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If found guilty, they should also send her the bill for having shut down the Claremont college system for a day of hand-wringing and hyperventilation.

Well, wouldn't filing a false "hate crime" BE a hate crime?

I mean, it's not like you aren't trying to frame a specific ethnic group other than your own, or it wouldn't be a "hate crime" to begin with.

Long overdue. Latest in a long string of campus non-hate-crimes perpetrated by truly twisted people.

The insurance company needs to go after her for fraud too.

Ages ago, among the most conservative crowd on campus, there wasn't a racist or anti-semite in the group. Heck, I married a Jewish CMC-er who is probably more conservative than me: "Three strikes and you're dead," says my wife.

Now among the more liberal Asians from Hawaii on campus, there were actual racists. The Japanese hated the Philipinos, the Chinese hated the Koreans, and they all hated the haoles. But we right-wing haoles were pretty oblivious to race.

She shut down a marxist indoctrination center for a day.

Maybe she'll send us a bill.

A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor who claimed someone vandalized her car with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was charged with filing a false police report and insurance fraud.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! What an IDIOT!!! This professor is white and, judging from her name, Irish. She is too STUPID to even put believable slurs on her car. BTW, I think quite a few other so-called hate crimes on campuses are also staged.

Indeed prosecute her for a hate crime. People who defend hate crime legislation claim that the law is not trying to punish people's thoughts, instead it is punishing an action that intimidates a group of people. Well, since this action had that effect, the culprit's motives should not enter into it.

Otherwise, the law would only punish those hates crimes that are done for hate; in which case the law is prosecuting for thought and not deed. It would be like having a law against murder but only when the culprit is murdering for hate and not for money or any other motive.

I vote for the 6 year sentence.

Kerri Dunn has had a prior criminal history and less than honest behavior. She was a Grad student here in Lincoln, NE at the University and was caught shop lifting at least a few times. It's clear that when you combine a warped liberal academic with a habitual criminal it turns out to be a very bad combination.

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Too many hate crime laws chasing too few hate criminals. The real hate criminals are terrorists who are too blood thirsty to be messing around with childish vandalism. Of course, it can also be said we too many full time lawmakers with way too much time on their hands.

Here is her speech after the "hate crime" but before she was discovered to have committed it herself. Enjoy!

Claremont McKenna College psychology Professor Kerri Dunn gave a fiery speech March 10, a day after she reported to police that her car had been vandalized - the tires slashed, windows broken and racial epithets spray painted on the body. Police have since determined that Dunn vandalized her own car. Her words, transcribed from a recording of her speech during the March 10 rally against hate crime:

Thank you so very much. Thank you, um, and thank you so much for being here. Um, I don't have anything prepared so what I say is probably (inaudible) I don't have anything prepared so what I, what I'll probably wind up saying will be sort of disconnected, although all of the thoughts that I have are true to my heart. I spoke today at the faculty meeting and, um, mentioned that I was scared, but that I felt very proud and somewhat empowered by knowing that the people at that meeting were standing beside me. And I can't tell you how it makes me feel to look out into the sea of you and know that you are here to support me and rather the larger issues of civil rights and equality for men, women, people of color, um, people of all sexual orientations, um, etc. Um.

(Applause)

There were, there are a couple things I wanted to touch on because I think that, um, this whole thing kind of started, and snowballed, and how I wound up in the midst of it is really just basically a lark. Um, I read about the cross burning, and I read about the, uh, word [racial epithet] being written on calendars and I was appalled. I just couldn't believe in 2004 this was happening. As a psychologist, I teach on a regular basis about the nature of prejudice. And we talk about how prejudice nowadays is supposed to be modern, and covert, and based on ignorance, and stereotyping. And I thought these acts aren't ignorant. This isn't the result of some covert thought. This was a well planned out act of terrorism.

(Applause)

And I don't believe for one second it was one person. I think that there's a group here, a small group, but I do believe that there is a group here that perpetuates this in all different kinds of ways. And I think if you confronted those people they would deny it because they're cowards.

(Applause)

They are not looking for open dialogue. They are not looking for discussing whether the word [racial epithet] is an appropriate word to use with people of color. They're sneaking around at nighttime writin' this [expletive] on walls.

(Applause)

So as I said at the faculty meeting and as I've said before I think that calling these acts acts of ignorance is a dangerous misnomer.

(Applause)

What I do think is that (inaudible) the espousal of a certain ideology and being in a free country I certainly believe these people have a right to their ideology, but we have a right to ours as well.

(Applause)

And what I did that pissed people off so much and made them ruin my beautiful 1992 beater Honda Civic was that I said let's get together and say our ideology is more popular than yours.

(Applause)

Diversity is more popular than segregation. Love is more popular than hate.

(Applause)

That's what I did to wind up in as much trouble as I wound up in. The other thing that I, I also wanted to address, um, was in my class when I talked to people about - what are you gonna do, I said, I kept saying what are you gonna do, these are your friends under attack, these are my friends under attack, these are your colleagues, these are your peers, you're my students who are being attacked. What are we gonna do? Many people responded with, well you know Professor Dunn, we've always been taught that we should be racially blind, and that by not paying attention to it and not calling attention to differences we would minimize them. You know, that's a beautiful, beautiful, explanation - or should I say, um, all right, piece of [expletive] -

(Applause)

It has absolutely no substance and no utility in society wherein we are founded on diversity. The Statue of Liberty stands every day of all of our lives theoretically welcoming people to this land to become part of us. So to say that we should act like we're colorblind I really believe is an excuse. I believe it's an excuse to remain lazy, it's an excuse to turn your head. And it's an excuse to allow these idiots to continue with their agenda.

(Applause)

Last thing and I'll shut up, for real, for a little while anyway -

(Crowd chants: "Don't shut up"; applause)

Thank you. Um, I want to address one last thing that I think it's really important for us to pay attention to. Um, it also has come to my attention, you guys know I'm an attorney, that many, many people don't understand that the initial acts that took place on campus were not legally hate crimes. Whether you agree with that or not that's something we deal with the Legislature about.

But I heard people bad-mouthing the administration for not taking a more harsh stance against these acts when in fact there was nothing more that the administration could do. And what I want to say is from my position, and from the position of me feeling like a victim, I can't say thank you enough to the administration. They have been there supportive of me. Um, Pam Gann is here at a rally, as president of CMC. Torry Sun is here as well, and many many other administrators are here, and I have to say they're doing not just what they have to do administratively, but they're doing what they should be doing as human beings. And I think the message -

(Applause)

I think that the message that we need to take from this is that social change comes about on different levels and through different means. Some ways social change takes place is in the box office, um, is in the voting office, when you vote. Other ways - maybe it takes place in the box office, um, it definitely changes our attitudes. Um, it takes place on individual levels, it takes place on group levels, but it's, for things like this, when these events that were going on were beyond the reach of the police, but they were offensive and terrorizing to our friends, us individually, um, our peers, our colleagues, the action that need to take place is exactly what you are doing right here. And I just, you know, I want to end this by saying as a group, we stand here, and we say we're pro-diversity and anti-hate -

(applause)

- and that the people who espouse these hateful ideologies, really, I said earlier today should go underground. What I meant is that they should go to hell.

[End of Recording]

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What a psycho. Anyone who would send their kids to a Clarremont College deserves "professors" like Kerri Dunn.