Death Pool Update: Unabomber Ted Kaczynski at 81...

[posty 2,612]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65867291

Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, has been found dead in his prison cell, federal officials confirmed to the BBC.

Kaczynski, 81, killed three people and injured 23 more during a mass mail-bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. He later pleaded guilty to his crimes.

He was sentenced to life without parole in 1996 after evading capture for almost 20 years.

The Harvard-trained mathematician was eventually caught in a Montana cabin.

He was a man who fascinated America for decades, and he became the focus of numerous TV documentaries.

Kaczynski spent the past three decades held at prisons across the US - most recently at a North Carolina prison medical facility.

Prison guards at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, discovered Kaczynski's body this morning at around 00:25 local time, a spokesperson for the US Bureau of Prisons told the BBC.

"Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures," the spokesperson added. "Mr Kaczynski was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel."

Before suffering from declining health which prompted his transfer to the facility in December 2021, he had been held at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998.

His violent campaign left a number of his victims permanently maimed.

But his crimes were uncovered after he forced the Washington Post and the New York Times to publish his unhinged and violent manifesto, called Industrial Society and Its Future, in September 1995.

They agreed to print the manifesto on the recommendation of the FBI and the US attorney general after Kaczynski said he would end his campaign if a national paper published his treatise.

The 35,000-word anonymised document railed against modern life and claimed that technology was leading to Americans suffering from a sense of alienation and powerlessness.

After reading the papers, Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law recognised the tone and alerted the FBI, who had been searching for him for years in the nation's longest manhunt.

In April 1996 authorities finally found the Harvard trained mathematician in a 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana.

The hut was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosives and two completed bombs.

While the manifesto struck many as being overtly political in tone, Kaczynski never sought to embody the revolutionary mantle some attributed to him.

In his own journals he wrote that he didn't claim to be "altruist or to be acting for the 'good' (whatever that is) of the human race", instead insisting that he acted "merely from a desire for revenge".

His crimes seemed to begin shortly after he was fired from the family business by his brother for posting abusive limericks to a female colleague who had dumped him after two dates.

From there he retreated to the Montana wildness and to the cabin he had built by hand, without heating, plumbing or electricity.

His first attacks targeted Northwestern University in Illinois. The two bombing occurred almost a year apart on 25 May 1978 and 9 May 1979, injuring two people.

Then, in November 1979, an altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in 1979 went off aboard an American Airlines flight. Twelve people suffered from smoke inhalation.

The attacks earned him the monicker Unabomber from the FBI, as his targets seemed to be universities and airlines.

[seafoam1 2,799]

How do people.not feel stupid about no death penalties handed out in greater numbers?

 

 

[iam90sbaby 2,474]

RIP

[BeenHereBefore 1,454]

Some thought he was the Zodiac Killer as well, I don't though.

[GobbleDog 982]

Smart dude. Hated technology. 

[cyclone24 1,912]

Awww man. Welp. Pour out a little nitroglycerin for the goat tonight. 

[Dizkneelande 1,085]

 

[BeenHereBefore 1,454]

48 minutes ago, GobbleDog said:

Smart dude. Hated technology. 

He was right but had a very bad way of getting his point made.

[HellToupee 1,583]

Another  MKUltra success story 

[bostonlager 2,664]

Was he still together with Jennifer Tilly? Still doesn't seem like the poker boom was 20 years ago. 

[Drizzay 698]

He must have really went downhill after retiring from Duke.

[Patented Phil 1,469]

4 hours ago, GobbleDog said:

Smart dude. Hated technology. 

The guy was a visionary.  Technology hasn't improved the world the last 30 years.  Not at all.  And now with AI - yeah, we are most certainly f'd, just a question of when.  Crazy to think that what got him caught was the publication of his manifesto.  "Hey, that sounds like Uncle Ted talking..."  

[Patented Phil 1,469]

3 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

He was right but had a very bad way of getting his point made.

I've always wondered why he chose this approach.  When a smart guy does something stupid, I always wonder what the thought process was.

[Voltaire 5,182]

Ted was one of our more entertaining terrorists.

