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BIRMINGHAM, July 18 -- An unrepentant Eric Rudolph gave an impassioned defense of his murderous bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic Monday as a judge sentenced him to two life sentences and victims confronted him in court for the first time.

The wife of a police officer killed in the blast and a nurse maimed in the storm of shrapnel described him as a cowardly, bumbling American terrorist.

Huzzah!

[emil]

Good.

I always marvelled at your system that allows one criminal to be sentenced more than once. Here criminals only get to serve the longest sentence. And if they're good sometimes they get out earlier...

I wish we could sentence criminals to two life terms, and sometimes I wish death sentence hadn't been abolished. (At least fot rapists, child molesters, etc)

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Yeah, I go back and forth on the death penalty - as I'm sure most people do.

Unless I'm mistaken, the multiple life terms thing is applied for multiple crimes, which I'm sure this man was charged with (terrorism, murder of a police officer, assault w/a deadly weapon, possession/use of illegal explosives, and so on could all be options I would imagine).

When I was little I never understood how someone could get "two life terms" - I wondered if they kept them in prison after they died. Of course, I didn't really think that was true, but I was confused, nonetheless.

[cam]

Originally Posted by emilpaun

and sometimes I wish death sentence hadn't been abolished. (At least fot rapists, child molesters, etc)

veering off-topic I know, but while the death sentence may seem like the only punishment fit for people like that, you've got to bear in mind that there is always the possibility you could be wrongly convicted, even with the whole forensic science thing going on. i think life (meaning just that .. the rest of your life) imprisonment is a fair compromise

[emil]

well, shit happens

[Brown]

bill hicks would have liked that.

'pro-lifers killing doctors, where's the sense in that?'

[pgo]

He would, may he rest in peace. George Carlin has plenty to say on the subject...

These conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn, they will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born you're on your own.

Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception til nine months, after that they don't want to know about you, they don't want to hear from you, know nothing.

No neo-natal care, no daycare, no headstart, no school lunch, no food stamps, no nothing.

If you're pre-born, you're fine, if you're pre-school you're fucked.

Conservatives don't give a damn about you until you reach military age. Then they think you're just fine, just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies, so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

Pro-life, these people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors. What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it?

They're not pro-life, you know what they are? They're anti-woman! They believe a woman's primary role is to fuction as a brood mare for the state.

You don't see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus, do you? No, you don't see 'em adopting a whole lotta crack babies, do ya?

No, that might be something Christ might do.

[hawken]

in north korea they only have one jail sentence.

do something bad = your whole family gets put in jail, along with you, for the rest of your life. Usually, they'll make sure that's not long.

[lucidcreations]

[cam]

"no - not prison! they pee in a cup and throw it on you - i saw it in a movie"

"you won't be seeing any prison movies where you're going ... prison"


god bless the simpsons.

[pgo]

Originally Posted by cam

god bless the simpsons.

Amen.

Off-topic, but I noticed Season 6 DVD is up on Amazon (not released yet, tho). The case it crap - it doesn't look anything like the first five! I want consistency, man!

[Narate]

Read a a book called "The Damage Done" which about some bloke who spent 7 years in a Thai prison, some of the stuff they did to him is absolutley mental.

They have a game where they put you in a wicker basket and the elephants play football with you, they soon become impatient though and just stamp on teh ball.

[pgo]

Yikes.

After that, going to prison in the States and being Bubba's "girlfriend" doesn't sound so bad!

[Narate]

Wont go into the bathtub and nipple clamps bit then.

12 years in Bangkok even*

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...663269-7275024