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the University of California is injured after opening a package that exploded in
his kitchen the package was mailed to his home this is world-renowned geneticist Dr Charles Epstein he was
severely injured in the attack just two days later Captain a prominent computer scientist from Yale University receives
a bomb in the mail and lost several fingers when he opened up the package in December of
1994 a package was received at the home of Tom Moser in North Caldwell New Jersey Thomas Moser was an executive at
the public relations firm Bon Marell Thomas opens the package and is killed immediately now this is Bomb number 15
if you are keeping score at home on April 24th 1995 a mailbomb was sent to William
Dennison at his office however Dennison who the package is addressed to is actually the former president of the
California Forestry Association located in Sacramento so the new president is the
one who actually receives this package this is Gilbert Murray he opens the package and he is killed
immediately so now what we have here Captain is two bombs in a row that are both deadly our attacker seems to have
perfected his craft which has to be scary for the FBI because what we know in his previous attacks is not just
sending bombs to individuals but the bombs that he put on the flight flight 444 and if that bomb would have went off
we're talking about casualties almost up to a 100 people and so if he's able to then go hey well this is working instead
of going after single individuals again I'll go after the airlines again and if they don't stop it I mean you're you're
talking about a massive Devastation Captain I want to get into some Communications that have been going
on through the course of this investigation and these attacks now there was a letter that was sent to the
San Francisco Examiner in 1985 and I actually have in my notes here that a letter at some point was
received by the San Francisco Chronicle as well I don't have that date in front of me but one thing interesting to our
listeners they will remember the San Franc Isco Chronicle from the Zodiac case that's where he sent most of his
Communications now in this letter back from 1985 the author is explaining what FC stands for so I'll
just read the first couple sentences of this letter and what it says here is that this was a
handwritten letter and it says to the San Francisco examiner the bomb that crippled the right arm of a graduate
student in electrical engineering and damaged a computer lab at U of cow Berkeley last May was planted by a
terrorist group called Freedom club we are also responsible for some earlier bombing attempts and it goes on to list
some of those attempts and it also goes on to State how some of the bombs were constructed to try to prove that we are
in fact who we say we are yeah and then also they reminded everybody that the first rule of Freedom Club is to not
talk about Freedom Club as well as the second rule of Freedom Club as well now there was some communication with the
New York Times from this same terrorist group that's identifying themselves as terrorist group FC in their
Communications with a Warren Hodge of the New York Times this letter was in 1995 again
explaining just like we said with the previous letter what the group stands for what
they're responsible for and descriptions of bombs proving we are who we say we are what's interesting about this
scenario with both of these situations with the the letter to the San Francisco newspaper and then the New York Times
one thing that the FBI was doing in their investigations was they were able to really pinpoint and determine where
the mail bombs that were actually sent through the mail were shipped from where where someone dropped them into the mail
they found that the majority of the communications as well as the majority of the bombs that were mailed were
mailed in the San Francisco area so what they believe in their investigation is that they are looking for someone one
who lives in or around the greater San Francisco area now we have another scenario and
this comes from the 1995 letter to the New York Times what they see on the letter is indentations
like someone had wrote something on another piece of paper on top of this letter or this envelope that was sent to
the New York Times through some analysis they're able to determine what what was written and
It Was Written call Nathan R Wednesday 700 p.m. now the FBI is desperately looking for a Nathan R because they
believe that this evidence suggests to them that the unibomber made a mistake he accidentally wrote over top of his
letter and now they need to find a Nathan R because a Nathan R may have received a call on a Wednesday at 7:00
p.m. at some point from the unibomber who made a note to themselves call Nathan R Wednesday 7 p.m. they are
making a national hunt for everyone named Nathan r with the last initial last name initial of R yeah or possibly
Nathan R is connected to this Freedom Club their second objective once they track down every Nathan R and ask them
the simple question of do you know who the unibomber is or do you who called you on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. so so on
and so forth yeah or sometimes they ask him to straight up are you a piece of [ __ ] they thought you know what if it's
not Nathan last name that starts with r once we've cleared all them let's start looking for Nathan middle initial R
right the problem with this is there's a lot of Nathan RS out there first of all
and second of all not all these guys want to talk to you you know you're a law enforcement agency and you're saying
hey we need to ask you a couple questions you're going what are you doing contacting me I don't know what it
is that you're talking about get the hell out of here especially if you're nowhere near the San Francisco area I
wonder if there was any communication within the FBI to go well we have now communication from this
FC possibly an individual or a group all the communication is coming from San Francisco our communication with the
