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saras

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4. They'd be tolerated in Montana except they can be seen from so much farther away...
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 02:53 AM
Mar 2012

Long, long time ago in Idaho I met an ex-Vietnam vet. He took huge amounts of acid while in Vietnam, he said this was the only lifestyle he knew, and if he thought of it as just like Vietnam except no orders, no booby traps, and no Viet Cong, it was a good life.

Where else do you go if you want to live like that?

From experience I'd say it isn't so much crazy they tolerate as "don't come down your half-mile long driveway except for supplies". They're pretty conservative while you're in town - you can have crazy ideas as long as you act like a good ol' boy. But up your driveway is your business. Four neighbors could be hippie, redneck, telecommuting yuppie, and a guy who wants to be a bear, and from the road you can't tell.

And the Unabomber wasn't the only crazy who went there. The folks at Ruby Ridge moved there.

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