"I Am Compelled to Fight"

“I volunteered to fight in this war.  I have risen through the ranks and now find myself on the front lines with an army of New Media warriors following me into the fray.  It is no longer a choice to fight; I am compelled to fight.”  -Andrew Breitbart

I did volunteer to fight in this war, fifteen years ago when I began my involvement in politics.  It happened this way: there was a meeting at my church talking about how to attend political conventions and learn the political process to promote prolife views.  I definitely wanted in on that.  So I did more than vote in the general election for the first time that year.  I voted in my first Republican primary, and attended my first Republican convention.  And it was like crack.

In the years since, I’ve had opportunities to work on campaigns, attend candidate forums, walk blocks and make phone calls, and meet a ton of dedicated people who love this country and want to see it governed well. 

Then the financial crisis threatened us.  Then the bailouts happened.  Then THIS happened.

So then I had an opportunity to start a tea party, organize protests and rallies, become a media spokesperson, and give speeches and presentations.  Oh, and meet, educate, and train a ton MORE people who love this country and want to see it governed well.

My philosophy has always been, since I started in politics, that I had a responsibility to share my knowledge.  If I knew how to do something, I wanted to teach others how to do it too.  If I learned about an issue on the ballot, I wanted others to have the same information. 

Sometimes that has made me a challenge to people who just don’t eat and breathe and sleep politics.  I get that.  In fact, my own family blocks me on social media because they know what my feed looks like.  But by the same token, I get phone calls asking for information about candidates.  I have people who drive by my house before each election to check the signs in my yard.  Being a political junkie has that upside: the ability to influence others.

People have urged me to run for office for years.  My stock answer: “No.  Never.”  I’ve seen how difficult elections are.  I’ve seen some great people chewed up and spit out by the stress and the strain of running.  Campaigns are often brutal, nasty, frustrating, and draining.  I’ve never felt called to run for any office; I much prefer being in the campaign, working behind the scenes.

Until now.

As a tea party leader, I’ve wanted to be independent of the Republican Party for many reasons.  I wanted to be free to hold Republicans accountable.  I wanted to avoid the charge of being a Republican auxiliary.  I wanted to focus on the core beliefs of tea party: fiscal responsibility, free markets, following the Constitution.  I handed the precinct over to another passionate volunteer so as not to shortchange either the tea party or the Republican Party.  But I’ve stayed involved in Republican politics, even serving on the Rules Committee at the Republican Party of Texas’s State Convention last summer.

But my county is in trouble.  The largest county in the largest Red State has been turning blue before my eyes.  I’ve seen what progressive policies are doing in other states, in other counties in my own state.  I’ve seen what they’re doing to us as a nation.  And I can’t watch from the sidelines anymore. 

I don’t have the confidence required to believe the current leadership in the Harris County Republican Party is able to handle the Battleground Texas assault, the technology gap, the lack of strategic partnerships or the messaging shortcomings we face.  And I refuse to sit through another election cycle wishing I could do more.

It is no longer a choice to fight.  I am compelled to fight.

I’m announcing that I am going to run for Harris CountyRepublican Party Chair in 2014. 

There will be a more formal launch coming soon, but I wanted to let all of you know my intentions and ask for your support with tackling the issues we face.  As I put together the campaign organization, I’ll be asking for your help, whether you live in Harris County or across the country.  This county is rapidly becoming Ground Zero in the political struggle against progressive policies, and it is going to take a massive effort to fight them back. 

It’s going to take an army.

#WAR

Weary

This week was a kick in the gut.  

Boston. West, TX. Boston again. Other events that didn't get so much publicity.  I lost sleep and had my heart repeatedly broken all week long.  It's hard being a news junkie.  

And I didn't have anyplace to put my frustration, my ache, my anger.  Then I remembered this old place, and so here I am.  I know I'm a fail for letting it go five months without posting, but I've been kind of busy writing elsewhere.

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, speculation ran wild on the type of perpetrators who may have done this evil.  Various media asshats showed their true colors this week.  This is the one that finally sent my rage nuclear.

