Is it possible for an attorney to be more delusional than their client?

I believe this lawsuit against me confirms that possibility.

As you may have heard, I’m being sued by a person with a mental illness (their words, as discussed below), who claims I have defamed her and have prevented her from attending school board meetings. In my over 20 years as an attorney, I have never come across a more frivolous lawsuit than was filed by Mrs. Karabin, or rather, filed by her attorneys who should have performed their due diligence prior to proceeding with a 67 page complaint containing purported statements of fact that not only are presented out of context, but in no way support their laughable legal claim. It’s as if her attorneys allowed Mrs. Karabin to brain dump without any legal training and then simply signed off on the complaint. I refuse to believe that an actual litigator reviewed this so-called complaint.

I can’t address the entire 67 page complaint here, but the first count asserted against me is that I made defamatory comments on Facebook about Mrs. Karabin relating to her mental health and that such statements made her suffer emotional distress and loss of standing in the community.

She asserts that I stated that she believes that laziness is an ADA recognized disability, that she is an attention seeker, that she isn’t playing with a full deck, that I called her “Crazy Karabin,” that she suffers from Alex Derangement Syndrome, is in “whackadoodle mode”, should be part of “group therapy sessions” with the other liberals of Norwin, posting “Googled irrelevant nonsense” and was a “Google copy and paste queen making up laws to support her position”, that progressive Democrats support harming children and taxpayers, that liberalism is a mental disorder, referring to her as Melissa “multiple personality” Karabin, and asking her to call 911 to have herself voluntarily committed and admit that she suffers from Munchausen Syndrome. (Note: Munchausen Syndrome (factitious disorder imposed on self) - is when someone tries to get attention and sympathy by falsifying, inducing, and/or exaggerating an illness)

Notwithstanding that all of this is essentially the type of tit-for-tat, parody, satire, and Facebook trash talking that occurs online 24/7 a million times a second within the United States, and notwithstanding that my commentary was directed to one of her various multiple personality fake profiles (Elizabeth Marie, Michelle Lynn, Fran Mathias, ad nauseum) which was the reason for the “multiple personality” comment, and notwithstanding that the Munchausen comment reflects her attention-seeking behavior by way of constantly claiming she has every ailment under the sun, and notwithstanding that she repeatedly sought me out, by tagging me in conversations (especially in a conservative Facebook group dedicated to all the principles she disagrees with, like returning kids to full-time in-school instruction), and forced engagement with me by replying to my posts which didn’t reference her, and notwithstanding that in almost all of her responses she was claiming that I was “breaking the law” and doing something illegal, and notwithstanding that she then claimed she was only “following the law”…. you get the point.

When I called her out for being wrong and exemplifying all the qualities of a liberal lunatic, she claimed she was being bullied. Naturally, as a Karen, she reported my free-speech protected posts to Safe2Say, the PA Ethics Commission, the PA Human Relations Committee, the PA School Board Association, and the North Huntingdon Police (whose officer apologized that he had to come to my house, while confirming that none of my posts were illegal, but that NHT PD policy requires them to talk to all parties in any given complaint).

What needs to be emphasized is that truth is an absolute defense to any claim of defamation. In her complaint, she admits that she suffers from a myriad of mental and physical conditions (with many of them, like chronic pain and fibromyalgia, often attributed to mental issues), and also mentions her severe mental disorders like post-partum depression and suicidal ideation. She even cites a TribLive article in her complaint where she admits that she has “cognitive issues” and that “she does not trust herself any more.” Mrs. Karabin, has even admitted to me on Facebook (again, tagging me unnecessarily, but then claiming bullying when I pay attention to her by responding) that “she is not ashamed of [her] mental illness” and that I can’t “harass or bully [her] because nothing I believe is based on any truth.”

And then we have posts of hers like this where she states that “people of all genders get pregnant and give birth to babies around the world.”

But what does the community think of Mrs. Karabin:

So how can I defame someone by claiming that they are mentally unwell, when that person not only exhibits conditions that align with a mentally unwell diagnosis but admits it and emphasizes that she is not ashamed of her mental illness? Let’s pretend that I am a murderer and that I go around the community and online exhibiting signs of being a murderer and then telling everyone that I am, in fact, a murderer and I am not ashamed that I am a murderer. What legal fiction would allow me to file a lawsuit against someone who wrote that I’m a murderer because their writing made me suffer emotional distress and loss-of-standing in the community?!?

