Rape Fantasist Afflicts University of Wyoming

A woman at the University of Wyoming in Lararmie shocked the school with claims that she had received rape fantasies/threats, based on her liberal politics.  Turns out, like many such hate crime cases that make the news, that she made up the claim, and got caught in the act. Stacy McCain fills us in:

The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended

The university campus in Laramie was gripped by fear last week:

“I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good Republican b–ch.”

The victim of this Facebook threat cited it as “an example of rape culture,” and who could doubt she was an object of twisted GOP lust?

All over campus, plus-sized Women’s Studies majors hid themselves behind dead-bolted doors, while University of Wyoming officials launched an investigation to find the hateful misogynist responsible for this crime. Fortunately, investigators didn’t have to look far:

A student at the University of Wyoming who claimed she was targeted for a Facebook rape threat because she “runs her liberal mouth all the time” faked the threat against herself, police say. Meg Lanker-Simons, 26, has been charged with interference with a police investigation by giving false statement. . . .
UW police . . . interviewed Lanker-Simons and searched her computer, and ”obtained substantial evidence verifying that the offending Facebook post came from Lanker-Simons’ computer.” Lanker-Simons “admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it,” according to the citation for a misdemeanor, which can be punished by up to a year in jail.

She threatened to “hatef–k” herself and “lied about not doing it”? Well, who can blame her? Obviously, anybody would be embarrassed to admit they wanted to “hatef–k” themselves, because our oppressive patriarchal society is so judgmental about auto-hate-eroticism...

Maybe she did carry out her threat on herself, NTTAWWT; stranger things have happened. Based on her picture, it seems to me unlikely she would be picked out of a crowd for attention.  There are much better looking liberal democrats.

False accusations of hate crimes seems to be a pattern in the lefto-sphere.  Taki has a list of her ten favorite fake hate crime claims.  My favorite:

4. ANOTHER BLACK MAN DRAGGED BEHIND A TRUCK
In 1998, the same year James Byrd was dragged behind a truck, a black drug dealer named Cornelius Weaver said the same thing happened to him. It was investigated as a hate crime until Weaver was forced to admit his wounds were the result of getting the shit kicked out of him in a drug deal gone wrong.

I do vaguely recall one case of a right-winger doing something like this, but since the left is keen on demonstrating  that the right is chock-a-block with hate, such fakes are predominantly attempted by the left.  Who knows how many escape unquestioned?