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UTUSN

(70,686 posts)
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:26 AM May 2012

The unabomber has updated his status in the Harvard alum magazine: "Awards, 8 life sentences"



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[font size=5]Unabomber Updates Status in Harvard Alum Magazine[/font]

.... Ted, of course, is Theodore John Kaczynski, the notorious "Unabomber" who was sentenced in May 1998 to eight life sentences for killing three people and injuring 23 more in a campaign of terror that lasted nearly 20 years.

Kaczynski, 70, lists his occupation as "Prisoner." Those eight life sentences he puts under "Awards." Under "Publications" he lists that infamous 50-page screed against the modern world, which The New York Times and The Washington Post agreed to print in exchange for Kaczynski's promise to end his bombing campaign. ....

Kaczynski is not the only former Harvard student to be locked up. Henry David Thoreau spent a night in the Concord, Mass., jail rather than pay the poll tax. Folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger was sentenced to a year in prison for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Not all Harvard's prisoners can claim to be prisoners of conscience. Jeffrey Skilling (MBA, 1979) is serving 24 years in prison for his role in the collapse of Enron. Other Harvard alums have been imprisoned for embezzlement, insider trading, identity theft and murder. ....

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RT Atlanta

(2,517 posts)
1. "domestic terrorist"
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:30 AM
May 2012

seems a more fitting occupational description - but that term is not generally used by the MSM when dealing with whites & home grown plots...

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
6. I don't think he qualifies. He's mentally ill, and not in a small way.
Thu May 24, 2012, 11:29 AM
May 2012

IIRC he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

IOW, while he is quite dangerous because he acts on his delusions, he is not inherently evil. His case is tragic for everyone involved, including him.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
2. I absolutely reject his methods, but I have always agreed with his analysis.
Thu May 24, 2012, 09:38 AM
May 2012

And he has a sense of humor.

 

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)
7. Besides being, well evil, his methods didn't make any sense
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:13 PM
May 2012

given his stated objectives.

I never understand how people can come up with these conclusions. The flow of logic must be . . . interesting.

1. Come to hate the current economic system.
2. Mail bombs to people who have virtually no control over it.
3. ? ? ?
4. Overturned the entire global economy and built a utopia of which I am the king!

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
8. That's a business plan straight out of the
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:23 PM
May 2012

Underpants Gnomes' playbook:




And the guy is seriously mentally ill.

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