I don’t know, when I wonder how he was able to get a group of people to do what he did, I’m reminded of a kid I knew in high school who – for a short time, but not short enough – managed to get a group of us to do some pretty stupid things. It was a few weeks from him showing up as a quiet nebbish to a group of us narrowly averting a riot.
About a year after that, he took up with a group of Nazi skinheads. The group of them got busted for what would now be classified as hate crimes. He copped a plea and testified against the others.
