Despite Larisa Alexandrovna's claims that Brett Kimberlin of the Velvet Revolution is an exonerated, ex-political prisoner, the truth was figured out and exposed years earlier by a distinguished journalist, Mark Singer of the New Yorker magazine.
We may be getting close to figuring out who has been funding Kimberlin's internet efforts. Last night I got in contact with Mr. Singer. He regrettably cannot afford to return to the scene and out this guy for a second time. If he did, detractors would claim he is trying to sell copies of his book, Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin. Yet according to Amazon.com, 85 copies are available from the low price of one penny to ten dollars.
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UPDATE ONE
I play fairly. I don't curse or lie. I don't throw out ad hominems. I have had a bunch of my posts deleted for no good reason. If that's the way the cookie crumbles, then I will try to rectify that through this update.
I am not the one who for years has been making lefties and the internet look like rubbish.
Alexandrovna claims Michael Connell was her source, that he was scared and ready to talk. Why should anyone believe her? If she can't retract her misinformation about Kimberlin being an exonerated, ex-political prisoner, why should we believe one word out of her? Has Larisa Alexandrovna taken over the strawman role played so effectively by Jason Leopold?
link one- read posts by Larisa
link two- Why the hate? Her friend Jason Leopold up to old tricks
link 3- pot meet kettle
I could put up more links but won't. I will finish this update by simply asking how Larisa Alexandrovna was able to change the tags for this diary.
UPDATE TWO
Maybe this is all innocent, but how does Larisa have the power to change the tags?
Someone asked what my fascination is with Larisa.
If I'm banned so be it. I did nothing wrong. Why was the following deleted?
I advise people to search out archives, seek out the truth. Some people are simply internet bullies. When they can't get you to do something bannable, they game the system.
I'm calling this person's bluff. The Michael Connell threatened by Rove story is a hoax. Those posts made on the DU thread are very damaging to Alexandrovna's credibility. She said that Mark Singer wet himself? She says that Kimberlin won money and was exonerated for the bombings? Check out her internet history. Why all the anger? Check out the recent thread exposing hate letters from Jason Leopold. These people are the left's worst enemies. And they don't play fair.
For the last one where she makes fun of my last diary, check out the link in update #1 called pot meet kettle.
For those who are saying Brett who, or what does this matter, it's not that tough to figure out. It's as if such people are trying to say nothing to see here, move along. For those calling me tinfoil for this specific diary, that's preposterous.
And for those who think this is creepy, yes it is, but that's not on me. I have simply been the messenger. When one gets attacked for no good reason, you know they are onto something good.
Third Update
These are fake progresssives who have forced every single one of my posts off of the comments thread. They don't want the readers to see that these could be far worse than run of the mill trolls. It was difficult enough to find any posts worthy of responding to. The last two of mine deleted were examples of how I play fair. It's fairly clear that Larisa Alexandrovna doesn't mind looking foolish. She just doesn't want the public to know that this is deliberate activity. Good readers and lurkers understand exactly how she sabotages democracy on the internet.
Here I made a decent post. But the {paid?} trolls wouldn't want you the good reader to realise that I am an honest, sincere person.
Those links:
The Wizard of Odd
Appeal Denied- Why is Alexandrovna such a bold-faced liar?????
Here's another decent post I made that shouldn't have been troll rated into deletion. Kos rules state that people should not do this simply because someone disagrees with them.
Why are these people so scared of little old me making a few posts? Is it because they are paid disinfo? Is it because they wish to be strawmen making lefties and the internet look bad, without it being known that they are pulling some kind of sophisticated mind game operation on the public? Are insidious elements sabotaging democracy on the internet?
Now I see the {paid?} trolls have changed the tags yet again.
troll diary, diarist is a stalker, batshit fucking INSANE
These people are nasty. They are evil. They have similar qualities to the Speedway Bomber.
MiscastDice is a moderator? Larisa can change the tags? What's going on here DailyKos?
Update #4
*** Ok, I never said anything about HuffingtonPost in the other diary. That was DebateBothSides.com.
*** I have found out that there are "trusted Kossacks" who can change the tags.
*** So if you piss off a clique, they will troll rate and get posts hidden.
*** These are dumbasses. The more they troll me in such an idiotic manner, the stronger my diaries become.
*** I've got nothing against Markos Zuniga. I do not think this is CIA controlled. With all the nonsense put out by people like Alexandrovna, it gets tough to know what the heck is going on. I am now beginning to think AnonymousArmy was on the up and up. Sometimes there are simply coincidences going on.
