>>507040035 (OP)Ted was a smart guy but I think the feds did have some merit regarding what he did towards the end of his living off grid. You would think political radicals and serious idealists would have understood by now that you don't win hearts and minds by acts of targeted violence. You win by doing what Stalin/Lenin and Hitler/Rohm did. They both worked within the confines of their respective systems to rally and build consensus. Remember that the Beer Hall Putsche failed and Hitler went to jail, but got a very light sentence because when the court was going to sentence him during his defense he went on a massive diatribe about the failures of the German leadership during the first world war. He was so convincing to them they let him only get what, like three years? But my point is once he got out, he vowed to work within the liberal democratic model in Weimar to later seize power. The pitfall of an ideology like anarchism is that in most cases, it supports radical individualism and human freedom to a fault. It's moreso collective individualism, as oxymoronic as that sounds, the further left you go. Ted's idealism was a result of being a government pet project anyways. He was a verified MK Ultra experiment. We, the United States that is, really do so much of the damage to ourselves.
