James Fitzgerald
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392 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6 Sep
James Fitzgerald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, but it was very, very focused in one particular area, get the gun from grandpa and then, and then go on this mission again, Dungeons and Dragons related.
I've worked many investigations besides Unabom, but that taught me so much.
And the law enforcement community, one of the few books cited by the Unabomber in the manifesto was The True Believer by Eric Hoffer.
And he does go and explain the kind of
these kind of movements that people get involved in and the kind of people that join these movements and for what reason.
And I'm not gonna say, you don't have to read these books or read, you know, True Believer to understand this, but it seems there's something in human nature with disassociated, dissatisfied people, insecure people that they turn into this fanatic.
And it can be very sort of pencil thin and into one particular category of life.
And they're living through personal insecurities and dissatisfaction.
They're craving some sort of a need for an enemy, and they just, they find it, they identify with it, and you have this bizarre behavior, you know, besides that going on, and it just leads to this, they found this enemy, Charlie Kirk, what can we do?
Oh, that's right, my father or grandfather has this gun somewhere, and he gets access to it and gets up on a roof, you know, no doubt copying from a year before,
Was it a year before?
Yeah, I believe so.
With the Trump assassination, the anniversary being this weekend, of course.
And just finding, hey, if that guy could almost get away with it, let me try this thing, too.
So there's nothing original with these these folks usually in their modus operandi.
Yeah, the phoenix.
Yeah, and Hoffer makes it very clear they're craving for self-sacrifice.
By sacrificing themselves for an impossible cause, they mask their own perceived failures and shortcomings.
And I just quoted Eric Hoffer there.
And that really, I think, very well from everything we know publicly,
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