*** I was late to this party. I used to be a regular at BradBlog. You end up at a place, and it becomes somewhat like a cult.
*** I do not believe in chemtrails. I do believe that there is weather mitigation going on. Climate change is a matter of national security. Thus, I do believe there are things going on that we are never informed about. Chemtrails are a hoax. Weather mitigation? Check out the new bills by Hutchison and Udall. The word chemtrails is used because if you google it, nothing but mostly crap is the result.
*** I am not going away. I will be forced to probably not comment so much. If I'm gonna get my ass kicked in every thread, what is the point? But I do have information. I uncovered that a Steven Hertzberg of the Election Science Institute was a prolific blogger for a nutjob fake named Fintan Dunne. For those at all into figuring out this fairly big nook of the EI movement, that is bizarre. The person who was the director of the Election Science Institute, someone hired to check out the Ohio 2004 Presidential vote, was a prolific blogger at a crazy place declaring Bev Harris 9/11 cia ratfink.
*** My aim is true. I agree with the Kos methodology to ban crazy conspiracy chatter. I wish they'd do something about Alexandrovna. There is a mountain of evidence that shows how much damage she has done to progressives and the image of the internet, the netroots so to speak.
*** So let the trolls own the comments page. They cannot touch the truth. Larisa Alexandrovna. Wow, what a loser. What a complete fraud. Michael Connell was a source of hers? He was scared and ready to spill the beans?No friggen way!!!! Just check out that DU thread where shoe vouches for the Speedway Bomber and says he was exonerated. I was never fixated on this liar before, but the more she has stalked me, the more I have wanted to figure out her scamming. Jason Leopold???? Hahahahahahhahahaha
*** If I get banned, so be it. But if I don't, I have figured out how to overcome the jackasses who have been swamping my diaries.
*** How do the kids put it? This disinfo crowd has been pwned!
*** This has been a public service announcement from a fellow human being who believes we can save the planet.
*** Just look at the amount of organised trolling going on in the comments. Ever hear of astroturfing?
*** A sincere person admits when they have made a mistake. That is why Mark Singer is a hero. That is why Alexandrovna, Kimberlin, and Leopold need to be ostracized. Hey AA, please forgive me. I learned a lot from your diaries. It all comes out in the wash. There are ways for us to get beyond the planted convolution. It's set up so we don't know whoto trust. Better days are ahead for humanity. Good people, keep your chins up.
the people united will never be defeated
According to Mr. Singer, I am not the only person who has recently contacted him with troubling concerns about Kimberlin's recent incarnation as a major player on the internet concerning the Election Integrity movement. While many will predictably shout down this diary or ignore it altogether, people are working behind the scenes to make sure that the unremorseful ex-terrorist does not get away with his fabrications depicting himself as a victim.
BK is at the center of the recent controversy concerning unsubstantiated claims that Michael Connell had been threatened by Karl Rove. I believe Karl Rove should be tried for crimes. It is good news that he finally appears to be facing the beginning of such a process. However, the proliferation of either a hoax or misinformation revolving around Spoonamore, Arnebeck, Connell, and Kimberlin will not help in this endeavour.
Now it appears that we may be finding out who some of the mystery donors are for VR. Is one of them tantric sex teacher Lori Grace of Tiburon, California?
Lori runs something called Celebrations of Love, a website devoted to exploring tantric sexuality. Ooh la la!
But what caught my eye were her claims to have been the one who brought Brett Kimberlin, Spoonamore, and Arnebeck together, three crucial components to what appears to be the dissemination of a hoax circulating around claims that Michael Connell had been threatened by Karl Rove.
Looking at the Aftermath of the Presidential Election:An Evening of Discussion and Information Sharing
So, in summary, my friends, what I did that I am so proud of is the following: I assembled about three-quarters of the main team. I brought together activist Bret Kimberlin with whistleblower Steve Spoonamore. And then I brought together activist Bret Kimberlin with Cliff Arnebeck, the lawyer with a background in election law; he had the ongoing lawsuit in Ohio with a favorable judge and district attorney on the stealing of 2004. I can only call this DIVINE NETWORKING.
Then she went on to claim to be not only an activist and fundraiser for Velvet Revolution but also a funder.
After bringing everyone together, I could not help but continuing as an activist and important funder and fundraiser for the whole effort. I am very proud of myself for what I have done. I have helped create a country I am much more comfortable living in.
