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    Matthew Shepard and the MSM

    Matthew Shepard and the MSM

    See the second article in the link. CNN (WaPo and others) are still attributing Shepard's horrible murder with homophobia. And that narrative has benefited the LBGT community greatly, not the least with new legislation adding attacks on that community to federal and many state hate crimes laws. (I am against state hate crime laws, but that isn't relevant for this thread.)

    However, an investigative journals spent 13 years interviewing over 100 people connected with the case and determined that Shepard's horrible murder had nothing to do with his sexual orientation. It had to do with crystal meth.

    But the Matthew Shepard story is not yet finished. A new twist came last year with the publication of another book, this one by investigative journalist Stephen Jimenez, who has spent 13 years interviewing more than 100 people with a connection to the case. His conclusion, outlined in The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard, is that the grotesque murder was not a hate crime, but could instead be blamed on crystal meth, a drug that was flooding Denver and the surrounding area at the time of Matthew’s death. This new theory has, understandably, caused a lot of anger.
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    “People object to the idea of the book, rather than what is in the book,” says Jimenez. “The anger directed at me has been pretty extreme.”


    Jimenez had no intention of causing such controversy. He’s an award-winning writer and TV producer, and visited Laramie shortly after the murder to gather material for a screenplay about the case. When he started he was convinced that Matthew died at the hands of homophobes, but he soon discovered that Matthew’s tragedy began long before the night he was killed.


    Jimenez found that Matthew was addicted to and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin. He also took significant sexual risks and was being pimped alongside Aaron McKinney, one of his killers, with whom he’d had occasional sexual encounters. He was HIV positive at the time of his death.


    “This does not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement,” says Jimenez. “Which is a big part of the reason my book has been so trashed.”



    Matthew’s drug abuse, and the fact that he knew one of his killers prior to the attack, was never explored in court. Neither was the rumour that the killers knew that he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000 which they wanted to steal.


    This is the problem with the MSM, facts are less important than the agenda.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Matthew Shepard and the MSM

    See the second article in the link. CNN (WaPo and others) are still attributing Shepard's horrible murder with homophobia. And that narrative has benefited the LBGT community greatly, not the least with new legislation adding attacks on that community to federal and many state hate crimes laws. (I am against state hate crime laws, but that isn't relevant for this thread.)

    However, an investigative journals spent 13 years interviewing over 100 people connected with the case and determined that Shepard's horrible murder had nothing to do with his sexual orientation. It had to do with crystal meth.



    This is the problem with the MSM, facts are less important than the agenda. [/FONT][/COLOR]

    But facts can be boring. And we already have plenty of laws to protect people, or at least punish their attacker, without special "hate crimes". Hate is legal. Physically hurting people isn't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    But facts can be boring. And we already have plenty of laws to protect people, or at least punish their attacker, without special "hate crimes". Hate is legal. Physically hurting people isn't.
    The feds created hate crimes during the Jim Crow era because southern states were often not prosecuting violent crimes committed by whites against blacks. They used hate crime laws to obtain jurisdiction over these crimes. In other words if a white beat the crap out of a black and the state did nothing, the feds could prosecute the white for a hate crime violation- not assault for which they had no jurisdiction over. With that said, there is no reason for state hate crime laws. They have jurisdiction over the overt act.

    But this thread is about Shepard and why the MSM still hangs onto the false narrative about why he was killed.
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    OP is exactly right. Matthew Shephard was dealing drugs, and he was murdered in a drug deal gone bad. That's what I've read too.

    That story is from 2014, probably the same one I read.
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    Hate is not a crime. Bill Clinton is a perpetrator of multitudinous crimes. Big difference.
    Last edited by Lummy; 10-14-2018 at 10:59 AM.

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