UnitedHealthcare taking pictures particular person of curiosity gave the Unabomber’s manifesto 4 stars on Goodreads: ‘Political revolutionary’ | EUROtoday

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The particular person of curiosity within the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson seems to have left a constructive assessment for the Unabomber’s manifesto on-line earlier this yr, and praised the killer as a “political revolutionary.”

Police named Luigi Mangione as a “strong person of interest” on Monday after taking him into custody in reference to the killing.

An account below that title on e-book assessment web site Goodreads, that additionally matches pictures of the suspect on different social media platforms, gave Ted Kaczynski’s e-book a four-star assessment in January.

“Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life,” the assessment reads.

“It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out,” the assessment continues.

“He was a violent individual – rightfully imprisoned – who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary,” the assessment by an account below Mangione’s title continues.

Thompson, 50, was gunned down exterior a Manhattan resort early on Wednesday morning by a masked man who escaped on a motorcycle.

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after he was noticed at a McDonald’s by somebody who believed he resembled the gunman, officers mentioned at a information convention.