Loading ...For decades I thought of the clean air and water people and the tree huggers as a bunch of Ted Kaczynski types but not that extreme. I remember he rode a bicycle, I just looked it up. I think he should have been considered mentally ill and he was, but was too proud to use that as a defense. He was very smart and could have been a Bill Gates or Elon Musk type.
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” in a nationwide bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment. ” “Kaczynski moved to a remote cabin without electricity” ” learning survival skills to become self-sufficient.
After his arrest in 1996, Kaczynski—maintaining that he was sane—tried and failed to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted him to plead insanity to avoid the death penalty. In 1998, a plea bargain was reached under which he pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to eight consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole.
He witnessed the destruction of the wilderness surrounding his cabin and concluded that living in nature was becoming impossible. He resolved to fight industrialization and its destruction of nature through terrorism,” “he showed sympathy for animals who were in cages or otherwise helpless” “his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention” (note: like mass shooters, 9/11, Nagasaki Hiroshima and Russia today?)