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.
I'd say he's not the only one, re-read the exchanges from post 570 onward.
The scolding schoolmarm has not completed all of her dossiers on the vast conspiracy the misbehaving boys are involved in. Once that hugely time consuming task is completed, she’ll go to the principal, (oops, I mean the FR administrators) to try get all of the misbehaving boys expelled (oops, I mean banned).
Then they'll just disappear from FR into the 'Night and Fog'.
Next question: who let him in here?
"Candygram"
I know where he can find a whole posse of clowns as juvenile as he is.
The entire thread is a severe embarrassment to FR.
I gurantee you'll see more of the same. If you look back through the posts, you'll see some of the usual suspects found in other threads of note commonly referred to as 'science-vs-religion".
I've been tempted to ask some of these folks, 'why are you here'? It's definitely not to discuss issues related to the purpose of FR, as stated on its entry page.
Yes, it is an embarrassment.
Careful - illiterate clowns are on patrol tonight :)
By the same token, your non-answer suggests that you support the baby butchers, and are a disgrace to everything that separates humans from the beasts.
"By the same token, your non-answer suggests that you support the baby butchers, and are a disgrace to everything that separates humans from the beasts."
Do you support the actions of Eric Rudolph?
Nine why? Am I too old to be talking to you?
C'mon men, last call. Drink up.
Let the lady finger her guitar and the Senator bed whatever fellows he likes.
Not exactly an auspicious beginning, but whatever...
Do you two Bedfellows?
You tend to be a somewhat demanding person PaleHorse. Perhaps you're an indian chief who is used to having his orders carried out by underlings. In any case, my comments on this thread seem to have struck a negative chord...stirring up more negative than positive comment. I wonder how many of you consider yourselves to be prolife. If any, the life you seem most interested in preserving is that of the abortionist doctor. You have the nucleus of a foundation for the care and feeding of abortionists...kind of like the care and feeding of cancer.
PaleHorse...Question: What's the differance between a cruel, sadistic, bloodcrazed islamofascist terrorist and an abortion doctor?
Answer: The abortion doctor has murdered more innocents and is much better paid. Otherwise not much differance.
So why are we fighting a war on terror and not on abortion.
Grammar good. You try grammar. You like.
Do you support the crud he was attempting to remove?
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