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Liberal student activist threatened herself with rape in Facebook hoax to frame conservatives
Daily Mail ^ | May 1, 2013

Posted on 05/01/2013 7:17:58 PM PDT by Pinkbell

A University of Wyoming student targeted by an anonymous Facebook posting that included a threat of sexual violence had posted the item herself, police said.

The university in Laramie, Wyoming announced on Tuesday that campus police cited Meg Lanker-Simons for misdemeanor interference with a police investigation by giving false statements.

The posting that threatened Lanker-Simons occurred on a Facebook forum for UW students, leading to an outcry and an investigation by UW police because it was directed at a student.

The Facebook page, which is not officially affiliated with the university, was taken down and a student-led demonstration against sexual violence was held.

UW police say they found what they called 'substantial evidence' verifying that the post came from the computer belonging to Lanker-Simons.

Lanker-Simons is a blogger and local radio show host who advocates for liberal causes.

In 2010, she filed a lawsuit against the university that forced UW to allow 1960s radical Bill Ayers on the campus for a speech on education.

Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, an anti-war group from the Vietnam Era that claimed to be responsible for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.

The Facebook post came to light last week when people including Pamela Kandt, co-convener of the Episcopal Women's Caucus and a Casper activist, complained to the university and demanded action.

Besides the threat of sexual assault, the posting was written to make it appear as if its author was a conservative Republican.

Kandt came to Lanker-Simons' defense Tuesday.

'I will tell you, I believe Meg is innocent of this outrage,' Kandt told the Laramie Boomerang, adding she believes the citation issued by police is a 'classic case of blaming the victim.'

'I mean, my God, who would do this to herself?' she added.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: fakehatecrimes; hatecrimehoax; liberalism
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To: Pinkbell

As usual, you have to go to the foreign press for American news.
LOL, can the Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms here in America sink any lower?


101 posted on 05/01/2013 9:31:55 PM PDT by Lancey Howard (Of course thay can.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Now I know why Maker’s Mark is having problems keeping up with demand.


102 posted on 05/01/2013 9:32:26 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Pinkbell

i say charge her with what an actual threatener would be charged with, and jail her. toss on a hate-crime multiplier for doing it because she was inciting others to hate an entire class of people. libs’love hate crime multipliers, so peg her’with one as she deserves it forher hate. she was totally motivated purely by her hatred of people that disagree with her own personal worldview.


103 posted on 05/01/2013 9:56:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Pinkbell

104 posted on 05/01/2013 9:58:24 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Pinkbell

Is it actually possible to rape yourself?

Who would know the answer to this?

Has anyone ever tried?


105 posted on 05/01/2013 10:10:05 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Pinkbell

Most of the big hate crimes recently have been faked


106 posted on 05/01/2013 10:11:05 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Pinkbell

How old is this “student”? Does she have tenure? :p


107 posted on 05/01/2013 10:16:27 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Looks like Harvard has found its new Women’s Studies professor.

Pray for America to Wake Up


108 posted on 05/01/2013 10:39:25 PM PDT by bray (Surviving to spite Obama)
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To: stevio

Andrea Dworkin, The Undergrad Years...


109 posted on 05/01/2013 10:45:12 PM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: boop
What makes me laugh is just how deluded these kooks are when trying to sound "conservative" or what a "conservative" would do.

Yeah I hear the word "kike" ALL the time. Don't you?

Conservatives are pro-Israel. The Liberals are the Jew haters.

110 posted on 05/02/2013 12:23:31 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Daffynition
Here's another one with the same -- whatever she is:

A familiar type.

111 posted on 05/02/2013 12:59:05 AM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives)
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To: stevio

Lanker-Simons made headlines in 2010 when she was a plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against the University of Wyoming.  The University was sued after it had dis-invited controversial figure William Ayers from speaking on campus.


112 posted on 05/02/2013 1:10:11 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Montanabound

You’ve heard of beta males? This guy is beyond omega.


113 posted on 05/02/2013 1:29:41 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lancey Howard

Bfl


114 posted on 05/02/2013 1:31:17 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: GeronL

She’s 28. A career college student. Her FB page said she plans on going to law school next year.

Good luck passing the bar after your stunt blew up in your face like a trick cigar, bitch.

They should give them both jail time instead of the usual slap on the wrist these false flag lefty’s are always putting up.

Put an end to their BS once and for all.


115 posted on 05/02/2013 2:25:00 AM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield ("Ban 'Assault Politicians' as they are assaulting our Constitutional rights!")
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

I went to a state school in northern NJ 20 years ago; because it was in Newark these types avoided it (too many black people around). Occasionally some hippie would show up with a loudspeaker trying to rally interest in some cause or other, but nobody paid them any mind. The students were there for school (those that weren’t went to a different campus), and afterwards most headed to a job. I couldn’t imagine going to a school where these freaks dominated.


116 posted on 05/02/2013 3:27:28 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Pinkbell

This just confirms that liberalism is a brain disorder.


117 posted on 05/02/2013 3:34:50 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Rembrandt

The husband is a poster boy for the “new castrati”. LOL


118 posted on 05/02/2013 3:54:33 AM PDT by dforest (I have now entered the Twilight Zone.)
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To: Pinkbell

Hah! Looks like her husband turned her in.


119 posted on 05/02/2013 3:59:39 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: GladesGuru

Hope it does!

That was my FReep tag line for about a year—read my FReep page for more details.


120 posted on 05/02/2013 4:16:25 AM PDT by lightman (If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
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