Andrew Breitbart's book isn't titled "Righteous Indignation" for nothing.  He was livid that the good, decent, hard-working Americans who embraced tea party values were maligned time and again.  It infuriated him that people like us were blamed, vilified, lied about, and marginalized in the mainstream media, all with the aim to defeat our efforts to make this country better.  His mission was to take on the mainstream media, call them out, expose them, and rob them of their power to define us.  He encouraged us to become citizen journalists, citizen ombudsmen, citizen activists.  And people are answering the call.

I just wish it were more.  

Every day I fear that there aren't enough of us doing enough to fight back at everything they're throwing at us.  I already know there's never going to be a day when this fight is over, not in my lifetime.  I'll never retire from this, not really.  And I am not saddled with a full-time job around which I have to work my activism, so I'm able to absorb more than a lot of people.  

My heart is broken for all those people lost this week, and their families and friends.  But at the same time (and I don't think it diminishes anything the victims are going through) my heart is also battered and weary over the uphill battle the rest of us face.  We shouldn't have to fight so hard just to keep a good name, but we do, and there's no amount of wishing that will change it.  

Saul Alinsky was a pretty awful bastard, but I do find this quote helpful:

As an organizer I start where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

So that's where I think my head is going to be for the next few weeks.  I need to think about the stark reality we face.  I need to come to terms with exactly what the situation is on the ground in America.  And then, God willing, I'll be able to start thinking of ways to change it.

Spit-balling Post-Election

I'm just scribbling notes here on the loss of the election.  It sucks because I'm finding it very difficult to concentrate through the fog.  So I've collected a lot of other people's opinions HERE, and posted my initial thoughts HERE.  

But just to highlight the magnitude of the problem ahead of conservatives, I wanted to throw some things I've been thinking about on the blog here and see where things went.  I don't know about you, but until I've tried to list the factors, I can't think effectively about the problem.  And from the lists below, it's clear we have a lot of thinking to do.

Remind me of anything I've overlooked in comments, and I'll add it in.


WHERE BLAME IS FALLING

GOP Establishment
The Mainstream Media
Voter Fraud
Mitt Romney
Demographics
GOP Branding
Libertarians
Hurricane Sandy
Social Conservatives
Donation Fraud
Messaging
GOTV Efforts
Mitt Romney's Consultants


THEORIES ON WHAT TO DO

Go hard right
Perfect microtargeting
Go libertarian
Improve social media
Fracture the Democrat coalition
Go local
Infiltrate the Mainstream Media
Go after Minorities 
Build alternate institutions - Bill Whittle plan
Go after Youth
Go Galt
Opt Out/ Walk Away 
Take over the GOP
Try to pass stricter Voter ID bills
Infiltrate Hollywood


ANSWERS TO MY NON-SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE THE COUNTRY FACES RIGHT NOW

Economy
Lack of Values
Tyranny
Debt/Deficits
National Security
Attack on Founding Principles
Jobs
Lame-Duck Session Legislation
Family Values
Military Disenfranchisement
Losing Freedoms
Animosity towards Christians
Educational Indoctrination
Ignorance of the Electorate
Entitlement Mentality in the Culture
The Coming Fiscal Cliff
Lack of Wisdom
Immigration
Border Security
EPA Regulations
Loss of Religious Liberty
The Mainstream Media
Lack of Morality
Abortion
Credit Rating Downgrade
Supreme Court Justices
Entitlement Programs

Remember

Everyone who was alive and old enough to be aware remembers what they were doing on September 11th, 2001.  Everyone has a story, and though it breaks my heart to read them, I do it anyway.  Especially Allahpundit's account.

I still have issues of Time, Newsweek and other magazines from those days right after the attacks.  I don't know why I kept them; I'm rather famous in my house for purging the closets, tossing things that once meant something to me.  Still, I can not bear to throw them out.

