7,000 Gun-Loving "Patriots" Living
in a Walled Citadel Built Around an Arms Factory in Idaho.

 August 15, 2013

Gotta match?

Just so long as the walls are high enough to keep ‘em in!

and hate “liberals, Marxists and blue voters.”

Why the hate? Why not dislike?

This way you don’t sound so...let’s see...CRAZY!

They call it III Citadel,

Bet the real Citadel is pleased as punch that you nuts have chosen to exploit “Citadel.”

and they say they’ve already lined up “hundreds” of extreme-right gun lovers to join them in the walled city they’re planning for a lonely tract in northern Idaho.

Hundreds? Or is it more like 3 redneck yokels clad in plaid shirts in dire need of a dentist?

The end game, they say, is an ideologically pure settlement of 7,000 “Patriots” built around a huge arms factory.

Who did you say your Realtor is?
Just kidding.

But there’s no sign that the latest fantastic plans from antigovernment extremists will ever come to much.

Darn! There's a disappointment right there.

Dave Resser, the sheriff of sparsely populated Benewah County, calls the whole thing a “scam.”

Glad to see Sheriff Nottingham recognizes a scam! 

They say they’re not racists and welcome any and all comers, so long as they promise to follow the rules and they’re devoted and well-armed defenders of the Constitution—“liberals, Marxists and blue voters” need not apply.

That sounds a tad racist, don’t you think?