Yesterday was the anniversary of the Matthew Shepard lie

Checks out.

Interesting. I had never heard of this.

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Interesting. I had never heard of this.

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Yep. It happened in the late 90s, it took off. "He was killed for being gay" became a rallying cry. Plays and movies started almost immediately. A big foundation was formed and within a couple years, schools began "zero tolerance" policies for bullying. The "hate crime" law is named after him.

Matthew Shepard was gay, yes. But he was running meth and owed his supplier money and was killed to send a message to other drug mules. The gay journalist that reported this had his life ruined by the gay mafia.

Here's the book that explains it all. It's a really good read.

LINK

Heres an article from 2013 that reluctantly admits the truth: LINK

The "hate crime" law did not exist. It was named after this guy.

Lots of stuff wrong with society came out of this. Same as George Floyd.

This was the story that was fed to America:

All this creative energy has been based on an important central premise: that Shepard was targeted solely because of his sexual orientation. According to conventional wisdom, he met his killers by chance in a bar, told them he was gay and left with them when they appeared to respond to his advances. They started attacking him almost as soon as he climbed into their pickup.

The truth:

Instead, Jimenez makes a persuasive case – based on interviews with the murderers, their former girlfriends, friends of Shepard’s, and police investigators – that Shepard was already acquainted with his killers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. That acquaintance hardly casts Shepard in the best light.

All three of them, Jimenez argues, were involved in Laramie’s crystal meth subculture, as users and dealers. McKinney and Shepard may also have had a casual sexual relationship.

“Shepard’s sexual preference … certainly wasn’t the motive in the homicide,” Jimenez quotes police investigator Ben Fritzen as saying. “What it came down to really is drugs and money.” A number of other sources close to the story and the protagonists confirmed much the same thing.

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Ok…why was he killed then? By a modern day lunch mob, no less?

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His being gay had nothing to do with it. He was a meth head killed by two other meth heads.

McKinney (one of the killers) was coming down from a week-long meth binge and desperate to cover his mounting debts. He believed, rightly or wrongly, that Shepard could lead him to a delivery of about $10,000 worth of meth coming in from Denver, which he intended to steal. McKinney’s plan was to beat the information out of Shepard, but the beating, fueled by severe drug-induced paranoia, ran quickly out of control.

Some of the early news reports even had him tied to the fence like Christ on the cross – yet another detail Jimenez debunks by quoting the lead detective in the murder saying he was in fact found sitting on the ground, head slumped, with his hands tied behind his back.

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Ok…why was he killed then? By a modern day lunch mob, no less?

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Lunch mobs are no laughing matter. I faced my first one in fourth grade after writing a check with my mouth that my arse couldn’t cash in physical education. (In my defense, it was a heated scooter match.)

ok
always a conspiracy

right?
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Ok…why was he killed then? By a modern day lynch mob, no less?

I gotta say this one is confusing to me. His murder was reprehensible no matter your politics.

You don’t have to give up your MAGA card to condemn hate crimes…

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Like with Floyd and Trayvon Martin, there was no evidence that he was killed because of his status. It's been the Democrats politicization of these deaths which has been so damaging.

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Lunch mobs are no laughing matter.

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Especially if Meal Team 6 or the Gravy SEALs are after you