http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fakehatecrimes/ en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:37:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412982/posts Activist Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to a second-degree misdemeanor for smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer. Anarchist websites across the country raised money for Schwenkler's $5,000 bail, and identified him as "a transgendered anarchist" using the name Ariel Attack. Authorities have consistently identified him as male. The gay, lesbian and transgender protest group Denver Bash Back characterized Schwenkler as one of its "friends and comrades." Initially, Democratic Party officials blamed conservative ... Then it became known that Schwenkler had previously worked for a Democratic candidate. Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412982/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2345795/posts A former football coach was sentenced Tuesday morning to a year in jail for making racially charged threats to employees at Ameritas, where he worked. "Very clearly what stands out in this case is Jose Jefferson made a big mistake," said his attorney, David Watermeier, who sought probation for his client. Jefferson, 38, has taken responsibility and has no history of criminal behavior. Watermeier said an anonymous letter showed up on Jefferson's desk at Ameritas, where he was working as a licensed insurance broker. When he tried to find out who sent it, the attorney said, he was rebuked. Watermeier... Journalstar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2345795/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:28:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331795/posts A Muslim community leader who claimed he was kidnapped from his home at knifepoint and dumped in woodland after a BNP hate campaign has been arrested for perverting the course of justice. Noor Ramjanally, 36, alleged that he was abducted by two men, bundled into a car boot, driven to Epping Forest in Essex and ordered to stop his religious work. The BNP had been accused of whipping up racial tensions in the area after it issued an inflammatory leaflet about Mr Ramjanally's Islamic community group - the first in Loughton. His alleged ordeal became a cause celebre among the... Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331795/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 03:02:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327568/posts Last night, I told you about the fake political hate crime here in Colorado at the Denver Democrat Party headquarters involving one “Maurice Schwenkler.” This hammer-wielding person has been charged with felony mischief. This person’s accomplice is still on the loose. Eleven windows were smashed, causing $11,000 in damage. Schwenkler is a far Left nutball and transgender activist who guys by “Ariel Attack”. As part of Schwenkler’s work for the SEIU-tied 527 group Colorado Citizens Coalition, he/she canvassed for a state Democratic candidate, Mollie Collum. Schwenkler has a prior criminal history… On the last day of the 2008 Republican National... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327568/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:35:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324779/posts One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show. Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts. Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver's art district was a consequence of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." She... Denver Post.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324779/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:51:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315469/posts (CNN) -- An African-American man has pleaded guilty after being accused of impersonating a white supremacist in a fictitious Facebook account to make death threats against an African-American university student...Hart admitted creating the fictitious account in November, pretending to be a white supremacist outraged by the election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African-American president, the statement said. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315469/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:57:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315368/posts A black man who pretended to be a white supremacist on the Internet has entered a guilty plea to charges that he issued death threats. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says 20-year old Dyron Hart pled guilty in federal court to "communicating threats in interstate commerce." "According to court documents, Hart... admitted that he created a fictitious name and used the photograph of a white supremacist to communicated a threat. He then purported to be a person outraged by the election of President Barack Obama," Letten said in a news release. Letten says that Hart sent the threat to an African... WWL New Orleans http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315368/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:42:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314101/posts WASHINGTON – A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott's district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care and should serve as a reminder for people to tone down their rhetoric. Scott's staff arrived at his Smyrna, Ga., office Tuesday morning to find the Nazi graffiti emblazoned on a sign bearing the lawmaker's name. The vandalism occurred roughly a week after Scott was involved in a contentious argument over health care at a community meeting. Scott, who is black, said he also has received mail... