Eric Rudolph's Career Options

Eric Rudolph's Career Options
With a resume that is crowned by a bomb detonated at a clinic that killed unborn babies, it makes perfect sense that someday, Eric Rudolph should step up into a career suing those who deliver babies. At least two famous bombers from the Seventies have found their way into law schools and have since embarked upon distinguished careers in the profession of law. So why shouldn’t Eric Rudolph schedule his LSAT exam?
Eric Rudolph is accused of setting the Olympic Park bomb in Atlanta in 1996. In 1998, he is believed to have detonated a bomb at an Alabama abortion mill, known euphemistically as a women’s health clinic. That latter bomb killed an off duty cop and maimed a receptionist. After a five year manhunt, Eric Rudolph was finally arrested while rummaging for a meal in a garbage dumpster. He has spent most of his time while on the lamb living off the land in the woods of western North Carolina.
Were he to choose a legal career, he would be preceded by a couple of other prominent bombers, David Fine and Bernardine Dohrn. Both of these Seventies radicals received their law degrees after confessing to bombings intended to protest the Viet Nam war.
Dohrn detonated dozens of bombs, including one in a ladies room at the United State Capital building. She was eventually caught, but served no prison time as part of a plea bargain. Afterwards, Bernardine Dohrn was accepted to the University of Chicago Law School. She is currently on the faculty of the Northwestern University law school where she serves as director of the Children and Family Justice Center, which she founded.
Along with three accomplices, David Fine exploded a car bomb against the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The blast killed Robert Fassnacht, a 33 year-old post-doctoral student who was working late that night. After a few years underground, Fine was captured, but served only three years in prison. He was later accepted to and graduated from the University of Oregon law school.
The path is not entirely clear for Eric Rudolph. One problem that will certainly hinder his career path are his imperfect motives. Violence committed in the cause of a leftist agenda is always given a presumption of good intentions. Crimes such as Dohrn and Fine’s are more quickly forgiven than something truly heinous, like voting for a tax cut or driving an SUV.
Presumption of good intentions is something liberals can always rely upon. After then presidential candidate Jimmy Carter famously announced in 1976 his support for neighborhoods that wished to maintain their “ethnic purity,” he was quickly excused by a press that would have torn a Republican to shreds. A declaration by Carter that he did not mean that blacks could be excluded from white neighborhoods was swallowed whole and digested easily. Compare the lifespan of Carter’s misstep to Dan Quayle’s misspelling of “potato.”
More recently, when the Democratic National Committee wanted to cut costs, it handed out layoff slips to 10 employees, all of whom were black. Was this racist? No, of course not. And how do we know that? Terry McCauliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee said it wasn’t and that’s all that needs to be said on that matter. Were the Republicans to commit a similar faux pas, no amount of explanation would do.
Although he is tainted by ideological impurity, Rudolph does have a couple of liberal marks in his favor. Living in the woods for 5 years gives him Theodore Kaczynski credentials. Theodore Kaczynski, otherwise known as “The Unabomber,” was hailed as misguided great thinker after the New York Times published his manifesto. Aside from his superior writing skills, the Unabomber’s ramblings are largely indistinguishable from those found in Al Gore’s, “Earth in the Balance.”
And by dining from dumpsters, Rudolph can claim to be a pioneer of the “freegan” movement. Freegans (rhymes with vegans) are notable for eating only food they can acquire free of charge from garbage cans. Their diet is a protest against food wastage in this country.
Nevertheless, if Eric Rudolph wishes to cash in upon his new celebrity, he will have more hurdles to overcome than the typical liberal. Or, he could just run for the Senate, like former Klansman Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia.