Whilst bored recently, trawling through Wikipedia, I was linked to Charles Manson's page, and was intrigued. A so called "Mass-murderer" that never actually killed anyone, he just got his "family" to do his dirty work.
Now Manson had always been a criminal of sorts, had a haggard appearance and was what we would call a "down and out". However he had influence over his "family" using various prophecies of race wars and, I'm pretty sure, LSD.
I found it interesting really - the influence one man can have over many as with every cult.
Do you think YOU would be able to influence many? Without the use of LSD of course...