Michael Bray

Author of A Time To Kill

The Capture of Eric Rudolph

12 Sept., 2003
Michael Bray

AP reports as follows on 31 May, 2003: “Sheriff’s deputies in western North Carolina had spotted a man digging in a trash bin in the small town of Murphy at about 4:30 a.m., said Special Agent John Iannarelli in Washington. He said the man appeared to be homeless but when they deputies approached him, they recognized him as Rudolph.”

We greet Eric’s Rudolph’s arrest with sadness. There was no enduring fear that the lives of good people were at stake as long as this man was on the loose. He wasn’t spreading AIDS or other STDs across the country; neither was he slaughtering innocent children or permitting the same as our judges and other civil authorities do.

On Jan. 29, 1998 the New Woman All Women Health Care abortuary of Birmingham, Alabama was blown up, killing a blood-money earning policeman who was moonlighting as a guard of the death camp and injuring an accomplice “nurse” who assisted the baby butcherer. Rudolph was charged. No guilt here; defensive action.

Rudolph is also charged with the Olympic Park bombing and two other Altanta-area bombings in 1997: a Sandy Springs abortuary and a lesbian nightclub.

On 8 September, 1998, two North Carolina abortuaries were firebombed in or near Fayetteville: the Hallmark Women’s Clinic and Carolina Women’s Clinic. Authorities suspected Rudolph, but no charges were filed. Perhaps we can credit these good deeds to Rudolph’s inspiration.

When Rudolph was mentioned as a suspect in the attempted bombing of the Ashville, NC abortuary on 13 March, 1999, we were elated. Certainly, we would applaud the destruction of child-slaughter houses over sodomite bars and the sodomite-supporting Olympiad. The 1996 Olympics blast killed a woman and wounded more than 100 people. Even the fact that the Olympic Committee bus which insulted that wholesome North Carolina county as it traveled down to Atlanta did not warrant the bombing of the Olympic Park.

(Splashing the insolent Olympic committee bus with pink paint might have been a better match for its insolence. Most folks may not recall that the Olympic bus, accompanying those bike riders bearing the Olympic flags and ornaments, packed up their bikes and riders into the van and disrespected a North Carolina county by whizzing through it at night. Why? Because that county had passed an ordinance declaring that homosexual behavior did not comport with its community standards of decent behavior.)

The case of Eric Rudolph is a tragic one. Assuming the government has found its man, we say that in bombing abortuaries, he did well; in bombing sodomite bars, his righteous disdain for sodomy was intemperate; in bombing the Olympic Park, he committed murder. But all tolled, his righteousness exceeds that of most the civil and church authorities in this blood-soaked land.

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