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Violence Rattles Princeton [Hoax]
The New York Sun ^ | 12/17/07 | Annie Karni

Posted on 12/17/2007 4:12:42 AM PST by syriacus

Edited on 12/17/2007 11:31:34 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

UPDATE: Princeton student Francisco Nava is said to have admitted to fabricating an attack against him. More to come.

An outcry from students and faculty at Princeton University is rattling the campus here after a student who is leading a movement to instill conservative moral values among undergraduates was physically attacked Friday, beaten, and rendered unconscious in a rare incidence of violence within the Ivy League.

The incident is prompting an outcry from conservative students and faculty who say they feel singled out by the Princeton administration and the majority of the student body, who have remained silent in the face of what many say is a politically charged attack.

A politics major from Texas who is a junior, Francisco Nava, was assaulted about two miles from campus in Princeton Township by two black-clad men who pinned him against a wall and repeatedly bashed his head against the bricks, he told the student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, in an interview.

Mr. Nava told the student paper that the two men told him to shut up. The assailants did not steal his wallet, credit cards, or cell phone, he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: academia; collegeconservatives; francisconava; hatecrimehoax; nava; princeton
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To: syriacus
Most of the posters on this web site think it was a hoax.

Because that's what the leftists would do. It's called "projection" in psych circles.

61 posted on 12/17/2007 10:39:01 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel

It’s a hoax, folks. He has now admitted to the cops that the assault never occurred and he was the one who sent the threatening messages to himself and others.


62 posted on 12/17/2007 11:13:03 AM PST by drjimmy
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To: syriacus
Nava '09 admits to fabricating assault, threatening e-mails
63 posted on 12/17/2007 11:14:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Doogle

She is going to have both black clad men resign from her campaign.


64 posted on 12/17/2007 11:17:22 AM PST by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: HenpeckedCon
Why is this not a "hate crime"?

Where are the Feds on this one?

Where's the major media?

65 posted on 12/17/2007 11:19:04 AM PST by pointsal (q)
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To: pointsal

....SEE LATEST THREAD


66 posted on 12/17/2007 11:20:11 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They need to kick him out of Princeton then. He just did more damage to conservatives than any liberal.


67 posted on 12/17/2007 1:59:32 PM PST by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp

Yikes.... there was some poorly spent tuition...


68 posted on 12/17/2007 2:25:57 PM PST by pointsal (q)
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To: WL-law

Brit Hume just announced that the student admitted it was a hoax.


69 posted on 12/17/2007 3:52:19 PM PST by syriacus ( 30,000 Americans died in 30 months in Korea under Truman, who had abandoned S Korea in 1949.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thanks, E. Pluribus Unum.


70 posted on 12/17/2007 3:54:51 PM PST by syriacus ( 30,000 Americans died in 30 months in Korea under Truman, who had abandoned S Korea in 1949.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thanks, E. Pluribus Unum.


71 posted on 12/17/2007 4:01:29 PM PST by syriacus ( 30,000 Americans died in 30 months in Korea under Truman, who had abandoned S Korea in 1949.)
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To: Greg F

I think that black shirts is an appropriate tag for the left while we wait for them to roll out their brown shirts. I am disgusted that this turned out to be a hoax. Was this person a true conservative or a fellow traveler?


72 posted on 12/17/2007 4:23:11 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: pointsal

“Why is this not a “hate crime”?

Where are the Feds on this one?

Where’s the major media?”

It’s a hoax! Hate crime? You want it to apply to political groups?


73 posted on 12/17/2007 9:54:24 PM PST by DemEater
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To: mvpel

And yes, it was a Hoax.


74 posted on 12/17/2007 11:41:26 PM PST by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: A Strict Constructionist
Was this person a true conservative or a fellow traveler?

Good question.

This hoax was made up to look like an attack on someone who espouses conservative views on sex and marriage.

His previous hoax at prep school was made up to look like a verbal attack against homosexuals:

While Nava was a student at the Groton School, the message "Die Fags!" was discovered outside his room. Administrators investigating the incident eventually found that Nava had written the slur himself.
(Another option....Maybe he is mentally "off balance.")
???
75 posted on 12/18/2007 5:13:03 AM PST by syriacus ( 30,000 Americans died in 30 months in Korea under Truman, who had abandoned S Korea in 1949.)
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