Chapter 10. Keri Smith's cancel mob comes for my college boyfriend.
Her smear campaign goes into overdrive, and an innocent person gets hurt. July 2022.
We’re 10 chapters into our story, but if you’re new to it, please start at the beginning and read chapter 1.
This book is designed to be read in order so that you can understand the full breadth of the experience.
Moving into July 2022, Keri Smith moved into overdrive, getting hit piece about hit piece planted on me with anyone who she could get to talk about me.
Every single time a video was created of clips of me yelling, or spreading the same personal gossip about my relationship with Kieran, Keri was connected to it and celebrating it.
When that I,Hyprocrite asshole created a hitpiece video about me that got tens of thousands of views, Keri Smith was there for the live premiere with her cancel horde, and it seemed to use every single one of her talking points.
Remember when we saw in the last chapter that Keri was publicly sucking up to Katie Herzog? Well, when Katie Herzog produced a hit piece podcast about me, it used all of Keri Smith’s talking points, and it was obvious that Keri had been one of her sources.
I’m sure it was all just a coincidence.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that someone who had been on a smear campaign against me for a year and a half - all of which has been documented in the previous nine chapters - just happened to be connected directly to every major hit piece that has ever been written on me.
But it gets worse. In this chapter, we will hit the lowest point of this whole affair.
We hit the point in which I seriously considered killing myself.
Don’t worry, I’d never do that.
But during this time, I did seriously think about it. It just seemed like the only way out. The only way that the harassment would ever stop.
I had done everything I could think of up until this point to get it to stop. I had even reached out to Keri’s pastor on several occasions begging him to intervene…and he refused. Just like a good Christian.
There was not a single day that went by that I was not harassed by Keri’s cancel horde because of all the hit pieces they planted on me and the mob was getting more thirsty for my blood every day.
There was nothing I could do short of removing myself from the world entirely that would make them happy.
I did a stream about it when things started getting really bad, saying that I needed to step away.
I ended up making it through because when I was down my community lifted me up. And my husband held me every night that I couldn’t stop crying. And Joshua did everything in his power to get me back to a place where I wasn’t constantly in a state of fight or flight, which took months of work.
If it wasn’t for them, there is a very real possibility that I wouldn’t be alive right now, and I’ll always be grateful for it.
Let’s see what happened.
At the end of June, Keri Smith’s cancel mob (and her attack dog Mike Harlow) got a large white trash conservative account to produce a hit piece on me using their talking points:
Apparently, creating a video of clips taken out of context was all the proof that was required to say that I was the monster they had been painting me as for a year and a half.
I did a stream about this when it happened and at the end of my stream, I did call-ins, where anyone can join and talk to me about whatever they like.
My friend Jacob - the man Mike Harlow claimed had been stalking him when really Mike Harlow had been defaming him, joined the stream to talk to me.
Of course, they didn’t like that.
The message that Mike Harlow was so offended by was Jacob telling him to stop obsessing over me:
They did everything they could to smear me in the Governor’s race, even though it was something I wasn’t taking seriously or even really campaigning.
But Mike Harlow and Keri Smith took every opportunity they could to smear me:
And of course, at every opportunity, they encouraged their mentally unhinged mob to continue to smear me.
This person with these preschool drawings pops on the scene as a new member of Keri Smith’s cancel horde. This person has at least 5 different accounts, all of which post images like this of me.
They’ve made hundreds of these drawings of me. They apparently believe that this is high art.
This is Keri Smith and Mike Harlow trying to drag the Libertarian National Party and the Chair, Angela, for not denouncing me for “sexually harassing” Kieran (which never happened) 9 months after it allegedly happened.
They also came after Jeremy Kauffman, who was on the LPNH ticket with me and was our main candidate.
Jeremy didn’t sexually harass a gay teenager. He told a gay teenager to suck his dick after that gay teenager made a speech denouncing him.
Here’s Keri replaying to the account stalking me claiming she never talks about me. Of course, the irony of her replying to an account stalking me is completely lost on her.
Here’s Keri telling someone I never even spoke to that I “always hated her” and posting a delightful meme about my book, Actively Unwoke.
