One of the articles that really interested him was by an Israeli anti-terrorism expert. It explained that most of the measures that governments put into effect weren’t really about making people safe from terrorism, instead they were about making people feel safe. He gave the example of the extreme screening measures that US Homeland Security instituted at airports. He pointed out that even if the minimum-wage nobodies that were screening people’s luggage were able to stop bombs from getting on board an airplane, the point of terrorism isn’t to bomb airplanes, it’s to terrorize travellers. That means that a bomb does just as much good blowing up the long lines of people waiting to get their luggage checked as it does blowing up an airplane in mid air.
It also pointed out that one man with an semi-auto pistol in a shopping mall during the Christmas rush would create just as much mayhem as a bomb in an airport. And there is no way all the shopping malls in the nation could have anywhere near the security as the airports.
Another post described a website where Stephen found out that he could download a copy of The Anarchist’s Cookbook. When Jeffries looked at it, he found recipes for making bombs, cooking up your own nitroglycerine, cyanide gas, home-made napalm, etc. Moreover, he found another post that suggested it might be interesting to get a hold of old chemistry textbooks from the 19th century---they would have lots of instructions about how to make all sorts of destructive chemicals using fairly simple methodology. He’d actually enjoyed his chemistry classes at high school and got good marks. He realized that he’d probably have no problem at all following the simple instructions he found in these old books.
The guys who wrote the old Nordic Sagas were right! A life of purpose aimed at gaining glory was so much better than one wasted on pursuit of safety and money. Stephen knew that he wasn’t just a Incel beta anymore---he was a warrior setting out on the path to becoming a Saint!
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