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Insanity is its own manifesto. To a criminal trial lawyer, the term has several meanings and definitions. "Competent" to stand trial is actually a low-threshold legal matter. One merely has to be able to understand the nature and consequences of the charges and be able to assist in one's defense. It is obvious that Kaczynski should qualify on both counts. But his lawyers argue that the nature of his illness prevents him from accepting--and thus cooperating with--a mental-illness defense, and that, they argue, should make him incompetent to stand trial. As for defending himself, only...
...doing," says former federal prosecutor Donald Heller. "This is the ultimate opportunity to take action against society. One man against the Federal Government, the federal judiciary, the FBI, the Department of Justice, creating chaos. What a perfect opportunity for a person with the mind bent of the Unabomber's manifesto...
...others dismiss such portraits of a prodigious manipulator. "Part of Ted's affliction is the inability to stop analyzing," says Kaczynski family attorney Bisceglie. "If you go back to the letters and the manifesto, you will see this analysis and re-analysis and analyses of analyses and endless drawing of distinctions and of footnotes. It's almost as if he has no off switch. He isn't in control...
...prosecution will begin showing the eight-woman, four-man jury what FBI agents found in April 1996 when they raided Kaczynski's Montana cabin. The list of exhibits includes the fully-armed bomb found at the shack, bomb-making parts and chemicals, carbon copies of the Unabomber's manifesto and taunting letters to his victims and the news media. There are also thousands of pages of diaries and journals that Kaczynski kept for more than two decades. Written in English, Spanish and sometimes code (which was deciphered using a key found in the cabin), the journals are filled with...
Gore has a few long-held obsessions, that's why--and this is one of them. He started worrying about global climate change as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1960s, before almost anyone on earth had heard of the subject, and as a Senator, he wrote a rousing manifesto on the subject, Earth in the Balance. But now he must sell an Administration approach he once would have called too cautious--one that is sure to get hammered by the greener-than-thou Europeans. If he comes home without an agreement, his environmentalist allies will jeer; if the U.S. agrees...