Keri was obsessed with my Actively Unwoke Twitter account, because god forbid I actually help people and provide content they enjoy. Can’t have that. So, she had to alert everyone that this account was really me, as if I was hiding it.
Remember, Keri Smith and her cancel mob are convinced that anyone who supports me publicly is just me using a burner account, and they treat them accordingly.
The mask is going to drop any minute now…remember, Keri’s been saying this about me for over a year and a half at this point.
That tweet above is Keri reveling in one of the hit pieces she got planted on me. Keri, of course, is completely innocent and never harasses anyone (even though we have 10 chapters of it now).
Keri also keeps saying I was harassing her pastor when I was, in fact, begging her pastor (Bradley J Helgerson of the Church on the Square in Georgetown Texas) to intervene to get Keri to stop.
But he’s such a good, god-fearing, pastor that he did nothing.
Remember, Keri is his internet celebrity. He can’t make her mad. She’d probably turn on him too, if he did.
Here’s an example of one of the members of Keri’s horde making a really bad video impersonating me that Keri thinks is just delightful.
And of course, Mikey is always there to twist things in the worst possible way to make it seem like I support grooming, even though I ‘ve done more to fight back against gender ideology than he has.
Remember that I told you in the last chapter that I had tried posting the truth about the private messages that Kieran was posting publicly, but no one was listening?
One of the stories that Kieran tried to sell people was that in the 6 months we were spending 6-10 hours together on zoom every day, he never trusted me and I was always abusive to him.
Which, of course, was not true.
So, I responded. In one of the messages I did post, I posted a picture of Kieran’s passport photo.
This was to make the point that he would never have sent me his passport photo if he didn’t trust me or felt harassed by me.
Do you often send a photo of your passport to someone you don’t trust?
The photo below is what I posted. You can see that it’s not a picture of his passport, even though I have the full photo of his passport. But I cropped it to just show his passport photo.
Well, months later, Kieran reported me to Twitter to try to get my account banned for “posting his passport.” And he successfully got me banned for 12 hours for posting this photo.
I was pissed. So I posted it to Instagram. It’s still there today, even though he tried to get me banned there too.
And, of course, Keri had to weigh in:
I took my 12-hour Twitter ban and used it to make a trip to my local police station to discuss the situation.
The fact is that I was becoming very afraid that one of them would try to get my house swatted and I wanted to discuss the situation with the police to make sure they knew that if an anonymous phone call came in with my address attached to it, they should proceed with caution.
They told me they would make sure if that ever happened, nothing more than a few police officers knocking on my door to make sure things were ok would occur.
I have to take what I can get.
While I was there, I filed official police reports on Keri Smith, Mike Harlow and Kieran for harassment. Since none of them directly threatened me with violence, the police say there’s nothing they can do, but I wanted to get it on the record should I ever decide to pursue civil action against them. I had previously filed a police report in the UK for Kieran, because he doxed a friend of mine several times to try to destroy my relationship with him. I wanted there to be a record of what was happening.
I came home and filmed a video that I posted in my Locals explaining AGAIN why this mob was after me and what really happened. My version of events has never wavered.
And again, they responded as you would expect them to:
My community was actually scared for me because they had been watching this build up publicly for months with no end, and they had watched me deteriorate to a place where I was a shell of myself.
I posted one of their messages.
And Keri Smith, Mike Harlow, and their cancel horde reacted exactly like you’d expect them to.
They also tried to make it seem like I was the one running a cancel mob.
Remember, when Mike Harlow and Keri Smith sent the tweets below, she had already tried to get me deplatformed by lying to Locals and telling them I was forming a hunting posse on their platform. We covered this in chapter 7 and chapter 9. They were also actively trying to get me deplatformed on Twitter, which they were successful at for a month. We’ll see that soon.
What Keri is referencing here is me saying that I didn’t think Tim Pool should elevate Vaush because Vaush weaponized his audience to harass people. Tim called me an SJW for that. And Keri continues to talk about it a year and a half after it happened.
To the tweet above, I am suing American Airlines in small claims court because they stole $2000 from me, but that’s another story for another day.
Keri is also the great defender of airlines who fuck over their customers, apparently. It’s a bold move to defend airlines. But remember, destroying me is their highest virtue. It’s their most important goal. So, if an airline stole $2000 from me, they are obviously in the right because I must be in the wrong.
