Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski learned to hate as a teenager, thirsted for revenge against myriad enemies and plotted killings years before he moved to the Montana wilderness, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Government attorneys, in a 30-page sentencing memorandum that quoted extensively from Kaczynski's own writings, said the Harvard-trained mathematician was not motivated by a love of nature or concerns over technology. Rather, they told U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr., Kaczynski spelled out clearly in his journal and an autobiography that he simply wanted to kill people. He was already writing about killing when he was a graduate student at the University of Michigan in 1966, prosecutors said. He later taught at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to Montana in the early 1970s. "I act merely from my desire for revenge," Kaczynski wrote in April 1971. "I believe in nothing. ... I don't even believe in the cult of nature worshipers or wilderness worshipers." Kaczynski wrote he was driven not by "hot rage, but by a cold determination to get my revenge," according to the documents provided by prosecutors. The documents, most of which are new, shed light on Kaczynski's motives, federal authorities said. In return for the guilty plea, the agreement with prosecutors calls for Kaczynski to be imprisoned for life without possibility of release. While the sentence has already been decided, the sentencing memorandum was prepared and released anyway "so that the public may have a full accounting of Kaczynski and his crimes," said Leesa Brown, a spokeswoman for the Unabom Task Force. Defense attorneys, who describe Kaczynski as mentally ill, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment on whether they planned a memo to detail their version of his life. Kaczynski, 55, pleaded guilty Jan. 22 to 13 federal counts that included the bombing deaths of three people. Twenty-nine people were injured in the bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. The case was dubbed "Unabom" by federal agents because the early targets were universities and an airline. Burrell is set to formally sentence him to life Monday. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