Zodiac was coming from San San Francisco there's now communication between this unibomber or FC
towards newspapers just like the zodiac is it I wonder if there was conversation
within the agency to go is this somehow connected to the Zodiac my guess would be that when you have this many agents
working on a case and in a case that's uh has a span of this many years that you probably have all kinds of
speculation and theories especially early on in the case when you have really no evidence at all of anything
going on other than this FC calling card that's being left with each bomb so remember the communication with Warren
Hodge of the New York Times what we then have are several threatening letters that are sent to persons that would
later be receiving bombs or at least the threat of Poss possibly receiving a bomb
and I'll read one but there were multiple of these and this one says Dear Dr Roberts it would be be it would be
beneficial to your health to stop your research in genetics this is a warning from FC Warren hodj of the New York
Times can confirm that this note does come from FC which is bizarre because this is a complete different approach to
some of the attacks later that we're seeing in the '90s compared to what we saw saw in the late' 70s and 80s where
there is in fact a communication in advance and a threat that is sent out saying stop what you're doing here's our
threat we are FC and oh yeah this guy Warren Hodge he can confirm that we are who we say we are because we've already
communicated with him at the New York Times come on we'll learn later is by the '90s the mid90s that the FBI is
going to have a list of about 2,000 suspects yes um in April 24 1995 that was the last deadly bomb that
was received again it was at the California Forestry Association exactly two months later on
June 24th 1995 copies of a three copies of a 35,000 word essay titled industrial
society and its future by FC were sent to the new yorktimes times The Washington Post and Penthouse Magazine
again very similar cuz it's sending to three different Publications and then also very similar
like what the Zodiac did to say hey publish these ciphers publish this Manifesto right and what you have here
Captain is basically it's this very lengthy Manifesto of what the author deems to be the
industrial society and the damages that it's doing to our society and to our freedoms and so on and so forth but also
saying you know we are FC we are the freedom club we are this terrorist organization who has been terrorizing
America for well over a decade now now if you publish our essay and I think there was even the words in there
publish or Parish meaning if you don't publish this we're going to ramp up our attacks and oh yeah we've been deadly as
of late we've killed the last two people that we've attempted to kill now we can
ramp up these attacks if you don't submit to our demands which is publishing this
essay or if you do publish it well we will desist from terrorism if this demand is
met there was of course a lot of controversy over the idea do we give into this terrorist demand of printing
their essay in the papers I believe it was titled industrial society and its future what you end up having happen
here is this great debate that is going on behind the scenes do we publish or do
we not publish yeah and really what we want to have happen here the FBI is going to have the final say so they are
going to tell these Publications if they can publish or not however these things
were sent to three different periodical so we have the New York Times And The Washington Post that really says that
you know we are going to go off of the FBI's recommendation well and look we we have
a debate going on with inside the agency because like we were talking about earlier last week um off the Record if
you will that they did these uh strategies with the Zodiac and never caught him so the
people that are saying hey we need to publish this because this is going to bring other people out to to possibly be
able to identify this group or this individual and there's other people coming back and going hey it didn't work
with zodiac so how are you so certain that it's going to work with this uni bombers Manifesto it didn't work with
zodiac but the interesting thing thing is that the majority of the time when these especially when it's a Serial
offender that when they start communicating the communication is what often leads to their
capture and so you have this you have this conf confusion going on of oh we don't give into terrorist demands but oh
this also might be this might be our spearhead for our investigation to finally catching this
guy mhm so the Penthouse Magazine look they're they're looking to become newsworthy I guess right they're saying
okay times they're going to defer to the FBI the post is going to defer to the FBI we're going to publish it here at
Penthouse Magazine yeah they said no more with the tatas the ties and the tatas we're going
to we're going to go right after the industrial society well they they were going to continue doing exactly what
they were doing but they they knew this thing's going to sell a lot of papers sell a lot of magazines and so of course
they wanted to post it and this is public information this is being released to the the ongoing talks of
whether to publish or not are upfront and center and the public is aware of what's going on it's just sad that but
their editor wanted to call it the Unabomber Manifesto well the the thing here is
though now we have an issue of the author of the industrial society and its future they're going well this was kind
of a good game plan by the author in my opinion because you have two quote unquote respectable two respectable
Publications and one that's not respectable and he or the author whomever it was or this group or what
have you they want this Manifesto to be printed in an upstanding publication the
New York Times The Washington Post are both but it's kind of cool that they leverage this against those two by
sending it to someone who was probably just willing to print it to sell papers sell magazines and so when you see that