I was trying to put on a webinar series with Actively Unwoke to help parents who had kids who had been transitioned in school to be trans. And, of course, Keri’s cancel horde attacked it to try to discredit it (because why would they want parents to have that resource?).
This was something that Keri’s mob did specifically to endear themselves to Keri, and I called them out for it. Of course, they reacted as you would expect.
I’ll be more than happy to collect Mike Harlow’s $10,000 reward for evidence based on the 10 chapters I’ve written in this book. But we all know he doesn’t have it because he’s begging for people to give him $10,000 so he can move to Florida on his Twitter, so I won’t hold my breath.
Another thing that happened was that Keri’s cancel mob was actively messaging the people I was doing the webinar series with, demanding they denounce me or they would be canceled. The chief perpetrator of this was Deb Fillman, a woman who is grifting on the anti-woke space with everything she can manage. She had been a member of my community and then was one of the people who worked with Kieran to try to steal concepts I had come up with and execute them on their own. I had called them out to get them to stop. They did and I moved forward with my concepts myself.
But Deb (she goes by the Owl of Athena in the tweets below) is one of the biggest cunts on the internet and was extremely bitter over this. She was one of the main people actually harassing unwoke whistleblowers, telling them the mob would come for them if they didn’t publicly denounce me.
A member of my community again came to defend me:
And, oh joy, Keri planted another hit piece.
And retweeted the account stalking me, as people who are hinged into reality normally do:
And her white knight attack dog jumped in too.
And Keri does all of this while continuing to pretend she doesn’t know what I’m talking about:
Here’s where Blaire White - who is friends with Mike Harlow - calls me a “lawn gnome looking bitch”
Isn’t that nice and conservative of her? She’s a deeply kind and sympathetic person, you know. The ones following accounts stalking people always are.
GOD BREAK.
And in all of this, Keri is dedicating herself to the glory of Jesus Christ.
Her pastor - Bradley J Helgerson of the Church on the Square in Georgetown Texas, is certainly doing a bang-up job of teaching Keri how to be a good Christian.
And then Keri Smith and her horde got Katie Herzog to do a hitpiece podcast on me.
And I know Keri Smith was her source because every single talking point in it was the same talking points you’ve already heard about in the first 10 chapters of this book.
I have produced multiple pieces debunking the lies Katie Herzog told about me, which you can find here. Many of them will also debunk the lies Keri has told about me:
Katie Herzog parroted Keri Smith’s story that I was a lone crazy person at a school board meeting who got a restraining order, without telling people the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire was protesting a school that was covering up when teachers sexually molest students:
Katie Herzog said that I was never attacked by a Black Lives Matter mob and just said I was to get attention because I’m the horrible narcissist that Keri Smith claims I am. That is provably false:
And Katie Herzog used Keri Smith and Mike Harlow’s talking points that I was a grifter who got kicked out of the conservative movement and joined the Libertarians just for attention.
We’ve already covered this in chapter 2 and chapter 3 of this book, but this is also provably false.
In her stellar journalism in which Keri Smith was her primary source, Katie Herzog ignored all evidence that disproved her story and, to this day, will not admit she got it wrong.
She also included stuff about Kieran and the hotel story in her podcast, including stating that I said I would leave my husband for Kieran (which never happened) and repeating Keri’s false story about my experience getting kicked out of the hotel. I didn’t bother to debunk those at the time because it was honestly really traumatic for me even to hear those things yet again, and I figured if people didn’t believe my side of it at this point, there was nothing I could do.
Everything felt so hopeless.
I recently sent Katie Herzog this email to see if she was ready to admit she got it wrong yet. She is a coward and did not acknowledge it:
The truth is still an elusive concept to the woke.
And then Kieran made a video were he pretended to share our real DM conversation (again, this was a website he created and made them say what he wanted them to) and, of course, Mike Harlow wrote a whole thread amplifying him, giving Kieran the attention he craves.
Why no counter evidence? Because as I discussed earlier, anytime I posted counter evidence it did no good. People ignored it. So I stopped trying.
