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Skidmore

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3. I was thinking about these sorts of attacks last evening and
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:04 AM
Jun 2014

it occurred to me that every so often we end up with people like these trying to start a "race war." In the past, there has been a sort of random, Messianic-complex quality to this kind of violence, as with Manson or Koresh. Some insanity wrapped up in delusions of grandeur. Lately, I am inclined to think that there is some organization under the surface that is more than a few unstable individuals surfing the same frequency. There has to be because too many of these people fancy themselves to be part of an army with some of them having actual military experience. That sort of identity demand structure and hierarchy. It also requires financing.

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