Time Reporter: "A Lot" to Agree With in Unabomber's Manifesto

Rich Noyes | April 9, 1996
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Talking about Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber" who killed three people in a bombing campaign on behalf of an anti-industrialization agenda, Time magazine Washington reporter Elaine Shannon on the April 7, 1996 edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal rationalized:

"He [Ted Kaczynski] wasn’t a hypocrite. He lived as he wrote. His manifesto, and there are a lot of things in it that I would agree with and a lot of other people would, that industrialization and pollution all are terrible things, but he carried it to an extreme, and obviously murder is something that is far beyond any political philosophy, but he had a bike. He didn’t have any plumbing, he didn’t have any electricity..."