Last night I stumbled across a Channel 4 documentary from 2014 called America's Fugitive Family, and if you want to learn about a bizarre situation in the middle of Texas, it's on ABC's iView.
Basically, it's the story of a nutty, god fearing, gun loving family that (14 years ago) locked itself up in a country compound after the patriarch feared an assault charge would result in an order that he hand in his guns. They wrote to the police warning them not to try to take him in or they would be shot up; the police said "yeah, OK", and have left them there. (Waco had just happened - they weren't inclined to see a repeat on a smaller scale.)
So, this hillbilly like family have lived with no electricity and never venture off the compound. It seems some sympathisers sometimes visit, and maybe they get some provisions that way (it wasn't clear) but they live mainly on beans, rice and chicken and sheep they raise themselves.
The creepiest thing, of course, was seeing the teenage (and older) kids with Stockholm syndrome, claiming they knew they were safe there and so they never wanted to leave. At least one of the kids (the young boy) seemed to have a intellectual disability - he smiled a lot but thought one times ten was "eleven". (I wonder if it was a nutritional problem, actually.)
The aging matriarch was glad they did not go to public school, because they teach them sex education from kindergarten and "how to be a homo". (Funnily enough, similar fears are routinely expressed at Catallaxy.)
It was a fascinating documentary, which all ended in an entirely to be expected outbreak of paranoia against the film maker.
Recommended.
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