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Um, not so new, not so original, but... breaking!!!
A Princeton University student [Francisco Nava '09] who claimed he was beaten unconscious by two assailants after receiving death threats for his morally conservative views admitted yesterday to fabricating the attack and sending the e-mail death threats to himself, other students, and a prominent conservative professor, police officials said.
Mr. Nava, 23, is a politics major and a junior at Princeton who this semester has become an outspoken member of the Anscombe Society, a morally conservative student group that speaks out against same-sex marriage and pre-marital sex. Mr. Nava claimed that he has been receiving death threats since October after penning a column in the student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, criticizing the university's campaign to distribute free condoms on campus as "tacit sponsorship of hookup sex." On Friday, he claimed he was attacked by two black-clad assailants and rendered unconscious after they repeatedly hit his head against a brick wall.
Over the weekend, Mr. Nava was recovering in the McCosh Health Center on campus. Visitors said his jaw was badly swollen, his face was covered with cuts and abrasions, and the inside of his mouth was bleeding. The severity of the wounds on Mr. Nava's face were one of the reasons that students and faculty members said they doubted that the injuries could have been self-inflicted.
but, oh! - they were...!!!
but - we don't know how:
In an interview with The Daily Princetonian, Nava expressed remorse for his actions' effects on the recipients of the threatening emails, other Anscombe members and the general Princeton community. "I accept full responsibility for my actions and agree to face criminal and/or disciplinary proceedings from the University," Nava said. He declined to answer any other questions, however, including how he managed to inflict the injuries on himself and what motivated his actions.
and it's nothing new:
But friends said yesterday that doubts about the veracity of e-mail death threats and the physical assault began to surface after it came out that as a high school student at the Groton School, Mr. Nava had sent himself and his roommate a false e-mail death threat using an anti-homosexual slur.
Now, what was the report, before the truth came out...?
The assailant, identified as a white, college-aged male, stopped Nava and asked him if he would "help someone who's been hurt." The assailant then pulled Nava into a dark area where another male joined in holding Nava's jaw shut. The two assailants thrust Nava's face against a brick wall causing abrasions, according to an email sent to administrators. Nava was then punched until he lost consciousness. When he awoke the assailants were beating him with a glass bottle. Nava's two attackers said, "We told you to shut the f* up," apparently echoing words that had appeared in messages received by Nava and four others affiliated with the conservative Anscombe Society. After the assault, Nava was taken to Princeton Medical Center for treatment. He was released late Friday evening.
The attacks came two days after Nava and five others, including prominent politics professor and conservative scholar Robert George and Rhodes Scholar and Tory Editor-in-Chief Sherif Girgis, were sent email death threats. One message said, "SHUT THE F* UP WE WILL DESTROY ALL OF YOU WE ARE WATCHING YOU YOU DONT BELONG HERE WE WILL KILL YOU."
The moral...? It's tough to enroll people onto the homophobic, "moral" bandwagon without a little, you know - pizazz. And a little of the old ultra-violence. Nothing stirs up righteous, holy anger quite so well as the unjust torment visited on teh lambs o jeebus.
update: no pic of our pal Nava here, but - remember Justin Zatkoff...?
this shit is becoming endemic!