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Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman’s killer is still on the loose.

And so are the two alleged attackers of University of Kansas professor Paul Mirecki. He claims he was targeted and beaten by a pair of white men driving a pickup truck on a rural highway outside Lawrence, Kansas early last Monday morning. Sheriff’s officials have reportedly seized Mirecki’s car and computer as part of the investigation.

When last we visited the Mirecki files, the unhinged professor was on the verge of suing his university and the local sheriff’s department for insufficient support and the direction of the criminal investigation.

Now, the university has fired its own salvo–standing firm on its report that Mirecki voluntarily resigned as chairman of the religious studies department last week.

My latest column provides an overview on the mess. An excerpt:

Mirecki can’t remember where the incident took place, according to local law enforcement, and has offered only the vaguest of suspect descriptions. There are conflicting accounts about Mirecki’s physical appearance the day of the attack. While a faculty colleague claimed that “big swollen spots” had “transformed” Mirecki’s face, Jesse Plous and Tiffany Jeffers, two of Mirecki’s students, told the campus newspaper they didn’t notice bruises or scratches when they met for his class six hours after the alleged attack. Lindsay Mayer, another student in the class, “said injuries weren’t extremely noticeable.” Mirecki did not mention the alleged beating in class.

Now, a week after the alleged attack with the alleged assailants still at large, Mirecki is poised to take both his university and the local sheriff’s office to court for their insufficient support and investigation. The fundies! Academia! The cops! They’re all in on it!

After university officials announced that Mirecki had voluntarily resigned as chair of the religion department, the professor came out of his shell to blast the school for forcing him to step down. The university stands by its account. Mirecki has complained that law enforcement officials have seized his car and computer, and doesn’t like the direction of the probe. “If I have to sue, I will,” he told the Lawrence Journal-World.

None of this smells right.

The truth is there are too many cases of hate crime hoaxers on campuses — a phenomenon most left-leaning journalists are loathe to cover — to dismiss the possibility in this case. Last year, Claremont McKenna College professor Kerri Dunn was sentenced to prison after she staged an anti-Semitic hate crime against herself. Earlier this year, a lesbian student at Mt. Tamalpais High School in Marin County, Calif., faked several anti-gay incidents to garner attention and sympathy. Leah Miller, a black student at San Francisco State University, admitted to scratching “NIGG” on a dorm room door and writing herself a note with the same epithet. Jaime Alexander Saide, a Northwestern University student, admitted making up anti-Hispanic threats against himself after the school rallied around him with “Stop the Hate” marches.

Strange, isn’t it, how leftists on campus who sneer at blind faith are so often fooled by it themselves.

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