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The men and women of Appalachia are strong and self-sufficient. In
Roane County, Tennessee they most often have lived on and between
the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains. Times changed and as
they did in this story, those who had become clearly isolated in
their long-standing culture took change personally. They didn't
like it. Leon and Rocky Houston are two such men, along with a
large group of sympathetic followers. In the end that sympathy
portrayed years of self-styled, anti-government lawsuits as well as
the death of a sheriff's deputy and his retired, disabled
ride-along officer. To believe the fifteen to twenty years of this
rising storm ended in death for two men patrolling the public road
"reserved" for the Houston clan came only as somewhat of a
surprise. To believe that the storm clouds descended due to a
school zone traffic violation five years before the killin's was at
first a mystery. But a deep look at Rocky's 2001 courtroom "ticket
tantrum" unveiled much more: Then and there he reportedly threw
himself on the floor while yelling, "if you remember Waco you
haven't seen anything yet." The comment's starkness unwinds within
the book to explore the "sovereign citizens and militia mania" of
the 90's and where that might have taken the brothers Houstons'
thinking and need to kill "a few cops."
The men and women of Appalachia are strong and self-sufficient. In
Roane County, Tennessee they most often have lived on and between
the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains. Times changed and as
they did in this story, those who had become clearly isolated in
their long-standing culture took change personally. They didn't
like it. Leon and Rocky Houston are two such men, along with a
large group of sympathetic followers. In the end that sympathy
portrayed years of self-styled, anti-government lawsuits as well as
the death of a sheriff's deputy and his retired, disabled
ride-along officer. To believe the fifteen to twenty years of this
rising storm ended in death for two men patrolling the public road
"reserved" for the Houston clan came only as somewhat of a
surprise. To believe that the storm clouds descended due to a
school zone traffic violation five years before the killin's was at
first a mystery. But a deep look at Rocky's 2001 courtroom "ticket
tantrum" unveiled much more: Then and there he reportedly threw
himself on the floor while yelling, "if you remember Waco you
haven't seen anything yet." The comment's starkness unwinds within
the book to explore the "sovereign citizens and militia mania" of
the 90's and where that might have taken the brothers Houstons'
thinking and need to kill "a few cops."
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