Oh no! This isn’t another Bush didn’t catch Osama story, is it?
Fear not intrepid blog peruser. This terrorist lives much closer to home, even if few do him the (dis)honor of calling him a terrorist. I speak of Eric Rudolph, naturally, an All American Terrorist and hero to the wingnutosphere for his bombings of gay bars, family planning clinics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Seems that even behind bars he’s finding a way to carry on with his mission to cause harm to his victims:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Victims of Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion extremist who pulled off a series of bombings across the South, say he is taunting them from deep within the nation’s most secure federal prison, and authorities say there is little they can do to stop him. […]
Rudolph’s long essays have been posted on the Internet by a supporter who maintains an Army of God Web site. The Army of God is the same loose-knit group that Rudolph claimed to represent in letters sent after the blasts. […]
Rudolph mocks former abortion clinic nurse Emily Lyons, who was nearly killed in the 1998 bombing in Birmingham, and her husband, Jeff. He uses pseudonyms rather than naming the couple, but there is no doubt he is describing them.
Rudolph recalls how Emily Lyons, in court, described the pain of her injuries and made an obscene gesture at Rudolph as she showed off a finger mangled by the blast. Rudolph writes: “It was a great speech and one that the denizens of freedom should be proud to enshrine in a museum somewhere. Perhaps they could put it next to MLKs ‘I Have a Dream.’ They could call it ‘I Have a Middle Finger.'” […]
Diane Derzis, who owns the Birmingham clinic that was bombed, killing a police officer, said someone should stop Rudolph.
Bureau of Prisons regulations give wardens the right to reject correspondence by an inmate for “the protection of the public, or if it might facilitate criminal activity.” That includes material “which may lead to the use of physical violence.”
The Bureau of Prisons failed to respond to repeated inquiries from The Associated Press about whether Rudolph’s writings violate prison rules.
Just think how even now, Mr. Rudolph is inspiring the dreams of some future “freedom fighter” to emulate his deeds. It’s enough to make me compare him to a piece of excrement that comes out of the posterior end of a horse’s alimentary canal, except I see no reason to malign the reputation of either horses or the feces they produce.
As for the warden of the Supermax prison in Colorado who obviously feels that allowing Mr. Rudolph to exercise his free speech rights to mock his victims and glorify his heinous crimes in a manner ideally suited to encouraging similar incidents of terrorism in the future by equally malformed and malicious human beings susceptible to seeking the same kind of infamy in which Mr. Rudolph is currently basking, all I can say is have a middle finger salute on me.
I’m sure Jesus would approve.
