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...interview before it went into print. If I had, quotations from it which have appeared in TIME could never have been imputed to me, since they contain opinions which I have never held, and statements which no sober man would make and, it seems to me, no sane man believe. That statement that I or anyone else in his right mind would choose any one state against the whole remaining Union of States, down to the ultimate price of shooting other human beings in the streets, is not only foolish but dangerous. Foolish, because no sane man is going...
...predicament is all the more surprising since he made $100,000 on his book. With that sort of pot, how could a man with proven skill--a seemingly perfectly sane man who is neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict--possibly find himself homeless for the second time in five years? The simple answer is that, without additional income from a steady job, $100,000 is consumed rather quickly by a middle-class life-style. For starters, income taxes took $22,000 off the top. Eighner ran through the rest in less than three years. He rented a house...
...shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys be forced to present a defense they think is virtually suicidal? If someone is sane enough to stand trial, does that mean he's sane enough to defend himself if his best defense is that he's crazy? Just what does the U.S. Constitution owe a mad genius? The confusion was so great that at one point Judge Garland Burrell Jr. said in exasperation...
There are, of course, technical hurdles along the way. Suppressing the equivalent "head" gene in man. Incubating tiny infant organs to grow into larger ones that adults could use. And creating artificial wombs (as per Aldous Huxley), given that it might be difficult to recruit sane women to carry headless fetuses to their birth/death...
...kind of Catch-22 that defense experts have already addressed: After the prosecution rejected Kaczynski's offer of a guilty plea, his only way to beat the rap is with a mental-defect defense. Who, then, but a crazy man would insist that he's sane...