Note to readers: I am re-running this 2017 post along with original comments intact. The Shepard incident was close to my (former) home in Montana, and I was deeply familiar with the towns in which it was staged. A writer using the pseudonym Dagen D. Proveritas also covered this event at the Miles Mathis site in January of 2020. It’s a good piece, better depth than mine, and it notes that the Shepard incident (along with Columbine) served as the means by which the public mind was prepared for Hate Crimes legislation signed by Barack Obama in 2009. I regard such legislation as a perversion of justice, as it requires that we grasp not only the crime and the evidence but also the state of mind of the accused. Such a thing cannot be done in an impartial and fair world.

Yeah, I know, we don’t have a fair and impartial justice system. Still, Hate Crimes are an aberration.

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This photo appeared on Facebook recently, someone commemorating the 19th year of Matt Shepard’s passing. Since his death was inspiration for major legislation regarding “hate crimes,” I reluctantly thought I should take a look at it.

“Please be real! Please be real!” I thought. I don’t want another project.

It is fishy. Very fishy. Just eighteen months after the Shepard event we would be asked to believe that two psychopathic murderers just happened to be classmates at Columbine. Here are we asked to believe that two kids in Laramie, Wyoming also just happened to be natural-born killers. Such people are [extremely] rare [or non-existent]. That they would hook up in a small town like Laramie, Wyoming … is there something in the water? Continue reading “The Mathew Shepard killing looks like another hoax” →