The international trail of what Bernera has to cope with
By persisting with her Bernera vendetta, Claire Kellerman has eventually succeeded in drawing wider attention to herself – prompting recollections from others.
The Gazette’s attention was drawn to a legal action in Hawaii which dragged on for five years until being thrown out, in which Ms Kellerman joined four other employees at what the judge described as “some form of farm on Maui” to sue the owners for alleged discrimination.
In a case with parallels to Ms Kellerman’s current activities, it was initially dismissed for “numerous reasons including mootness and asserting claims against the wrong entity”.
The court “observed that the complaint was noticeably short on factual allegations” and that “plaintiffs needed to do more than simply make unordained assertions of misconduct”.
When Kellerman and her associates tried again, the case was dismissed in its entirety. One reason given was that they had relied on “a disability discrimination statute when none of the plaintiffs claims to be disabled”.
All claims under federal law were “dismissed with prejudice” and claims under state law fell because the federal claims had been “dismissed before trial”.
The final judgment was signed off at Honolulu in April 2020.
While at the farm, Ms Kellerman posted on LinkedIn: “I am so grateful I was able to live my dream fully … it was the most fun ever. I love the beauty that Regenerative Design brings and offers us as human participating it our rightful role, as Nature”
Sadly, this blissful state of affairs did not persist. Ms Kellerman subsequently posted: “I no longer work for Hoku Nui Maui as their co-owners and managers lack integrity, humanity and mutual respect towards myself and the community of Maui”.
By the time of Covid, Ms Kellerman had moved on to New Mexico where she quickly found trouble. She was “booted from a thrift store” for refusing to wear a mask. When she persisted, police were called and she was given “a trespass warning” and told if she returned, she would face a criminal charge.
When a video of the incident was posted, Ms Kellerman commented: “Breathing is a gift of God. Please join me in denying the influence of Evil over reality, truth and the beauty of our nature”.
Separately, Ms Kellerman posted that the anti-Covid vaccine was “in violation of all ten of the Nuremberg Codes which carry the death penalty for those who seek to violate these International Laws”.
On the Reddit news site a person claiming to have been a neighbour in the United States, wrote: “She is not an ethnic minority. She knows no end to harassing good, hardworking people not bothering her.
"She has a Trust Fund and lives off that. She is NOT disabled and her dog is NOT a service animal. It was never registered in the US where the dog was adopted from an animal shelter in Santa Fe, New Mexico… She spent her entire day stalking and targeting neighbors unprovoked”.
After much in similar vein, the message concluded: “She is not poor and does not need financed by a foreign country… Scotland, stop funding this (deleted)”.