Much of Self-Created Hate Crime, a diatribe by toxic metal Christian rocker and radio talker Bradlee Dean, is lifted from other conservative sources without attribution or linkage.
We suspect even the most brazen eighth grade word thief would have put in a bit more effort than Dean does--and perhaps find more current examples to illustrate his point that victims of hate crimes are just all making this stuff up (which we must observe, is more than Dean him is doing).
Back on December 28, 2004, KMBC TV 9 reported in Man Admits Hate Crime Attack Was False:Floyd Elliott, of Independence, Mo., told police that two subjects attacked him in the parking lot of his apartment complex. He said the attackers cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot knife and attempted to carve the word “fag” on his forehead.
Investigators were suspicious about the report because the head carving was backwards, as if done while looking into a mirror. Later, Elliott admitted to police that the injuries were self-inflicted.
. . . Floyd Elliott, of Independence, told police that on Dec. 14, two subjects attacked him in the parking lot of his apartment complex. He said the attackers cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot knife, and attempted to carve the word "Fag" on his forehead.
Investigators were suspicious about the report because the head carving was backwards, as if done while looking into a mirror.
Later, Elliott admitted to police that the injuries were self-inflicted. . . .
Dean uses this ten-year-old pilfered anecdote to claim:
It seems today that more often than not those that are decrying hate are the ones that are actually perpetuating it.
Next, Dean shares another ten-year-old tale:
There is the famous contrived hate crime of Kerri Dunn at Claremont McKenna College. Dunn was scheduled to speak at a campus forum on racism. She shocked the audience by telling them that she had been the victim of a hate crime that very day. How convenient, or was it? Her car had been vandalized, its windows smashed, tires slashed. And profane, anti-Semitic graffiti covered the wreckage. The problem with her story was that two students saw her commit the crime herself. Dunn lost her job and also went to prison for lying to federal investigators and for insurance fraud. (She had claimed that $1,700 worth of items, including a laptop computer, had been stolen by the hate-crime bogeyman. These items were later found in a closet in Dunn’s home.) Oh, and by the way, she wasn’t even Jewish.
That's pretty close to this passage about the 2004 incident from a 2010 article in the National Review:
Finally, Dean writes about a 2011 incident:Dunn . . . was scheduled to speak at a campus forum on racism. During her talk, she shocked the audience by announcing that she had been — that very day — the victim of a hate crime. Ta da!
Her car had been vandalized, its windows smashed, tires slashed. And profane, anti-Semitic graffiti covered the wreckage. . . .
. . . Dunn lost her job, of course, and also went to prison for lying to federal investigators and for insurance fraud. (She had claimed that $1,700 worth of items, including a laptop computer, had been stolen by the hate-crime bogeyman. These items were later found in a closet in Dunn’s home.)
. . .By the way, she wasn’t even Jewish.
In Douglas County, Colorado, a lesbian couple called the police after they allegedly found the words “Kill the Gay” scrawled in red across their garage and a noose hanging from their front door.
Perhaps the women didn’t anticipate how seriously the issue would be treated, because nearly eight months later, with the full force of the FBI involved, authorities stated the women themselves were responsible for the acts. They were charged with both criminal mischief and false reporting, and one of the women, Aimee Whitchurch, faced an additional charge of forgery (See the TV news report here.) . . .
Dean appears to have drawn his text from an article in The Blaze:
Back in October, a lesbian couple in Colorado called the police after they allegedly found the words “Kill the Gay” scrawled in red across their garage, and a noose hanging from their front door.
. . . Perhaps the women didn’t anticipate how seriously the issue would be treated, because nearly eight months later, with the full force of the FBI involved, authorities are saying the women themselves may have been responsible for the acts. They have been charged with both criminal mischief and false reporting, and one of the women, Aimee Whitchurch, faces an additional charge of forgery.
. . .Watch Fox 31′s full report, below:
At no point does Dean link to the source material, use quotation marks or any of the standard devices ethical writers use to attribute authorship. Minnesotans can thank heaven that at least the fiery conservative preacher isn't running for the United States Senate or anything..
Dean is best known for unsuccessfully suing Rachel Maddow for defamation and for a prayer as a state house guest chaplain in which he questioned President Obama's faith.
Photo:Bradlee Dean.
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