Nothing remarkable happened early that morning.  We lived in a duplex near IAH.  The Bigun was twelve, the Little Critter, just three.  The morning routine consisted of waking both girls and hustling them to the car to get the Bigun to her private school on time.  We were almost late that morning, due to a bus on fire in the HOV lane.  We laughed at being able to predict the next day's headline in the paper, the lead stories on the evening news.

A kiss and a wave, and then the Little Critter and I drove home, a little less hurried this time.  Nothing pressing awaited us but a date with some children's television so I could get some housework done.

Now we lived on the edges of the 'hood on the north side.  It wasn't the worst place, but the nickname for the area across the freeway was "Gunspoint" if that tells you anything.  So when there was a furious pounding on my door that didn't cease, I was startled and a little paranoid.  One hears home invasion stories that begin like that, and I was armed with nothing more lethal than a plastic broom.  I'm also too short to see out of any peephole created for any door, so I dragged the footstool over to see who was breaking my door down.

It was the neighbor who shared the duplex, Robert.  A huge, friendly, burly black guy, he often sat outside with me telling stories and watching kids play.  I couldn't imagine what had worked him up, and I'd only seen him really agitated once before, when he'd been drinking quite a bit more than was good for him.  I didn't think he looked drunk, so I opened the door.

He yelled at me "Turn on the TV - they flew a plane into the World Trade Center!"

The Little Critter was quickly displaced to her sister's room to watch her shows, and Robert sat beside me on the couch for over an hour, our faces mirror images of horror and shock as we watched the second plane hit, then the towers fall - one, then the other.  Then news of the Pentagon and the field in Pennsylvania where so many others perished.

The morning held so much horror.  It was all I could do to keep it together in front of the LC, and it was all I could do to keep her otherwise entertained.  In what I am sure was a boon to her three-year-old thought process, she got anything she asked for - eating in her sister's room, playing with her sister's things, watching Blue's Clues and Veggie Tales videos without end.  Anything to keep her out of the den and away from those images.

Somewhere before noon, I remembered that Houston has a vast array of petrochemical facilities, ones that would likely make enticing and explosive targets.  I urgently needed to get to the Bigun, just to see her face and hold her close and bring her home.  Into the car again we went, racing to the school, arriving to chaos as other parents rushed in compelled by the same urgency.  I hadn't cried at all until I saw her, hugged her to me.

One friend had parents coming, but unable to get there right away.  I remember we stayed with her.  They didn't ask much, they were told a little bit of the story in class.  I wanted to get away, but I knew the Bigun had to stay with her friend.  Once the parents arrived, we drove home at a more reasonable speed; the panic was beginning to wear off.  But I spent the rest of the day letting the kids take care of themselves as I watched the horrible images on the television.

And though I was struck mute often by the images and stories and suppositions, I think the thing that finally drove it all home for me was the silence the next day.  Living so close to the airport we were accustomed to planes flying over several times an hour.  But for days, as I'd sit on the front porch and watch the skies, nothing flew over at all.  Every plane grounded, the sky left empty.

When they started flying again, I wanted nothing more than to go to New York to do something.  Anything.  I felt helpless to help.  I had nothing to give.

I wondered if anything would ever be the same again.

Things aren't.  They never are after events of this magnitude.  There's Before, then there's After.

This Guy is Teaching Children. Sigh.

Chadwick Harvey is lazy.  

In his recent piece “Tea Party Uses Religion to ManipulateWorking Class Americans Into Buying Their Dogma” Harvey makes a number of unsupported assertions, attempting to cast the tea party phenomenon as an elitist con-job perpetrated on ordinary religious Americans. 

Harvey begins with his interpretation of what seems to be Marx’s quote regarding religion being “the opiate of the masses.”  He claims that Marx believed religion was used as a tool of oppression by the wealthy classes.  Harvey states: “…society seemed to be defined by a class struggle in which the wealthy brainwashed the working class with religion to influence them to work hard and produce more goods so that the rich could continue to get richer.”  But a quick search of Marx’s ENTIRE quote provides a different view:

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.

