Yeah, just ignore that entire ABC 20/20 investigation four months ago where they completely debunked the "hate crime" myth. No need for facts when liberal ideology is at stake.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=277685&page=1
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I remember seeing an network (ABC?) special about the Shepard attack a few months ago. And they implied/stated that it had nothing to do with homophobia but instead the reason for the assult was a simple as the attacker high was on crystal meth and looking for money.
its not a phobia to revile an aberant lifestyle...disgust may explain it....but disgust is not fear......
Agreed! The enlightened educators and the "Already captured liberal establishment and the press" want America
to Ignore the fact that the crime was the murderers were on
drug binge and looking to rob somebody. My daughter has more experience with the Meth freaks than I but she said they had to be "tweaked" Or they wouldn't have beat him
to near death. Not a word about the drug abuse-- or the fact that joyboy -offered them drugs. But that wouldn't be PC would it.Wouldn't advance their cause .
I wonderer if they will also put on a play about this hate-crime which has largely been ignored in MSM:
Court-Martial Records Link Killing to Sex
The Associated Press
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-12182004-419215.html
RALEIGH, N.C. - A National Guardsman who pleaded guilty to killing a 17-year-old Iraqi soldier said he shot the young man after they had consensual sex in a guard tower, a newspaper reported Saturday, citing court-martial records.
Pvt. Federico Daniel Merida, 21, pleaded guilty to murder without premeditation and other charges during a court-martial in Iraq in September.
Merida was sentenced Sept. 25 to 25 years in prison and reduced in rank and will be dishonorably discharged. He is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., a Leavenworth spokeswoman said.
Army officials at Forward Operating Base Danger, where the court-martial was held in Iraq, had previously withheld details of the case.
However, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday that records show Merida and the Iraqi were on guard duty May 11 in a tower on the perimeter of an Army camp near Tikrit in northern Iraq. At about 10:30 p.m., Merida shot the teen 11 times with his carbine.
Merida first told investigators the teen demanded money at gunpoint. Later, he said he killed the boy because he forced him to have sex. In a third interview, Merida said he got angry after the two had consensual sex.
Merida also pleaded guilty to two counts of giving false statements.
Merida apologized to the victim's family during the court-martial, records show. "He was a son, a brother, someone very important to them," he said. "I took someone they loved and cared for."
Merida, who was born in Veracruz, Mexico, has a wife and toddler son.
He was a member of the 113th Field Artillery Battalion's Battery B, based in Monroe.
December 18, 2004 2:46 PM
News to libs: Hey, this just in!
So, ignoring all evidence to the contrary, libs maintain that it was a Hate CrimeTM, because the victime was gay. Pathetic.
[i]She came "out of the closet" at age 13 [/i]
My mom is a teacher at a New England prep school and tells this story. One girl was a very proud lesbian. She was very athletic and starred in multiple sports. A couple years later her younger sister who is an equally good athlete comes to the school. She too proudly announces that she is a lesbian.
Next year the older sister goes off to college and on Thanksgiving break brings back a boyfriend that she is madly in love with. The younger sister was heartbroken and cried for days. She'd spent her whole life emulating her older sister, even to the point of becoming lesbian.
[i]She came "out of the closet" at age 13 [/i]
My mom is a teacher at a New England prep school and tells this story. One girl was a very proud lesbian. She was very athletic and starred in multiple sports. A couple years later her younger sister who is an equally good athlete comes to the school. She too proudly announces that she is a lesbian.
Next year the older sister goes off to college and on Thanksgiving break brings back a boyfriend that she is madly in love with. The younger sister was heartbroken and cried for days. She'd spent her whole life emulating her older sister, even to the point of becoming lesbian.
[i]She came "out of the closet" at age 13 [/i]
My mom is a teacher at a New England prep school and tells this story. One girl was a very proud lesbian. She was very athletic and starred in multiple sports. A couple years later her younger sister who is an equally good athlete comes to the school. She too proudly announces that she is a lesbian.
Next year the older sister goes off to college and on Thanksgiving break brings back a boyfriend that she is madly in love with. The younger sister was heartbroken and cried for days. She'd spent her whole life emulating her older sister, even to the point of becoming lesbian.
Another idea for a hate-crime play the school could put on:
Massachusetts v. Charles Jaynes
"Molestation Murder Trial"
http://www.courttv.com/archive/verdicts/jaynes.html
On the afternoon of October 1, 1997, 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley told his grandmother, "I have to go do something. I'll be back in a little while." Then he left her Cambridge, Ma. house. His grandmother would be the last one to see him alive.
When Curley did not come home that evening, his family, their neighbors and police organized a large scale search. They also distributed flyers with the boy's picture.
The next day Salvatore Sicari, Curley's neighbor and adult "friend," arrived at the Curleys' home with a handful of the flyers. He expressed his concern over the boy's disappearance and offered his assistance. Sicari also began to speak to Cambridge police, offering bits of information.
Sicari told police that he had last seen Curley on the morning of October 1, when Curley had threatened him with his dog. Sicari said that he told Curley that he would kill the dog if the boy didn't stop.
