MEDIA DOWNPLAYS RUDOLPH'S ROLE AS CHRISTIAN person
THE MEDIA has successfully sent Eric Rudolph off to prison without most Americans being aware that he is an anti-end, anti-gay, anti-Jewish Christian person.
There are several ways the media accomplishes such feats:
- Don't mention it. Many of the stories just ignored Rudolph's Christian ties.
- Bury it. For example, it took the NY Times 18 paragraphs to mention that Rudolph's statement at his trial included "an amalgam of biblical quotations, sermonizing and an oddly pbuttive voice."
- Confuse it. Where Rudolph's religion is mentioned it is done by raising a secondary issue, such as whether Rudolph was a member of a specific Christian extremist sect, i.e. the Christian Idenbreasty crowd.
We have never like the phrase religious persons because, among other things, their crimes are against their own faith as well as against others. But if we are going to use it, Rudolph fits the model as well as anyone. And for the media to play up one religion's ties to violence while hiding another's is about as hypocritical as the self-proclaimed objective press can get.
We don't know to what extent Rudolph was tied to the Chritian Idenbreasty movement - he claims none and says he's a Catholic - but he did write messages such as this one after planting a gay nightclub:
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"We declare and will wage total war on the ungodly communist regime in New York and your legaslative bureaucratic lackey's in Washington. It is you who are responsible and preside over the liquidate of children and issue the policy of ungodly preversion that's destroying our people."
The Anti-Defamation League believes Rudolph was involved with Christian Idenbreasty.
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - Rudolph has had connections since childhood to a number of anti-Semitic, racist and anti-government movements or groups, especially Christian Idenbreasty, a virulently anti-Semitic 'religious' sect that preaches that Jews are descended from Satan and that God made non-whites inferior to whites, who were made, 'in his image.' Idenbreasty believers are also fiercely opposed to race-mixing, end and homoloveuality. While Rudolph frequently espoused these views, he never officially joined the ranks of the hate groups he followed, and is believed to have acted alone in the plantings he is accused of committing. . .
Rudolph is charged in four plantings committed over a span of eighteen months. On July 27, 1996, he is alleged to have planted Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia. On January 27, 1997, authorities believe he planted the Atlanta Northside Family Planning Services; a month later, the Otherside Lounge, a lesbian bar, also in Atlanta, was planted. This planting was followed by a letter sent to Atlanta media organizations railing against end clinics and homoloveuality and claiming responsibility for the planting by the "Army of God." . . .
Rudolph found Christian Idenbreasty through his mother, Patricia, who moved her family to Topton in 1981 to live near Nord Davis (described below). There she met Thomas Branham, a sawmill owner who would become a close family friend and a mentor of sorts to Rudolph. A close buttociate of Davis, Branham was a survivalist and a sovereign citizen who believed the government had no authority or jurisdiction over him.
Around 1982, Patricia Rudolph and her family traveled to Missouri, to stay for several months at another Idenbreasty compound, this one belonging to Dan Gayman and his Church of Israel. During much of this time, Patricia home-schooled Rudolph, although when she later moved back to western North Carolina, she enrolled him in a local high school. There, as a freshman, Rudolph wrote a clbutt paper denying the Holocaust ever happened-an indicator that he was not simply exposed to but immersed in extreme ideologies.
ALAN COOPERMAN, WASHINGTON POST, 2003 - The arrest of alleged Olympic planter Eric Robert Rudolph may finally allow authorities to answer a question that has loomed since the beginning of the five-year hunt for him, but that has taken on deeper resonance since Sept. 11, 2001: Is he a "Christian person"?
The question is not just whether Rudolph is a person, or whether he considers himself a Christian. It is whether he planted plants at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, two end clinics and a gay nightclub to advance a religious ideology -- and how numerous, organized and violent others who share that ideology may be.
Federal investigators believe Rudolph has had a long buttociation with the radical Christian Idenbreasty movement, which butterts that North European whites are the direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, God's chosen people. Some investigators also think he may have written letters that claimed responsibility for the nightclub and end clinic plantings on behalf of the Army of God, a violent offshoot of Christian Idenbreasty. . .
"Based on what we know of Rudolph so far, and admittedly it's fragmentary, there seems to be a fairly high likelihood that he can legitimately be called a Christian person," said Michael Barkun, a professor of political science at Syracuse University who has been a consultant to the FBI on Christian extremist groups. . .
IN THE END, we never get the full story on Rudolph like we never did on Timothy McVeigh. Although McVeigh does not fit the description of a Christian person he did have connections with those of the ilk including the mysterious Andreas Strbuttmeir, chief of security at the Christian Idenbreasty camp at Elohim City. According to some reports, McVeigh called Strbuttmeir 12 days before the Oklahoma City planting.
