Eric Rudolph Captured

CNN | May 31,2003 | Vinnie

[marajade]

Me too... it is kinda ironic though that some country sheriff arrests him for dumpster diving...

[Hacksaw]

Sigh. It's almost as though they want FR to be portrayed that way. OK - I'll start a thread on nominating Emily Lyons for a postage stamp. She is so wonderful, after all.

[marajade]

There's a distinction though that has to be made...

Abortion is legal by LAW...

Murder is illegal by LAW...

You can't bring the morality between abortion and murder into this thread because its not applicable...

[Constitution Day]

OLD ERIC RUDOLPH THREADS ON FREE REPUBLIC:

07/18/98: A HERO OF MANDELLA...A FOOL AND COMMON CRIMINAL OF RUDOLPH!

07/20/98: Green and Black...Today's Color Scheme in the Rudolph Hunt...

08/05/98: Ex-colonel offers to help lead Rudolph safely out of woods

10/14/98: Rudolph charged in Olympic Bombing

10/15/98: FBI Accuses Eric Rudolph of Lincoln murder

11/12/98: 200 AGENTS NEEDED TO HUNT RUDOLPH

12/15/98: RUDOLPH MANHUNT FINDS ONLY SKEPTICS

01/10/99: RUDOLPH CONTINUES TO ELUDE SEARCHERS

01/28/99: In Search Of Rudolph - An Outsider's Story

01/30/99: A Year Later, Bomb Suspect Eric Rudolph Still Eludes Capture

02/12/99: **Stop the Eric Rudolph witch-hunt! How to punish him? Creative suggestions?

03/10/99: Eric Rudolph : Top terror fugitive outfoxes hunters

03/17/99: Freeh: FBI may scale down investigators searching for Rudolph

07/27/99: Eric Rudolph is a dangerous "lone wolf'' : Agents Say Accused Bomb Fugitive Very Dangerous

12/14/99: ATF Chief Believes Rudolph Is Dead

[marajade]

"There is no need for due-process, he is white."

So you think that after being sought for seven years the state is going to him give him a reason for appeal? I sincerely doubt it... BIGTIME...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Katie Bar the Door!

[Catspaw]

Funny how you're ignoring the murder of Alice Hawthorne, the woman who was killed in the Olympic Park bombing.  Does her life mean anything to you? 

Bombing victim loved life

ATLANTA (CNN) -- The death of Alice Hawthorne cast a pall over the Summer Olympics.

She was the only person to die from the bombing in Centennial Olympic Park, although a Turkish television cameraman died of a heart attack while rushing to videotape the aftermath of the downtown explosion.

To those who knew her, the 44-year-old Hawthorne, an entrepreneur and cable TV customer service and sales representative from Albany, Georgia, represented much of what was good about life -- determination, generosity, spunk.

The mother of two daughters drove to the park in downtown Atlanta after work on July 26 as a birthday present to her 14-year-old, Fallon Stubbs. The two were dancing at an outdoor concert by a rhythm-and-blues band when the pipe bomb exploded early the next morning.

"If somebody went to all the trouble to bring the Olympics to Atlanta, the least I can do is go," the outgoing Hawthorne was quoted as telling friends before the trip.

Deadly shrapnel pelted Hawthorne and injured Fallon and 110 other people. A doctor and nurse tried to revive Hawthorne at the scene, but she was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Fallon was hospitalized briefly.

Hawthorne, a Georgia native, grew up in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville. Her parents divorced, and her mother, a cleaning woman, encouraged her children's aspirations.

After graduating from high school, Hawthorne moved to Albany to attend Albany State College (now University), where she earned her marketing degree -- despite several interruptions -- in 1994. She served in the Army and Air Force.

Fallon was the daughter of Hawthorne's first husband, John Stubbs; an older daughter, Adoria Minor, was from another relationship. Hawthorne and Stubbs divorced in 1984, and she married John Hawthorne Jr. in 1987.

Hawthorne worked at TCI of Georgia. In 1993, she opened Fallon's Hot Dog & Ice Cream Parlor, fulfilling her longtime dream of owning a business. It was named after her daughter.

Hawthorne's willingness to cheerfully help others was one of her striking qualities, those who knew her said.

