"The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto

Part I of Essay
It was May 25th 1978, Terry Marker was on his usual patrol on campus at the University of Illinois. This earmark package, addressed to an engineering professor at Rensselaer from a material science professor at Northwestern, was found in a parking lot. What seemed like a ....

Part II of Essay
.... The Unabomber's targets were universities and airlines (thus the "un" and the "a" in the FBI's code name); proponents of technology. The Unabomber believes that the present industrial-technological society is "narrowing the sphere of human freedom" (Unabomber, 93). The crudeness of the Unabomber's inaugural mail bomb attack was not an indication of what was to come. The Unabomber's devices became more sophisticated and deadly as his targets became more specific and focused. "The pressure vessels in his bombs were the most sophisticated eve ....