Children Of Ted
New York magazine|December 10, 2018

TWENTY-THREE YEARS AFTER HIS LAST DEADLY ACT OF ECOTERRORISM, THE UNABOMBER HAS BECOME AN UNLIKELY PROPHET TO A WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF ACOLYTES.

John H. Richardson
Children Of Ted

WHEN JOHN JACOBI STEPPED to the altar of his Pentecostal church and the gift of tongues seized him, his mother heard prophecies—just a child and already blessed, she said. Someday, surely, her angelic blond boy would bring a light to the world, and maybe she wasn’t wrong. His quest began early. When he was 5, the Alabama child-welfare workers decided that his mother’s boyfriend—a drug dealer named Rock who had a red carpet leading to his trailer and plaster lions standing guard at the door—wasn’t providing a suitable environment for John and his sisters and little brother. Before they knew it, they were living with their father, an Army officer stationed in Fayetteville, North Carolina. But two years later, when he was posted to Iraq, the social workers shipped the kids back to Alabama, where they stayed until their mother hanged herself from a tree in the yard. John was 14. In the tumultuous years that followed, he lost his faith, wrote mournful poems, took an interest in news reports about a lively new protest movement called Occupy Wall Street, and ran away from the home of the latest relative who’d taken him in—just for a night, but that was enough. As soon as he graduated from high school, he quit his job at McDonald’s, bought some camping gear, and set out in search of a better world.

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