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The Unabomber’s brother, David Kaczynski, shared how he feels knowing that the manifesto written by his brother, Ted Kaczynski, may have influenced Luigi Mangione into allegedly committing murder. Mangione is currently in the process of being extradited to New York to face charges.
Mangione, who was charged with second degree murder for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly read Ted Kaczynski’s The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future as part of a book club. He reportedly left the manifesto a four-star review on Goodreads and called it “interesting.”
TMZ spoke to David Kaczynski, the brother of the Unabomber on Tuesday, and he said upon learning that it may have played some part in Luigi Mangione allegedly committing murder, “It breaks my heart to know in some way, human motivation is very complex, but in some way, my brother might be seen as a model for acceptable, violent behavior. And in my opinion, there is no such thing.”
In his own, brief manifesto, Luigi Mangione wrote, “Frankly, these parasites had it coming.” He also reportedly called Ted Kaczynski a “political revolutionary.”
Also on Tuesday, a friend of Luigi Mangione, R.J. Martin, spoke to TMZ about reading the manifesto with the alleged killer.
“I half-jokingly, half-serious actually picked the Unabomber Manifesto,” Martin revealed. “And I picked it because I never read it before and I figured well if I pick it it’ll force me to read it. And found it very kind of difficult and painful. I don’t think many of us read past the first chapter.
“We definitely had a lively conversation about the book,” he continued, “but the things in the book and the things that Kaczynski writes in the manifesto about corporate America, things aren’t new. They’ve been circulated you know since the counter revolution of the 1960s.”
Martin added, “I think reading the manifesto, none of us thought that any of the ideas in it were remotely revolutionary.”
As far as Luigi Mangione’s reaction to the Unabomber Manifesto, Martin said, “I didn’t detect any special passion regarding the manifesto. We read all sorts of different books. In our group text chat, we had a lot of great conversations, and there were all sorts of things we found fascinating.”
However, he continued, “nothing stood out about reading that book versus some of the others,” adding, “The Luigi I know could’ve never murdered someone. It’s just inconceivable.”
In addition to the charges of second-degree murder for the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Mangione has also been charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second-degree, criminal possession of a forged instrument and criminal possession of a weapon in the third-degree.