That may have been the motive; I never did figure out his overall deal.
His harness issues made him crazy.
Incidentally he took a photo of me that I put up on my FR homepage that was later used by anarchists in their attempts to identify and assault FReepers when we protested. This was about 2001. That effort by anarchists led to a massive scrubbing of personal photos from homepages at the time.
Typical liberals. When I was with the DC Chapter counter-protesting Code Pink outside Walter Reed, they would have one of them (who looked drugged) walk along the parked cars, taking pictures of all the license plates, for who knows what purpose.
They suck.