‘Hate-Fuck’ Hoaxer Meg Lanker-Simons Has Criminal Record for Gun Incident
By Robert Stacey McCain
When last we
checked in on Think Progress award-winning blogger Meg Lanker-Simons, the
progressive feminist was charged with making a fake Facebook threat to
“hate-f*ck” herself. Now it turns out that “Meg Lanker-Simons” is
the alias of a dangerously crazy criminal formerly known as Meghan
Michelena, who in 2006 pleaded guilty to aggravated
assault after getting fired from a Wyoming radio station:
According to court records, she was
charged in November 2005 in District Court with aggravated assault.
Lanker-Simons, then Meghan Michelena, pleaded guilty to the charge in May 2006 as part of a plea agreement, records indicate. . . .
Lanker-Simons walked into an Albany
County radio station she’d been fired from with a Glock 22 .40 caliber handgun.
She confronted a man who had decided
to terminate her, the affidavit reports. The man also told her, the court
documents state, that she would not be rehired.
Lanker-Simons “pulled a
semi-automatic pistol from her purse, waved the firearm around and pointed
(the) firearm at (the man),” according to the affidavit.
The man, according to the affidavit,
said he was “in fear for his life.” . . .
She was sentenced to six years of
probation in July 2006.
The probation sentence was subject to
numerous stipulations, including . . . undergoing counseling . . .
Court documents state she violated
probation by being “unsuccessfully discharged” from a residential treatment
program.
In April 2007, she was again
sentenced to probation with the stipulation she complete a treatment program in
Utah.
Uh, “counseling”
and “residential treatment program” — do these terms sound to you like legal
euphemisms for a trip to the nuthouse?
In 2012, Lanker-Simons’ blog
Cognitive Dissonance, which has since been taken down, won an “honoree” award
from the liberal group Think Progress for “live blogging the entire GOP
primaries.”
Lanker-Simons was also 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.
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.
“Nonviolent,”
not so much.
It would be wrong
to generalize from the example of Meghan Michelina (a/k/a Meg Lanker-Simons) to
conclude that all progressive bloggers are in need of a “residential treatment
program.”
Nor would it be
fair to suggest that all Women’s Studies majors are potentially dangerous
gun-wielding lunatics.
However, I would
suggest, as atypical as Michelina/Lanker-Simons may be, on a scatter-chart of
progressive feminist bloggers, her particular dot is not really that far from
the main cluster.
She is the
visible tip of a vast submerged iceberg of craziness.
Not every
feminist is a criminal or a psychopath, and if every progressive blogger were
locked up in the nuthouse, the burden on our mental-health system might prevent
adequate treatment for genuinely crazy people who haven’t yet discovered the
Internet.
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1 comment:
"However, I would suggest, as atypical as Michelina/Lanker-Simons may be, on a scatter-chart of progressive feminist bloggers, her particular dot is not really that far from the main cluster."
LOL
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