In 2020, an American woman of 39 watched on tv as police removed elderly protestors disrupting traffic in front of the UK parliament. She watched as they also disrupted the production of newspapers they considered negative on issues of global warming.

She was angry, yet uncertain of the nature of this protest by Extinction Rebellion. Was this the right way to go? Stopping free speech? Women baring breasts to show bare truth?

Her uncertainty gave way to anger when she read, with more horror, as Ms Preti Pattel, the Rt Hon P Pattel, looking smug, described the protestors as ‘criminals’. Pattel was British Home Secretary and she used this language, 'so-called eco-warriors'. One of the newspapers disrupted called them ‘anarchists’. This Murdoch paper, The Sun, is climate change a major backer of Pattel's party.

The woman watching from her home in California is called Francine Olnay.

Her grandmother, who had been her closest friend, was of the generation that were carted off by British police.

Was her grandmother green? Her grandmother had worked underground in World War II to accelerate the development of penicillin which commercial firms did not want to touch because they thought it would not be profitable.

In discovering this about her grandmother, she discovered that Bill Rutland, journalist and, Francine thought, long forgotten eco-warrior, was her grand father.

Rutland's career was broken when the he wrote of the cancer dangers of US troops fighting in a 'nuclear battlefield'. To say anything against nuclear type was a betrayal of the US state and a crime.