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.
"That is MY TAKE on his suspiciously timed "attack". "
You indicated that, if your take is wrong, you'd still insist that it was fact.
Concentrate, Pale.
On every word.
LOL!!!
BTW, people who ally themselves with the communist ACLU in Kansas, Dover Pa, Georgia, etc and cheer the elections of democrat school boards shouldn't be making guilt by association arguments. But I have noticed hypocrisy is not a deterrent to most of the evo fundamentalists here.
I must add, however, that if this already indiscreet guy somehow did fake the encounter -- which I doubt -- he's thoroughly discredited.
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####Who wants to take bets that this turns out to be phony?####
It could certainly be phony. There's plenty of precedent for it among lefties such as Mirecki. However, to be fair, it could also be legitimate. Mirecki may be a hypocrite and a kook, but that shouldn't merit a beating.
If this happened, I see no grounds to equate their actions with those of the Prince of Peace.
"If this happened, I see no grounds to equate their actions with those of the Prince of Peace."
Come on, this is the First Church of Free Republic! The new creed: "Every knee shall bow, even if we have to break 'em ourselves..."
Hope you're right, because to think that someone would defend Christianity with violence like this is a stupid thing to do.
I think half the guys on the wall are retreads. Oh well, one cannot discriminate, especially when one lacks evidence...
"Hope you're right, because to think that someone would defend Christianity with violence like this is a stupid thing to do."
Think of how stupid the average person you meet out there is.
Now realize that about half of them are even more stupid than that.
I see you hold your fellow man in high esteem. Doubtless you are at the top of the heap where intelligence, wisdom and general virtue are concerned. May I borrow your cincture?
I say it's a phony incident if you're keeping track.
Come on, this is the First Church of Free Republic! The new creed: "Every knee shall bow, even if we have to break 'em ourselves..."
My apologies. Where are the knee-capping lessons being taught? I missed that part of the services on Sunday.
"My apologies. Where are the knee-capping lessons being taught? I missed that part of the services on Sunday."
Just down the hall from the inter-confessional flame wars, behind the snake-handling room, but before you get to the coffee & doughnuts.
Me neither.
It's called sarcasm, as should be obvious as the post responded to was clearly sarcastic, as well.
Sanitized, too.
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