Did she also throw in free sex education lessons?
All indications are that Lori Grace is the daughter of Oliver Grace, a big time corporate success from the 20th century worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
My question, akin to the one raised by Dredd, has been what exactly have some members of the election integrity movement actually accomplished?
Have unsubstantiated claims of rightwing whistleblowers such as Clint Curtis and Michael Connell done anything to legitimize black box voting theories? Or have they simply been more of the same from the Jason Leopold University for Blogosphere Journalism? Jason had caused a big stink with his outrageous claims that Karl Rove had been indicted. His information, like that with the purported claims of Rove threatening Connell, was based on the existence of sealed documents. Or is Larisa Alexandrovna claiming that Michael Connell as an alleged source of hers informed her directly that he was scared and ready to spill beanage?
But back to the Speedway Bomber. What part of never being an exonerated, ex-political prisoner do some folks not understand?
From the Singer New Yorker abstract linked to above:
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Writer completed and published a story on the eve of the last Presidential election, in which Kimberlin was described as an unlikely American political prisoner....This venture was predicated on the idea that there was a richer story to tell than the one I had previously told. Looking back, I think we both assumed that we had the same story in mind--an assumption that now strikes me as both conspiratorial and naive.....Tells about his career, beginning at 15, as a marijuana dealer... Tells how he was implicated by police in the murder of Julia Scyphers; her granddaughter, then aged 9-12 accompanied Kimberlin alone on vacations... Police theorized that Kimberlin had her murdered in order to stop her from blowing the whistle on his drug smuggling and relationship with her granddaughter... Tells about a string of bombings which perplexed the Scyphers's area directly after the murder & which were later tied to Kimberlin... Kimberlin meanwhile was arrested on a marijuana smuggling charge & later convicted of the bombing spree as well as attempting to forge the Great Seal of the President of the United States.... Describes how Kimberlin claimed to have sold marijuana to Vice-Presidential candidate Dan Quayle while in prison... Tells about the opinions of people writer spoke to who described Kimberlin as a psycho.... Writer started a new file called "megalomania," which included some of the things that he was picking up: that Kimberlin regarded the police as idiots; that, just before the Gulf War, be became convinced that his own interventions with the Iraqis could bring Saddam Hussein to his senses; that he grew irritated with Vincent Foster, Jr., when he committed suicide, because it might keep the Clinton Administration from focusing on his own case... Tells about Kimberlin's attempt to become a pop icon... Writer grew weary of Kimberlin's narcissism... Tells about Kimberlin meeting Dan Quayle at a book signing... Writer's original story was an account of an individual's civil rights abused by politicians and bureaucrats who were protecting their interests. I still stand by the essentials of that story. But the injustices it describes must stand alongside the history of injustices I kept discoveringof law, of humanity, of life: injustices that dwarfed this little man's original complaints. And that story is true, too.
I was ready to move on a few months back from thinking about this guy. But the Michael Connell story changed all that.
Now I am very curious about why police implicated Brett for Julia Scypher's murder. I am curious about what exactly Kimberlin's relationship was with the granddaughter. One thing Mark made clear to me was that he never envisioned the internet was right around the corner. He encourages people to seek out the truth about this psychopath and to spread those truths. Do people like Lori Grace truly understand who Kimberlin really is? A part of me has felt that he has been involved in a disinformation racket. I cannot prove that, even if it seems fair to question such a possibility. Perhaps easier to prove is that he is scamming people out of money in the guise of being a progressive. What exactly has Velvet Revolution accomplished other than being a strawman?
What other election integrity topics have had to take a back seat to his wild conspiracy claims that have never and will never be proven?
In the meantime, real progressives are being diverted from concentrating on authentic EI topics such as gerrymandering, vote caging, inequality with voting equipment where the Democratic leaning wards end up with the long lines, and the push for real campaign finance reform which will allow any Joe/Jane Schmoe the opportunity to serve this nation in a political capacity.
And to those detractors who will probably skin me alive for this post, how 'bout for a change you attack the message rather than the messenger?
As for Mark Singer, he is a hero. Without him, so much less would be known about the evil that Kimberlin has represented. Carl Delong died as a result of those bombs which led him to commit suicide. Disturbing questions remain about Julia Scyphers and her granddaughter. It takes a real man or woman to admit they were duped and then seek to correct their mistakes. Singer may not be able to return this time to again set the record straight, but he encourages folks to make sure that Kimberlin does not get away with his old tricks.