by badleejeff » Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:35 am
I wrote that my wife is studying to enter the field of law enforcement and tht there were questions she had always wanted to ask these folks and then I asked them. In the cases of berkowitz and Watson I wrote that while I certainly couldn't excuse their crimes that I could understand the changes they'd gone thru in the years since their incarceration. I am actually an alcoholic with eleven years clean and sober and I happened to know that drugs played a huge part in what these men did and that I admired them for facing up to their actions and for becoming new people. However the case of Ted kaczynski, from whom I posted a success, is a little different. Believe it or not if you look into him a bit, you'll find that at one time he was one of the finest minds In the nation, a math prodigy who was admitted to Harvard at 16 and earned his doctorate by solving a problem that had confounded mathematicians for years. He then became the youngest person to ever earn a tenured professorship at Berkeley. To say that he did nothing but kill people is actually a little unfair. I AM NOT defending his actions, but there is more to the man than bombs. More importantly to me, these men, for better or worse, are a part of our history and our culture just like Jesse James, John Dillinger, al Capone or Bonnie and Clyde all autographs I personally, and tens of thousands of others, would die to have in their collections.
I wrote that my wife is studying to enter the field of law enforcement and tht there were questions she had always wanted to ask these folks and then I asked them. In the cases of berkowitz and Watson I wrote that while I certainly couldn't excuse their crimes that I could understand the changes they'd gone thru in the years since their incarceration. I am actually an alcoholic with eleven years clean and sober and I happened to know that drugs played a huge part in what these men did and that I admired them for facing up to their actions and for becoming new people. However the case of Ted kaczynski, from whom I posted a success, is a little different. Believe it or not if you look into him a bit, you'll find that at one time he was one of the finest minds In the nation, a math prodigy who was admitted to Harvard at 16 and earned his doctorate by solving a problem that had confounded mathematicians for years. He then became the youngest person to ever earn a tenured professorship at Berkeley. To say that he did nothing but kill people is actually a little unfair. I AM NOT defending his actions, but there is more to the man than bombs. More importantly to me, these men, for better or worse, are a part of our history and our culture just like Jesse James, John Dillinger, al Capone or Bonnie and Clyde all autographs I personally, and tens of thousands of others, would die to have in their collections.
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