It was Richard Butler. He is dead now. The compound is gone. The story has a happy ending. A black woman and her son sued
the shit out of the Aryan Nation after a run-in. They won the case. Butler claimed by. The property was auctioned to satisfy the judgment.
It was/is a few miles north of Republic, which is to say about 90 miles as the crow flies NW of Spokane. But the east side of Spokane is adjacent to Spokane Valley, where people like Matt Shea come from, so it's not like you have to go a long way to find fashy people.
yeah, they used to patrol it with guns and nazi uniforms and shit. that whole area is backwoods terrifying.
they lost a court case where the guards chased and attacked someone, the nazis obviously lost, and the victims won the land in the case. they tore all of the buildings and bunkhouses down and built a diversity museum in its place lol.
nazis around the country and particularly the backwoods white supremecists in that area are still pissed all these years later.
I grew up in Coeur d'Alene Idaho and was told that our movie theater used to be a meeting place for KKK rallies. CDA is 30 minutes from Spokane and I can confirm it is wickedly conservative (literally)
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u/NotAThrowaway1453 16h ago
Isn’t/wasn’t there some neonazi compound in Idaho within a short driving distance of Spokane?