Sagebrush Rebellion Returns

[villager]

1. I had death threats on my answering machine back in that era.

Was doing environmental organizing back then. Could see the rise of the far, violent right quite clearly in enviro circles, though most big city liberal apparatchiks dismissed it all, of course (just as issues that were too "far out" -- like, well, climate change, were routinely dismissed).

But those of us that knew people getting blown up in their cars, or who were receiving these threats via phone or mail, knew this particular toxic genie -- abetted by a rightwing Federal government, and sympathetic "police" all over the West (where most of these issues played out) -- was not going back into its bottle...