::: Don't know if this is the place, but I like the idea of discussing how "persons with few connections" outside their own beliefs may tend toward erratic behavior.  Might call it the Timothy McVeigh syndrome.  These guys met and talked among themselves and reinforced their own wacky ideas, and there was no one there to say "Wait a minute, this is nuts."  Ditto the Branch Davidians and the Jones cults, and it even says something about the political polarization we are witnessing in the U.S. today.  There is so much media that we can pick just the outlets that agree with us and never have to hear the other side of the story.