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Kook Update: Roger Shuler

Posted on | November 20, 2013 | 30 Comments

Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama.

You may or may not remember Bill Schmalfeldt’s personal hero, Alabama crazy-blogger Roger Shuler, who got locked up last month for contempt of court after publishing unsubstantiated defamation against evil Republicans who (in Roger’s delusional mind) are conspiring with Karl Rove to silence courageous truth-teller Roger Shuler.

If you remember this kook — see my Oct. 30 American Spectator column, “Crazy in Alabama” to refresh your memory — then you may also remember that First Amendment advocate Ken White of Popehat believes that Roger Shuler’s rights were infringed. It is necessary to keep in mind two key points about this case:

  1. Roger Shuler has rights, just like any other American; and
  2. Roger Shuler is crazy as hell.

Well, the Alabama judge handed down an injunction against Roger Shuler this week and, while still maintaining that there are vital First Amendment issues involved, Ken White observes:

However, Roger Shuler continues to be the biggest impediment to vindication of Roger Shuler’s rights. His behavior is calculated to court martyrdom, not to protect his First Amendment rights. That’s a shame.

Yeah, it may be a shame, but it may also be a symptom.

Crazy people act in ways that are harmful to their best interests, Q.E.D.

Elsewhere, Ken White examines Roger Schuler’s complaint that the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department infringed his rights:

A helpful tipster sent me the Shelby County Sheriff’s return of service and log of service attempts. The log generally supports the assertion (admitted by Shuler) that Shuler was evading service of process, which is part of the pattern of nutty pro se conduct that contributed to his trouble.

“The pattern of nutty pro se conduct.” Roger Shuler has been acting as his own attorney. If Roger Shuler was a competent attorney, he would advise his client Roger Shuler to plead insanity.

 

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30 Responses to “Kook Update: Roger Shuler”

  1. MrEvilMatt
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t.co/ibvRVIvxf3

  2. CHideout
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t.co/e27q5HLXGX

  3. jwbrown1969
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t.co/8EsrKUjpNr

  4. Lockestep1776
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t.co/tepH26ncyq

  5. Resista38176897
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t.co/C8w4bkIO2e

  6. Citzcom
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm

    Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t.co/B39s6yA53H

  7. rsmccain
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:18 pm

    Kook Update: Roger Shuler http://t.co/DZogxPbrdC cc @Popehat @Patterico @AaronWorthing

  8. screwtape1a12
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:46 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Kook Update: Roger Shuler http://t.co/DZogxPbrdC cc @Popehat @Patterico @AaronWorthing

  9. BobBelvedere
    November 20th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Kook Update: Roger Shuler http://t.co/DZogxPbrdC cc @Popehat @Patterico @AaronWorthing

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  11. M. Thompson
    November 20th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

    From my point of view, the best thing to do when in trouble with the law is stop talking and get a lawyer (if I was a lawyer, get someone else).

  12. TC_LeatherPenguin
    November 20th, 2013 @ 9:58 pm

    STOP. I want a scorecard. If loving baseball drives me sometimes crazy, this stuff is double-up.

  13. Alan Markus
    November 20th, 2013 @ 10:38 pm

    I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but looking at the posts here lately (and a few other places), it seems like some people on the left are becoming unhinged and some are exhibiting aggressive behavior – right now it is verbal. Martin Bashir, Alec Baldwin, Ian Murphy, the English Professor. Just in the last week.

    Is is just a matter of time before these types inspire someone to go off the deep end and do something horrific? I certainly would recommend that Republican politicians avoid public appearances. I would also recommend staying out of theaters.

    I assume Homeland Security is doing their job and noticing this escalation in extreme behavior by the left & will issue the appropriate warnings to the FBI and local law enforcement.

    RSM, as a service to our country, please start aggregating these examples in one place.

  14. sarah wells
    November 20th, 2013 @ 10:40 pm

    Shuler has a thing about lawyers “selling him down the river.”

  15. WJJ Hoge
    November 20th, 2013 @ 11:26 pm

    It’s probably a real inconvenience for Team Kimberlin Acme Legal to have their Jailbird Advocate General Chief Counsel on ice.

  16. Wombat_socho
    November 20th, 2013 @ 11:33 pm

    Mets fan, am I right?

  17. Wombat_socho
    November 20th, 2013 @ 11:34 pm

    Third paragraph – is joke, da?

  18. Dianna Deeley
    November 20th, 2013 @ 11:36 pm

    After you read Michelle Malkin’s “Unhinged”, you might realize that this level of disgusting partisan venom is ongoing. It just seems to feed on itself, in a classic example of desensitization.

    Think of the furious vitriol as being an addiction.

  19. SummerSksr888
    November 20th, 2013 @ 11:37 pm

    RT @MrEvilMatt: Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t.…

  20. Dianna Deeley
    November 20th, 2013 @ 11:40 pm

    I am in awe of this level of self-immolation. Really – it’s as if Mr. Shuler wants to create a situation where his actual civil rights become irrelevant.

    Deb Frisch did this to herself, but I’m convinced that she is suffering some sort of actual illness. Shuler just seems determined to do himself a disservice.

  21. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 20th, 2013 @ 11:57 pm

    http://batshitcrazynews.com/2013/11/lefty-lunatic-roger-shuler/

    Koo Koo for Koo Koo Puffs!

  22. PCachu
    November 21st, 2013 @ 12:27 am

    Oh, Stace doesn’t need to really _try_ to aggregate these things. In case you missed the memo, the crazy comes to _him_. Actively seeks him out, really.

  23. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 21st, 2013 @ 1:51 am

    Hey! It’s like 1986 never happened!

  24. Adjoran
    November 21st, 2013 @ 3:35 am

    That makes sense. But you aren’t a far left internet agitator, they have a different “thought” process.

  25. Adjoran
    November 21st, 2013 @ 3:43 am

    While I stipulate that Shuler is a vile, evil, leftist nutbar who should be held to account for his tortious conduct at the bar of justice, I have also always concurred with White (Popehat) that his rights are being violated.

    The proper and lawful way to resolve Shuler’s ongoing libel of a public figure is through the court system, but the civil side. Unfortunately, if he has no attachable assets and doesn’t acquire any in the period prescribed by law, a judgment does nothing to stop him. But that doesn’t mean a judge can find him in contempt for his speech.

    Neither is there anything illegal about evading process service. No law says you have to make it easy on them to serve you, as long as you don’t violate other laws in the process of ducking service.

    I don’t have a solution for penniless miscreants like Shuler or Rauhauser or Smegmafeller or Kimberlin, whose avoidance of accumulating assets in their names renders them virtually immune from civil recovery actions. But silencing them, no matter how offensive and false their speech may be, cannot be the answer.

  26. rsmccain
    November 21st, 2013 @ 7:45 am

    RT @commonpatriot: via @rsmccain: Kook Update: Roger Shuler http://t.co/6t94fy1Sdi #tcot

  27. TC_LeatherPenguin
    November 21st, 2013 @ 8:44 am

    Pistols at dawn, Wombat! No one dares call this boy from da Bronx a Mutt fan without paying a cost.

  28. rsmccain
    November 21st, 2013 @ 11:29 am

    RT @jwbrown1969: Kook Update: Roger Shuler: Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not rem… http://t…

  29. richard mcenroe
    November 21st, 2013 @ 11:36 am

    Then boy did he pick the wrong hobby.

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