Now, I’m no fan of Marx, but even I can see that Marx said nothing like the words Harvey is putting into his mouth.  Mischaracterizing a quotation in order to balance an entire argument upon it is no way to begin a serious conversation about the role of religion in tea party politics. 

In his full quote, Marx is referring to religion as (in his view) a coping mechanism for the suffering that the lower classes undergo at the hands of the wealthy class, not a tool of those elites; a balm, not a yoke. 

Harvey goes on, building from his error, to cast the tea party as a vehicle for elites to manipulate middle-class religious conservatives:   “In America today, one need not look any further than the Tea Party and its influence on middle class evangelicals to find Marx's theory proven correct.”  So Harvey sets up his thesis: The Elitists cooked up Tea Party to mollify those losing economic ground every day by distracting them from the serious economic issues of the day and diverting them to social issues with far more light, but less heat. 

However, Harvey immediately begins to “prove” his assertions with unsupported statements:

When the movement burst onto the scenes of American politics in 2009, it was a group of unpatriotic typical elite Americans complaining that they had been taxed enough already. As the movement grew, a large number of middle class evangelicals joined. In addition to the fiscal issues and national debt concerns that led to the formation of the Tea Party, the movement has adopted a strong focus on social issues that is more typical of religious right-wing evangelicals.

• ·         “unpatriotic” offered with neither definition nor explanation
• ·         “typical elite” also offered with neither of the above
• ·         “a large number of middle class evangelicals joined” as opposed to evangelicals being intimately involved in the origins of the movement

As one of the original organizers of the February 27^th 2009 tea parties, I was a participant on the organizing conference calls moderated by Michael Patrick Leahy.  Those recorded calls constitute a historical record that documents the type of people responsible for launching this movement.  They weren’t rich people.  They weren’t elitists.  They had no connection to agenda-funding billionaires or vast troves of financing (such as exists on the Astroturfed Left).  The organizers were instead stay-at-home-moms, small businessmen, professionals – the middle class, in short.

But the proof Harvey attempts to cite concerning elitists is the establishment of the Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. Congress by Rep. Michelle Bachmann in July of 2010, an event that took place a full SEVENTEEN MONTHS after the beginning of the nationwide tea party movement.  He compounds his error with citing the names of wealthy congressmen with religious ties.  He names:

1) Trent Franks, wealthy oil businessman from Arizona who is a faithful member of a Baptist Church.

2) Joe Wilson, a wealthy Real Estate attorney from South Carolina who is a faithful attender of First Presbyterian Church in Columbia.

3) John Fleming, a wealthy businessman and long time Sunday school teacher who last year on MSNBC infamously complained that he has only $400,000 left over at the end of each year.

I hate to remind Mr. Harvey, but a good number ofRepresentatives and Senators are very wealthy including:   

• ·         Sen. John Kerry
• ·         Sen. Dianne Feinstein
• ·         Rep. Nancy Pelosi
• ·         Sen. Claire McCaskill

All of these are, by the way, higher on the list in terms of wealth than Franks, Wilson or Fleming.

But it isn’t merely wealth that’s disturbing Harvey; apparently all of these are (gasp) religious people.  And what’s worse, OPENLY religious people.  THAT’S the issue he seems to have.  However, he doesn’t take this objection anywhere:

While the overwelming (sic) majority of congressmen and congresswomen are affiliated with some religion, not all choose to share their religious dogma openly. Not surprisingly, the percentage of those in the Tea Party caucus who share their religion openly is more than double that of the rest of Congress.

They SHARE THEIR RELIGION OPENLY.  MORESO than the REST of Congress.  Scary religious people, talking about their religion.  That’s all he has. 

Or is it?  He continues:

The motive is not hard to figure out. Members of the Typical Elite Americans Party have little else to offer the middle class, so they use religion as a toy to create a culture war. This leads to working class evangelicals voting against their personal best interests due to their reliance on a religious dogma that gives them hope that although they are the losers in the class struggle, they can be winners in the next life. 

