Unabomber Property Up For Creepy Online Auction

coondoggie writes "Ok this is kind of creepy. The US Marshalls Office today said it will hold an online auction of the personal effects of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. The auction will run until June 2 and will include personal documents, such as driver's licenses, birth certificates, deeds, checks, academic transcripts, photos, and his handwritten codes; typewriters; tools; clothing; watches; several hundred books; and more than 20,000 pages of written documents, including the original handwritten and typewritten versions of the 'Unabom Manifesto.'"

Not creepy but smart,

[Anonymous Coward]

Identifying people who are interested in this stuff is good, getting them to pay money to identify themselves is genius.

Re:In your face

[Hazel Bergeron]

"If we urinate on the Koran, it makes us more right," said US Marshal Albert Nájera of the Eastern District of California in a statement.

Montana Property

[ISoldat53]

Too bad the Montana property isn't included. It's in a pretty part of the state.

Re:Psychological Experiments

[rtb61]

Actually the whole idea of this auction comes off a pretty crass and pathetic. The auctioning off of the personal affects of what was clearly a mentally disturbed individual, only claimed as sane by a very distorted US legal system (clearly his actions speak volumes about his lack of mental stability). It's looks like the US marshals office in all of it's jock strap douchiness is celebrating the failure of an ohh evil intellectual, "We will use the technology that Kaczynski railed against" speaks very much of petty jealously.

Celebrating the the turning of mentally unstable people into non-persons by denying them any personal affects is really petty.

Re:Psychological Experiments

[DerekLyons]

It's looks like the US marshals office in all of it's jock strap douchiness is celebrating the failure of an ohh evil intellectual, "We will use the technology that Kaczynski railed against" speaks very much of petty jealously.

Nah, you're reading into it more than is there.
 

Celebrating the the turning of mentally unstable people into non-persons by denying them any personal affects is really petty.

Nah, it's standard practice to sell off items seized as part of law enforcement investigations/prosecutions. The only thing notable here is who the property once belonged to.