<p>Hmmm…I wonder if this is similar to the case of the Claremont professor who vandalized her own car and blamed in on anti-semites.</p>
<p>A fair question. Just as I think it would be fair to ask if there was a criminal conspiracy of evangelical churchgoers stalking the professor, waiting for their opportunity.</p>
<p>Well, at this point it’s hard to know what to hope for; on the one hand, if he was beaten he’s not a fraud and a self-righteous liar (inasmuch as he reported that he was beaten–the victim of a hate crime), but then if he was beaten, he was beaten and honest.</p>
<p>I would like to at least believe that he was beaten, for what ever reason he may have been beaten, because I’d hate to see him drug thru the mud al la Morton Downey Jr. who in an act of martyrdom and a claim of victim-hood painted an inverted swastika on his celebrity forehead.</p>
<p>If the curious professor was beaten, and it was for the horrible reason he claims, I hope that they throw the book at the hooligans responsible.</p>
<p>I’m suddenly reminded of Tawana Brawley.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/dec/07/ne_mirecki/[/url]”>http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/dec/07/ne_mirecki/</a></p>
<p>“But it’s fair to ask if the sheriff’s dept. might not be composed of evangelical churchgoers involved in the conspiracy.” (anticipating Mini’s next post.)</p>
<p>Very fair.</p>
<p>The more articles I read the less likely it seems that anything resembling the truth is likely to become clear anytime soon…</p>
<p>Tawana Brawley’s hoax-case went on for a long time—actually made it to court. And brought us two decades of Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>That’s former presidential candidate Al Sharpton, to you;)</p>
<p>And I’m reminded that a terrorist conspiracy fomented in the midwest (across several states, and within the U.S. military) by folks claiming to be Christians brought us the largest terrorist attack on the U.S. in history prior to 9-11.</p>
<p>What’s your point?</p>
<p>The obvious point is that this professor’s tale seems to be falling apart, as the Brawley case did…just much faster. In the McVeigh case, to which you allude, the evangelical law enforcement conspiracy tracked the alleged Christians down, put them on trial, and executed them (or are headed in that direction.)</p>
<p>Hey, if Prof Mirecki’s story turns out to be true, I say put the perps in prison where they belong. Unfortunately for him, the most recent news suggests that his story may have taken the professor into Tawana’s realm–an imaginary excrement-filled trash bag.</p>
<p>McVeigh made the mistake of killing a lot of people, including innocent children. If he’d just beaten up one obnoxious atheist are you so sure the authorities would have been as diligent? Like I said before, the story strikes me as suspect on its face, although I don’t see anything new that suggests that it’s “falling apart.” If the story is true, it seems to me that it is a hate crime. That’s why I’m scratching my head over the December 7 report posted by driver.</p>
<p>Suddenly the conservatives are DETERMINED to get the TRUTH out. It could be tough – they are a tad out of pracitce.</p>
<p>I am very curious about this story, but it seems to me that the guy is just trying to keep his job after being attacked physically because of his own verbal attacks. It has been said that the pen is mightier than the sword. I am curious again as to whose pen will win out on this one. Certainly not the professor. He has been subdued. So who is left in this political battle that has I hope nothing to do with religion or Christianity or lack thereof? If it does then my upbringing wasn’t Christian or I am really out of touch with the reality in the U.S. today. As to sensibilities, my Dad was raised Catholic but he has great Pope jokes that even my grandma would laugh at and she was the one to take me to church and light candles for wayward relatives. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, what a desolate world we will create. What did this guy do that is so horrific? Call someone a fat face. And no one else has? I know I have. Enough already! I guess because I have lived overseas for so long, I know what it is like to be an outsider and I feel bad for the guy. I don’t get involved in political discussions usually because it doesn’t do any good. But this one is distorted. And I have friends in Kansas and they are great. It is not just a midwest thing. It can happen anywhere, anytime.</p>
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<a href=“http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/12/121004schoolHate.htm[/url]”>http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/12/121004schoolHate.htm</a></p>
<p>Guess who the perp was.</p>
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<a href=“http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/05/09/fakehatecom/[/url]”>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/05/09/fakehatecom/</a></p>
<p>This is not to say that the Professor and his unusual brand of teaching his subject (imagine a misogynists teaching a women’s studies class) deserve anything less than the benefit of the doubtthat he was beaten. Still, it may be that we should also extend the benefit of the doubt to those who took exception to his peculiar expertise. This kind of fraud is not uncommon in the midst of such controversy.</p>
<p>You cant help but be a little skeptical
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<p>If this actually happened, I hope that the prosecutor makes an example of the perpetrator, even if he is a fat man in a silly hat.</p>