Untrue Believers
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The real global war is not between different faiths. It's against the
madness of those like Atlanta bomber Eric Rudolph, who believe that
their violence is noble.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek
Updated: 9:51 p.m. ET July 20, 2005
July 20 - The sentencing of Eric Rudolph, who bombed abortion clinics,
a gay bar and the Atlanta Olympics, ought to be a milestone in the
Global War on Terror. In Birmingham, Ala., on Monday he got life
without parole. Next month he'll stack up a couple more life terms in
Georgia, which is the least he deserves. (He escaped the death penalty
only because he made a deal to help law enforcement agents find the
explosives he had hidden while on the run in North Carolina.) Rudolph
killed two people, but not for want of trying to kill many more. In his
1997 attack on an Atlanta abortion clinic, he set off a second bomb
meant to take out bystanders and rescue workers. Unrepentant, of
course, Rudolph defended his actions as a moral imperative: "Abortion
is murder, and because it is murder I believe deadly force is needed to
stop it." The Birmingham prosecutor declared that Rudolph had
"appointed himself judge, jury and executioner."
Christopher Dickey
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