Unabomber for President

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Unabomber for President was a political campaign with the aim of electing mathematician and domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (known as the "Unabomber") as a write-in candidate in the 1996 presidential election. The campaign's slogan was the Shermanesque statement "if elected, he will not serve." The campaign was launched in Boston in September 1995 by Lydia Eccles – a Boston artist who had long harbored concerns about "totalitarian tendencies in technology" – and antinatalist Chris Korda. It took the overt form of a political action committee, Unabomber Political Action Committee (UNAPACK). Influenced initially by ideas of the Situationist International, the group included anarchists, hardcore punks, 1960s counter-culturalists, eco-socialists, pacifists, militants and primitivists. Its supporters included decentralized anarchist collective CrimethInc. and the Church of Euthanasia. The campaign received national publicity, and attempts by news organizations to portray it as frivolous were...

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