Brett Kimberlin has managed to get Aaron Walker arrested. The Other McCain has the details:
Aaron Walker, whose complaint against convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin became a conservative cause célèbre this past week, was reportedly taken into custody today after a court hearing in Rockville, Maryland.
One person who attended the hearing in Montgomery County District Court said that Kimberlin asserted that Walker’s continued blogging represented a violation of a “peace order” Kimberlin had obtained against the Virginia attorney, who says Kimberlin tried to “frame” him for assault earlier this year.
During the course of the hearing — which reportedly lasted about an hour — Judge C.J. Vaughey appeared to become increasingly hostile toward Walker, who was taken into custody when the hearing concluded.
As far as I can tell, Aaron Walker was arrested for writing.
I have seen no claim that Walker himself made any threats against Brett Kimberlin. Or that he contacted Brett Kimberlin. Walker was arrested because he wrote facts and opinions about Brett Kimberlin and other people supposedly made threats.
If that’s the way we interoperate the law, arrest me. Arrest the other 150 bloggers who wrote about Kimberlin. Arrest anyone who ever wrote about someone else and then other people threatened the subject of the writing.
If you write, blog, or even send an occasional tweet - this effects you.
Aaron Walker is in jail as I write this. You need to get informed right now and write about it, right now.
UPDATE : The Blaze reports: I am told that the info the Blaze posted isn’t accurate. It seems to be that Walker was, in fact, arrested for violating an order to not write about Brett Kimberlin. But this is a fast moving situation and this info may not be correct, either.
The Blaze spoke to a clerk at the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County who confirmed that Aaron Walker was in fact arrested following his hearing with Brett Kimberlin. He was arrested on second degree assault charges that were filed by Kimberlin when Walker, following a separate court hearing, took and held at bay Kimberlin’s iPad
Can we get Aaron a lawyer? One that isn’t Aaron Walker? I’m happy to chip in a little more cash if that’s what it takes, but it sounds like he’s way too emotionally invested in this case to defend himself (which is totally understandable). The importance of this case goes far beyond Aaron Walker; too far to allow the moment to be lost to a moment of pique or poverty.
I suspect he was held in contempt. It sounds like he was pissing the judge off. It’s hard to be respectful of an imbecile.
Does that mean they can finally arrest Ringo and Paul for their roll in the Sharon Tate murder?
I’m in! See my latest post: http://thatinnocuousgirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/why-we-fight-69/