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Eric Robert Rudolph has been arrested in western North Carolina!!!!!

For those of you who might have forgotten (or were buried under a rock from 1996-2003), he is suspected - I have to use that word, no matter how much I'd like to decrease the KFC number by one on my own - of being the Olympic Park Bomber, and for three bombings, one at a gay nightclub in Atlanta and at abortion clinics in Burmingham and Atlanta.

He's also a known member of Christian Identity, who are some of the scariest KFCs around, for obvious reasons.

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Date: 2003-05-31 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bloodee-maree.livejournal.com
"Someone's been putting him up this whole time," theorized Ernie Cabral, a truck driver in this town of 1,600. "It's almost like the holy wars. He thinks he's doing God's work by stopping abortion. You won't run into a place where there's more religion than here."

Hmmm...Think this could account for the mysterious comings and goings of [livejournal.com profile] pottersginny?

Good reason to be happy. This guy is seriously dangerous. Problem is there are thousands and thousands of other wackos out there just like him. One of them is in the freaking White House, for crying out loud.

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Date: 2003-05-31 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com
True, all so true. KFCs in the White House - whoda thunk it - but here we are.

Theory - ERR was Pottersginny! That would explain a lot.

My motto is, 'one whacko at a time'.

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Date: 2003-05-31 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bloodee-maree.livejournal.com
Whoa, ya think? *grin*

This could get innnnteresting...

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Date: 2003-05-31 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nc-kat2002.livejournal.com
I'm so glad they finally got him! I live in NC, and the feds have been there in the Cherokee area for the last five years, searching for him. They've never given up. The area down there is full of caves and places to hide out, but yeah, I agree someone must have been helping him out.

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Date: 2003-05-31 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com
Yes, that part of Carolina (heck, I'd wager most of Carolina) is known for having its share of KFCs. I have no doubt someone's been letting him stay with them.

Aid and abet much? Harbor federal fugitives much? Eep.

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Date: 2003-05-31 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nc-kat2002.livejournal.com
Heh...I dunno about that as I live in the northwestern part of the state and Cherokee is in the southwestern part of NC, next to GA. Besides, I'm not a native Southerner; I was born in the UK and moved to the US with my family when I was 10. Have lived off an on in NC since I was 16. But yes, there's still a lot of outlaw activity in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mtns. and I believe there's still some stills to the north of us. So it doesn't shock me, really, that Rudolph was sheltered somewhere. I suppose you mean The Colonel when you say 'KFC'?

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Date: 2003-05-31 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com
Nope, I mean Kentucky Fried Christians, or Jay-sus Crispies, as Bloodee_Maree would say.

If you got stills, you got Crispies, babe!

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Date: 2003-05-31 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nc-kat2002.livejournal.com
LOL I suppose! From what I've heard, though, those stills roduce pot rather than moonshine these days. I remember once, whilst I was in uni, I went to a pig-pickin' in Down East North Carolina where someone was passing around some moonshine and I took a swig. God-awfullest stuff I've ever swigged in my life.

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Date: 2003-05-31 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com
Yeah, I've had moonshine. It is gawd-awful, and I'm sure that wacky tobacky is much more lucrative than that swill!

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Date: 2003-06-01 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bloodee-maree.livejournal.com
Gah. That is the one thing about the south that I wouldn't be able to handle. The Jay-sus Crispies. They would drive me insane.

We do have them in the Northern Hinterlands, though. I live very close to a small enclave of them. You have all, no doubt, heard of Randall Terry. Well, he calls "here" home. Or he did before he left his wife and took up with a sweet-young-also-KFC-thang and moved to Vermont.

They are such hypocrites. It's all fine and good for them until THEIR desires cross over into something THEY want - Things that they want to deny to others. It amazes me.

The really mind-boggling part is that they can always justify it and rationalize it in their own brains.

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Date: 2003-06-01 06:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nc-kat2002.livejournal.com
Yes, I've heard of Randall Terry. One strange dude. Can't stand people like him, and I've met a few fanatics myself.

Heh, I'm not even near the norm here. I'm UU (Unitarian-Universalist) and can't even fathom the Southern Baptist way of thinking. My local UU fellowship is a tiny oasis in the sea of Baptist churches; I read somewhere that there are more churches per square mile in NC than anywhere else in the US. Not sure that's true, but I'd not be surprised.

What gets me is that any fundie can take any piece of dogma and twist it to his own mindset; it's any fundie in any religion. I truly think that fundamentalism in religion screws up the brain. I also happen to think when one 'gets religion,' creativity goes out the window.

OMG!

Date: 2003-06-01 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dejaspirit.livejournal.com
I posted the same thing this morning!!!!!!!!!! Am so psyched! I was so irritated that they never caught this fuckhole.

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Date: 2003-06-01 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com
Seemed to be pretty obvious that someone up there was keeping him hidden - there's a lot of anti-government sentiment in that region, never mind the KFCs - I never thought he had escaped to Mexico. KFCs stick to their own kind, ya know...

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Date: 2003-06-01 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com
Oh, I got a really strange e-mail from you today, subject line read, 'three items' but it was all gobbledegook. Que pasa?

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Date: 2003-06-01 09:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dejaspirit.livejournal.com
I never sent you an email. o.0?

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Date: 2003-06-01 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kckit-827.livejournal.com
God, I'm so glad they caught him!

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