# Eric Rudolph apologizes to victims' families - anybody buying it? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184 "2005-08-22T22:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/1 "2005-08-22T22:23:26Z")
[CNN story](http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/22/rudolph.sentenced/index.html) I think it’s all part of his sick little game. I think he thinks he’s getting the last laugh. He’s an arrogant prick and I hope he goes stark raving mad during his imprisonment. He’s 38 now and he could live another 25-30 years. Here’s hoping they’re filled with pain and suffering. Yes, I know this makes me look like a complete bastard, but this fucker just makes me puke. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/2 "2005-08-22T22:40:06Z")
Nope. I don’t buy it. It is a calculated move (which I saw coming) that he apologized for the Olympic Park boming, but _none_ of his other bombings. He deserves to suffer. As Emily Lyons and his murdered victim’s families have. Tripler I can’t believe they allowed him to plea bargain. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/3 "2005-08-22T22:52:53Z")
I don’t know whether or not his apology is valid. I hope it is–though the apology doesn’t change the fact that he’s demonstrated himself incapable of living free in society. I don’t want to see him tortured or for him to suffer. ---
**Author:** ![joemama24\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/4 "2005-08-22T23:43:54Z")
He wont last long in jail. I’m guessing he’ll be introduced to gay sex the hard way. Its almost fitting. almost. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/5 "2005-08-22T23:46:38Z")
> [@joemama24\_98](#): > > He wont last long in jail. I’m guessing he’ll be introduced to gay sex the hard way. > Its almost fitting. > > almost. He’ll be in the Supermax facility: 23 hours in a concrete cell (boo hoo) with one hour in the yard. Whether he’ll be allowed to mingle with the other scum, I don’t know, but I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/6 "2005-08-22T23:46:40Z")
Like most criminals who get caught, I’m sure he’s sorry … he got caught. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/7 "2005-08-23T01:46:45Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > He deserves to suffer. “. . .in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/8 "2005-08-23T03:22:24Z")
> [@joemama24\_98](#): > > He wont last long in jail. I’m guessing he’ll be introduced to gay sex the hard way. You may’ve heard he’ll probably be in the federal ‘supermax’ facility in Colorado with people like the Unabomber and Ramzi Yousef. I don’t think that kind of things happens a lot there. > [@](#): > > Its almost fitting. > > almost. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/9 "2005-08-23T04:36:07Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I think it’s all part of his sick little game. I think he thinks he’s getting the last laugh. It’s like one of the family members said- only he knows if he’s sincere. He may mean it, since he only apologized for the Olympic bombing which didn’t kill any evil abortionists. Then again, who knows how much human emotion the guy is capable of feeling? For all the difference it makes, I haven’t thought much about it. > [@](#): > > He’s an arrogant prick and I hope he goes stark raving mad during his imprisonment. He’s 38 now and he could live another 25-30 years. Here’s hoping they’re filled with pain and suffering. 25-30? I’d hope for 40-50. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/10 "2005-08-23T05:13:38Z")
I can’t speak as to the verity of his apology. What is known is that in addition to one bombing of a family planning clinic, he placed a secondary device whose purpose was to do nothing other than kill police officers, firefighters, and EMS personnel. Were it not for the fortuitous positioning of a Batallion Chief’s car we’d have had more members to bury. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/11 "2005-08-23T10:04:56Z")
I agree. I’ve got the link open, and it’s only the Olympic bombing that he’s apologized for. > [@CNN Article](#): > > He did not apologize for any of his other attacks, including the bombing of a family planning clinic. > . . . > In a statement after his guilty pleas in April, he said the Olympic bombing was meant “to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.” > > Rudolph has said the attacks were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion, gay rights and the U.S. government. > > He has said he considered the bombings a “moral duty” to stop abortions from being performed, because the U.S. government “is no longer the protector of the innocent.” I’m a woman, and I would have an abortion if I found myself in a position where that was the least bad alternative available to me. Apparently, my life is worthless to him. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/12 "2005-08-23T15:43:04Z")
I don’t think anybody here in Atlanta is ready to give Eric Rudolph a hug and tell him it’s okay. He’s not just a religious fanatic terrorist, he’s also a self-serving, smug prick. He actually tried to get sympathy with the mainstream “Pro-Life” groups by emphasizing his anti-abortion stance (failing to mention that it was only abortions of _white_ fetuses he wanted to stop; he was all for aborting the darker babies). I’m sure he feels like a martyr. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/13 "2005-08-24T14:48:37Z")
Screw him. He should be in solitary 24/7/365, with no communication other than a stream of faked newspapers describing right-to-life organizations destroyed by embezzlements and sex scandals, the progress of the gay-marriage amendment toward passage, et cetera. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/14 "2005-08-24T16:21:25Z")
> [@CNN](#): > > He is likely to serve his time at a “supermax” federal prison in Florence, Colorado, which also houses Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It was also home to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh before his execution in 2001 Is it just me, but isn’t it dangerous to house so many bombers under the same roof? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-rudolph-apologizes-to-victims-families-anybody-buying-it/318184/15 "2005-08-24T16:48:37Z")
> [@ExtraKun](#): > > Is it just me, but isn’t it dangerous to house so many bombers under the same roof? Yeah. Sounds like an explosive situation to me. d&r -Joe, truly sorry