Eric Robert Rudolph to plead guilty

[Fenris]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050408/ap_on_re_us/eric_rudolph&sid=84439559

[ET Awful]

1. Gee, a pro-lifer who supports the death penalty but will plead guilty

to avoid it.

A double hypocrisy. :).

[mr_hat]

3. He'll walk into prison a living-legend. And continue his "work."

[underpants]

8. I wonder if the pro death penalty part of the Culture of life will protest

No probably not.

[Hobarticus]

5. Either way, he's a martyr for the cause...

Barf.

[Wickerman]

2. So, I guess it wasn't the security gaurd guy, huh?

what a freak

[DinahMoeHum]

10. BTW, that guy is owed a gold-plated, diamond-studded apology

by the MSM.


:evilfrown:

[bitchkitty]

13. IIRC, he got a sizeable settlement -

I could be wrong.

[onehandle]

4. Good. The death penalty is too good for him.

If you know Anything about the penal system, you know that the death penalty is the easy way out. That's one reason the death penalty is absolutely no deterrent to crime.

[flamingyouth]

6. He is pond scum.

No, that's an insult to pond scum, actually.

[gratuitous]

7. Needs to get that whole trial thing over with

So Chimpy can pardon him.

[underpants]

9. Hmmm Friday afternoon leak ...hmmm

No one will remember it on Monday and one of Ashcroft's people will go away to jail with little or no attention.

[denverbill]

11. If this had been an 'ecoterrorist' he be on death row.

But there is good terrorism, and there is bad terrorism. This guy was a terrorist, but for a 'good cause'.

[0007]

16. Ted Kaczynski (The Unibomber) & Eric Rudolph (Abortion bomber)

are good type of terrorist than those bad ones, like John Walker Lindh (The American Taleban) who never fired a shot at an American serviceman.
Mordechai Vanunu - The Israel Nuclear Scientist who was imprisoned for eighteen years and now is under house arrest and can't leave Israel. His crime was trying to promote peace in the world. Jose Padilla in prison for two years without a charge, he was claimed to have done business with al Qeada.

[magnussun]

12. Olympic park?

I'm glad the guy was stopped, but his targets did not include those not associated with alternative lifestyles and abortions. They needed to pin the OP bombing on someone, and offered him a plea to avoid death if he confessed. I believe the OP bomber is still at large. The police have been known to coerce confessions, and what what coersion that life instead of death?

M

[sinkingfeeling]

14. So much for the GOP being 'tough on terrorists'. This guy will

continue to egg-on his many 'pro-life' supporters from jail.

[Voltaire99]

15. Some explain the "Run Rudolph Run" t-shirt phenom, please.

Was this right wing sympathy for an anti-federalist terrorist? Was it merely slack-jawed yokels bonding through the latest banality? Or something else?

[AlCzervik]

17. ok were i a rightwing "christian" jihadist, i'd be really

disappointed in rudolph. Does he realize that his cause won't make a matyr out of him since he'll be serving life instead of the death penalty?

[stanwyck]

18. If we had journalists

and not whores, maybe an investigative reporter would follow the money on guys like Rudolph and McVeigh and determine who keeps these guys in junk food while they're making their bombs.
McVeigh was unemployed and traveling the country, buying bomb supplies. Rudolph lived for years under the radar.
Paul Smith, who shot a Florida doctor and his bodyguard, was unemployed for years but able to show up at abortion clinics to protest daily.
Where do these guys get their money?
Who supports them?
Interesting to know.

[Moderator]

19. kick to combine

[NNN0LHI]

20. Rudolph Agrees to Plead Guilty to U.S. Charges for Fatal Bombings

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/national/08cnd-rudolph.html

Eric R. Rudolph, the man accused of a series of bombings including the fatal attack at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges to avoid the death penalty, the United States Department of Justice announced late this afternoon.

Mr. Rudolph, 38 , an anti-abortion crusader and former soldier, will be sentenced to a term of four life sentences when he makes his plea on Wednesday in Federal District Court in Birmingham, Ala.

more

[Mikimouse]

21. Crusader? Interesting choice of words...

Oh, and 'former soldier'. Well, that just makes what he did just fine by me! Must be an honorable man...no doubt in my mind.:sarcasm:

[Kerrytravelers]

22. I'm not surprised. I'm shocked they ever caught him.

As stated above, Rudolph is "an anti-abortion crusader and former soldier." If he'd been an environmental activist or anti-war demonstrator who had committed similar crimes, he'd never be given a plea bargin, but instead the trial would be hailed as the new "trial of the century" (as all celeberity trials are:eyes: ) and the left would have been SMEARED publically, linking everything this person had done to anyone on the left.

But, he bombed in the bname of reichwing beliefs, so he is merely swept under the proverbial rug.

Typical. Figures.

[riverwalker]

23. Remember Richard Jewel?

The innocent guy who initially "everybody" just "knew" was behind the Olympic Park bombings? "He fit the profile" blah blah blah.
If it happened today in post 9/11 America, he would have been hauled off to Gitmo, held indefinitely and tortured mercilessly.
I shutter to think of how many other Richard Jewels there are.

[Charlie Brown]

24. Good. Now the state won't have to pay to prosecute the slime n/t