He Is not a lunatic with burning eye and stabbing finger, a fevered Savonarola of Lafayette Park. Talking with him in the sunshine, I thought of the Hebrew prophets, the medieval monks - all people of uncompromising conviction. Now 37, he went to school to the eighth grade, but has read Plato and discusses Socrates. He was a businessman, but one day had a kind of vision. And time is money.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
He takes literally that biblical saying. He decided to live without money. One day, he concluded that states oppress people, Including his own country, the United States of America, so he threw his pass into the Thames in London and chose to be a stateless person. But the world of states resisted. He spent a year in an Egyptian prison, was seized by the Israelis and expelled from the country.