'We're not going back to the days of the Aryan Nations,' Coeur d'Alene Mayor Jim Hammond said after mass arrests of members of the Patriot Front group on June 11. Hammond was referring to a neo-Nazi group headquartered in that region between 1974 and 2000.
to the LGBTQ community. But the events reminded locals of another time when far right extremists sought to use their turf as a national stage to promote intolerance and hatred – and how their community fought back.
After that, the group's criminal activities escalated to include bombings, bank robberies, and even the firebombing attempted assassination of, a prominent local Catholic priest and human rights activist. Aryan Nations had also assumed a key role among racist organizations. Every year it hosted an annual conference that drew Klan members and neo-Nazi skinheads, among others, from around the nation.
Gissel credits the work of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, founded in 1981 to push back against the hate and terror that Aryan Nations attempted to sow in the community, with laying the groundwork for the legal victory. "I don't want it in North Idaho," he said, referring to the Pride activities."You know, there's so many places you can go and celebrate this. Why Idaho? Everyone is fleeing from states to try to have one conservative haven, and yet it ends up here. So where do we go from here? Do we go to Alaska? You know, there's not a lot of other places we can go.
"When guns come up, I'm not against the freedom, but I feel like we need to be responsible," Redfield said."When you're advertising 'bring your guns' and 'this means war,' what part of that is bringing responsible people?"
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