Richard Jewell, RIP

RedState.com ^ | 30 August 2007 | .cnI redruM

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Richard A. Jewell (December 17, 1962–August 29, 2007)

Matt Drudge describes Richard Jewell as the man the media murdered. The hyperbolic headline overstates what happened; Jewell actually died of severe diabetes. But Drudge could fairly report that Jewell got victimized by malicious, condescending hatred on the part of a patronizing, elitist media.

Jewell became a part of the nation’s conscience during the tragedy-marred 1996 Summer Olympics. He worked the event as a security guard and was on duty at Centennial Olympic Park at 1:21 A.M. on 27 July 1996. Jewell had just done everything in his power to prevent the bombing that took place on his shift.

Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the bag and alerted Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers; 9 minutes later, Rudolph called 911 to deliver a warning. Jewell and other security guards began clearing the immediate area so that a bomb squad could investigate the suspicious package. At 1:21am, the bomb exploded.

Three days afterward, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that the FBI had matched Jewell to a profile of what they called a “lone bomber.” The FBI had been seen observing Richard Jewell’s apartment and considered him a suspect. At that point, the media switched into overdrive.

To the Mainstream Media, Jewell fit another profile to a tee. He was white, in law enforcement, and came from the South. To the Tom Brokaws of the world, that was enough evidence to start the hanging party. The media combed over his background and built a back story describing Jewell as a stereotypical small town loser.

Concerns by former employers at Piedmont College about Jewell's past employment record there and his "nervous and stressed" appearance on television.

Reports that Jewell had been "exposed to explosives and bomb instruction" in his law enforcement training and in a continuing education course and that he "had dealt with homemade pipe bombs."

Reports that Jewell had resisted efforts to reassign him away from the sound tower. An associate of Jewell's saying he thought, "Jewell might have believed that …setting off a bomb in his area of responsibility…could make him appear heroic and enable him to get employed as a police officer again" coupled with Jewell telling CNN he hoped to get a job in law enforcement after the Olympics.

Answers from Jewell about his actions immediately after the bombing that contradicted videotape of Jewell in the post-bombing minutes.

In Dekalb county Jewell had allegedly impersonated a police officer, which led to his pleading to a lesser charge.

In Habersham County, Jewell had had more problems, which led to him to resign as a deputy sheriff. The later released search warrant affidavit states that Jewell had "wrecked a police car and another car in a high speed chase…this incident was the second or third time Jewell had over-reacted and wrecked a police car in a chase."

The existence of a "profile" of a lone bomber of which Jewell had characteristics.

These gory details certainly don’t help a young man build a strong resume. The media could factually report, that like tens of millions of other Americans, Richard Jewell had a laundry list of personal difficulties. There were, however, several other items that the media should have also reported.

Aside from the fact that Jewell was at the site and had a backpack, the police still had little or no physical evidence such as fingerprints, bomb making equipment or eyewitness accounts linking Jewell to the bombing. In fact, they had not yet even interviewed him as a suspect or searched his apartment.

Tom Brokaw spun this in a manner that would have made Talleyrand proud. I remind you that at this juncture the police had no fingerprints and no eyewitnesses linking Jewell to the bombing. Brokaw saw this as no problem.

"The speculation is that the FBI is close to making the case. They probably have enough to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well. There are still some holes in this case".

The New York Post utterly disgraced itself over this story. They defamed and insulted a man the FBI didn’t have the requisite evidence to arrest and charge.

The newspaper reportedly called Jewell "a Village Rambo" and "a fat, failed former sheriff’s deputy."

Richard Jewell had now become a household name to be scorned. The stereotypical ignorant, red-neck bomb-chucker that liberals so love to toss out there as a template to denounce all those crazies out there in “Je-Susland.” Jay Leno had himself a field day calling Jewell the “Una-Bubba”. What a funny-man.

The media was right about one thing. The act was perpetrated by a lone bomber, acting as a domestic terrorist. The man’s name was Eric Rudolph, and he remained at large as a malignant plague on society until 2005. Rudolph had a political motive to his dastardly actions that synched far more closely to the “lone bomber”™ profile than anything Richard Jewell may have had on his mind on a graveyard shift in late July.

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 though 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 27 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.

Just think how much fun Tom Brokaw could have had with all of that, if he had only reported the truth instead of his political agenda. By tarring Richard Jewell as their Right-Wing Nazi De Jour, they missed the chance to help keep the genuine, despicable and deadly article from striking again. The irony of that may have just killed people at the abortion clinic and the gay nightclub that Eric Rudolph successfully bombed after the attack in Atlanta.

With Rudolph caught and incarcerated in a supermax prison, Richard Jewell did receive vindication. He was completely exonerated and NBC paid him $500,000 to avoid having to admit they libeled him. He landed a job with a small town police department and experienced the joy and success of marriage.

On August 1, 2006 Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue took the long overdue step of honoring Richard Jewell for saving lives on a disastrous summer night in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the least that could have been done for Richard Jewell, and will help his surviving family members remain rightfully proud of his name.

They should be. It far more befits his actions during the bombing than what the media said about him after the fact. May Our Lord bless the soul of Richard Jewell. He deserves far better in the hereafter than he got here on planet Earth.

[jazusamo]

Very well said, Smooth, I believe you’re right on!

Thanks for your post, Girl, I had no idea. That is some consolation for the unjust treatment of Richard Jewell.

[TChris]

Jewell became a part of the nation’s conscience...

Umm... No.

Jewell became a part of the nation's consciousness (awareness), not conscience (moral compass).

[Dionysius]

Don’t forget Janet Reno! Her conscience must resemble a landfill.