Remember how Keri was sent a cease and desist letter by her former parter for defaming him? We covered that in chapter 8.
Well, she accused her partner of knowing hiring a convicted pedo to smear him, even after he send her that cease and desist letter.
Keri is continuing to prop up Kieran and his campaign of releasing private communications, many of which he doctored to say things that didn’t happen for attention.
This is me flat-out explaining how Kieran is doctoring things.
But did it matter?
No.
The truth doesn’t matter to a mob. Only destruction does.
It actually takes several hours to scroll through all the tweets Keri has sent about me that have been documented so far in the first 10 chapters of this book, and we’re not even done yet.
12 minutes of tweets in response seem pretty reserved compared to several hours of tweets from her.
Keri seems to think that because she never made a video about me that we can just dismiss the over 1,000 tweets that she’s sent about me since November 2020 as though it’s never happened.
And then they came for my friend.
I’m in tears just thinking about having to look at what happened next. It is one of the most disgusting displays I’ve ever witnessed.
When I was in college, I met a man who changed my life.
That man later got caught up in something because he trusted his childhood best friend when he shouldn’t have.
He went to prison for 8.5 years after he pled guilty to a crime he didn’t commit because he was afraid that he would spend the rest of his life in prison if he didn’t.
He got out of prison years ago, and we had barely spoken for the last five years. He moved on with his life, had a family, a good job. He was a private person who wasn’t hurting anyone.
And then he woke up one day to find Keri Smith and Mike Harlow’s online cancel mob dragging him through the mud in order to get to me.
If you want to know the real story of how Aaron went to prison, I’ve documented all of it here.
But I want to share one small piece of it with you. This is from a letter Aaron wrote to me when he decided to plead guilty to something he didn’t do to avoid life in jail.
These are his words:
I had requested a "motion in limine" (li-ma-nee) that the prosecution be barred from mentioning scandalous stuff Tim has done. That is, if you're gonna prosecute me, talk about me. They fought that one ferociously, which tipped my lawyers that that was their core case: Tim.
The judge denied my motion - my side moved into panic mode.
Then the judge asked how much time he needed to block off for this trial The United States answers first in the official government pompous "of course you're guilty there is no defense" way that the case will take two weeks. Then we answer that if the government needs two weeks, then we need two weeks to debunk them and two more weeks to introduce our own evidence (To put that in perspective, 99% of trials take only a few hours. I didn't know what I ever did to find myself at the center of the crazy storm but I think I need to accept this as a permanent trend).
That was the tip of the prosecution had likewise feared. This case wasn't going to be another Tim or Greg, I had actual evidence of my innocence - their side moved to panic mode. Within the hour my lawyers had it in their hands: Plead to 10 years in exchange for protection from the threat of lifelong imprisonment.
The next three days were a fight. The lawyers came to the jail each day and each day I sent them back.
They had done a mock jury focus group thing to see what average citizens thought about the case. The results were interesting.
People under 30 acquit.
People with tech-savvy acquit.
People who have children currently in high school or college acquit.
The older, tech-ignorant and the religious right types convict, but not on the evidence, as apparently no jury ever does in the deliberating room, but on "he should have known Tim was a child pornographer" and is thus guilty of the conspiracy. Which was exactly the prosecution's case. I was no longer being tried as CEO of Nva; I was being tried as a plain citizen.
The lawyers got the list of the 210 potential jurors pulled here from Roanoke. Of them, 5 were candidates for acquittal (compare that with the demographics of Boston).
They were pushing me to sign. I would have none of it. I don't like getting railroaded. I'm more of a "give me liberty or give me death!" kind of guy. We eventually locked into this sort of mock cross-examination drill:
-And did you ever travel with Tim?
-Yes I did.
-And did Pat ever come along?
-Yes.
-And he was under 18 at that time?
-I believe so, 17 perhaps.
-And just so we're clear, Pat's parents were not present?
-That's correct.
-Did you ever stay overnight in a hotel on these trips?
-Yes.
-And Tim and Pat stayed in the same room?
-Yes.
-In the same bed.
-Yes.
(shocked gasps from the jury)
-And you know this because you would also stay in the room?
-Yes but...
