Girl Faked Anti-Illegal Immigration Sign Attack, Official Says

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: FOX ;D

A girl who claimed she was injured by a group of Hispanic students after she made an anti-immigration poster for a class project lied about the attack, a school official says. In fact, surveillance video captured the girl injuring herself, the official says.

Other sources:

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/569774.html
http://www.nbc5i.com/education/15838222/detail.html?rss=dfw&psp=news

Read more: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6264033&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

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The amazing manifestation of freedom of expresion and represion :-D

And for the lie detector http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRFvtpR4oxk

[Karenina]

1. Who's her daddy?

:rofl:

[AlphaCentauri]

4. see da video

[ladywnch]

10. it's been pulled from youtube.

[AlphaCentauri]

23. I was going to posted in the political videos, too late

[DumpDavisHogg]

13. Phil Parlock, perhaps? (n/t)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. At least it's impossible for her to cause brain damage.

[zbdent]

15. like a B.B. pellet rolling around in a boxcar ...

(thank you Jim Cornette ...)

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. I want the video on YouTube RIGHT now n/t

[LanternWaste]

5. And where is the link from earlier in the week

And where is the link from earlier in the week when the story broke, with posters righteously proclaiming this young... "lady's" martyrdom?

The right is becoming wonderful at Professional Victimization. :eyes:

edited for punctuation

[AlphaCentauri]

9. freeper were organizing boycotts, fund risings, protest, sending mails, making calls....

[EFerrari]

48. They're such idiots.

LOL!

[Mike Daniels]

29. What about the faked intimidation at GWU?

Where someone was caught spraying swastikas or some other hate symbols on his own door?

Fake victimization runs on both sides of the political aisle as also demonstrated by the Duke University stripper case. And yes, that applies since Sharpton and other agitators tried to turn it into a piece of political/racial theater.

[AlphaCentauri]

38. In the latino community I have not seen so many cases of playing victims

when they don't have a job and are homeless they start selling flowers or oranges off the freeways, specially the immigrants never seat at freeway exits with a sign asking for money.

[LanternWaste]

43. Seems to me there's simply more of it on the right

Seems to me there's simply more of it on the right. I'm sure a knowledgeable person could put together a spread sheet comparing and contrasting both numbers-- but I've a pretty good hunch the wingers would easily come out on top...

[NoGOPZone]

44. Not familiar with that case, but I am aware

of a right winger at Princeton student claiming to have been the victim of a hate crime because of an article he wrote before admitting it was a hoax.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=889

By the way, Sharpton's involvement in the Duke University case was minimal at best. I realize that many people, even here, instantly associate him with any case with a racial element, but he was mostly an observer for that one.

[EFerrari]

46. I tend to disagree. The right wing manipulates hatred in a way

that the left wing does not. It's a group activity. We may have a few wacky people, but for them it is a political strategy.

[muntrv]

6. A reich winger lying? How shocking!

[chat_noir]

7. Athens School 'Attack' Proven To Be False, Girl To Be Charged

There are major new developments today in the case of a supposed beating of a student from Athens Middle School.

Charges are being filed against 13 year old Melanie Bowers by Athens ISD through the Henderson County District Attorney's office for filing a false report, said AISD officials today.

Bowers claimed earlier this week that she was beaten and threatened - with killing and rape, no less - by a group of students at Athens ISD last Friday, for creating a protest sign saying, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration."

After Melanie's accusations, administrators reviewed school survellience videotape of the incident - which, instead of showing students beating or attacking her, showed Bowers scratching herself on her arms, face, and neck, and walking through the halls of the school calmly long after she claimed the incident happened.

After Melanie's parents were presented with that information and the video, the school confronted Melanie, and she admitted that she made the story up.

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8142322&nav=1TjD

[tired]

14. Where is the apology to the other students

The parents seemed to acknowledge the fact that she lied but what about the fact that she is a complete bigot?

[Shakespeare]

8. I KNEW it!!

This rang phoney from the first I read about it.

[KamaAina]

11. sfexpat2000 and devilgrrl nailed it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3259829&mesg_id=3259997

:yourock:

[EFerrari]

47. Isn't it bizarre?

We could do an entire folkloric study on these stories!

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

12. is her Dad Lou Dobbs?

[superconnected]

16. Sounds like a freeper in training.

[MADem]

17. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...

What Hayes had earlier said was a scuffle partly borne from a heated national debate over immigration now appeared to be mostly horseplay, he said.

"The real error in this whole thing lies in the young lady telling lies," Hayes said.