this debate is going on in front of the American public now you have the you have the author or author th come
forward and say okay look we agreed that we would stop our terrorism we would stop the bombings if this was printed
however if it's not printed in the two newspapers or one of the two newspapers and it's only printed in Penthouse
Magazine because it's not an upstanding publication well we reserve the right to
send one more deadly bomb one more deadly attack and then it can be post poed in
the Penthouse magazine and we will stop our terrorism then our acts of terrorism
then what they realize with the three different Publications was we should we should print this in the Washington Post
because it's going to be easier for us to monitor um it had it had a less of a footprint as far as where the Washington
Post was received by readers right when you say they you mean the FBI the FBI has to put some strateg some strategy
into this idea of do we post or not well cuz they know that once they post it that this individual is going to want to
read this and so they figured well maybe we could catch him that way by wanting to read his work in the paper right so
what you have is a double pronged attack the authors the this group FC Freedom Club they picked these three
Publications well the New York Times is well distributed everywhere across the entire country The Washington Post it's
distributed across the entire country but there's fewer Outlets to purchase and pick up the actual paper Penthouse
Magazine I would assume is distributed across the country but again fewer Outlets to pick up the magazine and
you're exactly right Captain they determined that in San Francisco in the greater San Francisco area where we
think this guy is uh living there was only I believe one place that you could purchase the Washington Post
in that greater San Francisco area so they're like cool on the day we will agree to print this
Manifesto but we're it's like the deli press release the deli press conference that we saw a couple years
back where they made the announcement in advance this is when we are doing this trying to draw the killer trying to draw
the attention from the killer to that location on that specific day so now we're going to announce yes we will
print it it will be printed in the Washington Post only and it will be printed on September 19th
1995 so author FC you now know when you should be ready to go purchase and pick up your
newspaper they're going to monitor that location in San Francisco and with the idea of photographing and questioning
every individual that buys a copy at that news stand or what have you on September 19th 1995 it's a two-pronged
approach to their investigation to draw out the killer one either he does show up in the San Francisco area and
purchase a Washington Post newspaper on said day and they lure him out that way or B they print the manifesto somebody
that knows FC can identify them by their words and by their writing can contact the FBI and say I think I know who
you're looking for right and I also think there's some identifiers in there that the FBI saw right and you would
have that in really any type of writing especially something that's 35,000 words
yeah I mean there's a lot to sift through there there's a lot to consider but not just the identifiers that you're
pointing out here but it's also the ideals yes I mean this is that's what this manuscript is it's it's a a list of
ideals of how this person believes that the future is going to be affected by the Industrial Revolution and and and
everything going on with technology and nature versus technology and so on and so forth that someone will probably at
some point recognize the mission of FC or Freedom club and understand that because again we go back to yesterday's
trailer when we talk about the psychological makeup of this individual you really patting yourself on the back
about that that uh trailer aren't you well if he's anything like the mad bomber what Dr brussle determined was
that this would be a grudge holder that this person would have certain delusions
and would have certain ideas that they might be able to act normal and set those aside until it comes up somewhere
in conversation or until they bring it up somewhere in conversation and this their ideas would be discussed with
others well also with this Manifesto I mean right away to me it's like this person has a higher level of
intelligence um he's speaking of ideas U one of the Great Anor Roosevelt quotes his great minds discuss ideas average
Minds discuss events and small minds discuss people and he's not essentially doing that in this Manifesto he is
presenting these ideas uh and these problems that he sees facing the whole of society but not blaming individuals
I'm I respect your opinion but I'm going to have to disagree he's not talking about individuals
specifically but but he kind of lumps people together and categorizes people as certain things and references them in
that manner and he does reference events as well to kind of back up his claims or
his beliefs yeah but I also think some of one you can see as intelligence two there's a lot of futuristic predictions
I think now a lot of stuff that is being talked about now and so that's why I think people are going to wait maybe
this guy wasn't a complete madman uh even comparing this Manifesto to you know 1984 George Orwells
1984 maybe he lumped people into very standard groups but he's not going after one individual or multiple individuals
and saying all this is their fault that's correct um anybody I I don't know if you've read it or not
Captain but uh again I I have a bit of a different take probably on this than some people that I've seen give their
opinions on well there's there's also two versions because he updated it so there I think there's one that's like
126 pages and then one that's Le less than that yeah so I'm just going off of the one that was printed in the paper on
September 19th 1995 when he's making the threats um yeah it's um yeah it's you can obviously tell that
