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About The Oracle Bus Blockade Final Chapter

7/14/2022

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My original plan for Sometimes David Wins was to end with a summary chapter hearkening back to Grandfather Silas and the events involving his company (Colorado Fuel and Iron) connected to the Ludlow Massacre.  My editor/publisher Greg Pierce suggested pulling the Bus Blockade story from the middle of the book and placing it at the end.  Not only because it was chronologically correct, but more importantly because it was a fitting conclusion to a story that's still unfolding.  I took his proposed move as an inspired editorial intervention and embraced it.
Now, almost a decade later, the events of that day seem an eerie foretelling of the riot/insurrection of Jan 6, 2021 in the Capitol.  The Pinal County Sheriff of the time - Paul Babeu - played the instigator (Trumpian) role.  Arizona Militia members played the armed/threat (Proud Boys/Oath Keepers) role.  Social media posts stirred up turnout - both planned and opportunistic.  
At least two of the blockaders, both Oracle residents, later self-identified as Oath Keepers (although I doubt they traveled to DC for J6).  One of them in 2013-2014 endorsed the lynching and re-lynching of then President Obama in the presence of Attorney General Eric Holder.  His on-line posts joined a hemorrhage of profanities and insults directed at "libtards", "fudge-packers" and, of course, numerous "pieces of shit" (POS), presumably like Kaz and me.
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