From Yale to jail - The brief career of an angry and hapless malcontent
Stewart Rhodes was born in Fresno where he grew up with his Mexican grandparents who worked as migrant farm workers while his mother, Dusty Buckle, worked as a Las Vegas radio preacher.
He joined the Army out of high school until he broke his back in a parachute training accident two years later.
He then worked as a parking valet in Las Vegas until he met his wife in 1991. Two months later he dropped a gun while on a date with her and shot his own eye out.
Rhodes then went to college and Yale law school on GI benefits and worked as a clerk for Arizona Supreme Court Justice Mike Ryan until he alienated his moderate Republican boss.
Following the loss of this promising entry-level job Stewart became increasingly alienated and developed deep anti-government views.
He volunteered for Ron Paul and joined armed standoffs, including at the one with the FBI at the Bundy Ranch.
He increasingly sensed he has a great destiny and his career culminated in January 2021 with a plot to overthrow the government, followed by a prison sentence.
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