On the 1996 bombing at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park: [Eric Rudolph]

CNN ^ | Apr 14 2005

[george wythe]

"For many years I thought long and hard on these issues, and then in 1996 I decided to act. In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington, millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global socialism. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games.

Even thought (sic) the conception and purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism, as perfectly expressed in the song 'Imagine' by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games -- even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these despicable ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27th was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand."

"The plan was to force the cancellation of the Games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested. The plan was conceived in haste and carried out with limited resources, planning and preparation -- it was a monster that kept getting out of control the more I got into it. Because I could not acquire the necessary high explosives, I had to dismiss the unrealistic notion of knocking down the power grid surrounding Atlanta and consequently pulling the plug on the Olympics for their duration."

[george wythe]

I thought that the Olympics bombing did not fit Rudolph's previous MO. He seems to address this issue here:

"The plan that I finally settled upon was to use five low-tech timed explosives to be placed one at a time on successive days throughout the Olympic schedule, each preceded by a forty to fifty minute warning given to 911. The location and time of detonation was to be given, and the intent was to thereby clear each of the areas, leaving only uniformed arms-carrying government personnel exposed to potential injury.

"The attacks were to have commenced with the start of the Olympics, but due to a lack of planning this was postponed a week. I had sincerely hoped to achieve these objections without harming innocent civilians."

"After the disaster at Centennial Park, I resolved to improve my devices and focus the blasts upon a very narrow target. Towards this end I acquired a quantity of high explosives (dynamite)."

[massgopguy]

In every account of the Rudolph case, one name is prominently missing. Richard Jewel! Where do you go to get you life back?
This man was destroyed by the Feds and the USOC in order to keep people from fleeing Atlanta in fear and taking tgheir money with them.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Last I heard he left Georgia and got a job in Law Enforcement.

[george wythe]

I hate to say it, but Richard Jewell was the perfect patsy

[HEY4QDEMS]

Correction, Jewel is still in Georgia, but he is working in Law Enforcement.

ESPN actually has a pretty good column about Richard Jewel and how the FBI and Media screwed up his life.

[Cat loving Texan]

I hate nutballs like this. They give good conservatives a bad name. I don't like Roe vs. Wade either but we have a constitution and the Supreme Court found a misguided right to privacy (how that equated to right to abort a fetus is beyond me but liberalism is a mental disorder). The olympics are a sporting event not government sponsored socialism. Killing innocent spectators is unacceptable and this guy is a poster child for supporting the death penalty. Unfortunately the left will use this type of action to paint all conservatives as nutballs. Thanks for your help Eric I hope your fellow inmates take care of you in prison. You helped set back your cause and have earned no sympathy.