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
Has algore written another book???
"Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified ... in an attempt to stop it," Rudolph wrote."
I can't argue with that.
Using force, deadly force to protect the life of another or yourself IS the defining verbage of "Deadly Force".
Well, come here to Thailand and I will be more than happy to take you to orphanages filled with children suffering the effects of AIDS. I will also be more than happy to introduce you to people here from all walks of life who also have AIDS because of inadequate sterilization of needles and other similar reasons. Sorry, AIDS is not only a gay disease.
Semantics are hardly worth debating but there is little difference between murder and killing aside from potentially the level of malice.
"And does that make it right? Does that mean I can kill."
I personaly don't believe in killing in any form, but if you choose to recognize it as legitamite in any form; abortion, execution, terrorism, then yes it means you can kill/murder because you have justified it in your mind and will find others in the justice system, law enforcement, judges, juries, lawyers who will support you and thus you have granted yourself the ability to take life.
It happens everyday.
I never said AIDS was an exclusivly GAY disease, but you are arguing with facts. It's all right there, Gay men are most at risk for contracting AIDs in the US. And I don't want to see anyway die because they were misinformed.
And my point is, that no one deserves to die from AIDs.
You are putting words in my mouth.
I don't believe those examples carry the same degree of malice but both would be instances of murder.
When we hear descriptions of heinous and wicked acts carried out against one another and against the innocent it makes our stomachs turn and fills us with anger. Individually our emotions desire vengeance but collectively we need to seek justice. They are very different things.
You despise and carry ill will for all murderers and so do I but killing them makes you a murderer. I agree it is common sense.
No. One is murder and the other is killing. Killing can be justified.
I can't argue with that.
The imprecatory psalms are in the Bible for a reason -- to be used by godly congregations as spiritual weaponry against evil and evildoers. I knew of a case once where a pro-abort kid appointed himself harasser of the picketers. As Christians peacefully assembled outside the abortuary, this jerk loudly read pornography to them. Finally, two brothers returned the favor, reading imprecatory psalms back. "Robin, this is how God regards his enemies," they gently explained. "Do you REALLY want to continue being an enemy of God?"
This apparently healthy 20-something guy was found dead in his bed a week later of natural causes. Actually supernatural.
Anything can be justified in one's own mind. I just did my taxes and made some outrageous deductions that I felt I could justify, the IRS may pass a different judgement however.
So you can support your justified killings in your own mind and not consider it the murder that I know it to be.
Consider the following:
"After five years on Louisiana's death row, Ryan Matthews received a second chance at life. He was exonerated last year with the help of DNA evidence.
"He was 17 years old at the time of his arrest and is borderline retarded," said Martha Kashickey, the public-education associate for the Innocence Project at Yeshiva University's law school in New York City.
"Post-conviction DNA testing on the mask the perpetrator left at the scene both exonerated Matthews and revealed the identity of the actual perpetrator," Kashickey said from New York City."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0408_050408_tv_dnadeath.html
If this innocent man had been killed as you desire, it would certianly be murder, how could it be otherwise.
I reject the idea of killing/murder and God will have the final judgement on us all including you.
"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."
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Why wouldn't the local cop or city of Murphy get the million? The fbi did nothing to catch Eric.
So who did Rudolph save?
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