him and he comes down to the bedroom. he s crying. and i said, what is going on? and he said, chris, you re not even going to believe this, he bought a one-way ticket on luft hans that, he had a fake passport, he bought a fake passport from ireland, $500 it cost him, because he thought his u.s. passport may fail. he arranged for a hostel in kiev. he arranged for a limousine to come to the house and pick him up. he flushed the money into his account and out the same day. i never saw it. he s so smart. paypal. so he had $250 in cash. and plate carrier. kevlar plates. sleeping bag, everything, ready to go. so sad. i mean, i know what a go bag looks like. after the oneschuks discovered andrew s plan, they intervened and talked him out of it. but he remained isolated and disconnected, except for online.
of white nationalist movements on twitter. most americans probably don t imagine one of them could be a suburban kid from massachusetts. but they d be wrong. happy birthday to you andrew was a contradiction. handsome, physically fit, and outdoorsy. but also socially awkward, self-serious, obsessed with military history. all of which isolated him from kids his own age. i remember when he was a kid, the kids were really making tun of him one day in the cul-de-sac here. i remember him just stomping off and there was a stove up here, and he was on the stove, sitting there with his arms around his knees. and that picture, you know, kind of sticks with you. in 2010, when andrew was 11,
if you watch one or two videos, curation technology will continue feeding you similar content not based on factual accuracy, but on popularity. with no reliable guide to help discern what s true and what s not. a person s world view can become poisoned. that s what happened to me. richard tells me it s what happened to him too. it started with online activities. you know, just floating around on right boards. there s like a step process where you go from the alt-right and start to get a little bit more extreme. you get your full-fledged national socialists. like andrew, richard tells me he s never had many friends.
walt, a lieutenant commander in the united states navy, deployed to iraq for a year. and things took a turn to the worse on the home front. andrew became angry and combative towards his mother and sister. he spent nights ca s camping aln the woods behind their house. and hours isolated in his bedroom. the onuschucks asked me to take a look around andrew s room to see if i could find clues to his descent they might have missed. i discover new numerous warning signs of national socialism. the ideology of the nazi party. and hate paraphernalia that s only visible to an experienced eye. so this book in particular, a lot of sim bottle here. first thing i notice is the 1488. it stands for the 14 words, which is the white supremacist mantra of, we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children. the 88 there is for the eighth
once andrew arrived in tampa tensions began to rise between the roommates. we had talked to andrew on wednesday and he said i m ready to get out of here. devon arthers has converted to islam and he s spouting off all this stuff. isis stuff. he was listening to jihadist videos. andrew was frustrated. he d only been down there for a week and a half. andrew told his parents devon and branden tore down an american flag he had hung on the wall and were using it as a doormat. so why don t you get out of there now? he said, no, i signed up for this job for two weeks. it was a temp job. temp job. devon came in and surprised them and shot both of them. it was like two days, you know,