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Here is a serious question. What is that motivates people to do things like this? It takes a mindset and a significant amount of energy to do something like this murder (and that is what it was). It takes a dedication to a "cause".

On the other hand, the American population has show itself very complacent. Voting, for example, is a lot less risk and energy and yet the voting percentages are very low.

This week, there was a meeting in Denton. The sponsors of the meeting, with a all-call to their local members, were able to field an audience of about 150. Protestors, garbed in black with their faces covered even in the high afternoon temperatures, mustered 50. Neither of the speakers at the meeting were particularly controversial. From one perspective, the "good guys" won the battle of numbers 3 to one. From another, 50 malcontents is a lot of ado over pretty much nothing. My point is that there seem to an amazing number of people who are seething about those who don't share their political beliefs. While some of the politicians deliberately stoke this kind of thinking, you basically have to want to be stoked in order for it to affect you. Given the overall feeling that politicians are slightly more attractive than whale dung, I don't understand why so many people are willing to blindly follow them to these ends. It would be fantastic to tap into that kind of thinking for good reasons rather than bad ones.

Does anyone else see this as the precursor to zombies?