Onward, Christian Soldiers

Isn't it just adorable the terms Christian, Christian extremist or Christian terrorist don't appear anywhere in this story? After witnessing the spectacle of necro-dominionists mugging for the TV cameras during the recent Terri Schiavo soap opera, no one should doubt for a second there are many, many more Eric Rudolphs where this one came from.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Eric Rudolph has agreed to plead guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and setting off three other blasts in a deal that allows the anti-government extremist to escape the death penalty, the Justice Department said Friday.

“The many victims of Eric Rudolph’s terrorist attacks ... can rest assured that Rudolph will spend the rest of his life behind bars,” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a statement from Washington.

...Rudolph, thought to be a follower of a white supremacist religion that is anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-Semitic, was charged with carrying out a series of blasts in Georgia and Alabama in the late 1990s that killed two people and injured more than 120.

I oppose the death penalty, but that doesn't keep me from wondering if Rudolph was spared because his fellow extremists are running the Great American Freak Show.


Come to think of it, there is no reason to wonder. If Eric Rudolph's politics were closer to mine, I don't doubt for a second the ghouls in charge would make damn sure he was executed.