Sarah Kaplan made extensive notes before her attempt on our shores. It’s recorded in pages of handwritten diary entries and computer files. She was a prolific keeper of records.
She used “High Meetings”, as she called them, and enjoyed listening to political points being made. It felt like new information, or news before it reached the mainstream.
Her mind is naive. It’s informed only because of who she’s heard speaking. Her method was similar to watching YouTube clips or sitting in on speeches. It’s loosely based on reality.
Evolving ideas
Kaplan started out arrogant. A few crime researchers say she felt she knew more than she really did. She also had inferiority issues in her thoughts and it showed in her behaviour.
In her notes she reasoned out her lawbreaking – and plans. It’s a technique long used in crime circles to build self-confidence and push out doubts. It’s the art of the steal in action.
Higher power
Her father was a source of her interest in politics. She focused on UN affairs especially. She figured criminality made up most of its activity. She believed people were easily taken in.
As she focused on the UK and its political culture, she concluded it was mostly the same. It was by this she saw a clear entry point for her crime. She reasoned it extensively in her writing.
Making assumptions
Kaplan surmised arguments made by UK political parties – and by Left and Right forces – were insufficient to meet modern demands. “Even his preliminary work disproves the English”, she said as a result of her fathers advice.
Her tendency to rely on snippets of information – and not study whole works, for example – led to deviant ideas in her mind. She held low views of humanity. She disregarded most of human activity. It led her to caverns of criminality.
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