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Originally posted by NAMTERCES
Originally posted by DCLXVI
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.
Hmmm..usually, he gets a little help. No man is an island. He interacts with his environment, and various things in that environment push his buttons this way or that. People can be controlled, and made to do all sorts of things. Still, one has to be susceptible to control, the levers are "Greed, Anger, Delusion", so the degree to which a person can be directed depends on how much of each of these three "poisons" is already flowing around in his blood.
Breivik's far-right[26] militant ideology is described in a compendium of texts, titled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence and distributed electronically by Breivik on the day of the attacks.[26][27][28][29] In it he lays out his worldview, which includes support for anti-feminism,[30][31] Islamophobia, and far right Zionism.
Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future (also called the "Unabomber Manifesto"), in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.
Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
I can honestly say that if this is true, it indeed sets off the alarm bells. Couple that with the strange demeanor that we saw from the courtroom photos, and the whole thing seems more and more fishy. Not to mention the reports I read on another thread about how he is now acting confused and asking why he is being held. Plus that video of him explaining his scientific interests from a few years ago--he didn't seem like someone heavily invested in his fantasy life to me, but more of a scientific thinker. How does one go from a neuroscience graduate student to a drooling lunatic in this short of a period of time???
Originally posted by caladonea
reply to post by imeddieone4202003
I am thinking maybe because of who Mr. Holmes is; and what he does; and his TPTB connections; may be one of the reasons the records are sealed on his son.
edit on 26-7-2012 by caladonea because: make a change