it was written by an intelligent individual or a group of individuals and it's but at the end of the day to me it
looks like the ramblings of an Angry Young Man um I I didn't find anything particularly brilliant about the the
thoughts of the future of society or lack of freedoms that us as individuals may have in that Society it I mean it's
nothing there's no predictions or thoughts in there that would be any more brilliant than George Lucas's Star Wars
or stuff that we've seen in sci-fi uh books comic books and TV throughout the decades right but I think
I I think that's lessen lessening these ideas I mean maybe he just came out with these
ideas in 1995 but he's talking about the way he thinks Society is going to work with artificial intelligence and
that stuff that's we're just now talking about in the public uh atmosphere like in the last five years and so yeah I
mean I but I think the work of uh George Lucas and and the creators of like Star
Trek and the things that they were able to think of how they thought the future would go those were genius ideas and so
if you compare them to that I think you have to say some of these thoughts are genius level ideas
agreed agreed as said I believe it's obvious that the uh there's some intelligence there from the author I
just don't find it to be anything super unique he's not the only one thinking of
some of these ideas now what this does do though is it does have the desired effect because we start getting a lot of
people coming forward saying oh I know somebody that talks like this I know somebody that that has said similar
ideas I know someone that writes like this so on and so forth what we end up having Captain is a
husband and wife will eventually come forward and this will be David kazinski and Linda Patrick and the way that this
goes down is Linda Patrick decides she is going to read this Manifesto knows that it's going to be published decides
that she is going to read it she reads it and she informs her husband David she says this sounds to me a lot like your
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brought up David kazinski and his wife Linda Patrick the way this comes about here is Linda Patrick tells David I
think that this author of this Manifesto could be your brother it sounds a lot like how your brother
writes this this is really interesting because Linda Patrick had never technically met David's brother Ted
right he just would write them quite often he would write them some nasty letters and a lot of the letters are
about David now being married to Linda and how much Ted does not like Linda and how much Linda has changed his brother
David and he never met her for the worse that's right that's hilarious yeah well
he's the ultimate Grudge holder mhm um and so Linda it does take some convincing to her husband David that the
writings are similar and in fact David ends up finding an essay that Ted had written years before that actually is
listing out a lot of these same ideas that are presented in the what is dubb by the FBI the unibomber
manifesto eventually David is convinced that his brother should be looking that he's concerned because you have things
like Ruby Ridge that went down where the FBI surrounded a home and they had guns
inside a gun a gunfight breaks out and we now have people dead as a result of Ruby rdge he was worried the same thing
could happen with his brother his brother's living out in the middle of nowhere in Lincoln Montana and a tiny
little cabin and he's got guns in his little cabin got really annoying after like the fifth or sixth person as I'm
researching this case said little Log Cabin this is not a log cabin this looks more like a
shed yeah and there's no running water and there's no I believe there's no electricity as well no he's [ __ ] in
the floor inside this cabin well to put it as bluntly as possible gave me some warning I'm trying to
finish my sandwich he could have bothered to build an ouse at some point maybe he did in decided to to move it
inward I don't know but anyway it was too cold it was too his [ __ ] was freezing so he had to [ __ ] inside but
see David is he's at like a Crossroads man because he's got to decide do I suggest that my brother
could be he's not 100% convinced right that Ted is in fact the unibomber the Most Wanted serial killer in the country
at the time he's not 100% convinced does he make this suggestion to the FBI or look if if he's wrong and Ted is
innocent and some type of gunfight breaks out Ted could end up losing his life or if Linda is
right his brother Ted could send out another bomb and kill somebody even though he said hey I'll stop if you
print this you can never take a a threat its word especially from terrorists yeah
I think what's interesting here is that they can they contact a lawyer and they end up contacting a linguist to
basically go over what they think they are seeing and both the lawyer and the linguist confirm it and say no look we
think this is the same individual and we need to go to FBI with this eventually and it doesn't happen overnight captain
again a lot of debate a lot of things going going on behind the scenes here but eventually the FBI does become
convinced that Ted kazinski is in fact the guy the problem that they have with Ted kazinski being Prime Suspect being
the perpetrator is that it actually goes against a lot of the stuff that they collected against the unibomber he
doesn't live anywhere near San Francisco right the guy doesn't even own a vehicle he's [ __ ] in his house the
thing too is he doesn't fit the profile he's a little older than the profiles would suggest I do want to throw this
out there there were dozens of profiles put together about the unibomber including John Douglas that were
not at the end of the day didn't turn out to be great profiles but also the physical description that was given by
the witness that saw the man placing the package in the the parking lot right had
the age wrong had the hair color wrong so there's a lot of reasons to look at this guy and go I see what
you're saying that the language is similar but are we going to go and get this guy simply based off of language
