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In reply to the discussion: I hope to dog they capture Christopher Jordan Dorner alive [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)Much was known about Rudolph by the time he was sent to prison his early Holocaust denial, his hatred for Jews and association with adherents of the racist Christian Identity theology but even more remained hidden. What seemed hardest to understand was what actually made the pretty-boy bomber tick.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/winter/books-on-the-right
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IR: What was your impression of the Rudolph family when you first met them in Topton in 1984?
DEBORAH RUDOLPH: They had a charming little house on eight-and-a-half acres on one of the highest peaks in North Carolina. It was something to realize how self-sufficient they were, how they had a generator in case the electricity went out. They had a wood-burning stove that heated water inside a radiator.
They had a distiller for their water that steamed the water so you wouldn't have to drink faucet water and its fluoride. They'd say, "It's terrible how they put fluoride in the water to poison our kids!" And Joel would always tell me, "If we ever get invaded, you'll have a place to go."
Everything up there was tastefully done. I mean, these are not back woods country people, hicks living in the back woods. They are very clean, very self-sufficient people. I like to call them my little organic family.
A lot of people get this impression that Eric was this guy who was raised up there in the mountains some kind of Grizzly Adams. Well, they've got the wrong impression. He was very smart. All the kids were very well read.
IR: It's been said that some of the Rudolph family were adherents of the anti-Semitic and racist Christian Identity theology. What was your first contact with family members' racial views?
RUDOLPH: I already knew Joel's racial inclinations [at the time of meeting the family], his feelings about races and the Jewish people how they run the country, they run the money, most of them are on Wall Street or in banks, they run the publishing companies, the media is run by them. He said that Jews control what we hear and see on TV and what is in publications.
And he would have all these facts to back his ideas up people in publishing, people in Hollywood, actors who changed their Jewish names. He could name them all off, like Michael Douglas.
And the Bible, it was like I was reading the Bible in a whole new light. I got really, really interested just from listening to Joel talk about it. It's really amazing how your mind takes on their whole mindset.
But the last time Joel saw Eric [at Christmas 1997, at Maura's house in Hendersonville, N.C., just weeks before the Birmingham bombing], they had words. They were arguing about Eric's views. Joel said he couldn't handle it. Everything is hate, hate, hate. And Joel has now become this really enlightened spirit.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2001/winter/running-with-rudolph
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Christian Identity
Associated Profiles
Louis Beam
Vincent Bertollini
Bo Gritz
James Wickstrom
Associated Groups
Kingdom Identity Ministries
America's Promise Ministries
Essay: The Christian Identity Movement
Of all the movements that have appeared among white racists in America, Christian Identity is surely one of the strangest.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/christian-identity
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