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20th Anniversary of Unabomber's Arrest (abc10.com)

theodp writes: Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, at his cabin in rural Montana. Kaczynski, a brilliant mathematician turned recluse, spread destruction and death throughout the U.S by mailing bombs to his victims, most of whom worked at UNiversities or in the Airline industry -- hence the "UNAbomber" moniker -- from 1978 until his arrest in Lincoln, MT, on April 3, 1996. For years, the only clue to his identity was a single now-iconic sketch of a shadowy, hooded figure. The big break in the case came in 1995, when David Kaczynski recognized the ramblings of the Unabomber's 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto entitled Industrial Society and its Future, which was published in the Washington Post, as those of his older brother Theodore and tipped off the FBI. (Kaczynski warns of a world of intelligent machines where "the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines.") Kaczynski, now 73, is currently serving a life sentence without parole at the so-called Supermax prison in Colorado. Kaczynski's listing in the Harvard alumni directory for the class of 1962 gives his occupation as 'prisoner' and cites "eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998" in the awards section.

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  1. Re:Be sure to state the entire truth, please!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's always sunny and warm, except when the imperialist west sends clouds and darkness and snow. But The Revolution's light never dims.

  2. Re:Be sure to state the entire truth, please!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is the weather in st petersburg,,comrade?

    Only an ignorant bootlicker ( like you ) would jump to the conclusion that any possible funny business relative to the
    US government must automatically be a lie posted by some Russian person.

    The US government is well known to have participated in much evil and quite a few deliberate deceptions. Of course so
    have many other governments, but only an idiot would claim that the US government is somehow "less evil" than governments
    of other countries. The history of the war in Viet Nam is one example among many in which the US government lied to the American
    public and engaged in wholesale murder fighting a war which the US had no business even fighting.

  3. Re: Be sure to state the entire truth, please!!!! by amiga3D · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's actually a big reason Trump has so much support. I don't really like Trump but I loathe so many of the people that rant against him. They make me want to vote for him out of spite. Kind of an enemy of my enemy thing. I figure if all those rotten mother fuckers hate him then maybe there is something good about him that I'm missing.