and no physical evidence at all zero physical evidence so much so that it looks difficult that this guy could be
our guy yeah but what they do now because because they have a name is they can then go well what is Ted kazinsky
past and what how did he get to this point where he's living in this cabin isolated all alone and they're going to
start to see reasons that will tie someone like Ted to a lot of these attacks first off he has a history his
childhood he lived in the he lived in the Illinois in the state of Illinois right more specifically around Chicago
we know that one at least one or two of the attacks were Chicago based attacks at the age of 16 Ted enters Harvard
University he graduates from Harvard in 1962 he is accepted to the University of
Michigan for a graduate program to study mathematics well I mean let's not glaze
over the fact that he was in a threeyear long experimental psychological experimental um
study at Harvard when he was 16 right not trying to glaze over that just pointing out what they will look at with
his past that's known to them by knowing his name and how it connects to some of
these attacks so we do know that University of Michigan was one of the targets what they're learning here is
look this guy is this guy is smart at one point test a IQ of like 167 or something like that so he's capable of
making these bombs and then he goes like you said to Michigan and then also then
goes to uh Berkeley California so now we have connection to Berkeley California as well yes and
um 1967 is when he moves from the University of Michigan out to University of California Berkeley there he will be
a teacher he's going to teach math at Berkeley and then in 1969 he resigns from the math department at Berkeley
yeah he he moves back home with his parents for about 2 years but during that time period him his brother and I I
believe his uh father as well um they all help him build this Shack in Montana yeah it was 1971 when he purchased 1.4
acres in South Lincoln Montana and he and his brother start to build this cabin but at the same time captain in
1971 Ted completes an Untitled essay on the evils of Technology this will be again similar to that of
the industrial society in its future once the FBI is convinced that this could be their guy that this should be
their number one suspect you got to look at him and clear him before you can move
on they decide to start surveillance on Ted and his cabin in Lincoln Montana shortly afterwards Captain Theodore John
kazinski was arrested by the FBI in April of 1996 he's arrested at his cabin in Montana and of course he is accused
of killing three people and injuring over 20 people in 16 separate bombings between the
years of 1978 and 1995 I mean yeah this is some of the biggest news uh the capturing of the
Unabomber in 1996 some of the biggest news of 1996 you also have Prince is Diana and Charles get in a divorce you
have mad cow disease in the UK and then obviously you have John B Ramsay's killing later on in that year and as you
pointed out earlier Captain one of the issues they had with Ted was they had 2,000 they being the FBI had 2,000
suspects in this case and Ted kazinski was not listed in that top 2000 you have to applaud his brother and his
sister-in-law for coming for Bo and saying hey um because yeah maybe your brother's writing you some strange
letters here and there but he's not hurting anybody and Ted had no History of Violence that his family knew of and
and actually the opposite one of the things you know Ted had severe hives when he was a kid and he was isolated in
in the hospital when he was younger before his little brother was even born but one of the things that his mother
said was he always had a the way he treated animals especially animals that were in caged he had a real empathy for
them which you normally don't see I mean you hear a lot of times with like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey dmer and things like
that cruelty to animals at a young age and he had the opposite of that well he may not have had these deadly desires
until later on in his life and probably I think he probably had some of this before that experimental stuff that
was going on at Harvard but I think that really pushed it further along it certainly didn't help the young man I'm
going to argue with you because there there's no sign of that and he was Avid with journaling and I don't think
there's any record of him having any homicidal thoughts until he got to Michigan which would have been years
after the experiment and he and he said three-year-long experiment which was done by Henry Murray at Harvard that it
was the worst experience of his life but he doesn't think that the experiment changed the outcome of Ted kazinsky life
or not right I don't think that it did I think he's absolutely right in saying that I'm saying I don't think it helped
if no it defin if he was having any kind of issues or problems before that this certainly would not have helped this
young man and many people have pointed out that look there were other people that were subjected to the same
experiment and they didn't go on to blow people up they didn't go on to 16 years
old that and that's what I'm pointing out that's different set of circumstances here he he's younger on on
all on every level imaginable emotional intellectually and developmentally you know and so on I
mean look I mean he just to go over his history a little bit you know he scores high on this IQ t test they skip him one
grade couple uh grades go by then they end up skipping him another grade uh he did some summer classes so then that's
how he got to Harvard at the age of 16 but your your family lives in Chicago and they're sending you across halfway
across the United States to go live by yourself and he just wasn't ready but again there is no record of any
homicidal thoughts or even I believe Suicidal Thoughts until after the experiment to me that is proof I mean
one of the things that you hear constantly when you're looking up Ted kazinski is that uh you know Harvard