As we know, anyone can file a lawsuit without merit and then have it withdrawn (See Brian Carlton v. Norwin School District). The problem is that there are attorneys out there, such as Mrs. Karabin’s that don’t fully investigate their client’s assertions because they want to make a quick buck in a negotiated settlement. Of course, sanctions against an attorney can be brought up for filing a frivolous lawsuit if it can be shown that the attorney failed to reasonably investigate the facts or the law before filing the offending complaint. I contend that this is clearly the case. We’ll just have to wait and see.

But wait, there’s more!

The second asserted count is that I prevented Mrs. Karabin from attending school board meetings. Look, I can’t reasonably summarize the insanity of this next count (the insanity of the first count was easy to summarize) because it results in me having uncontrollable spasms of laughter preventing me from typing while my screen becomes unreadable from the spit laughter. Therefore, I’m just going to copy and paste, verbatim, the relative narrative from the complaint and let the insanity speak for itself:

Since taking office, Defendant Detschelt — acting in his capacity as an elected official vested with the power of the state—has consistently demonstrated hostility towards people with disabilities and with political views different than his. The following statements are reproduced to demonstrate Defendant Detschelt’s use of his public platform and power as an elected official to silence or seek to silence liberals and to promote bigotry towards people with disabilities. Plaintiff submits these statements reveal a pattern of behavior that contextualizes her denial of access to a limited public forum based on viewpoint discrimination:

a. In a March 10, 2024, blogpost, Defendant Detschelt attacked a tax-exempt brain cancer fundraising group for allegedly promoting liberal candidates in local elections. Detschelt reproduced a letter he sent to the organization, a bizarre screed that quotes the 1985 film The Breakfast Club; claims that people who disagree with his conservative ideals are “groomers,” “leftists,” “RINO mommies,” “controlled husbands,” and “low IQ” persons; and described “liberalism” as “a mental disorder.”

b. In a January 2, 2024, post on his blog, Defendant Detschelt claimed that his favored candidates lost the local Fall 2023 elections not because the electorate disagreed with his political views and voted accordingly, but because 6,000 Norwin voters were actually “groomers” — a “groomer” being “someone who grooms a minor for exploitation and especially for nonconsensual sexual activity” — and ostensibly part of some grand liberal-pedophilic conspiracy.

c. In October 2022, Defendant Detschelt posted a meme in the Facebook group “Norwin Talk” where he “used a derisive term for mentally disabled people and a sexually explicit word to describe then-Lt. Gov. John Fetterman” a Democrat.

d. At the time of this Complaint’s writing, Defendant Detschelt’s Substack blog still uses a Photoshopped image of Senator Fetterman where a character from the 1985 film The Goonies has been superimposed on the Senator’s face. His Substack also still features a Photoshopped image of what appears to be a then-minor survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting turned gun activist. The image purports to be a fake Halloween costume and bears the inscription “F---ing Retard.”

e. In February 2022, Defendant Detschelt spearheaded a successful effort to ban the airing of a CNN-produced news summary program for high schoolers titled “CNN 10” that the District had played for students between classes. Mr. Detschelt told Fox News that this was consistent with his conservative agenda and goal of excluding liberal viewpoints from Norwin classrooms. Mr. Detschelt claimed that the District was “grooming the children” by showing the CNN program.

f. In October 2022 and January 2023, Defendant Detschelt called for the banning of multiple books from Norwin libraries. The first book—titled All Are Welcome—depicted ethnically diverse school classrooms. Both books contained plot or illustration elements involving homosexuality.

