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Alleged pipe bomber Lucas Helder currently being held without bail in Iowa, is described by friends, classmates, family - even the police - as a well-behaved, polite, serious and totally unremarkable college student. "When I talked with him, he shook my hand and called me sir," a Nevada sheriff told the Associated Press...
...hearing the neighbors exclaim over the sudden and precipitous demise of the "nice" young man, who visited his grandparents regularly and mowed the lawn without being asked. And so, for fitting so neatly into both our preconceived notions of "domestic terrorist" and "perfectly pleasant boy next door," Lucas John Helder is our Person of the Week...
...Helder is a mystery only in that he is so completely lacking in mystery; like most young men his age, he had quirks, like proselytizing to his friends about religion and philosophy. He was good at using tools, welding, things like that. He once got written up in college for smoking marijuana. Hardly the type of personality that should keep parents up at night...
...Since their son's arrest Tuesday, Helder's parents have likely done nothing but sit up at night, wondering how their son could have harbored so much they didn't recognize. They will have plenty of time in courtrooms to contemplate their son's metamorphosis. Helder has racked up an exhaustive list of charges; in Iowa and Illinois, he's charged with using a pipe bomb in a crime of violence and destroying property used in interstate commerce. Conviction in the Iowa charges alone could mean life in prison, but there's more: He was charged in Nebraska with interstate...
Other candidates echoed Simmons’ views, with Helder S. “Sonny” Peixoto the sole candidate to say explicitly that he did not support the tunnel...