isn't responsible for any of these actions and none of these deaths to be at a place at Harvard's door and I I
argue completely against that I mean a year after these experiments he is in Michigan talking to therapists about
homicidal thoughts I think it's direct correlation and again if if you had any evidence of it
beforehand then I would say maybe it didn't change the outcome of this kid's life but I I think the this experiment
was um you know and again it's also stated like as fact that this experiment was like MK Ultra and that's not true we
we don't know for certain what this everything that took place with inside this experiment so Ted himself is saying
that it didn't affect him or he doesn't think it affected him I think it did affect him and also what he's getting
wise to is how much information they have against him but how all that information is connected to the cabin so
now his thought is if I can get you know the information from the cabin thrown out then I could walk out
of here scotf free yeah he doesn't really get them to he doesn't trick them into presenting the evidence to him they
make the mistake of presenting the evidence to him because they want to get a confession from Ted kazinski because
they do not have that great of a case against this guy so they're really hoping to get him to sign on the dotted
line and confess to all of these attacks and the murders and you're right though he very
you mean they don't have a good case against him because they have thousands of pieces of evidence against them then
why are they going after a confession I understand that they they had lots of evidence against the guy
they wanted a confession from Ted kazinski well because there was no direct evidence to anything like the
actual bombs or anything there was no fingerprints on those bombs and so all they had was these these diagrams and
these these notes but that what I'm saying is they had thousands of pieces of those
correct but he very quickly realizes during the interrogation process that they are presenting their evidence to
him and yes he's going to flip it and use it against them and tell them you know you base your search warrant off of
linguistics that is that's just a word that's just a term that you kind of made up this is not something that has been
used in previous search warrants yeah it's like a pseudo science right so if you're going to use that if I can get
this search warrant tossed out then that evidence that you collected from my cabin from my shed will be tossed out as
well and then you have nothing yeah and I think also some of this is maybe not so much that he goes free I'm sure he
doesn't want to be caught or be put in prison but I also wonder how much of this uh attitude that he has about
this is trying to protect his belongings and his life work for the last several years yeah well some of that is built
into this because the natural defense here would be an insanity plea or an insanity defense right and the problem
with that is well if he avoids the death penalty and says hey I'm insane and that's my defense that we put together
well then what did any of this stand for it was supposed to be bill around this whole mission this whole agenda of
him in the freedom Club mhm well what does this Mission even mean if the man who put it together and orchestrated
everything is an insane person well normally when we have these ramblings that we see from these killers later
that's what they are they're unintelligible ramblings or or rants or or however you
want to look at it and I I'm I'm not saying that you should read this Manifesto and agree with with them but I
but I think what he is what he is saying is is also a little little unique in the
reason why is cuz most people say look technology is happening and you either have to jump on board or you don't and
he's making he's making the statement hey technology will happen but only if we allow it and maybe we need to pick
and choose what we allow as far as technology goes and so to your point I think Ted kazinski is really worried the
easy way out is go hey I was insane but then this Manifesto that I worked on for
years people just dismiss it as the ramblings of somebody that's insane and they're not even going to take the time
to read it yeah I would think that that was his one of his many concerns my my own personal opinion of his Manifesto of
that manuscript is it sounds like the you said un intellectual ramblings of a of a raving
madman this is the intellectual ramblings of a Madman it's yeah I think that's a good way to put it it's there's
certainly some Brilliance there again you can tell it was written by an intelligent entity maybe I'm a little a
skew in my thoughts and and uh comprehension and perception of the document itself because I know who wrote
wrote it where if you were looking at it blindly not knowing who or what group wrote it maybe you would think of it a
little differently but one thing that I think kind of torqued me off a lot when researching this case was
these morons online praising Ted kazinski for this manuscript and saying how brilliant the man is and how
brilliant the manuscript is and even to the point of people going you you guys are just ignorant you
can't see it one day you'll realize he was right he was right are you freaking kidding me well no he's not again I
think a lot of those individuals have to start the conversation with forget every
action that he did and then just look at this paper as a whole I think the the paper as a whole degrades most of us as
human beings it's that's what I question how many of these people posting their thoughts and
opinions in a and approval and Appraisal of this document actually bothered to read
it yeah but it degrades African-American people it spends a good majority of the
document talking about the over sociable people the the left people it's grouping
a whole bunch of batch of people together and then criticizing them and what in the end are we losing Ted we're
losing our freedoms what are our freedoms when you look at it we all are slaves to something at the very core of
