[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] A well-known female liberal blogger and radio host at the University of Wyoming (UW) is being accused by police of fabricating a rape threat against herself to appear as if it came from a conservative.The reward of those who tell lies is not to be believed, quoth Aristotle.
The obscene message directed at activist Meg Lanker-Simons was posted on a college "crush" Facebook page earlier this week and immediately ignited outrage from the college community.
"Help! Help! We're being oppressed!"
"I want to hate f**k Meg Lanker-Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn't care who knows it," it read. "I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good Republican bitch," the post reads, according to a screenshot.
Us Republicans talk like that all the time. Most of us are illiterate, y'know. My knuckles have big callouses on them from dragging.
Before the post was removed, Lanker-Simons commented on it and on her own blog, calling it "disgusting, misogynistic, and apparently something the admins of this page think is a perfectly acceptable sentiment.""They're comin' to get me and do you care? No, you don't care!"
She also encouraged the poster to seek help at the UW Counseling service and ends with the advice: "Instead of focusing on how angry and turned on me 'running my mouth' makes you, perhaps you should listen instead. You might learn something."
The voice of sweet reason. And what did we learn?
But on Monday, The University of Wyoming Police Department issued a citation to Lanker-Simons for "interference" for "false statements she made to the UW Police Department," according to a UW statement referred to by Laramie Boomerang Online.
Oh. We learned that she was an attention whore. Tut.
"Subject admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it," according to the citation.
"No, no! It wudn't me!"
The University of Wyoming also confirmed a statement that the police had ""obtained substantial evidence verifying that the offending Facebook post came from Lanker-Simons' computer, while the computer was in her possession."
"Well, yeah. It wuz my computer, but I didn't tell it to do that! I never knew it wuz a Republican! I'da set fire to it!"
According to a Facebook page that apparently belongs to Lanker-Simons she is a member of the University of Wyoming Gender & Women's Studies group as well as the school's chapter of The Nonviolent Communist.
Do tell. That comes as such a surprise.
Since police cited her, supporters have a constructed a Facebook page entitled "Meg Lanker-Simons is innocent."
Of course she is.
"Meg Lanker-Simons is innocent we believe what she did was justified and deserves not to be held accountable for her accusations we stand behind you sister," reads that page's description.
"She's innocent! And it wuz justified! And besides, she wuz out of her head! Driven there by Neanderthalic Rethuglicans in contusion with her computer!"
Lanker-Simons was in the news in 2010 when she was a plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against UW after it retracted its invitation to have Bill Ayers speak on campus.
"Ain't nobuddy can tell me whut to do!"