-And you're trying to tell us in this courtroom today that you deny that Tim, the known pornographer, who is obviously having a sexual relationship with an underage boy - a homosexual relationship - that you deny you were given reason to suspect he was making his money from the sale of illicit child pornography?
-Yes but...
(the bailiff is now restraining some of the jurors who've started climbing over the barriers - guilty Guilty GUILTY!)
No need to proceed any further with the prosecution, the jury has stopped listening.
My lawyer is pointing out that to a jury, my "yes but it wasn't like that if you were there" sounds a lot like a criminal's excuse.
He says they've done amazing work on proving the "didn't know" in the federal system with a 99.8% conviction rate, based on his experience I have like a 20% chance of full acquittal.
But the downside risk is too great.
The judge has done everything he can to ensure that you have no appeal - you have no appeal - the outcome of this trial is forever - done - the minimum sentence is life - there is no parole - you will never step out into the world again - you will die in a prison cell - you like Russian Roulette? - well in your version all the chambers have bullets save one - wanna play?
But in Russian Roulette, you can get up and not play. I didn't have that option.
So there I was trapped in that little room. Silent. I'll never forget that feeling.
You were just out walking along and without expecting it suddenly fall right through the ice.
You don't feel the cold, only an unknown discomfort everywhere. Where's the way out? Pushing and banging your fists but it won't budge. Why won't it? Where's the way out? You can see right through to other side there. The seconds march you ahead. Something must give. Please, please give! I can't breathe. Why won't you let me go! It never does.
You resign yourself to your fate.
I inked my soul out onto the paper.
I’ll never forget reading “I inked my soul onto that paper” when Aaron sent me this letter.
And I remember the feeling of helplessness that came over me when I knew he was going to be sentenced for this, and there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
It’s cold, even when it’s happening to you as a witness rather than as the target.
When I fully understood that the full force of the federal government had come down on my friend, and that he was forced to sign a plea deal for a crime he didn’t commit because there was no other way, I had panic attacks for days.
If they want you, there is nothing that you can do.
And 15 years later, Keri Smith and Mike Harlow’s woke cancel mob came for him to relive it all over again in order to smear me.
I strongly believe that Kieran was responsible for this. He went back through all of my social media for 15 years to find things to smear me. But, because Kieran doesn’t want to get his hands dirty, he got Mike Harlow to do his dirty work for him.
There was never any 14-year-old victim in Aaron’s case.
That was in Tim’s case, who was Aaron’s childhood best friend. Aaron wasn’t involved in Tim’s business beyond that Tim was using Aaron’s credit card processing program to run credit cards on his website. You can learn more about this in Aaron’s full story.
But, of course, the truth does not matter. And the influencers feigned their outrage for clicks and clout. This is when I decided to permanently separate myself form all of them. They are children who do nothing but destroy everything that doesn’t kiss their ass.
Their big goal with all of this was to try to get the Libertarian Party and the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to denounce me.
Remember, even since I got nominated for Governor, they were telling the Libertarians they would regret it. They were telling them I would destroy the party. They were telling them that I would leave the party and move on to another one because I had only joined them because I got “kicked out” of the conservative movement.
None of that was true, and the Libertarians were supporting me.
So Keri Smith and her cancel horde made sure they would regret it.
I felt so bad about the party getting saddled with this because I should have anticipated it.
But the truth was that all of this happened so long ago, and that I hadn’t really spoken to Aaron at all in years, that I didn’t even remember it happened. I had moved on with my life, he had moved on with his.
But the cancel horde never allows people to move on. They only know destruction.
But Keri had time to praise Jesus as she and her mob were dragging an innocent man through the mud.
And then right back to it:
One of my supporters got pissed at Kieran for his involvement in all this, found his phone number on Google and called him to annoy him.
And of course, that was deemed my fault. They’re acting like lunatics on the internet, but the reaction they get from people supporting me is my fault.
And “oh hey guys, Kieran is so abused, please give him money to buy a computer!!!!!!!”
They used it all to raise $3,000 so that Kieran could get a computer.
The literal definition of grifting.
And he continued to defend attacking a woman for daring to write a positive review of my book, because obviously.
All of the previous tweets took place in July 2022.
The attacks continued into August, which we will get into in our next chapter.