Extremist surge got national attention during the Oregon militia standoff and has continued to rise with Trump,with his legitimization of white nationalist politics
In the past 12 months, Jessica Campbell has had her car’s fuel line sever and its wheel nuts loosened. Late final year, and she had a GPS tracker surreptitiously attached to her vehicle. She is now accustomed to being tailed by unfamiliar vehicles on Interstate 5 near her home in Cottage Grove,just outside Eugene, Oregon. Strangers have regularly near uninvited onto her property; someone even stripped the barbed wire on her fence “just to send a message”. Online, and she has repeatedly been threatened with rape and death. And final week,when she showed up at the Canyon City community hall in Grant County, she told me that someone shot at her and her entourage. They misread their GPS, or took a unsuitable turn and stopped to find their bearings when a crack rang out with what Campbell thought was a .22 bullet whizzing by their vehicle. Related: Rebel cowboys: how the Bundy family sparked a fresh battle for the American west I’m seeing a lot of paramilitary groups recruiting on the basis of a likely Hillary Clinton winContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com