A Right-Wing Militia's Own Private Idaho

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A Right-Wing Militia's Own Private Idaho
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT


While still basically a fantasy, in early September, organizers of The Citadel, an intentional community for Patriots located in Benewah County, Idaho, "gathered at a twenty-acre plot they have already purchased as a starter base-camp, according to county records," The Nation recently reported. "Whether or not the Citadel is built, the gathering itself is important: it could become the most significant turning point in the militia and survivalist world since Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma federal building in 1995 and the FBI crackdown on armed paramilitaries that followed."

In January, in a piece titled The Citadel: A Gunner's Paradise in Northern Idaho, BuzzFlash reported that The Citadel was "An ambitious project ... aiming to build housing for between 3,500 and 7,000 'patriotic American families who agree that being prepared for the emergencies of life and being proficient with the American icon of Liberty — the Rifle — are prudent measures. ... There will be no recycling police and no local ordinance enforcers from City Hall.'"

The artist's concept has The Citadel including a perimeter fenced road with numerous castle-style fortified walls towers, interior defensive walls and towers, an on-site gun factory ("III Arms Factory&quot , schools, an Amphitheatre, a firearms museum and reflecting pool, and a farmer's market.

The Citadels' Miller and Kerodin

The key organizers of the project appear to be Christian Kerodin and James L. Miller.

Writing for The Nation, in a piece titled Is America's Militia Movement on the Rise?, Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart, the president and vice president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, reported that: Christian Kerodin "was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, as Christian Allen Hyman. He spent his youth training at a traditional Akijutsudojo in Washington, DC, and with people he called "groundfighters" in Torrance, California, according to Kerodin's blog. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18190-a-right-wing-militia-s-own-private-idaho

[TheDeputy]

1. This is a bit weird.

To each, his own. However, I doubt they will get many takers. Doesn't sound like the most pleasant place to live. I suspect a scam to separate "preppers" from their money.

[DetlefK]

2. A town with as little regulation and as many guns as possible. What could go wrong?

[JoePhilly]

3. Let them build it, then build walls around it.

Problem solved.

[gopiscrap]

4. Not a surprise I used to live real close to N. Idaho

and many of the folks in the backwoods either had that sort of attitude or were very sympathetic to those who.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Fence in the gun-humpers and prepper nutcases?

OK by me.

[backscatter712]

6. As long as the gates lock from the outside... n/t

[tosh]

7. 20 acres? 3500 to 7000 beings??

Yeah, good luck with that.