The Unabomber is dead

[equationgirl]

Breaking news on the BBC website, Ted Kaczynzski has died in a federal medical facility at the age of 81

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in US prison cell

Kaczynski evaded capture for 20 years after a mass bombing campaign that killed three people.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[cesare]

It all seems a bit tame compared to what mass shooters do nowadays in schools and SFA done to contain/stop it.

I'll stop short of saying "poor Unabomber" though.

 

[rubbershoes]

His message wasn't all wrong but his methods were

 

[moomoo]

I’ve just texted my daughter to tell her this. She’s obsessed with him for some strange reason.

 

[The39thStep]

Thought you meant Luke the Manchester DJ

 

[_Russ_]

Never got round to reading his thoughts.....will do so tonight. http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf

 

[equationgirl]

I’ve just texted my daughter to tell her this. She’s obsessed with him for some strange reason.

He's not like most killers, it has to be said. And there's no denying that he was manipulated whilst at university. He was a very intelligent man but his methods definitely damaged his message.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ron Swanson with a grudge

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Fuck his message. Antihuman, antisocial bullshit. There are now 8 billion of us. There were already maybe 6 billion when his manifesto was published. We can't all go and live in a hut in a forest 'in nature'.

And fuck him for presuming to be so fucking important that he had the right to murder people in the name of his bullshit ideas.

 

[T & P]

Considering the whole ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’ policy the US government has always had, I’ve always found it fascinating that he managed to get two national newspapers to agree to his demands and print his manifesto- a move that was actually recommended by the FBI.

I know the the American press would have been free to publish it whether the US authorities liked it or not, but the fact that it was endorsed by the FBI seems an extraordinary move. Were they that concerned about him that thought it a reasonable price to pay if he stopped his bombing campaign as he’d promised? Or did they do it in the hope of gathering some intelligence that might lead to his arrest?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Him and the FBI grass both deathed in a week. Anyone notice how jet fuel can’t melt ADX Florence…

 

[bluescreen]

Revenge for being dumped after two dates. So he was sort of incel-adjacent.
Not to be confused with Timothy McVeigh.

 

[planetgeli]

Or did they do it in the hope of gathering some intelligence that might lead to his arrest?

Well that's exactly what happened. His brother noticed his writing style and dobbed him in.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well that's exactly what happened. His brother noticed his writing style and dobbed him in.

A more interesting character. I can't put myself in the Unabomber's position, but I can put myself in his brother's place.

 

[T & P]

Well that's exactly what happened. His brother noticed his writing style and dobbed him in.

Yes, I guess it did. Even if the breakthrough feels to me as far more a stroke of good luck than police hard work.

 

[petee]

Well that's exactly what happened. His brother noticed his writing style and dobbed him in.

his brother's wife at first tbf, but the brother came around.

 

[Ax^]

their a series on netflix about it and it cover his wife and brother situation quite well


saying that have never really gone to much into the Unabomber myself it was a good series

please in the know might hate it

Manhunt if i remember correctly

 

[LDC]

Read the manifesto ages ago and given what's being discussed about AI/AGI it's hard to argue his concerns about technology don't have some political validity tbh.

 

[equationgirl]

Him and the FBI grass both deathed in a week. Anyone notice how jet fuel can’t melt ADX Florence…

He got moved from the Florence supermax to a federal medical facility in a different state, one of the Carolinas.

 

[equationgirl]

their a series on netflix about it and it cover his wife and brother situation quite well


saying that have never really gone to much into the Unabomber myself it was a good series

please in the know might hate it

Manhunt if i remember correctly

Yes I watched that, it was done well.

 

[kenny g]

He chose the wrong targets and his arrogance led to him being caught by his own petard.

 

[T & P]

his brother's wife at first tbf, but the brother came around.

He must have had a very distinctive writing style!

 

[petee]

He must have had a very distinctive writing style!

he'd put some ideas in letters to his brother and when the manifesto was printed the SIL said, "um, honey, ..."

 

[kenny g]

For comparison: Obama’s Final Drone Strike Data.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

He must have had a very distinctive writing style!

He obviously waxed lyrical to his family about his theories. It was more that than grammatical errors I think.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

he'd put some ideas in letters to his brother and when the manifesto was printed the SIL said, "um, honey, ..."

It's an interesting ethical dilemma. You're sure it's him. Do you grass him up? Do you confront him? Do you trust he's true to his word about stopping and do nothing? Don't think I could grass up my brother in that situation, but I might feel a need to make sure he stops.

 

[Elpenor]

It's an interesting ethical dilemma. You're sure it's him. Do you grass him up? Do you confront him? Do you trust he's true to his word about stopping and do nothing? Don't think I could grass up my brother in that situation, but I might feel a need to make sure he stops.

Philip Schofield was in the same position ref his brother I believe.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Philip Schofield was in the same position ref his brother I believe.

His brother was posting bombs?

 

[Pickman's model]

It's an interesting ethical dilemma. You're sure it's him. Do you grass him up? Do you confront him? Do you trust he's true to his word about stopping and do nothing? Don't think I could grass up my brother in that situation, but I might feel a need to make sure he stops.

So you'd kill him but you wouldn't shop him

 

[littlebabyjesus]

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