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FLASHBACK: Matthew Shepard's murder: 'What it came down to is drugs and money'
The Guardian ^

Posted on 10/13/2025 8:27:24 PM PDT by TigerClaws

For 15 years, Matthew Shepard’s unspeakably brutal murder on a lonely prairie in Wyoming has been a byword for the very worst of American anti-gay bigotry and a rallying cry for a more tolerant, more inclusive society.

The 21-year-old University of Wyoming student was found trussed to a fence post, bleeding and half-frozen to death, in a rocky field on the outskirts of Laramie. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that his brain stem was crushed. His killers even removed his shoes, on the off-chance he broke free of his bonds and tried to run to safety.

Shepard’s death inspired the play The Laramie Project – later turned into a television movie – countless songs, a foundation devoted to his memory and a political lobbying effort that pressed for, and eventually obtained, a new federal hate crimes statute named after him.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: crime; drugs; fraud; hoax; homohoax; matthewshepard; myth; wyoming
Anniversary of this just happened. There's federal "hate crime" legislation named after this meth dealer killed for nothing to do with his sexual preferences.

Another leftist fraud cashed in on to manipulate the system with a cooperative lying media.

1 posted on 10/13/2025 8:27:24 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

It’s interesting that the Guardian published this article 12 years ago. I can’t imagine them disavowing any part of the official left-wing narrative today.


2 posted on 10/13/2025 8:38:44 PM PDT by Alvin Diogenes
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To: TigerClaws

This article is 12 years old and the LGBTABC@#$ lobby is still spreading the myth of saint Matthew Shepard’s death at the hands of homophobic rednecks.

And some people still believe it, apparently.


3 posted on 10/13/2025 8:41:45 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: DarrellZero
You will find people on FR who believe it. Or at least they pretend they do.
4 posted on 10/13/2025 8:46:49 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: TigerClaws

Hands sup don’t shoot
I can’t breeve
Suckers and losers
This is Trump country
Because he was gay
He was a good boy
Just gettin’ skittles

On and on and on....


5 posted on 10/13/2025 8:52:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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To: TigerClaws

The whole notion of “hate rime” is an unconstitutional perversion of the law.


6 posted on 10/13/2025 8:57:41 PM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth. ©️)
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To: DarrellZero

Heck, there are still people who believe Biden is sharp as a tack.


7 posted on 10/13/2025 9:01:57 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Heck, there are still people who believe Biden is sharp as a tack.

Well, he is a pinhead.

8 posted on 10/13/2025 9:10:15 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: TigerClaws

They were his fellow HOMOSEXUAL killers.


9 posted on 10/13/2025 9:12:04 PM PDT by alstewartfan (I AM Charlie Kirk. ❤️✝️)
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To: TigerClaws
When you rip off a drug dealer, that is the end you can expect.

Li'l Matty Shepherd angered a drug dealer. It had nothing at all to do with Matty being a Nancy boy.

10 posted on 10/13/2025 10:27:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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It now appears, however, that the conventional wisdom may be wrong.

Although this article is twelve years old, the facts were known soon after the murder, but, in compliance with Rahm Emmanual's edict,
"Never let a good [or manufactured] crisis go to waste."

11 posted on 10/14/2025 5:32:01 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: TigerClaws

When you live a lie, pushing a lie is just what you have to do to face yourself.


12 posted on 10/14/2025 6:23:46 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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