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Details of student's death emerge (Matthew Shepard in reverse)
Aberdeen American News ^ | Tue, Sep. 26, 2006

Posted on 09/26/2006 7:04:44 AM PDT by jwalburg

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Still waiting for the big front-page splash, the fund-raising foundations to be established, the talk-shows questioning WHY, the awareness classes... Isn't THIS a hate crime???
1 posted on 09/26/2006 7:04:47 AM PDT by jwalburg
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It's amazing how liberals use one event to paint with such a broad brush. Real hate crimes against gays are almost non-existant. Of course the gay lobby wants to classify anytime you look at a gay guy wrong as a hate crime.


2 posted on 09/26/2006 7:07:51 AM PDT by Always Right
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This maggot Smithson is going to get his in prison!


3 posted on 09/26/2006 7:08:12 AM PDT by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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Perhpas it it time for FreeRepublic to make it a big deal.

But even if we did, it wont happen. If MSM can hide from two freaks who maim and kill a 10 year old boy, then this is...nothing.


4 posted on 09/26/2006 7:08:26 AM PDT by Chickensoup (If you don't go to the holy war, the holy war will come to you.)
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"Still waiting for the big front-page splash, the fund-raising foundations to be established, the talk-shows questioning WHY, the awareness classes.."

- You left out the grief councillors.
5 posted on 09/26/2006 7:11:17 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: jwalburg

Less of a "Matthew Shepherd" case, and more of a Jesse Dirkhsing {sp?) case.


6 posted on 09/26/2006 7:13:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: Chickensoup

If one of the bigger blogs, like LGF got hold of it, it may keep it newsworthy. IMO


7 posted on 09/26/2006 7:14:33 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Samsonite! I was WAAAYYY off!)
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A "Matthew Shepard in reverse" would be the perpetrator pretending to be straight in order to rob a victim.

In this case the intent was rape, not larceny.

8 posted on 09/26/2006 7:16:44 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: jwalburg

This IS a hate crime. If the reversal is true.


9 posted on 09/26/2006 7:18:13 AM PDT by sandbar
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To: jwalburg

Matthew and Jason Shephard.

Media bias?


11 posted on 09/26/2006 7:23:31 AM PDT by F-117A (They say there is no such thing as an ex-Marine,.Murtha disproves that!!!)
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"Without trying to sound like everyone else, Shep was the kind of guy who was worthy of a laugh," Miller said. "If you weren't laughing at him, you were laughing with him. He always had a big, toothy smile on his face."

What strange remarks to make about a murder victim. Is this supposed to make us laugh off the victim as a stupid idiot? Then we can pretend the minority that murdered him is not guilty of deviant behavior. (like suffocating strong young men held down by straps and poisoned with an illegal drug)
12 posted on 09/26/2006 7:25:17 AM PDT by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

You are so right. We brought up our kids to treat everyone they meet with respect. Lately though, we have been teaching them to show respect but also be diffident until they feel that they really know someone.

Personally, I don't make new friends until I have played a round of golf with them. After 18 holes, I usually know what they are all about.


13 posted on 09/26/2006 7:26:20 AM PDT by babydoll22 (The facts ma'am, just the facts. I don't give a s**t how you feel.)
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A Northern State University student who was found dead last week in Pennsylvania was strangled after rejecting sexual advances from a sales manager for the company he was interning for

This sentence was written by a journalist???

14 posted on 09/26/2006 7:26:28 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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This will go down the memory hole almost instantly.

Going...going...

15 posted on 09/26/2006 7:28:25 AM PDT by jboot (Faith is not a work)
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To: jwalburg

Gee. Not a word in The Boston Globe.


16 posted on 09/26/2006 7:32:17 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: Always Right

That's exactly it. The Matthew Shepard case was horrible, but it was -- probably like this one -- an anomaly. But the media and the liberal establishment turned it into a widespread "cultural problem." Well, will they do the same with this one? Don't bet on it.


17 posted on 09/26/2006 7:35:01 AM PDT by jwalburg (It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")
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To: pabianice

If it's on the Philadelphia Inquirer site, I can't find it. Maybe this stuff happens all the time there, so it's not big news and only big news in the Dakotas where big crime is not as frequent.


18 posted on 09/26/2006 7:39:33 AM PDT by jwalburg (It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")
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To: jwalburg

FWIW I posted it over on the CourtTV Message Board under Current Crimes. CTV is populated both on TV and on the boards by majority lefties, but this is such a horrific crime I was hoping some would take interest.


19 posted on 09/26/2006 7:40:21 AM PDT by sweet_diane ("Trying to reason with hurricane season.")
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To: AppyPappy

LOL! I thought I was alone : )


20 posted on 09/26/2006 7:48:47 AM PDT by eastsider
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