Professor blasts KU, sheriff’s investigation, Mirecki says he may sue university

LJWorld ^ | 12/10/05 | Sophia Maines

[gondramB]

Sometimes public events are so unexpected...and sometimes they are so predictable it's almost painful. Like this story.

[jwalsh07]

Sounds like Mireckis story has some holes in it and he has retained an attorney to keep him from digging them any deeper. I could be wrong about that but evidently the cops see it the same way if they asked him questions for five hours. Of course they could be wrong as well. We'll see.

[Baby Driver]

"Mirecki says he may sue university"

Typical liberal rat.

[Tench_Coxe]

Looks like that week old fish-tale is really starting to stink. Perhaps Mirecki should hire Michael Newdow as attorney. Then there would really be a circus in town.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

". . . and the university capitulated to demands of the conservative minority."

Waaa?

[Slings and Arrows]

He said he had no choice but to sign the resignation letter, which was typed on stationery from the office of Barbara Romzek, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Department chairs serve at the pleasure of the dean, and can be dismissed for any reason or no reason. Sorry, Charlie: Embarrassing your employer in the national media is not a good career move.

[cake_crumb]

"On Friday, he displayed two black eyes and a bruise on his arm that he said came from a beating administered early Monday by two unknown men who had followed him in a pickup truck as he drove to breakfast. He said his attackers mentioned the controversy."

Drama king.

[cake_crumb]

"I could be wrong about that but evidently the cops see it the same way if they asked him questions for five hours. Of course they could be wrong as well. We'll see."

My knee jerk reaction was that he hired the guy or guys to beat him up exactly in order to initiate a lawsuit. If so and he keeps it up, the next story on him could be an arrest for perjury and conspiracy to defrauding the courts.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Photo here and interesting discussion of injuries: (larger photo further down):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537819/posts

[Stultis]

"Whether I'm right
or whether I'm wrong

Whether I faked a hate crime
or got beat like a gong

It's all about me
It's all about me! ..."

(apologies to the great sdj)

[spinestein]

[“The University penalized me and denied me my Constitutionally protected right to speak and express my mind,”]




This pompous ass needs to do a little more research on The Constitution. He doesn't have a "right" to force other people to provide him with a forum and an audience for his views.

If he wants to speak, he's free to do so the same way as the rest of us rubes.

[oldbrowser]

“The University penalized me and denied me my Constitutionally protected right to speak and express my mind,” he wrote in a statement prepared for the newspaper.

Could it be that the University also has a constitutionally protected right to speak and express their mind ?

[ozzymandus]

This guy is an obvious (to me) fraud. He's an attention-hungry left-wing activist who loves publicity. I hope the Douglas County sheriff and county attorney charge him with falsely reporting a crime. His whole story (and life) smells bad. Even the KS papers, which have been throwing a massive fit over intelligent design, are staying away from this, because they know it's a set-up. BTW, this guy's claim to fame is "finding" a 5th century document in a German library. How can you "find" something in a library? Could I become famous by "discovering" the Encyclopedia Britannica at the local library?

[jwalsh07]

Not bad Stultis, not bad at all. I'm sure Sammy would take no offense, he had an excellent sense of humor.

[atomicpossum]

If I were beaten up, I'd be railing against the thugs that came after me, but he's mad at the school. Suspicious, and telling, IMHO.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

This guy is really stuck on stupid.

[VOA]

How can you "find" something in a library?

It does happen. I think at least a few of the re-discovered
Caribbean seawrecks have been found by first dredging through
libraries of Spanish documents from the 1500s-1700s.

Just a guess, but this weasel Prof. probably got his reputation
for first finding the document buried in a library's stacks AND
recognizing it as something significant.

He should have been contented with that and his tenured salary...
and kept his trap shut when thinking bigoted thoughts about Christians.

[RJL]

“The University has a duty, as a protector of intellectual honesty and debate, to support its teaching staff when controversial issues are raised,” Mirecki said.

Was the "intellectual honesty and debate" part when he wrote that he was going to use his mythology class to rub the fundies big fat faces in it?

[RJL]

Kansas University professor Paul Mirecki said he’s hired an attorney and is ready to go to the mat with KU and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

“If I have to sue, I will,” he said.

Mirecki said he’s angry because KU didn’t back him after religious conservatives attacked him for his plan to teach a course dealing with intelligent design.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...