Posted on 12/05/2005 8:13:08 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht
Mirecki hospitalized after beating
By Ron Knox, Eric Weslander (Contact)
Originally published 05:37 p.m., December 5, 2005 Updated 06:31 p.m., December 5, 2005
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists.
Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County. In a series of interviews late this afternoon, Mirecki said the men who beat him were making references to the controversy that has propelled him into the headlines in recent weeks. Mirecki
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“I didn’t know them, but I’m sure they knew me,” he said.
Mirecki said he was driving to breakfast when he noticed the men tailgating him in a pickup truck.
“I just pulled over hoping they would pass, and then they pulled up real close behind,” he said. “They got out, and I made the mistake of getting out.”
He said the men beat him about the upper body with their fists, and he said he thinks they struck him with a metal object. He was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
“I’m mostly shaken up, and I got some bruises and sore spots,” he said.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Officials are classifying the case as an aggravated battery. They wouldn’t say exactly where the incident happened, citing the ongoing investigation
The sheriff’s department is looking for the suspects, described as two white males between ages 30 and 40, one wearing a red visor and wool gloves, and both wearing jeans. They were last seen in a large pickup truck.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS or the sheriff’s office at 841-0007.
Mirecki recently wrote online that he planned to teach intelligent design as mythology in an upcoming course. He wrote it would be a “nice slap” in the “big fat face” of fundamentalists.
The remarks caused an uproar, Mirecki apologized, and KU announced last week the class would be canceled.
"You ought to be ashamed of those who endorse the act."
And I am ashamed on those who endorse the act of abortion, as we all should be.
Very well. You pursue the subject of terrorism in a thread involving a possible pummeling of a loon. You appear to support the establishment of university classes intended to ridicule the beliefs of others.
As for this Eric Rudolph you reference (who was it that brought his name up?), I do not know the man. You seem keen on everything about him. Do you support him?
"Very well. You pursue the subject of terrorism in a thread involving a possible pummeling of a loon."
I DIDN'T BRING UP TERRORISM, someone else did. Learn to read.
"As for this Eric Rudolph you reference (who was it that brought his name up?), I do not know the man. You seem keen on everything about him. Do you support him?"
Have you been living under a rock for the last 10 years? Have you ever read a newspaper, watched the news, or listened to the radio? At any rate, a few of your creationist buddies know all about him and have no trouble saying they support his actions. He murdered an abortion doctor. He set off the bombs at the Atlanta Olympics. He is a terrorist. What do YOU have to say for your buddies here supporting his actions?
Because your tone is almost always vitriolic, insulting, and your initial statement was in full support of beating this guy up. You got called on it and made up some nonsense about it being sarcasm, but your initial statement was totally in character. I don't believe you because you are not honest.
There is a difference between the ACLU joining the case and the Kansas school board seeking out an alliance with Islamic clerics because of their success in getting ID taught in fundamentalist Islamic schools.
Furthermore, I don't recall anybody cheering the election of democrats to the Dover school boards. IIRC, there was more jeering than cheering. They tried to cram religion down the throats of other people's kids and every one of them got beat at election time. That they got beat by democrats, well, that's what happens when republicans try to violate the first amendment.
They were actually four Democrats and four Republicans. They ran on the Deomcrat ticket because the Republican ticket was all clogged up with creationists.
Would you please direct me toward some evidence that my friends are supporting this guy? Please provide specific details as to the nature of their support. Have they donated to his cause? Have they entered a plea in his defense? If you count a lack of condemnation as "support," then you have a problem understanding what constitutes support.
Don't worry about the spelling. I make more than my share of typos!
"Would you please direct me toward some evidence that my friends are supporting this guy?"
They SAID they support his actions. They SAID they think he is a hero. They aspire to his *bravery*.
"If you count a lack of condemnation as "support," then you have a problem understanding what constitutes support."
Again, you are either too lazy to actually read the thread or too dishonest to admit what you saw in it. Read the thread.
You were the first one to bring up the word in this thread, and you sure like to harp on it.
Thank you. I didn't know that. Where I live, school board elections are "non-partisan". Nobody has to declare which party they belong to, and trying to figure it out can be difficult. I am not used to being able to know up front which candidate is from which party. The only way to check is to check their list of endorsements.
You don't think that blowing people up is not terrorism? What is YOUR opinion on Eric Rudolph? We already know your buddies' praise of him.
I don't think discussions of terrorism are related to discussions about a loony professor who possibly got punched in the nose. Take your master baiting somewhere else.
Someone else, in post 461, brought it up all by himself. He praised terrorist acts. I DIDN'T BRING IT UP.
I'll take your silence on Rudolph as an affirmation that you too support his actions.
And stop bringing up your obsession with master baiting. It'll make you blind.
You brought up the word "terrorism" and haven't been able to it alone ever since post #461. You also brought up this Rudolph guy and dragged him through the thread, too. It is you who are prolonging an issue that has no bearing on a loony professor whose nose got bloodied. Like this loony professor, you'd like to bait Christians into the same moral quagmire you espouse. It ain't gonna happen.
Sheer hyperbole. You harbor delusions that are not even germane to this thread.
You're trying to have it both ways here: "If it happened, I'm going to gloat and gloat, but if it didn't, well, I'm covered there too because I'm skeptical."
Sorry, if you don't believe the guy is credible, then you should not have to qualify every statement mocking the oaf, especially considering that he's fine.
Take very careful note of his words, it wasn't "Well, it was scary, but I'm glad to be OK and I just hope they catch the thugs." It was "It's those right wingers" [that's you, bud, he's widened the net of blame] "and they won't believe me without seeing blood (and I wasn't going to pay some guy to do that to me, what do you think I am, crazy?) uh, and how can you not take my every utterance at face value? Can't you see, via this phone interview, that I have a boo boo?"
Even the title is misleading because "hospitalized" implies he was admitted. He was not, he was treated as an outpatient and released.
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