Cops claim attack on McCain worker was staged
by Western Voices staff
A highly publicized mutilation attack on a white female John McCain supporter by a 6’4″ black male Obama partisan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5775, according to police. The “victim,” Ashley Todd, 20, claimed that she was approached by the assailant after withdrawing cash from an ATM, demanding $60, which she claimed to have handed over to him. He then allegedly noticed a McCain bumper sticker attached to her vehicle, became enraged, began pumelling her, and then cut the letter B, presumably for Barack Obama, into her face.
The story immediately became national news, with both the Obama and McCain camps issuing appalled statements condemning the “attack.” Significantly, Governor Sarah http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5721 that has dominated the campaign season: two politically protected classes, women and blacks, squabbling over the spoils of political correctness.
According to reports, investigators confronted Todd with a variety of inconsistencies in her allegations, part of a story she kept changing. Even the source of the assailant’s anger changed from a bumper sticker to a campaign button. Police now say that Todd has a history of mental illness and have charged her with a misdemeanor.Meanwhile, seasoned observers of the interplay of race and crime in America had remained wary when the original attack story broke. In hoax attacks, especially political or racial ones, perpetrators often write slogans or symbols onto their property, bodies or clothes, something that rarely if ever happens in genuine, violent attacks. The “B” stood out as a clue that the Pittsburgh story was a sham.
In the Tawana Brawley hoax of the 1980s, racial slurs were daubed on the black teen’s body in dog feces by Brawley herself. The drama, with racist white cops supposedly gang raping a black girl, became a national cause celebre touted by race hustlers led by Al http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1950. In 2004, France was brought to a virtual standstill when a similar hoax was carried out by a woman who claimed that Arab males cornered her on a train and scrawled swastikas on her while making anti-Jewish comments and menacing her infant. The media ran wild with the story, and even President Jacques Chirac got into the act, appearing on national television to call for even stricter “hate laws.” The French Communist Party announced a national march against anti-Semitism, and hysteria prevailed nationwide. As with so many of these kinds of hoax incidents, the French “attack” was enabled by the wider culture. The media, and government, was consumed by a number of reports of Arab-on-Jew attacks, at least one other of which was proved to be a hoax.
Other recent hoaxes have been seen around the “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3596.
In the Pittsburgh hoax, specifically, Ashley Todd’s actions reflected two of the three warning signs for hoaxes identified by http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=293, an outstanding European American civil rights group: “1) There is no witness. 2) There is a political or academic pay-off in terms of public recognition, pending criminal legislation, or canceled tests.” Todd, whose attack was “out of range” of the ATM’s camera also, suspiciously, refused medical attention after reporting the “attack” to police. And why would the assailant ask for “$60,” specifically: why not just demand all of her money? And even the B carved on her face was backwards, suggesting the use of a mirror.
In an internal memo, Western Voices World news editors were warned to “be wary” of the story and hold for further details. The reason was because Western Voices staff have become accustomed to stories related to race and violence, particularly “hate crimes.” Because of the politically correct climate surrounding much of law enforcement, a market has been created for fake, exaggerated or misinterpreted hate crimes, used to advance political, social and personal agendas. Thus, for example, if a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4437 into the justice system is an open invitation to abuse.
One example of the danger of criminalizing thought and speech was seen around the horrific http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5747. One of the college kids falsely accused of raping a black stripper had been arrested previously for a street fight. In the fight, the Duke kid had called his older opponent a “fag,” a common schoolyard taunt in such circumstances. As a result, the young man was labelled by the hysterical media as a “gay basher,” despite the fact that his victim was not even a homosexual! The inference was that this “gay bashing rich white kid” had to also be a racist gang rapist.
Certainly, there is never any excuse for inventing criminal allegations, and such false witnesses should be dealt with to the full extent of the law. False allegations have ruined lives and reputations, and should never be tolerated.
The mass media, which is overwhelmingly supportive of Obama, should be expected to give the exposure of the Ashley Todd hoax extended coverage, in comparison with the scant coverage given to much more common nonwhite hate hoaxes. “Experts” will be trotted out to denounce the “scapegoating” of black men by whites, especially women, with a longer view as part of the subtext. They won’t mention the role their own political correctness has played in creating a hoax market, though. “See,” the plotline will read, “all this fear about an Obama presidency is misplaced racism.”
But various government agencies are certainly not complacent about the danger of widespread violence surrounding the election of “America’s first black president.” The national conventions of both the Republicans and Democrats were met with unprecedented police attention. In St. Paul, Minnesota, pre-emptive raids on a leftist group prior to the McCain convention led to a number of arrests, with a group of six now facing serious “terrorism” charges. Hundreds of others were arrested on the streets.
According to various reports, police departments across the US have been put on http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5840 in anticipation of election violence. Accoring to The Hill, “Some worry that if Barack Obama loses and there is suspicion of foul play in the election, violence could ensue in cities with large black populations.” Oakland, California, a largely black city, will see an increased police presence. “Are we anticipating it will be a riot situation? No. But will we be prepared if it goes awry? Yes,” said Jeff Thomason, spokesman for the Oakland Police Department. “Whoever wins it, it will be a national event. We will have more officers on the street in anticipation that things may go south.” Meanwhile, leftists have pledged to organize large protests if Obama loses.
Adding to the tension was the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5657 said.
So, no matter how the Ashley Todd hoax is spun, the problem remains of potential serious violence as an outcome of political correctness and America’s unworkable racial composition.