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Posted on 12/11/17 at 8:03 pm to jdd48
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I remember both the Unabomber bombings & arrest and the DC sniper shootings & arrests like they happened yesterday. Simpler times before social media and corrupt main stream media.
I remember the DC Sniper because it was after 9/11 and there were all kind of theories about what was going on..
Posted on 12/11/17 at 8:21 pm to S
But you took the time to come in and post this?
Posted on 12/11/17 at 8:24 pm to Ash Williams
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so you agree with the Unabomber?
just confirming...
Many mainstream journalists and academics have recognized some genius in it.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 8:25 pm to OweO
They pulled him out of an 8' x 8' cabin and proceeded to turn up three big UHaul trucks full of evidence they recovered from it. The entire cabin could have been loaded into one of the trucks, contents and all.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 8:27 pm to OweO
Yep watched it on Netflix last week. As far as IRL, naw I wasn’t even born
This post was edited on 12/11/17 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 12/11/17 at 8:29 pm to McLemore
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Many mainstream journalists and academics have recognized some genius in it.
Exactly. Including the linguistics guy who was responsible for finding him. His essay or manifesto talked about how technology will continue to turn us into trained monkeys, but not in those words. He used the traffic light for an example. If you are at a traffic light late at night and no one is around and there is no traffic, we are still trained to sit there until it turns green. Which made me feel like I am not a trained monkey, because I will run a fricking red light in a situation when no cops are around and I can clearly see no one is coming.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 8:36 pm to OweO
Hmmmm. I wonder what explosive story in April 95 could have overshadowed a paltry mailbombing whacko.
That was a big reason we didn't pay much attention to him leading up to his capture a year later. I was at LSU at the time and was first to announce to the class at Dodson Hall what had just happened in Okc.
But before that, that creepy Unabomber sketch was everywhere you went in every town in America and we definitely took notice.
That was a big reason we didn't pay much attention to him leading up to his capture a year later. I was at LSU at the time and was first to announce to the class at Dodson Hall what had just happened in Okc.
But before that, that creepy Unabomber sketch was everywhere you went in every town in America and we definitely took notice.
This post was edited on 12/11/17 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 12/11/17 at 9:02 pm to RogerTheShrubber
That’s Seinfeld’s van Seinfeld’s van
Posted on 12/11/17 at 9:31 pm to reverendotis
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They pulled him out of an 8' x 8' cabin and proceeded to turn up three big UHaul trucks full of evidence they recovered from it. The entire cabin could have been loaded into one of the trucks, contents and all.
The actually removed the whole cabin and shipped it to Sacramento for the trial. It was later auctioned off.
Every wall was covered in shelving and he had books, journals and crap stored in every book and cranny.
The FBI didn't have shite on this guy until his brother, David, started investigating Ted himself. He recognized Ted's writing style and some phrasing when the manifesto was published in the Washington Post. He hired a private investigator to look into Ted's activities. When he became more concerned that the Inabomber was his brother, he hired a lawyer to go to the FBI with the evidence he'd gathered in hopes of negotiating a no death penalty deal and no armed raid on the cabin, fearing a Ruby Ridge or Waco type result. The FBI managed to figured out who David Kaczynski was and leaked his name to the press. Assholes.
It wasn't until the FBI got a search warrant and actually got inside the cabin that they realized they had their man. If David Kaczynski hadn't come forward, the FBI would still be looking for the Unabomber.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 9:43 pm to White Roach
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Every wall was covered in shelving and he had books, journals and crap stored in every book and cranny.
And a bunch of typewriters, like five or six of them. Guy was nuttier than squirrel turds.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:25 pm to OweO
James Fitzgerald, the main character, was the same guy hired by Fred Heebe a few years back to analyze the nola.com posts and link them to Perricone, which led to the resignation of US Atty Jim Letten.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 10:49 am to tLSU
Wasn't that Jan Mann's undoing as well?
Posted on 12/12/17 at 1:21 pm to OweO
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the book starts off talking about how, in the late 40s, early 50s, the US was trying to figure out how the Soviet Union was getting US POWs to confess to things that were not true.. And I think the study they did on him was the types of studies they were doing during that time.
You're right. I had forgotten just what the nature of the study was, I knew it had something to do with anti-communism and the Cold War, but had forgotten just what it was about. The thing I found particular sad about the study in which Kaczynski was involved was that at the end, the bully Murray didn't even bother with telling Kaczynski that his mother never really sent that letter in which she supposedly disparaged him. That caused tensions between him and his mother, and they could have at least told Kaczynski that his mother never actually wrote the letter.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 1:33 pm to OweO
I was an EECS at UC Berkeley. I finished undergrad in 76 and came back in 86 for my PhD. He had bombed one of our labs in 84 and injured the guy that ran that lab.
When I got there in 86, people were scared shitless about any package that arrived directly to any EECS office or lab. The protocol after the bombing was that all packages had to go to a central location. They were screened and then sent out to the departments. Anything that wasn't marked as safe caused quite a stir.
When I got there in 86, people were scared shitless about any package that arrived directly to any EECS office or lab. The protocol after the bombing was that all packages had to go to a central location. They were screened and then sent out to the departments. Anything that wasn't marked as safe caused quite a stir.
Posted on 12/13/17 at 6:28 pm to Josh Fenderman
Wasn't the UniBomber a suspect in the Chicago Tylenol murders in 1982 ?
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