Another Hate Crime Hoax

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Full article from the Chicago Tribune headline.

Student charged in hate-mail case

By Susan Kuczka
Tribune staff reporter
Published April 26, 2005, 2:17 PM CDT


A 19-year-old African-American student at Trinity International University has been charged with sending racially inflammatory hate mail to her classmates, prompting last week's evacuation of minority students from the north suburban school.

Alicia Hardin of Chicago was charged with disorderly conduct and committing a hate crime for allegedly writing threatening letters to other African-American students.

The letters were written in an attempt to convince her parents to let her withdraw from Trinity, Lake County Assistant State's Atty. Matthew Chancey said. Hardin lived on the Bannockburn campus, was unhappy there and wanted to transfer to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., he said.

"By writing these notes, we believe she wanted to have her mother believe (Trinity) was an unsafe environment," Chancey said.

Hardin was assigned a $5,000 bond during a hearing this morning in the Waukegan courtroom of Judge Victoria L. Martin. The defendant could be freed after posting 10 percent of the amount, or $500 cash...



...Police said the woman was one of a number of students interviewed Monday by a task force of investigators from the Bannockburn Police Department, the FBI, campus security and police from Deerfield, Highland Park and Libertyville.

Hardin allegedly admitted writing the three letters that caused the uproar...




...Today in court, Chancey read portions of the third letter, received last Thursday: "I saw you in the chapel …. I had my gun in my pocket, but I wouldn't shoot."

Excerpts - Copyright © 2005, Chicago Tribune





Chicago Sun-Times article also available here

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Ridiculous. I'm sick of these hoaxes, and how they tend to be downplayed in the media. I wonder how many marches against hoaxes there are going to be. It's not like this isn't unheard of. There was another hate crime hoax at Northwestern University a few years ago.

And yet another by a psychology professor last year.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
My guess is there won' t be any marches, or outrage over these hoaxes. Marches and feigned outrage are held by sheep at the command of the press. Once again, "press=participation".

Hate crime legislation is nothing but the thought police in action.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
the child of one of my good friends got into a fight {both were 16} in the course of the fight my friends child hollored you chink I will bust your ass, the others participant was vietnamese... my firends child was charged with a hate crime and convicted. Life ruined. end of thought.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I suppose if he had just said "bitch" or "motherfucker" it would have been a loving fight.

Nonetheless, the revelation that a "hate crime" is a hoax rarely garner's the attention that the initial report does. This sort of thing happens all the time, yet the Mainstream Media has no interest in doing an exposé on the matter, and the legal system treats it like it wasn't serious.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good article I found referring to Professor Dunn's hate criem hoax last year:

The American Thinker: Another Hate Crime Hoax
Yet Another Hate Crime Hoax
March 18th, 2004

I hope that someone is collecting a comprehensive list of all the hate crime hoaxes which have been discovered in recent years. It often seems that hoaxes are so common that skepticism should always be appropriate when a new instance of racist, sexist, anti-homosexual, anti-Semitic, or other politically unacceptable graffiti is reported.

The latest apparent hoax comes once again from a prestigious campus. It seems that the fevered consciousness of racism so common to academia, when deprived of actual overt acts of racism, drives some people to serve the “higher truth” of racism by creating phony acts of same.

This time, it isn’t a student who is implicated; it is a professor.

Dr. Kerri Dunn, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California, was seen by two witnesses applying “racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets” to her car. Additionally, local police reported that the professor had given them inconsistent statements regarding the affair.

The incident prompted all five of the Claremont Colleges to cancel classes March 10 for teach-ins and rallies against hate crimes. More than 1,000 people attended an evening rally at Claremont McKenna, where students pushed for racial and ethnic tolerance and Dunn was one of the speakers.

This is far from the first time that a campus has been plunged into turmoil by phony reports of a hate crime, in fact generated by the purported victim. Often, the perpetrator faces only trivial charges and punishment. So far, the only potential charge being mentioned for Professor Dunn is the misdemeanor of filing a false police report.

Given the seriousness with which the law treats hate crimes, it seems only fair that a hate crime hoax should be treated as severely as the underlying crime being fabricated. Since passions are being deliberately inflamed, as in a genuine hate crime, and that the additional aggravating factor of fraud is present, the law should actually treat hoaxes even more severely than genuine hate crimes.

Serious jail time for hate crime hoaxers would help dampen this rampant crime wave. As reports of hate crimes fell, there is even the chance that actual social harmony might increase. Imagine that!


Thomas Lifson