Harvey renames tea party with “Typical Elite Americans” in an attempt to be cute, and then claims the tea party has little else to offer the middle class except religion, the means of perpetuating a culture war.  He doesn’t explain how this works at all, how a movement devoted to lower taxes and spending, following the Constitution, and personal responsibility is cleverly being used by elites to manipulate working-class evangelicals into “voting against their personal best interests due to their reliance on a religious dogma that gives them hope that although they are the losers in the class struggle, they can be winners in the next life.”  

Harvey essentially charges that religious tea party members are being spoon-fed a social issue narrative designed to distract them from the real economic issues facing the nation.  Or something.  He really never even gets around to addressing the economic situation at all.

Ironically, at the same time, Harvey takes the mainstream-media-driven narrative about the tea party straight, no chaser; he swallows the spoon-feeding that the MSM have been doling out for years, and attempts to regurgitate it.  And he doesn’t even do that skillfully or originally.

His piece ignores the tea party involvement in the Health Care Town Hall meetings where average citizens quoted the Constitution at their representatives; the massive tax-protest rallies around the country and in Washington D.C.; the nationwide effort to support Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts; and innumerable other issues unrelated to social issues and religion.

Essentially the only thing that Harvey does seem to be offering, when you wade through all the nonsense, is this single huge revelation:

Harvey thinks religion is for stupid people. 

That’s his entire complaint – that the tea party has religious people in it.  I could have slept in; I can get that anywhere, from much smarter and more articulate people.

Learn More About SWATing

For those who got to my blog through the KTRH interview on SWATing and other tactics, here are a list of links that may help you learn more:




KTRH Interview




Seven Ways Conservative Activists are being Harassed by the Left


Original Brett Kimberlin Write-up by Liberty Chick


Patterico (Patrick Frey) story of his SWATing - WITH AUDIO


Red State's Erick Erickson's SWATing


House to call on Department of Justice to investigate SWATing


"LAWFARE" and the Aaron Walker case 





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P. S. This article is also worth reading about Google rankings and the importance of fighting for dominance in the search engine world in order to get out a story:


Brett Kimberlin and the Justice of Google

Operation Original Velvet Revolution

Taking back the name "Velvet Revolution" from the jackwagons using it for their own jerkwad purposes...

From OriginalVelvetRevolution.com: 

If one searches for the Velvet Revolution on Google, the first result is a rather uninformative Wikipedia article. We have no quarrel with Wikipedia, or not much of one anyway.

The second result and most of its successors lead to Brett Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution, a badly designed, garish website where Kimberlin seeks to separate you from your hard-earned money through sale of a bad dvd about peace love, and hippies, and to peddle his half-baked conspiracy theories.

This is unacceptable. 

AND...

If you link to this post, this site rises to the top of a search for Velvet Revolution. If you add this site to your blogroll, this site rises even further. And Brett Kimberlin’s site falls.

And when the time comes for George Soros to write the annual check to Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution, maybe the due diligence lackey will enter the Great Man’s office, saying, “Mr. Soros, I think you ought to read this…”

Because we’re going to talk about Brett Kimberlin, as long as he keeps filing his frivolous lawsuits. Which by the look of things isn’t going to stop, until Kimberlin slips up and goes back to prison. Even then he won’t stop.

Just doing my part in my little corner of the blogosphere.  This isn't over, not by a long shot.

So there's a new thing around the OTN neighborhood...





I'm partnering with RGR_ART, Prue and tksjewelry to bring you BROADSIDE - a new OTNN show debuting on Saturday June 2nd at 9 pm Eastern.  We'll pre-record the show, but we'll host a live chat as it airs, right here on Own The Narrative.


Broadside will focus on news, music, and culture, and whatever else interests us; we'll be talking about anything and everything.  It isn't going to be "The Conservative View" or anything like that.  Rather, it's going to be "Four Women, Big Voices."  Our goal is to utilize the megaphone OTNN has given us and add to the conversation in a way we hope is engaging, thought-provoking and fun.


We'll have news, special features, guests, and all the opinion you can possibly stand.