[Patented Phil 1,469]

44 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Ted was one of our more entertaining terrorists.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s Founding Father.  But yeah, Teddy did have panache.

[frank 2,276]

I’ll always remember how he would look at the camera when someone said something funny. 

[easilyscan 858]

7 hours ago, seafoam1 said:

How do people.not feel stupid about no death penalties handed out in greater numbers?

I don't understand it either ? Imagine how much we've spent on him since his arrest ? Seems like the vast majority of those who oppose it, believe we would be no better than the criminal if we resorted to that. The rest of them fear putting someone who 'might be innocent' to death. I suppose that's a good reason, but at least in cases where there's absolutely zero doubt, I say put them down. An eye for an eye.

How about the Boston Marathon bomber ? 

How much have we spent on that ***hole in the past 10 years ?

Tsarnaev remains behind bars at USP Florence ADMAX, a supermax security prison in Florence, Colorado. Online federal prison records show that his release date is still classified as “death sentence.”Apr 11, 2023

 

 

[GobbleDog 982]

12 hours ago, easilyscan said:

I don't understand it either ? Imagine how much we've spent on him since his arrest ? Seems like the vast majority of those who oppose it, believe we would be no better than the criminal if we resorted to that. The rest of them fear putting someone who 'might be innocent' to death. I suppose that's a good reason, but at least in cases where there's absolutely zero doubt, I say put them down. An eye for an eye.

An "eye for an eye", huh? We should use biblical quotes as the basis for our legal system.?.  I was gonna say weigh pros / cons, and use critical thinking to reach an intelligent decision. But your idea is interesting.

Only execute people when there's "absolutely zero doubt"?  You want to define when that is?  Eye-witnesses, DNA evidence, or admission of guilt? Because those are never wrong.

As for spending tax money... if that's your concern, then you should hate the death penalty because it's cheaper to lock them up for life.  Welcome to the right side! Unless you don't really care about the cost and just said that to fit your side.

[kutulu 1,659]

Click, click, BOOM! 

[wiffleball 4,788]

For perspective, the Tylenol poisoner killed more people than the unabomber.

 

And the resultant manufacturer freak out Has been a pain in the ass for decades now.  Thanks for hermetically sealing my drano. God forbid somebody poisoned that before I have a chance to drink it.

 

Stoopid

 

 

 

[seafoam1 2,799]

4 hours ago, GobbleDog said:

An "eye for an eye", huh? We should use biblical quotes as the basis for our legal system.?.  I was gonna say weigh pros / cons, and use critical thinking to reach an intelligent decision. But your idea is interesting.

Only execute people when there's "absolutely zero doubt"?  You want to define when that is?  Eye-witnesses, DNA evidence, or admission of guilt? Because those are never wrong.

As for spending tax money... if that's your concern, then you should hate the death penalty because it's cheaper to lock them up for life.  Welcome to the right side! Unless you don't really care about the cost and just said that to fit your side.

I'm guessing he means to not also spend millions to kill murderers.

I bet I could solve that financial issue in a mere couple minutes.

And yeah, the death penalty should be used very often. 

Humans paint themselves as gods. They promote killing everything that threatens them other than other humans. Fock that. 

How much do you think it should take to kill someone who rapes your daughter? 

[seafoam1 2,799]

16 hours ago, easilyscan said:

I don't understand it either ? Imagine how much we've spent on him since his arrest ? Seems like the vast majority of those who oppose it, believe we would be no better than the criminal if we resorted to that. The rest of them fear putting someone who 'might be innocent' to death. I suppose that's a good reason, but at least in cases where there's absolutely zero doubt, I say put them down. An eye for an eye.

How about the Boston Marathon bomber ? 

How much have we spent on that ***hole in the past 10 years ?

Tsarnaev remains behind bars at USP Florence ADMAX, a supermax security prison in Florence, Colorado. Online federal prison records show that his release date is still classified as “death sentence.”Apr 11, 2023

 

 

Yes. We should be giving out the death penalty to any violent criminals in my mind. I'll be glad to live in this country under those rules.

[WhiteWonder 2,675]

Reminds me of Utoilet/peefoam etc , but intelligent