http://positiveliberty.com/2006/02/unabomber-or-algore.htmlWell, i am not one bit insulted, nor do i find the quotes offered as evidence representative of views that are ill-advised or wrongheaded. I do however prefer to be referred to as an anti-capitalist radical anarchist.
And i have always been critical of the Unabomber, but not in the ways most people think. Political and socially just assassinations have proven throughout history to be very effective. Indeed our own government loves to do it, and when they aren't quite as successful as they would have liked, they simply disappear people into rendition gulags and perpetual detention. Thus, when the Unabomber had the opportunity to take down threats to the health and welfare of the Earth, to reduce the danger to thousands of species that have since become extinct since his mini-reign of booms, he screwed up. He was a miserable failure. For fucking christ's sake, a few off-radar/off -screen researchers and one lobbyist were targeted, and only one was killed? What an unacceptable waste of some beautiful, high-quality craftsmanship. Given the agenda, and the manifesto is an outline of a very well produced agenda, Ted needed to have lived up to his goals in powerful and provacative ways. Why take out a forest lobbyist when the gravest threat, at that time was Maxxim and SPI slaughtering the redwoods, headed by a greedy, planet-sucking freak? Why target a molecular biologist when Monsanto was creating strains of evil incarnate as GMF and GE suicide seeds, now destroying crops around the world??
God, to think that Al Gore is compared to such a failure of a radical visionary. Gore's failure was due to one of the most dangerous threats to the planet yet perpetrated, electronic election subversion, and a buddy system appointment. Where was Ted to rid us of W or Dick?? Three elections later, voter fraud rampant, a cabal of Opus Dei believing theocratic dictatorial nutcases running the US, and we are left with Timmy boy wanting to whine about the left. (see update)
UPDATE: When i wrote this piece i didn't of course read it before i posted. A person for whom i have the deepest respect, asked me to revisit it as it seems i had threatened a friend and associate of his. I didn't remember doing so, but lo there it was in the last line. For that i am most apologetic. I have removed the suggestion and thought, and i thank Ed Brayton for reminding me to be more tolerant, unlike those in the fundamentalist muslim world.
