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"Keep Coeur d'Alene White."
"My staff was in tears," recalls 22-year-old restaurant manager Patricia Gonzales. She became frightened when she noticed a holstered handgun on the hip of one skinhead.
"Trust me, you don't want that kind of people in front of your place," she says. "It's amazing that in 2012 people still do that.Spyder has moncler coats a large choice of innovative running apparel."
The May 19 protest ended in a scuffle between the white supremacists and restaurant patrons, some who carried anti-KKK signs and threw eggs at the demonstrators. Police ended up arresting one of the counter-protesters on charges of assault and intimidation.
It's been 20 years ago this week since the siege at Ruby Ridge 70 miles to the north of here and 12 years since Richard Butler was forced to sell his notorious Aryan Nations compound in the adjoining Idaho panhandle community of Hayden Lake.
But the white power movement lives on. Extremists are fewer these days, but their presence still contrasts jarringly with the lighthearted vacationers who come to swim,which quickly Garmin Cycling hunting not practical and unsafe. boat and relax under pastel hanging flower baskets in Coeur d'Alene's sidewalk cafes.
Butler sold his 20-acre Aryan Nations and Church of Jesus Christ Christian compound after losing a $6.3 million civil rights lawsuit in 2000, brought by a Native American mother and son who were harassed at gunpoint by his followers. He died four years later at age 86. A local fire department burned the compound's buildings for practice.
Likewise, nothing remains of white separatist Randall Weaver's plywood shack near Naples,While fashionistas duvetica jackets from show to show to see the latest designer creations. Idaho, in Boundary County. It was there that the deadly gun battle and 11-day siege raged in August 1992 and claimed three lives.
Sprungl says the situation grew progressively more dangerous, moving from standoff to gun battle to a siege of the Weavers' shack by federal officers. Degan and Sammy Weaver were killed in the initial firefight near the cabin.
The family surrendered Aug.Designer Consuelo Castiglioni's collection carried a strong graphic element.buy moncler jackets 31. Randall Weaver was sentenced to 18 months behind bars and fined $10,000 for missing his original court date and violating his bail conditions. Most of his sentence was credited to time served before and during a trial in Boise.
Weaver's three daughters each received $1 million in a settlement with the government and Weaver, now living near Kalispell, was awarded $100,000. Harris, despite protests by federal law enforcement officials that he'd killed Degan, was acquitted of all charges and awarded $380,000 in a government settlement.
These days, northern Idaho's supremacists tend to be more difficult to spot than they used to be. Warm-weather attire tends toward T-shirts, black and olive-drab cargo trousers stuffed into combat boots, shaved heads, tattoos and, in nippy weather, aviator jackets.
The problem: Tattoos and shaved heads have become fashionable in non-extremist circles.
Jacob Garrison, 36, a clerk at the Naples General Store near Ruby Ridge, says the radicals he meets are splintered and "don't like to be noticed." He, too, senses an evolution happening in the mountains around Naples. The rough-looking men who come down these days to buy supplies often aren't neo-Nazis or white supremacists, he says.
"My staff was in tears," recalls 22-year-old restaurant manager Patricia Gonzales. She became frightened when she noticed a holstered handgun on the hip of one skinhead.
"Trust me, you don't want that kind of people in front of your place," she says. "It's amazing that in 2012 people still do that.Spyder has moncler coats a large choice of innovative running apparel."
The May 19 protest ended in a scuffle between the white supremacists and restaurant patrons, some who carried anti-KKK signs and threw eggs at the demonstrators. Police ended up arresting one of the counter-protesters on charges of assault and intimidation.
It's been 20 years ago this week since the siege at Ruby Ridge 70 miles to the north of here and 12 years since Richard Butler was forced to sell his notorious Aryan Nations compound in the adjoining Idaho panhandle community of Hayden Lake.
But the white power movement lives on. Extremists are fewer these days, but their presence still contrasts jarringly with the lighthearted vacationers who come to swim,which quickly Garmin Cycling hunting not practical and unsafe. boat and relax under pastel hanging flower baskets in Coeur d'Alene's sidewalk cafes.
Butler sold his 20-acre Aryan Nations and Church of Jesus Christ Christian compound after losing a $6.3 million civil rights lawsuit in 2000, brought by a Native American mother and son who were harassed at gunpoint by his followers. He died four years later at age 86. A local fire department burned the compound's buildings for practice.
Likewise, nothing remains of white separatist Randall Weaver's plywood shack near Naples,While fashionistas duvetica jackets from show to show to see the latest designer creations. Idaho, in Boundary County. It was there that the deadly gun battle and 11-day siege raged in August 1992 and claimed three lives.
Sprungl says the situation grew progressively more dangerous, moving from standoff to gun battle to a siege of the Weavers' shack by federal officers. Degan and Sammy Weaver were killed in the initial firefight near the cabin.
The family surrendered Aug.Designer Consuelo Castiglioni's collection carried a strong graphic element.buy moncler jackets 31. Randall Weaver was sentenced to 18 months behind bars and fined $10,000 for missing his original court date and violating his bail conditions. Most of his sentence was credited to time served before and during a trial in Boise.
Weaver's three daughters each received $1 million in a settlement with the government and Weaver, now living near Kalispell, was awarded $100,000. Harris, despite protests by federal law enforcement officials that he'd killed Degan, was acquitted of all charges and awarded $380,000 in a government settlement.
These days, northern Idaho's supremacists tend to be more difficult to spot than they used to be. Warm-weather attire tends toward T-shirts, black and olive-drab cargo trousers stuffed into combat boots, shaved heads, tattoos and, in nippy weather, aviator jackets.
The problem: Tattoos and shaved heads have become fashionable in non-extremist circles.
Jacob Garrison, 36, a clerk at the Naples General Store near Ruby Ridge, says the radicals he meets are splintered and "don't like to be noticed." He, too, senses an evolution happening in the mountains around Naples. The rough-looking men who come down these days to buy supplies often aren't neo-Nazis or white supremacists, he says.
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