Once I had a close call at what looked like a perfect set up -- a humvee parked behind a Guard admin building, secluded, dark, no one around. As usual I waited an hour after the bars closed, so the streets would be emptier. Also it was a regular work night, so fewer late partygoers. But as soon as I took the lid off the gas can, this car pulls in and two guys get out, drunk. They were fumbling at their zippers to piss when they noticed me by the humvee. They shouted at me -- probably thought I was trying to steal it. Seeing their chance to become heroes, they forgot about their bladders and started towards me. One of them pulled out a knife.
Part of me wanted to throw the gas can at them and light it, but I couldn't do that. I know what burns are like. Instead I threw the can at an angle between us. The gas spewed out in a long trail, and when I lit it, the flames leaped up, high enough to reach their zippers if they'd tried to get through. That stopped their charge long enough for me to take off on the bike while they were shaking their fists and swearing at me.
Never did get that humvee. Went back a year later and everything was locked up.
Once I found two humvees and a truck parked together. What a blaze they made! Someday I'm hoping to get a whole motor pool ... or a squadron of planes.
Hathaway : Some people would call that violence.
Trucker: Violence means harming people. I'm very careful not to do that. Destroying war machines is depriving the military of their tools of violence. I'm decreasing their ability to harm people. Since they refuse to disarm, I'm doing it for them.
But I admit I've got some psychological quirks. I like fire -- the huge eruption of flames is magnificent. Torching is an adrenaline high ... like dealing. Apparently I need that. Maybe that makes me neurotic, but if so, I've managed to channel my neurosis into a socially useful activity -- destroying war machines. The real crazies are those who go along with this system and think they're sane.
It's probably true that certain personality traits make people more likely to oppose their society. But conservatives use that to discount the rebels' objections by branding them abnormal. They say radicals have psychological problems, they're not well adjusted, they have a bad relationship with their father.
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