Eric Rudolph Captured

CNN | May 31,2003 | Vinnie

[Vinnie]

CNN is reporting that Eric Rudolph has been captured in Murphy, North Carolina

[ArneFufkin]

The Molemen have risen through the sewer lid. I'm gone! Regards.

[wardaddy]

Yes....the secondary bombs are an issue. I had forgotten about that until checking out the AR-15.com threads on this a few minutes ago.

[CometBaby]

"This guy is a religious terrorist .. every bit as bad as the Muslim terrorists and/or the Enviro terrorists. Like all fanatics they think that killing innocent people is justified because of their almighty cause."

And you know this how? From something he's said or something that CNN put in your head?

The following comes from Fox website not CNN: (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88259,00.html)

"Rudolph is also a suspect in a bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., that killed a police officer, and bombings outside a gay nightclub and an office building in Atlanta that contained an abortion clinic. In all, about 150 people were wounded.

Later in the article it says ..

"Rudolph is thought to be a follower of the white supremacist Christian Identity religion that is rabidly anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-Semitic."

Further in the article ..

"Some of the bombs were followed by messages from the shadowy "Army of God"

[Kevin Curry]

One is performing a legal medical procedure, and the other is a cold blooded, ambush murderer.

"Legal" is the fig leaf that masks the similarity--an important fig leaf, to be sure, but a fig leaf nonetheless.

Both are morally reprehensible acts.

Menegle performed all kinds of legal medical procedures on his charges. The legality of it didn't make his actions any more morally defensible or any less despicable.

[Melas]

Please don't use the founders as an example. The founders going to war consisted of combatants facing combatants. Not cowardly killing civilians of either gender via stealth and skullduggery.

[Delphinium]

You tell me what the founders would have done in this same thing was happening then? Are you saying nothing , because there were no combantants?

[ArneFufkin]

Anarchy is a non-starter. Let's change the law. Vigilantes need to be hunted down and removed from our ranks. I'd have no hesitation to kill Rudolph before he killed innocents if that's what it took. That's an immediate and reflexive mandate. Snipers and terrorists cannot be tolerated in a secure and solid society. If he's found guilty, he's a vicious traitor and coward, and he needs the ultimate sanction - and I'm not gonna need a box of tissues nearby.

[Delphinium]

They fought for "Life, Liberty and Property" Property was later changed to the pursuit of happiness.

[Delphinium]

Let's change the law.

I agree, and I work hard to do that. I wonder what your reaction would be if the law said it was illegal to own a gun, or a Bible, or to speak freely?

[NCjim]

It is sad to see what Asheville is becoming. I grew up there, and feel bad every time I visit when I see the growth up Beaverdam Valley. You can take the boy out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the boy...

[TommyDale]

"I'm sure you always use "alleged" when referring to the "alleged" crimes of Bin Laden?"

Actually, I don't recall mentioning Bin Laden in respect to actual specific crimes. Even if I had, he is not a U.S. citizen protected by our Constitution. Eric Rudolph is, no matter how much we hate to see him get a free trial.

[TommyDale]

I don't dispute your point. I just take exception to people making the claim (even Fox News earlier today) stating as FACT that Eric Rudolph was the bomber at the Atlanta Olympic Park. I think the facts are just not there-- at least not yet.

[Polycarp]

One is performing a legal medical procedure, and the other is a cold blooded, ambush murderer.

They're both cold blooded murderers, idiot.

That's an act of terror. You kill innocent Americans, you choose death. That'll give you vicarious martyrs a stiffy.

Feel better now? Likening a pro-lifer to cold blooded murderers like Rudolf and abortionists somehow makes you feel all warm, fuzzy, and oh so superior?

God will not be mocked.

[Kevin Curry]

They rage and rage about the mad murdering kook bomber Rudolph, but have curious blind spots when the bodies of the innocent unborn murder victims are placed in view. Maybe the most innocent and helpless victims are too tiny for them to see.

That's it. It's just a simple case of moral oversight.

[ArneFufkin]

I don't think Jesus Christ looks fondly on cold blooded murder. You may find your parade through the pearly gates of Heaven has been slightly changed to a endless parade of the surly damned in the bowels of Hell administering your never ending butt buggering. Ya missed it by THAT much! That's a hell of a way to wreck your day.

[ArneFufkin]

I just sent an Instant Message to the Heavenly Parliamentarian for confirmation:

Yeah, it's gonna be Hell and he says the new Pain and Agony beginners circuit is even worse than Saturday night at Barney Franks.

Get some lotion, you might be chafing.

[Delphinium]

I don't think Jesus Christ looks fondly on cold blooded murder.

You are right, and I think he doesn't look fondly at people who turn a deaf ear to the cold blooded murder of the most precious in His eyes.

I will stand before God clean because of the blood of Jesus, not beccause of any amount of good works I do. That is the only way to get to God. I want to please God, not man but it it not by my works that save my soul.

When we stand before God, and He asks about all the millions of babies murdered, what will you say?

[wardaddy]

Asheville is great...closest Land Rover dealer when I'm at Grandfather....and break down....frequently.

[wardaddy]

It's nice to see your insight Kevin.

[ArneFufkin]

I'll say "God bless your souls sweet angels. Say, how are Delphinium and Polybius doing treading molten lava in the flesh scalding lake of fire? I didn't think they would."