I just watched a series about Theodore John Kaczynski, or as many who know him as the Unabomber. From 1978 - 95 Ted Kaczynski killed three people and wounded and maimed twenty three others. With an IQ of 167 he earned his doctorate at age 25. He hated the industrial revolution and technology and while I watched the program it seemed that the writer of the series wanted to project why Ted did the things he did by showing the mistreated side of Ted's early life.
As I sat there watching the series I couldn't help falling into the trap of feeling sorry for the misguided little boy with all his knowledge and supposed wisdom drove his ideology that took the lives of those he had chosen. The FBI profiler feels his need to connect with Kaczynski furthers the case that people should try and understand the Unabomber's actions.
It is my heart felt idea that we should not care about what drove the Unabomber to do the things he did, by giving him a stage to publicize his beliefs but to make the victims the center piece of the story and how he destroyed their lives and the lives around them. When the Unabomber is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole to be carried out in solitary confinement this is not what happened.
Ted Kaczynski is still writing and spewing his thoughts to the world. He also conversed with Timothy McVeigh, the one responsible for blowing up the Murrah Federal Building killing 168 men, women and children, and Ramzi Yousef, the man behind bombing the World Trade Center in 1993.
Has Ted Kaczynski the Unibomber learned anything about what he did and the lives he has selfishly taken?
Ted Kaczynski should be portrayed as the monster he is and that no matter how much someone does'nt like society they don't have the right to take another persons life.
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