing makes me happier than when people who couldn’t tell you the difference between the substantia nigra and the subthalamic nucleus think they know more about Parkinson’s disease than me… not to mention my neurologist.

6. The gibbering, mewling, braying of mindless sheep who follow a blogger because it makes them feel important to be part of a”group” just delight me when they call ME a member of “Team ANYTHING!”

7. Oh, and I smile when people who have never written anything more successful than a grocery list tell me how to write a book or define the rules of journalism to me.

8. I love it when I get up in the morning and see the rantings of someone who, in my opinion, has at least a 75% chance of losing everything to the man he hates most in this world, picking and repicking the same idiotic arguments on a line-by-line basis, measuring the cross stroke of each T and whether the dot atop the i is of sufficient circumference, then complaining when the judge grants his adversary victory after victory.

9. I love it when people who have a website raising money so they can “defend free speech” work so hard to keep me from expressing MY right to free speech by using sock puppet accounts to flood Twitter and Facebook with phony complaints to get me kicked off the service.

And you know what I like best of all?  And this isn’t ACME LAW or my opinion or anything that came to me in a dream.

10. I LOVE THE FACT THAT ALL OF THE BOOKS WJJ HOGE AND ROBIN WESLEY CAUSEY HAVE FORCED AMAZON TO REMOVE FROM THEIR SERVICE WILL BE RIGHT BACK UP WHERE THEY BELONG ON JUNE 4, UNLESS HOGE AND CAUSEY DECIDE IT’S WORTH SPENDING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO SUE ME IN US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND IN A LAWSUIT THAT THEY CANNOT AND WILL NOT WIN!

Life is good.

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