That you and Clint Eastwood both have a separate political bent?
I LOVE Clint as a performer and a director. A man that's a true Hollywood legend whatever I might think of his politics.
But you'll forgive me if, when it comes to the Olympic bombing, which killed two people, injured 111 more, and the man that perpetrated that and other crimes including three other bombings which killed two others, one a police officer, and injuring six more, I tend to think of THE BOMBING AND THE BOMBER as pretty ****ing important and not just the back drop, and I hope Eastwood doesn't gloss over these FACTS.
Eric Rudolph - Wikipedia
Oh, and here's the bomber's message about the bombing from a statement by him in 2005:
In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global socialism. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games. Even though the conception and the purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism as perfectly expressed in the song "Imagine" by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games—even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27 was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand. The plan was to force the cancellation of the games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested.
Media, law enforcement, neither are above legitimate criticism. It was unfortunate how Jewell got a raw deal during a time when both law enforcement and media were looking for answers to such a heinous public crime... But I think the GREATER crime was, the actual CRIME of killing two people with explosives packed with nails and injuring to varying degrees over 100 others.
Maybe the politics of the bomber and that he was a Right Wing terrorist don't matter to you. You don't have to care, and it was admittedly a long time ago... But we are currently actually in a time of unorganized lone wolf styled terrorist attacks from citizens that are substantially motivated by Far Right Wing rhetoric, and I think if a film about the Olympic Park bombing doesn't get into that in some way it's missing a key element to the story (And the reality of the 1990's when, again, during the Clinton era Right Wing militia groups were metastasizing at alarming rates and besides the Atlanta Bombing we experienced the bombing of a Federal building in Oklahoma City, death toll 168, 680 injured...) for reasons that I suspect might have a lot to do with Eastwood's reflexive Conservatism, all in the here and now where rhetorical attacks from Conservatives and Republicans on the legitimacy of free press and Federal Law enforcement are an almost daily phenomenon.
