Someone said that he had been reading the Unabomber's manifesto?
That's another think that points to the zealot.
And Ben, I use the word zealot descriptively, not definitively. It's a lot easier than trying to define his level of engagement with his beliefs. Have they yet evolved into what would truly be zealot-level anti-societal psychosis?
Who knows, and more importantly, who cares? That level of distinction is for the shrinks to fight out in court.
The only think we truly need to know for our purposes is that something, some event, some incident, some deficiency in some system, focused him and eventually radicalized him to a degree that he decided to strike out.
Is there, like the Unabomber, a level of mental illness that comes into play? Again, who knows, who cares, shrink *expletive deleted*it. I'm suspecting that his defense might try floating an insanity defense but from what I know about that tactic it's not going to fly. His actions, both before and after the shooting, point to a well laid-out plan, and that level of planning generally kills the insanity defense.
What I'm fully expecting is that he's going to push for a full trial, and he's going to push to testify, not in his defense, but to make his agenda be heard.
Gonna be interesting.
