I've posted this on HN before, but his introduction to
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is highly worth reading. Among other things he talks about how (after entirely too much acid) he was planning on becoming America's first suicide bomber, to protest the Vietnam war, but got caught by his friends at the last minute:
http://realitysandwich.com/34204/beginning_birth_psychedelic...
Fortunately for the rest of us he ended up co-founding the EFF instead.