By: Mary Mostert, Editor, : Michael Reagan's MONTHLY MONITOR
September 20, 1995
Note: This report was put in Hot Topics when the Unabomber's "Manifesto" was published; it hit the target dead center. Theodore Kaczynski, arrested Unabomber suspect, so it turns out, IS an environmentalist! Note that he still is not being dubbed the "Environmentalist Bomber" ........
The purpose for the publication of the Unabomber's "Manifesto," according to federal investigators, was in hopes that the "public will recognize an individual" by reading the manuscript or at least give the law enforcement agents a "clue" as to where to look.
In other words, they want an adjective to help define the person - like the ones used, for instance, in identifying Randy Weaver or David Koresh. The press quickly developed such identifying handles as "white supremacist Randy Weaver" or "cultist David Koresh." Presumably, that would make it easier to find their man. In studying the list of Unabomber victims and reading his letters and the manifesto, it is obvious that the proper adjective the mainline media should use would be "the environmental activist bomber."
All seventeen of his victims, his letter to the New York Times and his Manifesto point to a person who believes that plants, animals and primitive human social orders are "good" and any technological progress is "bad." His victims were mostly individuals whose life work involved technological advances -i.e. computers, engineering, airplanes, advertising, and, in April 1995, the president of the California Forestry Association.
He defines his goals as the next generation of politically correct environmentalism by saying in his manifesto, "We give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. ....For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important."
The "technophiles" as he calls those who further the technological improvements of modern society, have created an "industrial-technological society" that cannot be reformed, but must be destroyed. His goal for us all is the kind of life lived in third world societies which requires each individual or small group of people to be "in control of the life-and-death issues of one's existence: food, clothing, shelter and defense against whatever threats there may be in one's environment." This philosophy is, of course, the natural result to the kind of "politically correct" environmentalist and "no-growth" policies which have so effectively destroyed thousands of jobs in the Western forests and home construction and has drastically reduced the property values of thousands of Americans.
He urges that other, presumably environmentalist activist, people who agree with him "must work to heighten the social stresses within the system so as to increase the likelihood that it will break down or be weakened sufficiently so that a revolution against it becomes possible. Second, it is necessary to develop and propagate an ideology that opposes technology and the industrial system. Such an ideology will help to assure that, if and when industrial society breaks down, its remnants will be smashed beyond repair so the system cannot be reconstituted. The factories should be destroyed, technical books burned, etc. No one know what will happen as a result of ozone depletion, the greenhouse effect and other environmental problems that cannot yet be foreseen....."
He sees as "the two main tasks for the present are to promote social stress and instability in industrial society and to develop and propagate ideology that opposes technology and the industrial system, when the system becomes sufficiently stressed and unstable, a revolution against technology may be possible. our goal is only to destroy the existing form of society."
But, he offers a final goal. "The positive ideal that we propose is Nature. That is, WILD nature; those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control." Humans, in such a philosophy, are tolerated only insofar as they do not interfere in any way with "wild nature." Humans must not do what Adam was ordered by God to do, according to Scripture, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the seas, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing..." (Genesis 2:28) Humans, in such a philosophy, are subject to the God of the Earth, not the God of the Universe.
Many of the goals of the Unabomber have been met in communities throughout the country. Anti-growth environmentalists have succeeded in destroying businesses throughout the country, but especially in California. Environmentalists have been able to pass legislation and regulations that have partially met the Unabomber's goals of dismantling America's "technology and industrial system" and have driven thousands of jobs out of the cities, states and even out of America.
The mainstream media has pictured the bombings of the Unabomber over the years as "the work of an isolated nut." In his letter to the San Francisco Examiner on April 26, 1995, the Unabomber said, "We won't waste our time arguing about whether we are nuts, but we certainly are not isolated. For security reasons we won't reveal the number of our group, but anyone who will read the anarchist and radical environmentalist journals will see that opposition to the industrial-technological system is widespread and growing."
So, where to look for the Unabomber and his supporters? Look in the environmentalist groups. Look in your local anti-growth groups. Look in your local citizen groups demanding that businesses either move out of the country or meet economically and sometimes physically impossible environmental regulations. Look in the animal rights activist groups and those demanding that mountain lions and wolves have unlimited access to our farmlands and even our towns. Look in those who are issuing the bogus "studies" about the imminent dangers of ozone holes and greenhouse effect, unless we abolish major portions of our 20th century technology.
In fact, you might even look in the mirror to see if you might find a dupe of the Unabomber and his radical environmentalist supporters.