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Mirecki hospitalized after beating (KU Relig. prof. who mocked religion)
Lawrence Journal World ^ | 12/05/05 | Ron Knox

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.


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KEYWORDS: ameritaliban; cawcaw; crevolist; fakehatecrimes; falsechristian; idgoons; ku; legbreakersforchrist; mirecki; paulmirecki; religionofpeace; talibornagain; unsaved
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To: Emmett McCarthy

that was my first thought...hehe.

granted, it may very well be true, but it all just sounds rather strange.

@ 6:45am it's still dark here.
Plus it was freezing cold.
So You're being tailgated on your short drive into town.
You decide to pull over.
They follow you.
They get out of vehicle.
You get out of vehicle.
They attack you and verbally disparage your beliefs.
Then they drive off.

sorry, is it just me or does this sound rather strange?
anyhow, if its true I hope he gets well soon.


21 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:46 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht
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To: BibChr

I swear that I went through Lawrence at least four hours after this this morning. I was still in the shower when this occured...or didn't occur, LOL.


22 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:48 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

"Who wants to take bets that this turns out to be phony?"

Like, you're telling me that you're alone and after being tailgated by two strangers you pull over and they do too and they get out and you wouldn't exit your vehicle too?

LOL!

The story smells.


23 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:55 PM PST by Shermy
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To: blue-duncan

White, males, pickups, hmm.


24 posted on 12/05/2005 8:21:13 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Will_Zurmacht

The story smells bad. The favorite trick of the left is to pretend to be the victim when caught. My bet is no pickup. No stopping on the side of the road. No two rednecks. Just one leftist professor looking to make himself look like the victim.


25 posted on 12/05/2005 8:21:17 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: Will_Zurmacht

 


26 posted on 12/05/2005 8:22:07 PM PST by Fintan (Suppose there were no hypothectical questions?)
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To: Will_Zurmacht; PatrickHenry; Right Wing Professor

Ping.


27 posted on 12/05/2005 8:22:25 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow (Sneering condescension.)
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To: Will_Zurmacht

In the movie "Dirty Harry", a perp hired someone to beat him up.


28 posted on 12/05/2005 8:23:10 PM PST by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Who wants to take bets that this turns out to be phony?

First thought that came into my mind too.
29 posted on 12/05/2005 8:23:27 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Who wants to take bets that this turns out to be phony?

Gosh, I dunno. That was a pretty precise description of the perps' vehicle--a "large pickup truck". You gotta believe he was there and went through it to get that kind of detail.

</sarc>

30 posted on 12/05/2005 8:23:58 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: Will_Zurmacht
The only way the group he was mocking would hurt him would be if they got over zealous with the Bible thumping. Evangelizing is our style. If he got beat up he needs to look in his own back yard,
31 posted on 12/05/2005 8:24:24 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Will_Zurmacht

Was it a white pick-up and did they have a "Charlton Heston is My President" bumper sticker?


32 posted on 12/05/2005 8:24:41 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: AZ_Cowboy; All

Who in their right mind gets out of a vehicle when accosted by others, by the way?


33 posted on 12/05/2005 8:24:53 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Merry Christmas!")
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To: Will_Zurmacht

I wonder if anyone thought to check this guys hands for bruises.


34 posted on 12/05/2005 8:25:12 PM PST by RavenATB (Patton was right...)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

That was my first thought too.


35 posted on 12/05/2005 8:25:16 PM PST by tdewey10 (It's time for the party to return to the principles of President Reagan.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

I hope they catch those two incompetent rednecks for not even doing a simple assault properly!


36 posted on 12/05/2005 8:25:27 PM PST by Publius6961 (The IQ of California voters is about 420........... .............cumulatively)
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To: randog

Yes; and who'd ever picture angry fundamentalists driving a "large pickup truck"? You just CAN'T make up that kind of authentic detail!!

Dan
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37 posted on 12/05/2005 8:26:59 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Will_Zurmacht; GatorGirl; maryz; afraidfortherepublic; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; livius; ...

My nose twitches. I smell a fraud.


38 posted on 12/05/2005 8:27:34 PM PST by narses (St Thomas says “lex injusta non obligat”)
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To: ExpatGator

hey, it may have been a threesome!;)


39 posted on 12/05/2005 8:27:38 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Will_Zurmacht
As bright as this Harvard Divinity School graduate must be, I am sure he had the presence of mind to note and memorize the license number of the truck.

The again had he done that, there would likely already be an arrest.

I'm holding out for "no truck, no rednecks," just a liberal out trolling for some cheap victim-love.

40 posted on 12/05/2005 8:28:15 PM PST by JCEccles
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