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To: SeaHawkFan
"Famous members of the Al Gore Fan Club: First the Unabomber; and now this guy"

I wish people would stop making that comparison; if it keeps up it's going to come back and bite our side. I was in LE at the time the Unabomber manifesto was released, and studied it at some length. While I'm not going to defend Kasczinski, there are some fundamental differences between him and Lee.

Lee is an outright leftist and sees(saw) humanity as the problem that needed to be eradicated. Kasczinski was certainly opposed to technology and industrialization, but he did so because he saw it as something that was enslaving mankind and impinging on individual liberty and the quality of human life. Lee is aligned with Al Gore. Kasczinski saw himself kind of like John Connor in Terminator. If you don't believe me, go back and read his manifesto where he decries leftism, political correctness, the cult of victimhood, etc., in terms much like many of us on the right. I'm not saying he was a conservative or libertarian...not by any stretch, but there are several lengthy tracts in his manifesto that you could post on FR, and most people here would be nodding their heads in agreement with it.

40 posted on 09/01/2010 4:56:47 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I didn't compare the two. I simply stated that they were both fans of Al Gore. As for the Unabomber, didn't the law enforcement officers find a heavily marked up copy of Al gore, Earth in the Balance Kasczinski's cabin?
50 posted on 09/01/2010 6:49:26 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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