Ted Kaczynski Was a Sadistic Killer, Not a "Subversive Thinker"

Over the weekend, Ted Kacyznski (a.k.a. The Unabomber) committed suicide. 

Between 1979 and 1995, Kacyznski was responsible for the deaths of three people while maiming two dozen others after sending them bombs in the mail as well as an attempt to blow up a commercial airliner. After his capture in 1996, Kaczynski pled guilty to his crimes and was given eight life sentences.

Yet there are those who praise Kaczynski for his intellect. Last summer, Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters praised Kaczynski as a "subversive thinker."

Kaczynski was trained as a mathematician and briefly taught at UC Berkeley. Yet whatever his intellectual gifts, he used them for evil. One can lament our industrialized society and the loss of our natural surroundings without building an explosive device for some person working at a computer store to open and lose their life in an instant.

Blake Masters might have been impressed with the thoughts of the Unabomber. I, for one, do not seek out the thoughts of someone who kept company with Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef. To me, Ted Kaczynski was nothing but a cowardly killer.