Dear Professor Mirecki ([email protected]):
My name is Mike Adams. I am a columnist for www.TownHall.com . Just a few minutes ago, I called your office seeking an interview about your alleged roadside beating at the hands of two apparent Christian fundamentalists. First, let me say that as a fundamentalist Christian I am opposed to any such violence. I am writing, in part, to help you find the men responsible for this beating.
Q: Will you consent to a brief interview?
A: No comment.
Q: Professor, I understand that some people are accusing you of falsifying a report to the police. They say that you were never, in fact, accosted and beaten by a couple of Christians. I want you to know that I will listen to your side of the story. Will you please consent to a brief interview?
A: No comment.
Q: The local Lawrence, Kansas newspaper quotes you as saying, “The right wing wants blood, period. They’re not going to stop until they see blood. They’re not into anything else.” Is this quotation accurate? If so, do you really believe that all members of the “right wing” are violent? As a criminologist, I am interested in your assertions.
I also wonder whether there have been any instances of left-wing speakers being assaulted on your campus by right-wing members of the audience. Please report any examples including, but not limited to, pie throwing.
A: No comment.
Q: Professor, the aforementioned local paper also quotes you as saying, “Whatever I do, whatever I say, they don’t believe anything because that’s the way they are… I know what happened. I got the hell beat out of me. They can say what they want.”
Are you asserting that all members of the “right wing” want to a) attack you physically and b) attack your character?
Is this why you refuse to answer any questions? Do you think that there is a conspiracy to misrepresent your words?
A: No comment.
Q: Can I ask you some simpler questions, professor? For example, how long have you been chairman of Kansas University’s Religious Studies Department?
A: No comment.
Q: Recently, you wrote an e-mail discussing a course you developed in response to “religious fundamentalists” and their efforts to promote intelligent design theory in Kansas’ public schools. In the email, you stated the following: “The fundies (fundamentalists) want it all taught in a science class, but this will be a nice slap in their big fat face by teaching it as a religious studies class under the category ‘mythology.’”
Did the two men who allegedly beat you by the side of the road have “big, fat faces”? Did they assault you with any weapons including, but not limited to, food products?
A: No comment.
Q: The comments you made in the aforementioned email were made on a public list-serve, weren’t they? You have stated publicly that a “mole” recently monitored the atheist and agnostic student organization’s list-serve in order to forward your message to a fundamentalist organization. You stated that “It’s their version of ethics – one citizen spying on another and reporting to authorities.”
Do you believe someone can be spied on in public? Do you consider this “fundamentalist organization” to be one of the “authorities” monitoring you?
A: No comment.
Q: I am told that your beating at the hands of two unidentified men began after they had been tailgating you in a large pickup truck. During the attack, what did they say to you that made you believe the attack was by Christian fundamentalists retaliating against you for your recent email comments about “fundies”?
A: No comment.
Q: After the pickup truck began tailgating you, why did you decide to stop your vehicle?
A: No comment.
Q: When these two men pulled up behind you by the side of the road, why didn’t you just drive off?
A: No comment.
Q: And when the two men got out of the truck, why did you unlock your car and get out?
A: No comment.
Q: You told a reporter earlier this week that you were also struck with a metal object? What did the object look like? How did you know it was metal as opposed to wood, for example? Did you see it?
A: No comment.
Q: After the police arrived at the hospital around 6:40 A.M., you claimed that one of the white males that allegedly attacked you was wearing a red visor and wool gloves. Is that correct?
A: No comment.
Q: Was it cold in Kansas the morning you were allegedly attacked by the side of the road?
A: No comment.
Q: How could you discern the color of the attacker’s visor given that the sun did not rise in Lawrence, Kansas until 7:27 on the morning of the alleged attacks?
A: No comment.
Q: Why was the attacker wearing a visor, which protects one from the sun — and, certainly, not the cold — given that it was not sunny but cold at the time of the alleged attack?
A: No comment.
Q: What do you say to those who suspect you have fabricated these charges in order to promote bigotry against Christians?
A: No comment.
Thank you for your time, professor.
Update: Just hours after his exhaustive interview with Dr. Adams, Professor Mirecki resigned as Chair of Kansas University’s Religious Studies Department. Nonetheless, Dr. Adams insists that the case is far from over.
To be continued…
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Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Mike Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. Mike Adams was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Mike Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. Mike Adams also played for free beer.
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Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
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After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.
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Today Mike Adams enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. Mike Adams is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008.
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