our Essence and our being we all have to eat we all have to pay taxes these things that you might perceive us to be
slaves of in the future yes I get that that's a threat but Freedom really is of course
it's a physical thing but it's also it's also a state of mind my my version of Freedom might not
be the same as Ted kazinsky no I understand that but that it's a lot easier for us as Americans to
sit there and say that we are free um and you look at what's going on in China with like the Muslims and and
then basically in internment camps over there and ask them how free they are are
and how free that Society is so but he's attacking my society and he's condemning
my Society that's where I have a problem you know what Ted I want the freedom to
open up my mail without my hands being blown off no I understand that but I I I think what
they're I think sometimes when these authors are are saying look these are threats and these are things that the
that Society needs to wake up too and I think there's look there's a lot of times we were talking the other day I I
watched the Jake Paul fight it it was some of the lowest form of entertainment that I've seen in my whole lifetime it
was it's almost embarrassing and then you start wondering is this the way Society is going
and 1.5 million views one of the highest pay-per-view buyin for any boxing event
and and so I think he I think he's questioning society as a whole and and why are people spending so much time on
their computer or spending so much time in front of their TVs when there's maybe
more important stuff to be thinking about if that makes any sense no it makes a lot of sense I think what I what
I see here Captain is it looks to me like somebody who did he he did in fact have these ideas he did in fact have
these concerns but he used them as almost a rationalization for what it probably was that he ultimately wanted
to do he wanted to punish the society that didn't accept him he wanted to harm those who did not accept him he could
not well hold on and and here's the problem too is society did not reject him he actually rejected Society correct
correct I would argue on in your defense I would argue the people that are looking at this Manifesto and saying you
have to forget about the mergers well you shouldn't you can't and and that's not that's that's not part of the
equation you know Ted kazinski likes math part of the equation is that in order to get heard you decided to attack
other people's freedoms so in a sense you're a hypocrite on top of that you didn't
write this letter you used technology used a type wrer it might be a a small form of a of type of Technology but it
was Tech at the time it was Tech at the time and you bought a little more than an acre and then you started seeing real
estate being developed and and you you came up with this the again to attack innocent people that did nothing to you
I i' I'd feel totally different about Ted kazinski if he attacked Henry Murray that experimented on him for three years
but what happened to the kid that had empathy for the caged animals mhm what happened to that guy well and he chose
terrorism to as a platform for his message to teach the rest of us to educate the rest of us he was a freaking
teacher at a University at a well-respected university two of them two he had a platform yeah he had a
platform where he could teach everyone and you know what it makes me think of when when he was an active teacher and
all these other teachers out there and then compare compare that to the crazy man living in a cabin out in the middle
of Montana mhm it's like Martin Luther King Jr and James orol Reay you had two guys that had two
completely different sets of ideals they chose completely different methods in the way to deliver and
Express their thoughts and concerns to the public yeah and um but but here's where here's where I feel bad for Ted
kazinski is because I think a lot of times we start questioning with Ted Bundy with I mean look I mean it's you know
it's 420 uh Coline Adolf Hitler you start questioning the chicken or the egg are these people just born evil or were
they created to be evil and this is one case that I could say I lean towards the idea that Ted was
created to be evil like maybe they didn't know that that was going to be the side effect of the experiment but I
think that was the outcome of the experiment and that that's angers me because one I mean $50 million spent by
the FB bi $50 million of our our taxpayer money spent to try to catch this psycho how much money have we spent on
his trials and his appeals and and his incarceration and his communication with the outside
world how much have we spent on this guy and and and he might have been created by experiments at
Harvard and one thing that's really interesting too here captain you have the kazinski family his mother and his
brother who said yeah at some point in his you know when he's 16 17 18 years old we started to realize that there was
something wrong with Ted however we didn't fully understand what it was we kind of just chocked it up to oh he's an
oddball he's depressed he's a genius we can't really understand him yeah some people said that Ted was like a walking
computer that that some people don't even view him as human well he would say things that were very uncomfortable to
the people that were actually somewhat close to him as close as anybody could be to Ted kazinski a man with very few
friends if any at all but you know his brother and his mother said that he would say things that you could tell
were these were suicidal Expressions homicidal type of expressions and ultimately the Nathan R
lead that the FBI was looking for they never identified a Nathan R tied to Ted kazinski or any other real aspect of the
unibomber case itself in fact two there's two beliefs here of where that came from either that Ted kazinski
himself did that on purpose to throw them off or that it was simply something that happened in transit before the
letter got to the FBI I that somebody else wrote a note over top of this letter so that lead really never led to
anything in the end captain at trial there was a lot of weird and difficulties with his trial itself and I