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314101/posts#comment Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:12:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192181/posts We all know them. People that abuse the system. People that work a few months of the year, just long enough to qualify for unemployment, and then jump on the unemployment bandwagon. Those that get food stamps to support their families despite being able bodied, often educated and capable of work. And, of course, the people that work “under the table” while receiving government aid intended for the truly needy. One such image sticks in our minds from a visit last year to a local softball game. Across the street was a truck distributing food for the needy. A brand... THE LIE POLITIC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192181/posts#comment Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:27:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179952/posts CUMMING, Ga. (AP) - A woman who claimed her house was set on fire because she supported President Barack Obama and her boyfriend have been charged with first-degree arson. Forsyth County Chief Investigator Steve Anderson said Friday that 47-year-old Pamela Graf and her boyfriend, 46-year-old Steve Strobel, are being held in different jails. Graf is in Forsyth County and Strobel in Barrow County, where he was charged with obstruction of justice in the case earlier this week. Graf's home burned on Jan. 18 while she was in Washington, D.C., to attend the inauguration. Officials found spray-painted graffiti that included a... WALB-TV/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179952/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:00:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173244/posts The Jan. 18 fire that destroyed a five-bedroom home in northeastern Forsyth County has been ruled arson, though investigators still are trying to determine who set the blaze and why.(snip) An Obama supporter, Graf said she thinks she was targeted because of her political views. Before the fire, she removed a campaign sign from her yard after receiving a threatening note in her mailbox.(snip) According to sheriff's reports, she has been involved in at least nine documented incidents since September 2006. Forsythnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173244/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:28:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173193/posts Investigators are calling Monday's teacher disappearance a hoax, saying she's responsible for the anti-gay slur spray painted on her garage door, the broken window on her house and the blood and hair found in the kitchen. However, they stated, she hasn't committed a crime and will face no charges in an ordeal that she contends can't remember anything about. "We don't feel like she was abducted. There is no evidence she was abducted," said Capt. Vic Hollifield of the McDowell County Sheriff's Office. "We feel like what we saw at the scene was overkill versus what we usually see with... Mcdowellnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173193/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:52:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172448/posts The disappearance of a West McDowell Junior High School teacher took a bizarre but fortunate turn Monday night when the woman authorities had been searching for all day came out of the woods unharmed about a mile from her house. Capt. Vic Hollifield of the McDowell County Sheriff's Office said 28-year-old Amanda Fields appeared at a home on Candee Acres off Stacy Hill Road wearing multiple layers of clothing, including her pajamas, and baseball cleats. She had part of a rope around one wrist and a loose cord dangling from one foot. She sustained minor cuts and bruises, and there... Mcdowell News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172448/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:45:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2135473/posts This is an update to this story. Muslim student pleads not guilty in reporting Elmhurst College attack Officials say woman made up story about assault, anti-Islamic slurs. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2135473/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:02:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2132774/posts About that pistol whipping...Safia Z. Jilani was indicted for faking an assault. She said a gunman pistol whipped her after she spoke at a diversity rally. An Elmhurst College student was indicted this week for lying about an assault on campus.The Daily Herald reported, via ROP: A DuPage County grand jury indicted a Muslim student at Elmhurst College on suspicion she lied when reporting a masked gunman assaulted her on campus, hours after she spoke at a diversity rally urging tolerance. Safia Z. Jilani, 19, of Oak Brook is expected to plead not guilty Monday when arraigned on a... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2132774/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:51:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132429/posts A black man from Mississippi has been arrested and accused of sending racist death threats over the Internet to three black students at Louisiana's Nicholls State University. The FBI in New Orleans said Dyron Hart, 19, was arrested Wednesday. He is accused of sending the messages by way of the students' Facebook accounts. The messages contained racial epithets and death threats and were sent to two black women and a black man at Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La. The author of those messages cast himself as a white man who intended to kill blacks because Barack Obama was elected president.... WWL -TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132429/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:36:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109386/posts Police in suburban Chicago have arrested a Muslim college student for allegedly faking a racist attack by a masked gunman, an attack police now say never happened. Earlier this month, Safia Jilani, 19, was found by friends in the basement bathroom of the Schaible science building of Elmhurst College, claiming she was clubbed with a gun by a masked assailant. Anti-Muslim epithets were found scrawled on a nearby mirror, similar to a hate-filled graffiti that had been found on Jilani's locker only a week earlier. The college locked down the campus after the alleged attack and, according to the Chicago... WorldNetDaily.