Well, I suppose the main troll I'm engaging is that JasonXYZ ...what can I say, I like researching to see if there's any basis of fact, to the conspiracy theories. What I'm not doing is rising to the baiting; he's obviously trying to distract my scrutiny by provoking an emotional reaction. If I became defensive, and focused on myself; I might not look at his claims as closely, then I'd lose sight of the details.
I don't think he's ~Steve, his knowledge of the Florida Coast area is accurate, and there are a number of Shaws in that region. What he appears to be doing is mixing elements of his real life around that place, with the more interesting current events in the media. ...of which ONE of his claims may be true.
Here's my rough theory:
He was born 'John Shaw' at the place and time, he describes; and judging from his symptoms of PTSD he may very well have been abused at one of those Florida institutions at around the age of 16 (One is not far from his hometown). Afterward, he was faced with a lot of rejection, disbelief and denial that the abuse occurred, which has ingrained his sense of persecution. However, if he wasn't being belittled, he wasn't paid much attention to, which has driven him to negative attention-seek.
He met John
Gobin Shaw and stole his story, which gained him popularity, but his warped need for negativity made him alter the events into sinister ones. He probably progressively embellished the story over time, making it more and more ominous, adding from what he heard at the library, into a terrorist thriller.
In spite of that, after a while, people stopped being interested in listening to a homeless man rant (I also believe that part about losing his deceased father's house, is true) That disdain, and frustration with not having any accomplishments in life; made him so angry, he began to entertain fantasies of projecting his anger into violent acts. If folks found terrorists interesting; then he wanted
to be a terrorist; that fed both his needs for negativity and an audience. The news of McVeigh as the local anti-hero, was latched onto like the news of John Gobin Shaw, the local Hero had been; except that now he didn't have to pervert it, it was already malicious.
Unfortunately, real life got in the way of his fantasies and he was forced to get a job. It's likely true, that he moved to South Korea and China for five years to teach English. He may very well have been trying to convince his students(the '300 people he foretold of a terrorist attack') of his 'connections', so much so that he made up more to continue to impress them. 9/11 came as almost a validation of his beliefs, but it also got him sent home.
Now, he's stuck in an average world, where no one is swayed by his stories any more; which is frustrating him; which is fueling his anger; which is causing him to fantasize about 'getting back at Amerika' ...and so the cycle continues...
Sorry, but sociopaths can be so fascinating, and this is the first time, I've ever spoken directly to one.
