Authorities conducting searches at Nuwaubian Moors compound

This sounds like a fun group. Take their leader:

Law enforcement sources said the group's leader, Malachi York, was taken into custody outside the compound a short time earlier. Authorities were refusing to discuss the specifics. York, sometimes called Dwight York, served time in New York in the 1960s for assault, resisting arrest and possession of a dangerous weapon.

York has claimed to be from another galaxy and has said that in 2003 spaceships are going to descend from the sky and pick up a chosen 144,000 people for a rebirth.

Something I will never understand... Why do people follow crazy people?