Thanks to NJlibertarian and Justin giving over their show to us, we had a preview of Broadside during the OTNN Test Tube show Sunday, and you can hear the results HERE and HERE.  And when those links fall off, you can get the sample on iTunes.


Take a listen and let us know what you think!


And follow us on Facebook and Twitter! 

BlogBurst Friday - Spy Novels and Bad Guys

Guilty pleasure confession time: I’m a fan of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels.  For at least fifteen years, I’ve read and reread the exploits of Jack Ryan as he squared off with Soviet agents; I’ve thrilled as agents and spies around the globe dodged danger and threats from other spies and tyrannical regimes.  There are always heart-in-the-throat moments where characters to whom I’ve grown attached are in great peril, and I hang on every word until the danger has passed.  I’ve enjoyed those parts of the stories more than anything else in the books, flipping pages as fast as I can read the words.  There’s a romance to a good spy story; the stakes are the highest you can imagine, and the hero is plunged into ever-more dangerous situations, until he ultimately prevails and saves the day, the girl, the nation, the future.

We’ve had it so easy in a country where we’re free to express ourselves; in spite of Political Correctness and Campaign Finance Reform and other restrictions, we’re still extremely free.  Witness the blogger explosion in the past few years.  Hundreds and thousands of political blogs have emerged, tackling everything from local to national issues.  Twitter has helped publicize even the smallest of blogs, and conservative bloggers build networks at events such as Right Online and Blog Con.  And there’s no tyrannical force oppressing them, censoring them, threatening them.

Or is there?

During a recent extended chat with Liberty Chick on Own theNarrative, I heard about bloggers being targeted for harassment by progressive mischief-makers.  Some attempts sounded like mere nuisances, others more serious.  It seemed like small news at first; so a few bloggers get inconvenienced, that’s not unusual.  But as the story unfolded on the show, and then the following week in blogs, it occurred to me that this was every bit as dangerous as landing in a spy novel. 

A lefty political activist suing and harassing bloggers would have every bit the same effect in the long run as living under the harshest of despotic regimes.  When someone steals a blogger’s reputation, they steal his voice.  They marginalize and silence him.  But it doesn’t stop there.  It also silences others who write, others who speak, others who conduct in-depth research and provide information not available from traditional media, as they shy away from taking risks.  Then follow that to its natural conclusion; a state-directed narrative delivered by a lapdog media with no voices left to challenge it.  The only steps skipped in the mad dash to tyranny are a few state-sanctioned pogroms against the Blogging Class and a conspicuous disappearance of a high-profile blogger or two. 

Fantasy?

Not really.  It’s happening now.  Robert Stacy McCain (TheOther McCain) is dealing with this right now.  Several other bloggers have found themselves targeted as well, in gut-punch, sick and horrifying ways.  And in spite of wide dissemination in the blogger community, few people outside the blogosphere are aware of this happening.

So today is BlogBurst Friday, where bloggers all over the internet are drawing attention to the story of Brett Kimberlin, and I wanted to join in and do my part.  I hope you’ll help by sharing these links on your social media.  Post and hit the “share” button on Facebook.  Use the hashtag #BrettKimberlin on Twitter and get it trending. Pin articles on Pinterest and create pinboards devoted to Kimberlin.  Get creative and use every social media platform you can think of.

As I find more posts about Kimberlin throughout the day, I will add them to the linkroll in this post.  Please check back throughout the day and pick up the new ones and spread them around.  It’s a small investment of your time to help make this terrorist and bully a household name, and a pariah. 

The only way to defeat bullies is to stand up to them.  He can’t take on all of us.  Overwhelm him.  Overwhelm the attempt to squelch free speech, from any blogger – right, left, center -  with MORE speech.

We can do this.