She volunteered at Fallon's school, the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion Post 512. Ironically, as a goodwill ambassador for the Chamber, one of her last civic contributions was to organize and publicize the running of the Olympic torch through Albany.

Georgia Gov. Zell Miller and Andrew Young, co-chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, attended the memorial service held for her in Albany. The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff, and world leaders offered condolences.

[E Rocc]

If we could go back in the archives we could find a number of freepers who thought Rudolph was a hero.

While claiming that Islam as a religion is fully responsible for the actions of its nutcases.

-Eric

[dogbyte12]

OK - I'll start a thread on nominating Emily Lyons for a postage stamp. She is so wonderful, after all.

That isn't the point and you know it. What if it wasn't Emily Lyons. What if it was a passerby who happened to walk by the clinic with her children on the way to the bus stop when the bomb went off? Bombings are cowardly, inaccurate, and evil. Cheering them lessens you as a person.

[faithincowboys]

We'll see! Odd that he didn't take credit for it in the letters, he did take credit for the gay bar and the abortion clinic bombings. That's just odd to me!

[prisoner6]

No there is, or at least was a group calling itself THe Army of GOd. I have heard the minister who ran the group on local radio here in Pittsburgh. A while back Post Gazette reporter Dennis Roddy did a series of articles on them and their conection to another fugitive accused of bombing abortion clinics or shooting at abortion doctors.

prisoner6

[Belial]

There is no need for due-process, he is white.

Oh, let's all pity the poor victim, the white American male.

[TommyDale]

Libel, defamation, whatever. Rudolph is still innocent until proven guilty. Those who write, say, publish, or post that he is "the bomber" are showing their own stupidity. He is the suspected bomber.

[nina0113]

If Eric Rudolph is guilty, then he is a terrorist - I would have turned him in myself had I known where he was. The FBI totally f'ed up the case in NC - they went throwing their weight around among the 'ignorant hicks' as they saw them, and everyone clammed up & stopped knowing anything.

I don't see how they can connect him to the Olympic bombing though - it doesn't seem to fit. I hope they have more evidence than "A bomb went off in the same part of the country, so he must be involved."

Too bad they decided there was no 'John Doe 2', or they could have tied him in to Oklahoma City as well.

All of the evidence in these bombings was handled under the Clinton Justice department - I just don't have much faith in the people who mishandled Waco & Ruby Ridge so badly.

As far as the abortion (not health) clinic bombing, I've read some interviews with Emily Lyons too, and Hacksaw is right - she is an utter ghoul. That doesn't justify the bombing, but it makes it difficult to feel much sympathy for her. I did in my pro-choice days, but those ended at Columbine.

They just had her on CNN (by phone), talking about how her life has been impaired - she's no longer able to play piano, read or drive very far - and I can't help thinking about all the babies she helped to murder that never had the opportunity to do any of those things. The thought of regretting their destroyed lives seems never to have occurred to her.

[Hacksaw]

Funny how you're ignoring the murder of Alice Hawthorne, the woman who was killed in the Olympic Park bombing. Does her life mean anything to you?

Except I did not ignore it. I was commenting on Emily Lyons, who you were posting about. Nive try, but no dice. Another example of you dishing it out, but not being able to take it. Again, I chalenge you to repost my statements that you have accused me of through your questions.

[marajade]

"Odd that he didn't take credit for it in the letters..."

So this fact alone to you indicates he didn't do it?

[Catspaw]

Me too... it is kinda ironic though that some country sheriff arrests him for dumpster diving...

Sometimes it's just dumb luck--but in this case, the deputies that arrested him noticed the scar on his chin and it matched with Rudolph's description. They deserve the credit.

[aristeides]

Bombings are cowardly, inaccurate, and evil. Cheering them lessens you as a person.

Didn't the U.S. and its allies do a lot of inaccurate bombing during WWII?

[MEG33]

A young law officer.This officer had remembered a scar and was alerted by the scar!I've heard many officers say luck has a part.We were lucky this officer was informed and alert!

[goodseedhomeschool]

Just as with the Mcveigh fella, this guy will be quickly put to death so he can tell no tales. It sure is funny that these so called bombers get killed so quickly, while there are men on death row who have been there for years. Just an observation.