Let’s just ignore the factual inaccuracy of most of these statements, as those will be addressed in the response to the complaint. Anyway, for those unfamiliar with the requirements of a well-pleaded complaint, let me explain. First you need to set forth a statement of facts. Then you need to set forth the relevant law/right that you feel is being violated. Finally, you have to make a legal argument (this is where the attorneys get paid the big bucks or in this case neglect to do) that connects the law to the facts to support the claim that a violation of that law/right has occurred. This is the legal argument posited by Mrs. Karabin’s counsel (remember, they got paid to write this):

Defendant Detschelt denied Melissa Karabin the option to attend the Norwin School Board meeting because of his hostility to people with disabilities(*) and political liberals, an antipathy established by his social media posts and demonstrated pattern of seeking to exclude liberal points of view from Norwin since assuming public office.
...
By excluding Plaintiff Melissa Karabin from a public forum, the Defendants 
engaged in First Amendment retaliation against her for her liberal and disability activism. Exclusion from a public forum on the basis of viewpoint tends to chill speech in violation of the First Amendment.

Simply put, the Defendants knew that Mrs. Karabin engaged in the 
constitutionally protected activity of expressing her political and social beliefs and barred her from attending a public forum because of those beliefs.

* All of the above is ridiculous, laughable, and totally irrelevant. I never exhibited hostility to people with disabilities (unless Mrs. Karabin is acquiescing that she is, in fact, a disabled groomer, in which case, I, as any ordinary person, would exhibit hostility to anyone endeavoring to harm children), but characterizing groomers, per se, as being disabled, would marginalize those with real disabilities, and I’d never do that. Perhaps we should just call liberals AND groomers what they are - EVIL.

But HOW did Alex Detschelt exclude her? That connection to the facts is missing in this supposed “legal argument.” Disagreeing with her views does not go toward excluding her. I mean, yes, in the twisted mind of a woke liberal (I’m guilty of redundancy, as woke and liberal are synonymous), calling an apple an orange is perfectly acceptable, as Marxism requires the destruction of traditional language norms and meaning, much as Mrs. Karabin’s complaint destroys the norms of American jurisprudence.

The mind-numbing legal argument by Mrs. Karabin is that I prevented her from attending school board meetings by engaging in constitutionally-protected speech and actions that she views as unfavorable to her beliefs, and by expressing my First Amendment beliefs and philosophies via humor, memes, satire, and parody, resulting in her inexplicably being prevented from physically attending meetings. I didn’t threaten anyone. I didn’t make any retaliatory comments or action against anyone. I didn’t put sugar in anyone’s gas tank or throw a monkey wrench in the spokes of anyone’s wheelchair. I didn’t pour concrete barriers on ADA compliant curb ramps. I didn’t stop anyone at the meeting door by asking for their Republican voter registration or proof of MAGA attire. Yet somehow, Alex Detschelt has the power to prevent a Karen, or rather, a Melissa, from her constitutionally-protected right to attend a meeting.

Henceforth, I require all woke, progressive, liberals, and common Marxists of all stripes, to bow down before my Magically Manifesting Power of Free Speech that can stop people’s freedom of movements You shall call me “Speech Man” from here on out! If any dance moms in Norwin can provide me with a sequined leotard with “SM” emblazoned on it, I will be forever grateful and promise to wear this empowering garment to the next board meeting where the RINOs and Dems will undoubtedly raise taxes. With the amount of cheating and “ethical non-monogamy” and similar debauchery going on in the increasingly liberal Norwin, please keep a clean mind while attending to my superhero costume, or you’ll inadvertently add an “&” between the letters and that would make things awkward, as I race to the scene of preventing liberals and others from attending board meetings.

But in all seriousness, in the minds of liberals, everything that doesn’t align with their beliefs is hateful. They believe in eliminating all Constitutional rights. They hate America and its freedoms. Dissent will not be tolerated and they will stop at nothing to take away the rights of those who attempt to fight their Marxist ways - just look at President Trump and the use of “lawfare” to silence him and his supporters.

I’m confident that this lawsuit against me will be dismissed based on the aforementioned information, the complete lack of merit, further additional evidence that will be provided to my attorney, as well as testimony by individuals who know the circumstances of Mrs. Karabin.

Speech Man

P.S. - With my hundreds of “greatest hits of hate” screenshots I have from all the lefties, I am now seriously considering filing further lawsuits, which all have more merit than Mrs. Karabin’s (0% merit) lawsuit. Thank you for your inadvertent encouragement!