We print the newspaper for that county, and I read the articles and letters to the editor. There have been several about the Citadel, and so far no one--including the extremely-far-right managing editor of the newspaper--is in favor of five thousand maniacs building a walled fortress out there. You shoulda been here the night we printed the first paper about this: the married couple who run the paper back to St. Maries were on their phones laughing their asses off over this shit. You'd have thought someone gave them tickets to the greatest comedian in the world. It was truly delightful.
Some things I know:
Christian Allen Kerodin was convicted of extortion. He tried to get Washington, DC-area malls to employ him as a security consultant by threatening to publicize their security problems if they didn't hire him. Thirty months in the slammer later, he is no longer legally allowed to own weapons.
If you are approved for admittance, you will be allowed to LEASE, not buy, land. This is probably so they can kick you out if you turn out to be a Democrat anyway, although why a Democrat - or a Republican, for that matter - would want to live in the middle of fucking nowhere is beyond me. He calls it a "lifetime lease, payable in 30 years." Anyone who's read The Jungle knows this is the same setup they used to sell houses to the Slavic immigrant community in Packingtown.
They have a hunk of land at the top of Cherry Creek Road that will be their administrative office. This further proves these guys haven't ever actually been to Benewah County; they could get the land up there because it's only completely inaccessible two months out of the year. No one lives there now, and there's a reason for that. There are people who live on Cherry Creek Road, but the homes end long before the road does.
Their claimed land requirement is somewhere between 640 and 2500 acres. 640 acres is a square mile, or "section." 2500 acres, not coincidentally, is how large George W. Bush's ranch is. I imagine Shrub would be happy to part with it, seeing as how its only function was to make news coverage of him as difficult as possible.
One of the requirements for living in The Citadel is that you must maintain a year's supply of provisions. Considering where they're moving to, that's not a bad requirement: there are places in Benewah County that are only accessible by helicopter part of the year, and they're also the only places anyone can afford to buy a contiguous section.
The guy claims there will be "zero property taxes" in his walled fortress. I'm fairly certain whoever replaced my sister as Benewah County Assessor has other ideas. He says there won't be a code enforcement official, which also makes sense: people will be too afraid of getting shot for planting the wrong flowers in their window boxes to question code.
They also plan to support themselves through the manufacture of firearms - this makes sense, because the guy who is setting up this crazy ass scheme is a small gun manufacturer.
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