Mathew Shepard - An Artificial Martyr?

ABC’s 20/20 did a fascinating piece on Mathew, his death, and the motives.

As we all should know by now, Mathew Shepard was brutally beaten with a barrel of a gun, and left on a fence to die. The media jumped on the homophobia bandwagon and within a few years there were movies, foundations, and plays plat-forming the incident as a great hate crime.

The two boys responsible for the murder were convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. The ABC piece was their first public interview since the 1998 incident.

The crux of the investigation is as follows:

-Mathew was gay. (Well known fact)
-Mathew was depressed over the fact that he had aids.
-Mathew was a methamphetamine user and a seller.
-So were the two killers.
-One of the killers, Aaron, had been seen “dealing” with Mathew on a few occasions prior the murder. This was not an incident of a murder at first sight.
-Aaron was not a homophobe. He was a bisexual who engaged in 3somes with men.
(Aaron’s wife attested to this fact and so did one of the men interviewed: a limo driver who knew both Mathew and Aaron admitted to having had sex with Aaron.
-The “Gay Panic” defense was concocted by Aaron’s attorneys. Both Aaron and his wife admit this fact.
-Aaron was on a heavy 3 meth-binge when he beat Mathew. He was practically insane.
-After a few hours of Mathew’s disappearance his gay buddies began a media campaign in an effort to point out that Mathew was gay.

The story exploded and the gay angle was furthered by Aaron’s desperate lawyer. This played right into the hands of the overly eager gay agenda.

I cannot deny the greater sense of awareness caused by this tragedy. The “Laramie Project” is the most staged play in the nation and, as a result, more people are aware of the struggles of the gay community. However, this benefit came, in part, because of a propaganda machine created by the gay community as well as Aaron’s lawyer. The truth had to wait 6 whole years to emerge from the shadows. I, for one, feel betrayed and no longer consider Mathew a martyr. For me, he is the epitome of pseudo-martyrdom. These words, however, are too harsh to attribute to Mathew himself. I don’t think he deserves this title considering the fact that he had nothing to do with his own canonization. So who should we cast the blame on?

The reactionaries, in this case on the liberal left, may be a good place to start. On many occasions the left, as often as the right, has made faulty assumptions in order to further their goals. Mathew’s tragedy, taken out of its drug infested context, is one such example. Others include the ACLU’s intolerance of the Redlands city cross and NAACP’s “Richard Riordan & black little girl who turned out to be not so black after all” incident.

It seems that the American political and social factions are desperate to find an enemy. What else could explain the popularity of propagandists such as Moore and Limbaugh.

The country, rather then focus on real Jihadist enemies, has instead become extremely introverted. People not only dislike, but hate Bush, hate the Republicans, hate the Liberals, hate the Christians, hate the violent TV shows and video games, and hate anyone who disagrees with them on any issue whatsoever. What happened to the country of tolerance? Since when is it ok to accept homosexuality as if it is the new fall color, and hate individuals who argue for the preservation of hetero-marriage?

Why must we be forced to accept false martyrs only to discover that Mathew was a druggie killed at the hands of another druggie who happened to be a binging bisexual?

r.i.p.

Mathew Shepard

A Big Vice-Presidential WOW

This picture was actually published in the Journel Sentinel a few days back.

http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/122004/pressroom.html

That's all i can say without scaring off readers.

Could it be? 

I Am Bailiff

Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending a trial advocacy competition hosted by Loyola Law School. It was an opportunity to witness some of the top national teams in an activity I had long been curious about.

I volunteered to be a bailiff for a day; a contribution comparable to that of a parli. judge, minus the ballot of course. No experience needed.

The round lasted the usual 170 minutes. There were 2 attorneys and 2 witnesses on each side. The case was about sexual molestation by a priest. The charges were civil in nature and were filed against both priest and the catholic diocese. It could best be described as an intellectual play. It's partially scripted (the opening and closing statements) and everything in between is genuine lawyering.

Having debated parli. for 2 years I can honestly say that trail advocacy is the next best thing. It incorporates debate theory, advocacy, of course, and an extensive knowledge on subject matter, case law, and civil code. The advocates took the matter very seriously as so did the witnesses, one of the whom nearly brought me to tears as she described how the priest exposed himself to her.

The critiques offered by the judges, all of whom are practicing litigators, were applicable to the real world, and extremely complex. I found myself glued; listening at the expense of rushing the ballots to the tally room.

Even though an apprenticeship on a law review is considered more prestigious by top firms, I am convinced that a mock trial experience is far more beneficial to someone who actually wants to litigate. Let's hope that i can make it on Loyola's team as an advocate rather than as bailiff.

