Posted on 04/14/2005 9:19:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
ATLANTA - Abortion clinics around the country are bracing for attacks after Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph issued his manifesto justifying the use of violence to stop "the worst massacre in human history."
"When one of these extremists puts out a call to action, oftentimes, others do try to follow in their footsteps," said Vicki Saporta, head of the National Abortion Federation, which represents 400 U.S. clinics. "He clearly is speaking to the extremists who believe in justifiable homicide."
Rudolph will get four life sentences without parole after pleading guilty Wednesday to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and attacks at two abortion clinics and a gay nightclub. The blasts killed two people and wounded 123.
A federal prosecutor said Thursday she'll recommend that a $1 million reward go to two men who tracked Rudolph moments after the last deadly blast, and who provided authorities with a license plate number eventually traced to Rudolph's pickup truck.
In an 11-page manifesto handed out by his attorneys, Rudolph said the Olympic bombing was an attempt to embarrass the United States in front of the world for allowing abortion.
"Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified ... in an attempt to stop it," Rudolph wrote.
Abortion clinics and federal agents are on a heightened state of alert.
"We're making sure our liaisons have kept up with the clinics and to make sure the security clinics have is up to date," said Mike Campbell, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "Most of them are very cognizant they can be a target of anybody who doesn't like abortion."
Anti-abortion groups condemned Rudolph's endorsement of violence.
"It looks to me as if he views himself as a one-man army against the entire world or at least the United States," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue. "I would concur with his opinion that abortion is murder. However, his frustration that leads to violence is never an acceptable way to accept this."
U.S. Attorney Alice Martin's recommendation on the $1 million reward will be forwarded to the FBI, but the final decision is up to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
"The witnesses have made no request for a reward, and it's not available until the prosecution has been completed," Martin said. "But in my opinion it is worthy of recommendation that those two witnesses be considered."
Martin said Jermaine Hughes, a 20-year-old college student at the time, and attorney Jeff Tickal provided the key evidence that led to Rudolph's quick identification after a fatal abortion clinic bombing in Alabama.
After the explosion, Hughes alerted police that he had seen a suspicious figure walking away from the clinic. He and Tickal then both followed Rudolph briefly in separate vehicles.
Tickal wrote down the license number of Rudolph's pickup truck and eventually provided the first eyewitness identification of Rudolph based on a newspaper photo.
After that, Rudolph spent more than five years as a fugitive before he was captured in 2003 in Murphy, N.C.
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Associated Press Writer Jay Reeves contributed to this story from Birmingham, Ala.
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On the Net:
National Abortion Federation: http://www.prochoice.org
Operation Rescue: http://www.operationrescue.org
Like his supporters, Rudolph thinks he is God, and gets to kill anyone the voices in his head tell him to. Is there any major religion out there that would actually support Rudulph in such a notion?
Oh yes, I forgot, there is one. Send Rudolph to Saudi now.
Rudolph is a kook whose Olympic bombing and gay bar bombing was totally wrong.
BUT when I picture Jesus Christ ripping and roaring at the moneychangers in the temple, I take comfort that there are thousands of abortion criminals/baby killers and baby body parts salesmen who will similarly be called to account on judgement day. I hope I get to watch. N'est pas?
Why do you persist in capitalizing the word "gay"?
Innocents are killed all the time; the unborn, the born (Sun Hudson in Texas) children in Iraq (from terrorists or from US bombing runs), Terri Schiavo, or perhaps wrongly convicted prisoners who were executed.
"Thou shalt not kill" is pretty straight forward but I guess it really depends on one's perspective and how any of these "reasons" to kill can be justified in our own minds.
Oops, sorry, I meant Rudolph. It's late.
I don't advocate violence against abortion clinics or abortion doctors. However, I am getting a kick out of seeing the abortion clinics and FBI getting all excited about the "possibility" of violence against clinics because of what Rudolph said. You would think that this was the only type of terrorist activity happening in this country. How about eco-terrorists or terrorists coming across the border? Abortion must be protected at all costs. Number One priority. Go figure.
One form of violence is sanctioned by law. Another is proscribed by law. Having said that, we have to ask ourselves a question, as a people: How much more of the legal tolerance should be tolerated? Not knowing what we can do to stop it, and being consisitently stymied by the courts despite sound legal arguments to end the violence pushes a tiny handful over the precipice - to acts of desparate violence such as that committed by Mr. Rudolph. Not saying it's right. It's just human nature.
It's time to change abortion law. The pro-life position is the only one that is legally, intellectually, and morally tenable. It's time for the other side to "soften", for a change.
legal tolerance = legal violence.
Better to use the media to combat the left's promotion of abortion: Pro-Life Television Commercials.
the thing about the Olympic bombing is that it served as a great distraction for Flight 800 going down, "mysteriously".....
You're right, of course. It's especially the case in that the media covers the horror of Rudolph's action but not the day-to-day horrors that happen every day - frequently - behind closed doors. "Right to privacy".
Prayer. Find out when the Right to Life in your area prays there and join them!
Lawrence (KS) abortion clinic closes because of funding woes
Eugene abortion clinic closes; surprising many (Hooray !!!)
Prayer credited for closing of abortion clinic [Eugene, OR]
Planned Parenthood will shut down 3 clinics [Indiana]
Persevering Students Help Close Abortion Clinic [Santa Paula, CA--Thomas Aquinas College]
Abortion Clinic Managers Quit After Being Outed by Operation Rescue [Wichita, Kansas]
One Man's God Squad: Troy Newman's plan to stop abortions in Wichita, Kansas
You justify it by saying that the ends does not justify the means. If you believe that it does then you better join the socialist and other communist because that is their prime doctrine.
It is wrong to kill people, just to kill them, or for birth control. It is wrong to kill to push a private agenda, we can change abortion with law and will do so.
Execution is done to punish and to keep killers from killing again and it is done after a trial by jury.
All of you who say this guy is some kind of hero a need to look inside yourselves deeply because you definately have a flaw.
Two sentences that say it all.
AMEN and deep bow.
Rudolph is a coward and a complete POS. I hope the isolation and severity of the prison he's headed to drives him just nuts enough that he's in great agony, but not so nuts that he doesn't know what's going on. Much, much better than the death penalty.
The Commandment is "Thou Shall not MURDER," Actually.
""Innocents are killed all the time; the unborn, the born (Sun Hudson in Texas) children in Iraq (from terrorists or from US bombing runs), Terri Schiavo, or perhaps wrongly convicted prisoners who were executed.""
And does that make it right? Does that mean I can kill.
""but I guess it really depends on one's perspective and how any of these "reasons" to kill can be justified in our own minds.""
Moral Relativity. We have a justice system, law enforcement, a judge, a jury, lawyers. The question is, "Is that person a risk to society? Did that person murder? Did he or she kill or MURDER."
Do I really have to get into this in depth?
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