Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
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Friday, June 06, 2003

Here's some irony for you:



Eric Rudolph, the man accused of bombing the Atlanta Olympics, abortion clinics, and a lesbian nightclub and celebrated by white supremecists, is being defended by a Jewish lawyer. He's certainly entitled to a good defence, of course. What really bothers me in the Rudolph case is that there are people out there painting him as some sort of folk hero. Okay, there's a long history of this sort of thing--look at Jesse James and his gang, for example, or practically any folk song about brigands. They were outlaws and arguably bad men but many people aspired to be like them--I think because there's a deep-set tendency for many of us to want to 'thumb our noses' at authority. But there is nothing admirable about terrorism. It's a cowardly act to plant a bomb and kill innocents just because you have some warped agenda. And if guility, Eric Rudolph is a terrorist, plain and simple, albeit a domestic one akin to Timothy McVeigh. I suspect that the same people with those 'run Eric run' bumper stickers have the 'these colours don't run', lots of American flags, and memorials to the victims of 9/11 on their vehicles, too. Do these people actually think?

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