Shown here: the photograph of Keller which will be cropped into a headshot and distributed to local and national media outlets during the seven-day manhunt to apprehend him.

BILLINGS, Mont.—When Brandon Keller began researching the ethos of anarchism, he immediately found a philosophy and world-view in accordance with his own outlook on life. However, while the 18-year-old high school senior immerses himself in furthering individualistic anarchistic principles, he feels most people remain ignorant to the true nature of anarchism and is disconcerted with the reputation anarchists receive in the public eye.

Keller says that although he believes all forms of government are undesirable and should be abolished, he maintains his hopes to become a respected community leader who works with people from all political movements, a dream he will never realize after he is found responsible in 2010 for a terrorist attack aimed at the state government of Montana.

“We’re not just a bunch of crazy people who want to cause trouble and act out violently against the government,” said Keller, who 18 months from now will plant a bomb-packed duffel bag near the east entrance to the Montana State Capitol building in Helena. “I, for instance, am just someone looking for the greater truth and a better system for society.”

In defending his anarchistic views to friends and family, who all blindly oil the gears of systemic oppression, Keller has cited famous proponents of individual anarchism, especially noting the revered Henry David Thoreau essay Civil Disobedience, a copy of which he will leave near the site of his deadly terror attack next October.

As a devout advocate of the ideal, Keller is widely known locally and throughout the anarchist community for publishing a blog chronicling his thoughts on the movement and defense of its tenets. Though currently docile and philosophic in nature, his writings in the months leading up to his murder of 13 innocent civilians will begin to become hostile and violently-worded, a clear indication of an immediate threat to national security that no government official at the state or federal level will detect.

As his family has never been involved politically, Keller said he was initially drawn to anarchism after seeing first-hand as a summer intern in a local alderman’s office the corruption and inequality formal systems of government generate. “I just got sick of everybody talking about republicans and democrats, scandals and taxes,” Keller said just 13 months before he will begin working out the logistics of properly mixing black powder with sharp projectiles. “Those kinds of conversations seem so petty and unproductive. I want to be engaging in more meaningful dialogue, conversations that can solve our problems peacefully and with dignity.”

Those close to Keller have expressed concern over Keller’s growing displeasure with the government and fear of how others will treat him due to his beliefs. “I just don’t want to see any doors closed to him because of the way people view anarchists, and I don’t want to see him become disillusioned to the point of doing something rash,” said Keller’s father, Bill Keller, who will fail to see any warning signs of his son’s future terrorist plot over the next 18 months and will recall to the media that his only child was always nice to everyone and never would hurt anyone in a million years.