don't want to go too far into it because it it looked to me like the court system
basically wanted to say you're crazy but not crazy enough um it seemed a little weird on the whole Insanity idea and of
course as we already pointed out Ted originally did not want he was insistent that he was not
insane that what he stood for meant something what what his actions were stood for something yeah and I don't
know how he heavily involved his brother was but I I do know that there was talks
with the FBI and his brother's lawyer about what would happen to Ted so I I I want to I wonder how much he uh helped
steer The Narrative even during the trial well what he what happened was Ted was trying to dismiss his attorneys very
late in the court proceedings and the the uh judge was pretty much like no you're not going to dismiss your
attorneys this late we've been dealing with this forever right and if we throw the them out now you get a chance to
start over your whole defense which could take a year or two we're dealing with this now you cannot dismiss your
attorneys and so ultimately Ted kazinski ends up pleading uh giving the insanity
plea to avoid the death penalty so he ends up being he ends up receiving several life sentences to be served out
at the adx Florence which is a United States Penitentiary administrative maximum facility this is an American
federal prison in Fremont County near Florence Colorado it is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons so this is
different than regular prisons here Captain this is uh a division of the United States Department of Justice
operates this prison this prison opened up in 1994 and is classified as a supermax or a control unit prison this
meaning that it provides a higher more controlled level of custody than even a Maximum Security Prison and if you look
at the list of some of the other inmates that are serving their time there as well as Ted kazinski it's some of the
biggest names out there it's a lot of terrorist to be honest with you it's a lot of foreign terrorist and domestic
terrorists that have been housed in there throughout the years as well as people who have committed crimes of
Espionage well but at the end of the day no no matter how smart Ted kazinski is I
mean that's what he is is a American domestic terrorist and one of Ted's Journal passages dated sometime between
the Autumn of 1977 and early 1978 when the bombing campaign was just beginning and Ted kazinski was still an amateur
bomb Builder remember he's trying to become a better bomb maker a more deadly attacker he wrote to himself quote I
emphasize that my motivation is personal Revenge I don't pretend any kind of philosophical or moral istic
justification my ambition is to kill a scientist big businessman government official or the like I would also like
to kill a communist Ted kazinski wrote In 1980 that the bombings made him feel less angry quote since committing these
crimes reported elsewhere in my notes I feel better I am still plenty angry you have to understand the blank remember
these are coming from some coded journals you have to understand the blank is that
I am now able to blank to a degree and when his bombings were not lethal when they were when they did not kill or they
did not significantly injure the individual who opened up the bomb he said that they were not a success that
that bomb was a failure he was hoping that every bomb would blow off hands or kill the person that opened up the
package the only way for his work to be quote successful as Ted kazinski saw it was to kill the person that opened up
the package in July of 1999 this is an interview article by David Bowman on salon.com the article is titled profiler
and it's an interview with John Douglas Bowman asked Douglas a follow-up to a follow-up question Bowman was asking
about psycho killers in general and then asking has their ever been this kind of
killer that are a do good killer angels of Justice Dexter types specifically have there been any
environmentalist psycho Killers who kill loggers or strip Miners and Douglas gives his answer Theodore kazinski the
unibomber thought he was doing that but when I started analyzing the case Douglas said forget his hatred of
Technology he don't give a [ __ ] he just wants to kill he enjoys killing and wants to dominate and control there's
the Oklahoma bombing that gets the front page two or three days later we have a professor killed on the East Coast
that's kazinski saying quote I'm the big guy here who's this Oklahoma City bomber
thank you friends for joining us here back in the garage for another gripping interesting story Colonel do we have any
recommended reading this week this week we are recommending every last tie the story of the unibomber and his family by
David kazinski in August 1995 David kazinsky wife Linda asked him a very difficult question do you think your
brother Ted is the unibomber he couldn't be David thought but as the couple poured over the Unabomber's 78 page
Manifesto David couldn't rule out the possibility it slowly became clear to them that Ted was likely responsible for
mailing the 17 bombs that killed three people and injured many more wanting to prevent further violence David made the
agonizing decision to turn his brother in to the FBI make sure you check out every last Tie by David kazin you can
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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the Unabomber case, focusing on Ted Kaczynski's bombings, manifesto, and his brother's role in his capture.

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Freedom Club's Manifesto. A lengthy manifesto demands publication or threats of violence.
The Manifesto's Impact. The Manifesto sparks recognition from those who know Ted Kazinski, leading to a pivotal moment.
The FBI's Investigation. The FBI begins surveillance on Ted Kazinski after linguistic similarities are noted.
Ted's Arrest. Ted Kazinski is arrested in April 1996, accused of multiple bombings.

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