START READING HERE

Domestic Terrorist Now Using "Lawfare" 

Lying Felon Can't Stop Lying 
The Lack of Interest in Brett Kimberlin

BlogBurst Friday

Stalking the Blogosphere 

Standing With Stacy McCain

Brett Kimberlin News Roundup 

Nonprofit of Terrorist Bomber Received Tides Foundation Funding 

How To Kill The First Amendment

Violent Convicted Terrorist Bomber Given Millions by Progressives

Standing in Support of Conservative Bloggers 

How Bloggers Are Being Threatened by Brett Kimberlin 

SUPPORT BLOGGERS FINANCIALLY THAT HAVE BEEN TARGETED


MORE 


Glenn Beck Interviews Patterico and Aaron Worthing 
What Can You DO? 


Scariest Audio Ever - Patterico 
Michelle Malkin's Call to Arms
 Who is Brett Kimberlin?  
Why This #BrettKimberlin Thing Matters 
The Speedway Bombings, Part 2 
Meet Soros-Funded Domestic Terrorist Brett Kimberlin 
Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day 
Top Signs You're Being Harrassed by Brett Kimberlin 
From Speedway Bomber to Litigious Jihadist 
Brett Kimberlin 
Progressives Embrace Convicted Terrorist 
The Wizard of Odd 
Brett Kimberlin’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day 
Who is Brett Kimberlin and Why Should You Care  

#BrettKimberlin Linkapalooza 
Brett Kimberlin, Dangerous Leftist Menace 
Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day 
Spartanburg Tea Party 
Today We Stand Up Against Serial Domestic Terrorists 
Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists 
Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Received $70,000 From Tides Foundation, $10,000 From Streisand, $20,000 from John Kerry’s Wife 
Patterico's Chilling Account of Harassment 
Brett Kimberlin May Not Have a Soul, But He Has a Lengthy Internet Trail 
Dear Babs Streisand 
United We Blog - Shining a Light on Brett Kimberlin's Silencing Tactics 
DaTechGuy's Blog 
Fox News Story on Kimberlin in 2010 
Did Congress Pass a Law Stripping Citizens of the Right To Mention Brett Kimberlin's Felonious Past? 
How Brett Kimberlin Tried to Frame Me for a Crime (And How You Can Help!)
Who is Brett Kimberlin, Why You Should Know 
Speedway Bomber Brett Kimberlin Poked a Bees Nest
I Stand With Stacy.  And Aaron.  And Patterico. 
Brett Kimberlin - Terrorist 
Stand Against Abusive Felon Brett Kimberlin 
John Hayward at Human Events 
What do Mexican Drug Cartels and Brett Kimberlin Have in Common? 
Brett Kimberlin - The Narcissistic Terrorist 
John Hawkins Interviews Stacy McCain 
Convicted Speedway Bomber Now Attacking Conservatives 
Ten Fun Facts About Brett Kimberlin 
Holding Political Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Accountable 

Bill Kneer Thinks You're Stupid

I could do this all day.


So an Alert Reader linked me to Bill Kneer's Facebook Page.  Bill seems a little put out at having one of his Woodfill Cheerleader posts eviscerated.  So he responded.  Not here, mind you.  Not on my blog.  Not on my Facebook Page.  He didn't even tag me on it, nor did he use my name.  He DID manage to tag Richard Dillon on the post, which is interesting.  He also tagged himself.  No comment.


Because the Patriot Statesmen bunch have a habit of not allowing comments, and of revising posts thinking they will not be caught at it, I reproduce the Facebook Post from Kneer in its entirety:

And the text, because the picture is difficult to read without clicking on it:

it seems that there are a few in Harris County Texas that are afraid of conservatives. One blogger even wrote a piece recently stating that this article that I wrote shows that I want some people to just shut up.

The truth is those who disagree with me should never shut up they should continue to show the world what they stand for or should I say what they will not stand for.

The truth is the Harris County Republican Party is extremely conservative on social and fiscal issues with the tremendous track record of success. And there are a few that because of the success are working to destroy us from within. That's the truth, that is in no way telling people to shut up that is just me stating my opinion which happens to be correct.

There seems to be something fishy about somebody when they refuse to stand up for and push for truth and honesty.

So, since the word for today is eviscerate, let's get out the scalpel fillet knife.

Paragraph One:  

it seems that there are a few in Harris County Texas that are afraid of conservatives. One blogger even wrote a piece recently stating that this article that I wrote shows that I want some people to just shut up.

