A total of 31 Patriot Front members, including one identified as its founder, were arrested in 2022 after someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like “a little army.”

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      Stick with potatoes, Idaho. At least those are delicious after you poke holes in them and put them in the microwave for eight minutes.

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        I agree, but Idaho has an especially big issue there. White nationalists are trying to make it a mini-ethnostate.

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          Idaho native here.

          They operate through a nonprofit here in order to lobby for hate. It is an exceptionally huge problem. There’s a dude not 40 minutes from the capitol city with a warrant for his arrest and a militia and the government is just letting him do what he wants.

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      “someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like ‘a little army’ at a hotel parking lot in Coeur d’Alene”

      That’s all you need to know to see how safe these guys felt in their actions. It literally didn’t occur to them to maybe hide all that, just a bit? FFS, when I’m loading up to go shoot at my camp, I keep it on the downlow. And this is a hyper conservative area.

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    Fuck these kill-billy freaks. Fuck them with rebar! In fact, re-fuck them with rebar!

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    White Nationalists Nazis.

    Just because they tried rebranding doesn’t mean we have to adopt their sanitized terminology.

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    Isn’t this that group that has more feds than real members? And that was entrapped by feds to kidnap some politician but the whole case was dismissed because… entrapment

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      I’mma roll with No. Read the article they were convicted, which means that the case was NOT dismissed.

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          And in the other case, two were acquited, two received a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury, and two pleas guilty to conspiracy.

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            And the two who received a mistrial were retried, found guilty, and both sentenced to over 15 years

            e; and that was just the federal charges, there was a state level case that sent a bunch more to prison for a while too

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              Thank you for elaborating. Definitely seems like the above poster was pretty off base.