After that encounter, Sicari said, he met up with Charles Jaynes. Sicari told authorities that he had seen Curley riding in Jaynes' Cadillac in the past. He also claimed that Jaynes had promised Curley a bicycle. He had warned Curley to stay away from Jaynes, Sicari told police.
Jaynes was contacted by Cambridge police on October 2. While he denied knowing Curley, he was arrested on an outstanding warrant and taken into custody. In Jaynes' wallet, police found four receipts for items purchased with a credit card bearing his father's name: Edward Jaynes. The items included a receipt from Bradlees for a Rubbermaid container, a receipt from Home Depot for cement and lime, a receipt for a bicycle and a receipt from an Osco Drug Store for cigars and No-Doz pills.
All of these purchases were made on the day of Curley's disappearance. When questioned, Jaynes said that he knew Curley, but denied seeing him on the day the boy disappeared.
Sicari was contacted again by Cambridge police and continued to provide details. In his statement, Sicari described the killing. While he drove Jaynes' Cadillac, he explained, the 250-pound Jaynes sat on Curley in the back seat. As Curley struggled, Jaynes allegedly told him, "Don't fight it." Jaynes then placed a gasoline soaked rag to the boy's mouth and held it there, killing him, Sicari said.
After the killing, Sicari told police, he and Jaynes drove to numerous stores to buy the items necessary to dispose of Curley's body. Video cameras in two of the stores captured the men at the checkout counter purchasing a Rubbermaid container, a bag of lime and a bag of concrete. The men then left Massachusetts and drove north to Jaynes' apartment in Manchester, New Hampshire. There, according to Sicari, Jaynes took off Curley's clothes and molested the boy's dead body. The sight of this made him ill, said Sicari. When he ran to the bathroom, Jaynes told him, "Don't be a baby. Come out here and help me -- he's starting to stiffen up."
Sicari then admitted to helping Jaynes prepare the body. First they placed Curley's body in the cement-filled Rubbermaid container, put lime on his face and in his mouth to speed decomposition, and sealed the container with duct tape. Then they drove to Maine, where they dumped the container into a river, Sicari said.
Prosecutors believed that Sicari and Jaynes lured Curley into Jaynes' Cadillac with the promise of $50 and a bicycle. One or both of the men allegedly made sexual advances towards the boy, then suffocated him when he resisted.
Prosecutor David Yanetti said it didn't matter which man physically performed the kidnapping and murder. Even if it was Jaynes who actually kidnapped and murdered Curley, Sicari is equally culpable because he intended to commit the crimes and assisted Jaynes in carrying them out, Yanetti insisted.
Sicari maintained that it was Jaynes, a self-admitted pedophile, who killed Curley. Sicari claimed he in no way cooperated with Jaynes or shared in any intent. Sicari also said it was Jaynes who later molested Curley's dead body. The defendant conceded, however, that he did nothing to prevent the killing, that he helped Jaynes prepare Curley's body for disposal, and helped Jaynes dump Curley's corpse into the river. He also admitted that he initially lied to police.
Furthermore, Sicari's defense claimed there are insufficient grounds to warrant the kidnapping charge. Defense attorney Arthur Kelly said Curley had been in Jaynes' Cadillac many times, and there was no evidence to suggest that the boy didn't voluntarily enter the car on the day of the killing.
However, Jaynes pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and first-degree murder. He denied killing Curley and claimed that Sicari lied to police. Because the defendants' stories about Curley's death differed, separate trials were ordered. Sicari was convicted of kidnapping and first-degree murder before Jaynes went to trial.
The Verdict
On December 11, Charles Jaynes was convicted of Second Degree Murder and Kidnapping.
Reported by Court TV's Felice Conte
Prosecutor Rerucha recalls that Shepard's friends also contacted his office. Rerucha told "20/20," "They were calling the County Attorney's office, they were calling the media and indicating Matthew Shepard is gay and we don't want the fact that he is gay to go unnoticed."
I have to wonder, if the attackers had been muslim and the victim a straight, white male, would it have been reported thusly (bolding by me):
Prosecutor Rerucha recalls that Shepard's friends also contacted his office. Rerucha told "20/20," "They were calling the County Attorney's office, they were calling the media and indicating Matthew Shepard is a straight, white male and his attackers are muslim. We don't want the fact that his attackers are muslim to go unnoticed."
Something tells me that at that point we would hear how we can't report that he was muslim since it may inflame the muslim community or some other garbage.
In any case, this is a terrible crime these two committed. That it wasn't really a hate crime does not do a whole lot to lessen that in my eyes.
That the MSM hooked onto the gay angle and it became gospel truth is not surprising in the least.
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Myth and Reality about Homosexuality--Sexual Orientation Section, Guide to Family Issues" |
Why parents allow their children to be indoctrinated with this absurd nonsense is beyond comprehension. I'd wager they aren't aware of it in most cases and the ones that are have swallowed the homo agenda propaganda hook, line and sinker.
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Never let them forget his name. He is proof positive that all 'homosexuals' are child molestors.
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And how about the issues of:
Homosexual education by GLSEN to children as young as 5?
Political Correctness which makes us all mute and intimidates us into virtually condoning homosexuality?
It's not just "hate crimes" that are the problem...
It's just a jump to the left.....