So first, Bill tosses out a weasel word like "seems."  It "seems" a few in Harris County are afraid of conservatives.  No proof offered, no names, just "Oooooh, someone is scared of conservatives."  One assumes Kneer is talking about himself as the scary conservative, because he says an unnamed blogger said he wants people to shut up.

Interesting thing is, I remember a blogger doing that.  And I also remember that at the bottom of the LAST post of Bill Kneer's that was exposed, these words appear:

I call on all those who continually find fault and complain to man up, shut up, and help us defeat Democrats in November!

I see the words "shut up" in there.  Don't you?  And lest Kneer and/or Dillon try their editing magic again, I've got all of that post screen-captured and saved.  Don't even bother hiding it, Bill:

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The truth is those who disagree with me should never shut up they should continue to show the world what they stand for or should I say what they will not stand for.

Punctuation is important, but I give Kneer a pass on that.  Here Kneer says people who disagree should show everyone what they stand for.  OK, no argument from me.  But that's not what he said before.  And check out the artful wording.  As Kneer is bald-faced lying about telling people to shut up, he's using the phrase "The truth is..."  Irony, thy name is Bill Kneer.

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The truth is the Harris County Republican Party is extremely conservative on social and fiscal issues with the tremendous track record of success. And there are a few that because of the success are working to destroy us from within. That's the truth, that is in no way telling people to shut up that is just me stating my opinion which happens to be correct.

  

"The truth is..." again.  Bill Kneer has "truth" rather than facts.  Yes, Harris County is extremely socially conservative, and somewhat fiscally conservative.  Houston also has a fiscally irresponsible mayor who lets Occupy camp out for free in the city parks, and who wants to regulate organizations that want to feed the homeless, like churches for instance.  Bill White WON Harris County in 2010, the year Woodfill claims is his greatest victory.  That's important because now the Democrats control the early vote and the ballot board.  This means when provisional ballots are cast, the Democrats will have the deciding vote whether to admit a ballot or not.  

Let me repeat that:

DEMOCRATS ARE IN CONTROL OF HARRIS COUNTY ELECTIONS ON JARED WOODFILL'S WATCH.

2010 Election Results Here

To continue, Kneer claims the successes (which he DOESN'T enumerate) make people want to destroy the party from within.  No evidence, just a heated accusation.  Because Kneer doesn't bother with FACTS.  He's after the TRUTH.  He goes on to remind you that it's the truth, and that it doesn't mean "shut up."  Then here, here's the gem: "that is just me stating my opinion which happens to be correct."  Oh, the arrogance!  Kneer not only tells you to shut up if you disagree with him, but he's established a Ministry of Truth, right here in Harris County!  

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There seems to be something fishy about somebody when they refuse to stand up for and push for truth and honesty.

This. Is. Priceless.  Anyone who reads this blog knows I call it Something Fishie.  Kneer thinks he's backhanding me.  He won't SAY who out there is "refusing to stand up for and push for" truth and honesty.  But he can IMPLY that it's me, and that I'm out there somehow blocking all his truth from coming out.  I must be a very powerful Fish.  If I'm so powerful, how is Jared Woodfill even still chair?

So there you have it.  Kneer is all about the "Truth" and yet he won't name names, he won't make clear accusations, he won't offer real proof of any single thing he says.  And he attacks people who dare to criticize his "Truth," but in a way that he can weasel out of should he be challenged.  Go back through his blogs, his Facebook. Take a look for yourself.  you don't need me to show you  - look up Bill Kneer and see, IN HIS OWN WORDS, how this pattern emerges time and again.

Folks, this, THIS is the Third String team that Jared Woodfill entrusts so much of the party duties to.  THIS is the level of competence we're dealing with.  THIS is the team Jared allows so much power and access to.  

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE RUNNING THE HARRIS COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Make a change.  Remove the incompetence.   Vote Paul Simpson.


UPDATE:  Bill is very sad.  And is obviously more Jesus than me.