Hayes said the school is pursuing misdemeanor criminal charges against the girl for making a false report.

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. But when we've practiced quite awhile, how vastly we improve our style...

;-)

[MADem]

25. She should have looked out for those security cams! NT

[sudopod]

18. LOL

Pwn3d.

[SunDrop23]

19. You can only imagine the outpouring of support she got from fellow right wing fascist hacks (n/t)

[DRoseDARs]

20. The videolink you posted has been removed by the racist fuckwit that posted it on Youtube.

Gee, I wonder why... :rofl:

[AlphaCentauri]

22. yep he is destroying evidence let see if some one captured todays news

[MADem]

26. Here's the school video of the girl injuring herself....

http://www.kltv.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=2370114

[DRoseDARs]

"The video you are trying to view is unavailable." Christ, even the video is embarrassed by itself.

eom

[MADem]

30. Ooops, posted in the wrong place--they took it down, apparently!

I speculated that her father is trying to make her disappear from the WWW.

[AlphaCentauri]

32. Link to another video

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8142322&nav=menu117_3

[MADem]

33. That's the one! My link was bad..! nt

[MADem]

28. Wow, it was up yesterday. It shows the kid strolling down the hall

SCRATCHING herself.

Her parents are working overtime trying to make her image go away, I guess!

[MidwestTransplant]

24. Here's the Freeper thread on the original story that paragon of virtue Michelle self hate Malking

posted on her website.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998523/posts

[suninvited]

45. Do they have a thread on it now that the attack

has been proven to be false?

[slampoet]

27. If she is injuring herself then she should be institutionalized for observation.

Plain and simple.

[Seeking Serenity]

34. Yes. She may have a deeper mental or emotional issue at play.

I don't know about "institutionalized," but if there is some mental or emotional disturbance at work here, she definitely needs counseling and treatment.

[AlphaCentauri]

36. she is a teenager, she might be reading or watching too much anti hispanic propaganda

teenager some times act crazy, not because they are. She probably has been influenced by other people or the media.

[Seeking Serenity]

39. While I certainly won't say that politics could not have been the reason

for her actions, as the mother of a teenager, I strongly doubt it. In my experience, they just don't think that way, and especially not at 13.

Obviously, she had to have had some exposure to the illegal immigration debate to have come with that method in the first place, but I think (just MHO; that and three bucks will get you a cup of coffee) it was much more a cry for help.

I hope she gets it.

[AlphaCentauri]

40. it could be a cry for help, many teenagers become gang members to feel accepted

by the society, they are influenced very easy when they turn on that state of mine, in her case anti-hispanic feelings in other people surrounding her could influence her perception, that is if she act in certain way she would be accepted and recognized.

[Seeking Serenity]

41. Yes, but this was east Texas. Not as difficult to find simpaticos

(to pointedly borrow a Spanish word) against illegal immigration there without feigning an attack.

Why would she fake an attack using the immigration debate as the reason?

The girl needs help.

[AlphaCentauri]

42. Because she may not have to much contact with hispanics were she leaves but at school

yes, combining anti-hispanic feelings with feeling of loneliness and un-acceptance plus some HS pears common teenagers problems, then there is a mix that could explode at some time. I would imagine that from the year book she accused all the hispanic kids she could find, 17 males and 4 females.

[Seeking Serenity]

31. I'm glad this didn't happen as initially reported. (n/t)

[AlphaCentauri]

35. Me too, I recognize that her action stimulated many deep dark feelings in some people.

which is a reality that those feelings exist.

[EFerrari]

49. This little girl is still a victim of the hatred in our culture --

whether she feels it or it's directed at her -- it's still unhealthy for her. And kids at that age can be so emotional, that's the last thing they need to deal with. Pobrecita, maybe there's a way to write to her.

I am glad, though, that no one will be unjustly punished for something they did not do.

[AlphaCentauri]

53. Yeah! We have to show her support to overcome this incident

RWer are so upset that they want to crucified her, she deserve a change to amend her feeling and ideas.
But looking at a bigger picture her action was not unusual, in history there are many similar actions that have ended in wars and tragedies. Actually in her subconsciouses she was mimicking our current administration by pretending that there were weapons of mass destructions, could that be possible?

[treestar]

37. How Rovian

Right wingers always make themselves into victims and see that as the ideal way to win an argument.

[MountainLaurel]

50. Color me surprised

:puke:

[NewHampshireDem]

51. Can you please come to Digg and digg up this story?

http://digg.com/politics/Bullsh_t_Girl_WAS_NOT_assaulted_over_immigration_sign

[EFerrari]

52. Done!