At TPM, Eric Lach has a long and detailed article exploring The Citadel, a planned armed community for survivalists and preppers, the people who take disaster preparedness to its most paranoid extremes. The group, coordinating in conjunction with the III Arms gun company, has bought up 20 acres of remote mountaintop land in northern Idaho, and is taking applications now for potential residents. The taking applications part is key'for $208, gun-loving paranoids can dream of living in an armed paradise, where every member from teenager on up is obligated to carry, all the time. If it's built, and that's a big if.'Something that I can't predict, but am hoping for, is a greater level of social interaction,' the organizer, who blogs under the names Vernon and VJ, wrote. 'Neighborhood barbeques, musical jam sessions and plays at the amphitheater or the Citadel Society club house, interest groups, clubs, organized and spontaneous activities of all sorts. I enjoy board games, myself, and used to go to a game club every Friday night. We'll have some great pubs with local brews, walking and bicycle paths, a firing range you don't have to drive a half hour or more to get to. Maybe a hill with a rope tow for sliding down on inner tubes in the winter time. Militia training will also have a unifying social aspect to it.'But is it real? The locals aren't so sure, as we'll explore below the fold.Vernon's is just one post picked from many, but it's a good example of the wholesome-until-they're-extremist ideas behind The Citadel. The project improbably received national notice last week, thanks in large part to The Drudge Report, which prominently linked to a story about The Citadel, with the headline 'GROUP TO BUILD ARMED NEIGHBORHOOD FORTRESS' below a close-up photograph of President Obama making Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney's 'not impressed' face. It was a classic Drudge move, calling attention to the fringe at the height of an intense policy debate ' this time, about gun control.
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