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PS-Just saw the film “Kinsey.” It is a fascinating look at the life of Dr. Alfred Kinsey (PRAK). Highly recommend it.

Mary Cheney is a Hero

Mary Cheney is not the evil person that many liberals would like one to believe.

http://www.dearmary.com/

She is not closeted, week, or narrow-minded like many of her liberal counterparts. She doesn’t march to the beat of Stonewall. Instead, she has chosen the road less traveled.

Unlike most gays who believe that along with homosexuality one is born with a permanent membership to the Democratic Party, Mary has prioritized her commitments and decided to stand by the president and her father, Vice President Dick Cheney. She, along with her partner, were campaign adviser to both Bush and Cheney.

Because of this, the effete gay left has decided to smear and gay-bash her. The link above is only one such vile attempt. John Kerry of course, along with metrosexual John Edwards, jumped on this wagon and attempted to out Mary during the debate. Unfortunately, to their surprise, the Christian right was already aware of the fact that Mary was a rug – (I wont go there). Let’s just say she prefers the texture of fine Persian carpeting to that of a thick banana.

Liberals believe that Mary was kept away from the campaign and hidden from view like some ogre. She was embraced by her family, her advice was coveted by the president, and her partner was always there-just in case people forgot her preference. Oops. I mean orientation.

The proof is evident in the pictures below. There they are. Two, anything but lipstick, lesbians at the Republican convention. They were not only there, but also had the audacity to walk on stage along with the mostly hetero Cheney family after the Vice Presidential debate and Bush’s acceptance speech.

It is somewhat distressing that the left has refused to acknowledge the bond that exists between conservative families and their gay children. Would it kill them to write a nice article in the NY Times, or the LA Times, discussing Mary Cheney in a positive light; as a role model to queers who hold conservative beliefs? Yeah, it probably would. Considering the fact that many in New York and Los Angeles grudgingly tolerate gays and pretend to accept them as equals simply because it’s the trendy thing to do in that locale, admitting that conservatives are capable of real acceptance would demoralize and degenerate a large base of the Democratic party.

In order to maintain its image as the party of tolerance I suggest the left show some deference to all the Mary Cheneys of this world. Otherwise, the promise of compassionate conservatism, a concept with the potential to draw new Republicans from the Democratic platform, may be fulfilled.

Here they are. Told you, no lipstick. 

Four More Years, Indeed.

I have fulfilled the ultimate civic duty. My vote was accepted at 8:15am on November 2nd, 2004. An elderly lady, with bad skin and a mustache, received my ballot, placed it gently through the slit of the ballot box, and thanked me politely. What, no sticker?

Of course I received a sticker. But I should have gotten a medal instead. So should all those young conservatives who have been defending the administration's foreign and domestic policies in colleges all across the USA. We have struggled through these last two years, and we have the scars to prove it. I personally was hit in the face with a silver colored Sony Mini-DV camcorder that was attached to an angry peace protester’s right hand. My friend, a leader of the Bruin Republicans, was assaulted and battered. Tires were slashed, and classmates were ridiculed by pot-head professors. But through it all we stood firm and made our arguments. Through reason and debate we strengthened our own beliefs and fine-tuned our arguments. We contributed evidence, something many liberal college kids have yet to discover, to the rhetoric war. We proved that Bush did not lie. We shifted the burden of proof where it belongs, on silly liberals who, in absence of any evidence, maintain that the war was, and is, being waged for oil.

We also disputed the facts, or lack thereof, of “Fart and Heighten 9/11,” a film designed to expose the Jews in Nazi Germany. Oh wait, that wasn’t directed by Fritz Hipper and it wasn’t about the Jews. It was Michael marxist-neihilist-America Hater Moore’s propaganda lovechild for the stupid. Was it as bad as “The Eternal Jew?” No, and only because it targeted the Bush administration rather than a whole cultural entity.

Overall, we are better off today then we were 4 years ago. The terrorists are on the run and the economy is slowly making a comeback; though I was informed that lawyers may suffer. The unemployment rate is down, the housing market is still strong, and Afghanistan is a success story. Iraq is on its way too. Well over 80% of the country is secured and the Kurds have been spared another genocidal attempt against their existence.

We should be proud of our accomplishments and this election only confirms this idea. After all, the election was a referendum on the Democrats as well. The people of this country chose to distance themselves from the likes of Moore, and appeasers such as Tim Robbins, and Martin –I think I am the real president- Sheen. They rejected liberal nonsense, negativity, and Hollywood demagoguery.

Lesson learned: Democrats need to distance themselves from left wing communists who still think that there are no terrorist and that the cold war was not really a war (See the list of dead in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, etc…)