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Hate crime complaint against New Brunswick law student
by Scott Gilbreath ~ October 18th, 2008
A University of New Brunswick law student alleges that a fellow student has posted hate messages online. The university and police are both investigating.
Shane Martinez said he filed a complaint with the university in March after he was assigned to work on a project with a student in his law class and did an online search of his name to get contact information.
Martinez said that was when he found website postings from the student that contained hate literature. One of the postings called for the genocide of people with mental disabilities. He said the website also targeted gay people, women and several minority groups.
That sounds very fishy. Why did Mr Martinez have to resort to an online search to get contact information? Aren’t the two students in class together? Did an instructor really assign them to work together without providing contact information?
A Google search cannot be counted on to provide reliable information, if only because many people have the same or similar names. The story doesn’t give the name of the accused student, but I hope it isn’t “Bill Jones” or something like that.
Speaking of finding suspect information in online searches, I see that Wikipedia has a lengthy hagiography entry on one “Shane Ruttle Martinez”, a Canadian “anti-fascist” activist, erstwhile official representative for the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada, and graduate of St Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
That couldn’t be the same guy, could it? You just can’t trust everything that Google happens to turn up.
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