Freepers today respond to 20-year Ruby Ridge anniversary -- in a predictable manner

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1. When I was living in Oklahoma during the 1990s

One of our then-representatives, Don Nickel, who was maybe a shade smarter than Dan Quayle, made some sort of comment linking Ruby Ridge to Clinton. I wrote a wonderfully snarky letter to the editor to the Tulsa World talking about how incredibly powerful a man would have to be to exercise presidential powers when not the president or how stupid and/or cravenly political another man would have to be to make this kind of mix-up.

It got printed, and for whatever reason, about a week later, I got a "care package" from a white supremacy group (I did my high school senior research project on them but can't remember which one - it's the one mainly made up of fat bubbas who meet to shoot beer cans in the woods and are waiting for other groups to start the race war so they can ride on the coattails). Anyway, they sent some racist stickers and a copy of their newsletter - WAR (White Aryan Resistance) which was a Tom Metzger production (you might recognize his name as being big in White supremacy groups). They wrote nice little messages in the margins, "I bet you're anti-gun as well!" "You probably love Hillary Clinton." Etc. Quite the zingers. After the initial shock wore off, and I had stopped laughing, I was disappointed to see that they didn't have a return address on the envelope they sent everything in. I was going to send them a gift basket of different types of Mexican salsa for Xmas.

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