Attack on conservatives found to be hoax

Modern American conservatism is an ideology built on lies. The supposed welfare abuse pandemic of the early '90s that was played up by talk-shit radio as an excuse to screw the poor was a hoax. The same goes for the phony anecdotes about the alleged excesses of environmental regulators (like the made-up story about the farmer who got sent to prison for accidentally killing a rat with his tractor). This is also the case with conservatives' so-called success stories after the mid-'90s. For instance, the supposed "miracle economy" that followed right-wing policies a decade ago was also a big fraud. Hell, all of these things are lies. Not just lies, but filthy, bloody lies. And the media was complicit in every single one of them.

The ongoing fraud by the conservative intelligentsia continues at Princeton University. A student named Francisco Nava, who serves as an official of a socially conservative anti-sex organization called the Anscombe Society, recently claimed he was the victim of a politically motivated physical assault in the surrounding township. The alleged attack followed what appeared to be a series of threatening e-mails sent to Nava, other Anscombe Society officials, and noted conservative professor Robert P. George.

The Daily Princetonian, a student newspaper at the university, initially reported the assault as if it was real. I can tell you that if I had heard of the alleged incident, I would have been almost certain right away that it was a hoax, because I know from past experience how conservatives operate. Not only does the right-wing thought police game the system, but they make shit up outright. I know this, because I was falsely accused by conservatives at my local university of criminal acts. (In one incident I used self-defense after I was attacked first.) However, the Daily Princetonian didn't seem to want to dig any deeper into the apparent assault or e-mail threats against members of the Princeton community.

One of the accounts used to send the e-mails used the name of a student apparently chosen at random, but that student was found to have nothing to do with the threats.

Naturally, the wingnutosphere went ballistic over the alleged attacks and flooded editorial pages and blogs with reams of editorializing about how evil we big, mean libs were for assaulting the poor, innocent, chaste Anscombe Society. They cried that the police weren't investigating Nava's "plight" thoroughly enough.

Well, the cops have investigated. But conservatives aren't gonna like the results of this probe.

When the case started to get a little too hot for him to handle, Nava finally admitted that he made up the assault. Not only that, but it was also Nava who sent the threatening e-mails - to the professor, to his fellow Anscombe Society officials, and to himself. All to evoke sympathy for the conservative cause.

This is the best conservatives can do?

Of course, charges haven't been filed against Nava. Aren't there laws against making false police reports and inducing panic? Not only that, but Nava impersonated another student when he sent the e-mails!

This hoax ought to just destroy whatever credibility the modern conservative movement still had (which wasn't much). But the media outside of Princeton hasn't picked up on the part about it being a hoax (even though they wasted no time in covering the initial assault report). This despite the fact that a racist incident at a university in my area was called a hoax by right-wing columnists even after it was proven that it wasn't a hoax.

When the nonexistent assault against Francisco Nava was first reported, Nava said he hoped Princeton University would show the nonexistent assailants that "intimidation doesn't work." How ironic. If the media gets on the ball in reporting that the episode was a hoax, that would show conservatives that their intimidation doesn't work.

(Source: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/12/14/news/19743.shtml)