Unibomber Ted, still fighting

Unibomber Ted Kaczynski in his 9th year behind bars is fighting to reclaim more than 40,000 pages of his writings and correspondence so he can preserve them in their rawest form for the public to read.

Kaczynski, 64, is in a legal battle with the federal government and a group of his victims over the future of the handwritten papers, which include journals, diaries and drafts of his anti-technology manifesto. The journals contain blunt assessments of 16 mail bombings from 1978 to 1995 that killed three people and injured 28, as well as his musings on the suffering of victims and their families.

The government wants to auction sanitized versions of the materials on the Internet to raise money for four of Kaczynski's victims. However, Kaczynski, citing the First Amendment, has argued in court filings that the government is not entitled to his writings and has no right to alter them.

The writings were among the items taken from his remote Montana cabin after his arrest in April 1996. In a motion drafted in pen, he said he planned to argue that the government had too much discretion under a federal restitution law to confiscate writings.

Source: SERGE KOVALESKI
The New York Times,Tuesday, January 23, 2007