"Christine, res- <<< My daughter and husband visited Idaho, and found it full of white supremacists and guns. >>>
So does that mean you believe them?"
Michael, of course I believe my own husband and daughter. Is there a problem with that? They certainly can see with their own eyes, can't they? They have described Idaho as a place where almost everyone is white, and there are a lot of very conservative/hateful/bigoted bumper stickers stuck on pick-up trucks driven by guys with rifles in gun racks across the back window. Is there something hard to understand about that? My family knows me very well, and while my daughter likes the peace and quiet and slow pace in Idaho, and visits her cousins there every summer, they both agree that I would be miserable there because of the political atmosphere.
I did a quick web search, and found the following list of militia/hate groups in Idaho on a Militia Watch page:
Common Law Court, Ada County
Idaho Sovereignty Association, Boise
North American Freedom Council, Boise
Stewards of the Range, Boise
Common Law Court, Boundary County
Americans for Constitutional Government, Coeur d' Alene
Northwest Liberty Network, Coeur d' Alene
Sovereign Citizens of America Network, Coeur d' Alene
Concerned Citizens of Idaho, Hayden Lake
Idaho Liberty Network, Hayden Lake
John Birch Society, Hayden Lake
Unorganized Militia of Idaho, Hayden Lake
American Patriots of the Northwest, Kamiah
Specially Prepared Individuals for Key Events, Kamiah
Common Law Court, Kootenai County
U.S. Taxpayers Party, Kuna
Common Law Court, Lewis County
Idaho Citizens Awareness Network, Ponderay
Property Owners Association, Sandpoint
American Sovereignty, unspecified location
American Juris Association, unspecified location
Idaho First Militia, unspecified location
Here is a map of the groups, state by state, color coded for how intense the militia activity is in every state. You will note that Idaho has a very, VERY high concentration of these groups:
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