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109386/posts#comment Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:26:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106550/posts A Kansas City lawyer and supporter of Barack Obama for president has filed suit in federal court, alleging that the Republican ticket has incited violence against the Democratic nominee. In her suit against Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and campaign manager Rick Davis, Mary Kay Green said she has been injured by their campaign tactics and suffers “terror of the heart, anxiety and grave fear” for Obama’s life. Green, an occasional contributor of letters to the editor for The Kansas City Star on legal and political issues, said the GOP campaign has used false hate speech to work their... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106550/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:01:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042663/posts A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office. Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole." That prompted Judge Thomas Jones,... © The Dallas Morning News, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042663/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:02:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025507/posts ARDMORE — A black man who told police he was nearly lynched by a group of white men actually ran into a clothesline after arguing with his wife, said Carter County Sheriff Ken Grace. Last week, the man whose name was not immediately available, called the sheriff and said a group of men tried to hang him in rural Carter County after he stopped to help an elderly farmer round up straying cattle. Grace said deputies and FBI agents investigated the case, and the man told officers that he made up the false claim. "He said they accused him of... newsok.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025507/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025316/posts Ardmore, OK — An Ardmore man who told authorities last week he was the victim of an attempted lynching near Milo, has admitted the story was a hoax. Sheriff Ken Grace said Glynis Davis made the admissions Monday in a formal statement that the lynching incident he had described was untrue. “His wife was with him when he made the statement and corroborated the statement,” Grace said. Davis’ admissions came when the Carter County Sheriff’s Department and FBI investigation into his May 28 report that four white men tried to lynch him indicated the story was not factual. “The injuries... ardmoreite.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025316/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:31:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025300/posts The FBI (web) and Carter County Sheriff's Department are investigating a claim by a black Ardmore man who says a group of men tried to lynch him in southern Oklahoma. The man's name hasn't been released. Deputies say he told them he was traveling to Milo in northwestern Carter County on May 25th when he stopped to help a farmer round up stray cattle from the road. He says as helped move the cattle four white men appeared and accused him of stealing the and began trying to lynch him. The man says another man then drove up in a... ktul http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025300/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:03:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999953/posts SAN ANGELO, Texas — The man whose alleged actions prompted Texas officials to raid a polygamous ranch and seize all 416 of the children there says he could not possibly have done what he's accused of doing. "I do not know this girl that they keep asking about," Dale Barlow told the Deseret Morning News Wednesday night. "And I have not been to Texas since I was a young man back in 1977." A girl who said she was married to Barlow, indicated her last name was Barlow and lived at the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, made several calls... Desert News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999953/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997750/posts ABLAIN-SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (AFP) — Vandals desecrated 148 Muslim graves in France's biggest war cemetery, hanging a pig's head from one tombstone and daubing slogans insulting France's Muslim justice minister, officials said Sunday. President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed "profound outrage" at the "sordid" attack on the Muslim quarter of the Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery, near the northern town of Arras on Saturday night. He vowed that those responsible would be punished. The cemetery is France's biggest military graveyards and commemorates tens of thousands of victims of a series of long and bloody battles for control of northern France at the... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997750/posts#comment Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994527/posts Manhattan grand jury has subpoenaed the university records of the controversial black Columbia Teachers College professor who found a noose hanging from her office door - signaling that the investigation is broadening to examine possible links between the teacher, her closest friends and the racially charged incident, The Post has learned. According to sources, the subpoenas obtained recently by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force and prosecutors demanded the college hand over a laundry list of records pertaining to embattled professor Madonna Constantine, whose colleague found a 4-foot hangman's noose on her office doorknob last October. The incident happened at... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994527/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:03:49 GMT