For Real: Many Well-Publicized 'Hate Crimes' Were Staged     8/24/2005 By Lindsey Douthit The goal is to keep homosexuality in the public eye, no matter what the cost. It seems to defy logic: people committing "hate crimes" against themselves. But cases keep arising of homosexuals staging hate crimes and then portraying themselves as victims of narrow-minded bigots. Often, the cases occur while a pro-homosexual measure is under consideration, such as a "hate crimes" law or the addition of "sexual orientation" to a statute or campus policy. Homosexuals who commit faked hate crimes often admit to police that they did it either for attention or to express anger over the slowness of social "reform." In either case, the initial publicity creates the impression of an urgent need for the public to do something. We have assembled a brief list of such cases to show that they exist. This does not mean that some people are not victimized, which we find deplorable. Every person deserves equal protection under the law. But the public deserves to know there is a problem with fakery in the name of victim status. Here are various instances of faked hate crimes that gained publicity: At the University of Georgia, a homosexual resident assistant reported that he had been victimized in nine hate crimes, including three supposed incidents of arson. When police questioned him, he admitted to performing the acts himself.1 A homosexual student at the College of New Jersey, Edward Drago, was arrested for sending death threats to himself and a homosexual student group in which he served as treasurer. Before Drago confessed to committing the crimes himself, a large student rally was held, complete with faculty support and pink ribbons. Drago was suspended pending a disciplinary hearing in court.2 A lesbian student at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota slashed her own face and falsely claimed that two men shouted anti-homosexual remarks and attacked her. Students raised almost $12,000 as a reward for information about her "attackers."3 At Eastern New Mexico University, a lesbian student claimed that she had been attacked after her name was posted on an anti-homosexual "hit list" at a local coin laundry. Police arrested her after a surveillance camera showed her posting the list.4 A lesbian in South Carolina was charged in 2001 with giving false information to a police officer, saying that she had been beaten. Police contend that she hired a man to beat her so that she could report it as a hate crime.5 In Manchester, England, a homosexual minister faked a story about being raped. He is quoted as saying that he felt "intrinsically evil" for his sexual desires. The staged rape attack prompted an intensive police investigation, and upon admitting to an attempted perversion of the court of justice, the minister was given a two-year community rehabilitation sentence and was fined 10,000 pounds.6 In Mill Valley, California, a 17-year-old female wrestler at a local high school faked a series of "gay-bashing" incidents that prompted a police investigation. She claimed that she was the target of hateful language, i.e. anti-homosexual epithets on her car and school locker, and was pelted with eggs outside her home. The teenager was the leader of her school's Gay-Straight Alliance and later admitted to authorities that she perpetrated all of the incidents.7 On the surface, these incidents might seem merely like stunts performed by attention seekers. However, there may be the deeper motivation of garnering cultural sympathy for the homosexual lifestyle. If you make people feel sorry for you, you'll get your way. This manipulative method is described in After the Ball, a 1989 book by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, two public relations experts who taught homosexual activists how to achieve societal desensitization and to "jam" anyone opposing them. Here's their core strategy: In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector ... The purpose of victim imagery is to make straights feel very uncomfortable.8 Americans have a soft spot for victims and the downtrodden, which speaks well of American character. Images of an innocent person being treated unfairly invoke pangs of guilt, shame and anger in the heart of the average citizen. Over the years, homosexual activists have ruthlessly exploited this good nature and used it to advance a series of "gay rights" measures that, taken together, will result in suppressing anyone who opposes homosexuality for any reason. Even though most of the people committing faked hate crimes are eventually exposed by police or confess under investigation, their hoaxes still raise support for homosexual activism. Not everyone finds out about the hoax, and the attention is still focused on the "need" for more laws. As recommended by authors Kirk and Madsen, the goal is to keep homosexuality in the public eye, no matter what the cost. "The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome. And when we say talk about homosexuality, we mean just that. In the early stages of the campaign, the public should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself."9 By keeping the media fixed upon them as a victim class, homosexuals perpetuate their image as people in need of special protections. So far, this has produced results that have stunned even the activists themselves: They continue to "cry wolf," and the public continues to run to their rescue. Lindsey Douthit, a 2005 graduate of Baylor University, wrote this as an intern for the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America. End Notes John Leo, "Faking the Hate," U.S. News and World Report, June 5, 2000, p. 22. "Gay Student Faked Hate E-mail Campaign," http://www.le-national.com/Worldnat/gay-faked-emails.html. Leo, op. cit. Ibid. "Crying Wolf?" World, August 1, 1999, p. 8; and see Lisa Chiu, "Hate Crime Report a Hoax," azcentral.com, October 2, 2001. "Gay Minister Faked Rape," The (London) Times, May 28, 2005. "Girl Admits She Faked Gay-Bashing Incidents," Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2005. Kirk, Marshall and Madsen, Hunter, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear & Hatred of Gays in the 90s, (New York: Doubleday, 1989) p. 183. Ibid, p. 178.