The Untold Truth of the Matthew Shepard Story

[Candace Owens]

I used to support the gays. In fact, when I was in high school and
college, I was outspoken about being all for the LGB community. My high
school’s drama club put on a production of The Laramie Project, a play
about a boy named Matthew Shepard who was brutally murdered for being
gay. It was an emotionally impactful story. The play opened a national
conversation about why people should be able to be gay without being
killed in America. After seeing this production, I couldn’t understand
how any human being could not want legislation to be pushed forward to
protect these people from hate crimes simply because of an attribute
like being gay. Looking back on this now, I recognize this was likely a
propagandist effort to prompt us to talk about gay and lesbian issues.
As it turns out, the story in the play is not the whole story.

The actual happenings of the event occurred on October 6, 1998. Matthew
Shepard went to Fireside Bar in Laramie, Wyoming, a local gay-friendly
hangout. Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney arrived shortly
thereafter, and the three men hung out before leaving in McKinney’s
father’s truck. After leaving together, Shepard was robbed, beaten,
pistol whipped, tied to a fence, and set on fire. Henderson and
McKinney left him unconscious, and 15 hours later, a student riding his
bike found Shepard, barely alive, with tear streaked cheeks. Shepard
did not survive.

There was much progress for gay rights because of the Matthew Shepard
story. Once the story came out, politicians and celebrities pledged
their support to combat anti-gay hate crimes, which, at the time,
didn’t even exist. It was President Obama who signed the Matthew
Shepard Act in 2009, a law which defined attacks motivated by victim
identity as hate crimes. The Shepard family, his devastated parents,
became campaigners for gay rights. Numerous more dramas, books, and
documentaries followed, telling Matthew Shepard’s story.

While the events of Shepard’s murder are true, there was more to the
story. We were told that he was killed simply because he was gay. That
was the media’s spin — and it was quite the spin. In 2013, Steven
Jimenez, an award-winning writer and TV producer, published a book
titled “The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew
Shepard.” Jimenez had spent years investigating Shepard’s murder,
initially believing it to be a story about homophobia like everyone
else. What he found out was, Matthew was addicted to and dealing
crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin. He had also been pimped as a
prostitute alongside Aaron McKinney, one of his convicted killers, who
he had occasional sexual encounters with. And he was HIV positive at
the time of his death. Shepard’s killers also apparently knew he had
access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000,
which they wanted to steal. After Henderson and McKinney left Shepard
tied to the fence, they headed to his home but encountered two young
Hispanic men, Emiliano Morales and Jeremy Herrera, who were slashing
tires (just for fun). The four got into a fight, McKinney cracked
Morales’ head open, and the police arrived on the scene. That is the
full story.

Shepard came from an affluent family, spent part of his childhood in
Saudi Arabia, spoke three languages, and was a straight-A student when
he enrolled at Laramie. Yet somewhere along the line, he got mixed up
in drugs, always looking for his next high, and there is nothing a drug
addict won’t do to get that next high. But this new information did not
help make the perfect poster boy for the gay rights movement — part of
the reason why the book was trashed. Obviously, McKinney wouldn’t have
attacked Shepard because he was homophobic. But Shepard’s narrative had
already been decided. He was a celebrated figure in the public eye, so
they went with the story of a hunky dory town in the middle of America
that wanted him dead.

This is just another example of how we do not let facts get in the way
of an emotional story in America — and a story to further our own
causes. It is also an example of how easily we are brainwashed into
believing whatever the media want us to believe. We want to think the
media are committed to tell us the truth, but what they really do is
intentionally remove the truth and sell us a lie.

[TruthBarker]

What Happened To The People Who Murdered Matthew Shepard?

The murder of college student Matthew Shepard shocked the nation on
multiple levels. The sheer brutality of the murder — which consisted of
two roofing workers beating and then tying Shepard to a fence, where he
was left to die — was appalling, but it also symbolized something even
bigger. Shepard was gay, and his 1998 murder cast a light on the
challenges faced by members of the LGBTQ community and the fact that the
United States still had a lot of ground to make up when it came to
acceptance and equality (via the Los Angeles Times).

According to Oxygen, on October 6, 1998, Shepard was out at a gay bar in
Laramie, Wyoming known as The Fireside Lounge. Earlier that evening,
Shepard had been at a meeting with friends to plan on-campus events for
an LGBTQ awareness week, per BBC News. Shepard had asked his friends if
they wanted to go with him to The Fireside Lounge for a beer but didn't
get any takers.

At the bar, he encountered two men, Russell Henderson and Aaron
McKinney. Both men were the same age as Shepard and saw the slightly
built Shepard — who was just a couple inches over five feet tall and
didn't weigh much more than 100 pounds — as a target they could easily
overpower. The pair lured Shepard outside the bar and abducted him. By
this point, it was the early morning hours of October 7, and McKinney
and Henderson drove Shepard to a rural area where they robbed him and
beat him with the butt of a pistol, before tying him to a fence and
leaving him behind. According to Biography, McKinney would later state
that he thought Shepard was dead when they left him, but that wasn't the
case; Shepard was still alive, albeit in a coma.

Both Henderson and McKinney were found guilty of murdering Shepard and
were both sentenced to life in prison. Meanwhile, Chasity Pasley was
found guilty of helping the two discard bloody clothing belonging to
Shepard. According to the Associated Press, she was sentenced to 15
months to 2 years in prison.

https://www.grunge.com/882858/what-happened-to-the-people-who-murdered-matthew-shepard/

It should be noted first, Candace Owens is a whore for Trump, but the
article was posted by someone well known to us who takes his talking
points from Putin. He also pretends to be Ben Shapiro now and then.

This crime should have been prosecuted also as a hate crime, true
justice was not served. All kinds of bullshit is being put forward now.
It was a robbery gone bad, it was drug deal gone bad, he tried to touch
me ........

The problem with some faggots is they want to prove how macho they are
by taking another life.

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Let's go Brandon!

[Rick Dankus]

>s not the whole story.

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