Members of the LGBT community have been caught hoaxing hate crimes on a regular basis in order to gain sympathy for their cause or to defame their neighbors who they’re having a squabble with. A lesbian waitress in New Jersey collected thousands of dollars in donations after she claimed a couple wrote on their receipt that they stiffed her out of a tip because she was gay.232 Her story immediately unraveled and she was fired from the restaurant for lying and had to refund the donations.233 A lesbian couple in Colorado were charged with criminal mischief and filing a false police report after they spray painted “Kill the Gay” on their own garage door and said they suspected their neighbors had done it.234 Another gay couple spray painted “Queer” on their own house, and then burned it down to collect the insurance money while also blaming their neighbor.235
One lesbian in St. Louis even carved anti-gay slurs into her own skin and then said she was attacked by some ‘homophobic’ bigots.236 At Connecticut State University a lesbian wrote some anti-gay notes and slid them under her dorm room door which then resulted in students holding a “solidarity rally” to show that they’re “not intimidated by hate.” A surveillance camera caught the lesbian on video planting the notes herself, and she was charged with filing a false police report.237 With the rise of social justice warriors plaguing American universities in recent years, such incidents seem to now be commonplace. Laird Wilcox, author of Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America, estimates that 80% of alleged hate crimes on college campuses are hoaxes or just harmless pranks.238
A gay man in Montana who claimed he was beaten up outside of a club because of his sexuality was charged with filing a false police report after surveillance footage showed he actually hurt himself attempting a backflip on the sidewalk outside, and nobody had attacked him at all.239 A gay YouTuber who made videos promoting “gay rights” was also arrested for faking a hate crime against himself for publicity.240 Someone even claimed that a baker at Whole Foods wrote “fag” in frosting on a cake he ordered and then sued the store, but once again surveillance footage showed the truth and proved that when he left with the cake there was no such thing on it, and he too admitted he wrote “fag” on the cake himself after he bought it.241 There are so many more of these LGBT hoaxes that they could fill an entire book.
Of course the same kinds of hate crime hoaxes are perpetuated by other minorities like black people and Jews who are looking to smear a neighbor they don’t like or trying to “raise awareness” about racism.242 A black student at Kean University in New Jersey was arrested for tweeting death threats to her fellow students who were attending an anti-racist rally on campus after she was caught using a fake twitter account trying to make the threats appear as if they were coming from a white person.243
After a wave of threats to Jewish Community Centers across the United States raised concerns that neo-Nazism was on the rise, a Jew was arrested for making them.244 Other Jews have been caught painting swastikas on their own homes in order to fake hate crimes.245 Swastikas have even been spray painted on synagogues by Jews for the same reason.246 These kinds of hoaxes seem as if they’re a plot out of a cheesy 1980s TV crime drama, but they have been thoroughly documented by police for years. One has to wonder how many more hate crime hoaxes don’t get exposed because of undiscovered evidence which would prove they too are fake.
The ‘victimhood is virtue’ mindset of liberals has created an Oppression Olympics of sorts, where people find value in being a member of a group that is supposedly under attack or marginalized due to their race, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League are often seen as money making schemes that exaggerate the kinds of ‘threats’ they claim to monitor in order to justify their ongoing fundraising efforts. One ADL operative named James Rosenberg was actually caught posing as a right-wing extremist who worked as an agent provocateur, attending white supremacist rallies in order to presumably rile up the attendees to make them look violent.247
The Southern Poverty Law Center is the organization that routinely labels conservatives “racists,” “sexists,” “homophobic,” “bigots,” “anti-government,” and claims they’re members of “hate groups.” Radical Islamic groups are never included on their “hate watch” articles, only ‘anti-Muslim’ ones, and ‘right-wing extremists.’248 They also ignore and have even censored reports of anti-white racism and hate crimes against white people.249
Many see the SPLC as just a way for its founder, Morris Dees, to make easy money through tax-exempt donations. He pays himself a six-figure salary from the organization which helped him build a luxury 200-acre estate, complete with tennis courts, a swimming pool and horse stables.250 The president of another civil rights organization, the Southern Center for Human Rights, has called Morris Dees “a con man and a fraud” who “has taken advantage of naive, well-meaning people◦— some of moderate or low incomes◦— who believe his pitches and give to his $175-million operation.”251
Well, that is a $175 million operation back in 2007. Since then, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s wealth has skyrocketed. In 2015 alone they raised more than $50 million dollars and their IRS filing shows they have accumulated more than $328 million dollars in assets.252 They have even transferred millions of dollars to offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands.253
It’s ironic that an organization with the word ‘poverty’ in their name is stashing millions of dollars in offshore accounts, which may be why the SPLC’s hometown newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser, even said they exaggerate the threats of hate groups in order to rake in millions of dollars in donations.254
Operation Mockingbird
No discussion about fake news would be complete without a thorough examination of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, which at first may sound like a conspiracy theory or the plot of a Hollywood thriller, but it is a very real and well-documented program that was exposed during a 1975 Congressional hearing called the Church Committee.255 In the early 1970s there were widespread allegations that the CIA was involved in a variety of corrupt activities, including spying on American citizens, and even assassinating foreign leaders. The Church Committee was set up to investigate these reports and one of the surprising things they uncovered was that the CIA had been covertly spending millions of dollars a year to pay key figures at major news outlets to work as government propagandists and gatekeepers.256
The scope of Operation Mockingbird is staggering. Thomas Braden who helped lead the program, admitted, “If the director of the CIA wanted to extend a ‘present,’ say, to someone… suppose he just thought, this man can use fifty thousand dollars ($250,000 adjusted for inflation today), he’s working well and doing a good job◦— he could hand it to him and never have to account to anybody… There was simply no limit to the money it could spend and no limit to the people it could hire and no limit to the activities it could decide were necessary.”257