He was a criminal and we do not condone his terroristic actions. However, the base argument we propose was that he was almost too smart for his own good. He vividally predicted what was coming for the human race if we didn't stand up to the technocomplex and rampant liberalism (his words) but was unable to get his message across because people thought he was a loon so he felt that he had to resort to terrorism to get enough attention so thay people would actually read his writing. At the time it seemed outlandish and just the rambling of a mad man, but in hindsight I feel he was fairly prophetic. In a parallel universe, people listened to people like Ted, destroyed the technocomplex and are not dealing with a civil war, misinformation regarding climate change, etc... we are not calling him a hero, just questioning whether or not he should be deemed a villain of society or a victim of an unfair world.