-Caveat Lector- What happened to Michael Bowers during the time that he was incarcerated? Who caused him to beleive that he was a leader of the "New World Order"? ======== http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=storage/remote_n/01180000aaa00c4e.nand&Sys=v2o&Filter=National%20News&Fid=NATIONAL Monday, January 22 , 2001 Driver who rammed California Capitol spent late life in and out of jail SACRAMENTO, Calif. - He grew up with four siblings in a house with a swimming pool and after dropping out of high school, he ended up living a carefree life running a ski lift near Mammoth. But by the time Mike Bowers crashed his semi truck into the state Capitol Tuesday night, he had turned his life into a hellish existence marred by repeated stays in jail, prison and state mental hospitals. Authorities say Bowers, 37, acted alone when he drove his 80,000 pound truck into the south entrance of the Capitol, incinerating himself and forcing an evacuation of the building. "He was living in his truck and hauling cross country," said his mother, Sharon Bowers. "We assumed he was back East, and we were concerned about the roads and the weather conditions and the blizzards. This is a shock." Bowers had worked for the Utah-based Dick Simon trucking company for about 10 days before the crash, his second stint with the company. He had worked for the company for about a month in early 2000. Bowers' criminal history was lengthy, with authorities saying he was sent to prison at least six times starting in the mid-1980s because of convictions or repeated parole violations. His criminal record began with a 1986 incident in which he was arrested for battery on a police officer. In 1991, he was sentenced to six years in prison for corporal punishment of a child, a charge that his mother said stemmed from a live-in girlfriend claiming he was responsible for bruising her small daughter. He spent three years in prison before being shipped to Atascadero State Hospital to serve out three years of probation. After his parole ended in 1998, Bowers went to trial to win his freedom from the state mental health system, but a jury committed him to Patton State Hospital in Southern California for about two years. In 1999, despite the urging of prosecutors and psychiatrists that he remain hospitalized, a jury decided that he no longer posed a danger to society and could be set free. Bowers then went to live with his family in Perris, Calif., but he never could adjust to life outside prison, for which he blamed the correctional system. Bowers stayed in prison even after he was given the opportunity for parole twice, but refused to sign the papers, said state prisons spokeswoman Margot Bach. By the time he won his freedom in 1999, he was a psychological wreck, his family said. Cars on the Southern California freeways made him dizzy, and he ended up taking medication commonly prescribed to control schizophrenia. He obtained a trucking license in early 2000 and went to work for the Simon trucking firm for about a month before he quit. Bowers had suffered from drinking problems, and after spending time with his mother, he decided to move in with his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor in nearby Lake Elsinore, his mother said. At about that time, sources said, Bowers began trying to find an old girlfriend he had known for 15 years. The woman was incarcerated on drug charges and was due for release last November. Bowers showed up at the prison on Nov. 26 for her release and proposed to her in the parking lot. The next day, they married in Carson City, Nev., then began the trip home toward Southern California. But the couple began quarreling after Bowers started making odd statements about the "New World Order." "Mike got really weird," the woman told Riverside County sheriff's deputies at the time. "Something about a 'New World Order.'" Bowers dumped the woman in Bishop and she hitchhiked home. Once there, however, she resumed their relationship. On Dec. 3, the couple had a fight in which he allegedly punched her in the mouth because she did not share his political views. "I'm one of the leaders of the New World Order," Bowers told a sheriff's deputy after his arrest on domestic violence charges. He had even gone so far as to have the phrase "New World Order" tattooed on one of his biceps. The New World Order typically is the name anti-government groups use to label an alleged conspiracy among governments to coalesce under the leadership of the United Nations. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of spousal abuse and received a sentence of 45 days and the requirement that he take anger management courses. 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