It didn’t exactly give me nightmares, but seeing the “Unabomber” cabin earlier this summer certainly stuck in the old noggin. The 10–by-12 foot cabin is part of an exhibition titled “G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI’s First Century,” which is on display at the Newseum (Washington, D.C.) through June.
The cabin is a total creepfest — and the highlight of the FBI exhibition. Now it turns out that Ted Kaczynski, the convicted “Unabomber,” is upset that the cabin is on public display.
Kaczynski, serving a life sentence in a federal facility in Florence, Colo., sent a handwritten letter to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals stating his objection to the exhibit and the use of his cabin.
Kaczynski recently saw an ad in The Washington Post plugging the exhibit (along with the cabin), which sparked his ire. “Since the advertisement states that the cabin is ‘FROM FBI VAULT,’ it is clear that the government is responsible for the public exhibition of the cabin,” Kaczynski wrote. “This has obvious relevance to the victims’ objection to publicity connected with the Unabom case.”
Leave it to a convicted killer (of three innocent people) to suddenly become an advocate on behalf of victims’ rights.
Susan Bennett, the Newseum’s VP-marketing and deputy director, told The Washington Post that there will be no changes to the FBI exhibit.
Sorry, Ted, but when you terrorize a nation for more than 17 years, kill three people and injure 23 others, you forfeit the right to dictate anything to anybody.
