As a Eugene native, I used to know a few of those Eugene guys. A former leader used to be a Freeper, even. For him, it was about logging. He wanted clear cutting banned, and a return to selective logging (my father, a logger since the ‘30’s, even agreed with that).
He bailed on the whole thing when the anti-logging activists became anarchists and started a damage and destroy spree. The anarchists I knew outgrew it all after they had children to feed.
Yep, I met a bunch of those guys in Seattle when they came up for the WTO riots. One of them gave me a little discourse on peaceful protest, somewhat marred by me spying him pushing a flaming dumpster downhill a day later. This was his version of “smashing the state”, although the actual government buildings were uphill from there and all that was down on the waterfront was us worker bees. Most of them grow out of it, some become professors and never do.
Would that be Ferret?