{"id":1518232,"date":"2022-06-16T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518232"},"modified":"2022-06-16T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:50:24","slug":"the-white-nationalists-arrested-at-the-idaho-pride-event-were-the-least-armed-and-dangerous-people-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-white-nationalists-arrested-at-the-idaho-pride-event-were-the-least-armed-and-dangerous-people-that-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018White Nationalists\u2019 Arrested At The Idaho Pride Event Were The Least Armed And Dangerous People That Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-white-nationalists-arrested-at-the-idaho-pride-event-were-the-least-armed-and-dangerous-people-that-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518232&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Idaho.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>By the way Chief Lee White of the Coeur d\u2019Alene Police Department is acting, you\u2019d swear he just prevented a mass shooting in a preschool using only psychic abilities and a roll of tape.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not what White and his force did. Instead, on Saturday they arrested 31 guys who were found to be in possession of nothing other than a single smoke bomb and a plan to make noise throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>Each individual was charged with one misdemeanor, \u201cconspiracy to commit riot,\u201d based on the fact that the men involved were dressed in distinguished uniforms of khaki pants and blue t-shirts, plus some of them had shin guards and shields. There were no guns nor ammunition, but they did have some kind of document spelling out a plan to march in a line through a downtown park and agitate passersby.<\/p>\n<p>The intent was to align in \u201ca column forming on the outside of the park, proceeding inward, until barriers to approach are met,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/12\/us\/idaho-pride-white-supremacists-arrested.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> The New York Times, and \u201conce an appropriate amount of confrontational dynamic has been established the column will disengage and head to Sherman [Ave.].\u201d In other words: Show up, irritate pedestrians, and then leave.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly annoying and offensive, but since when did that require two press conferences from the police chief and fire-alarm coverage from The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and on and on?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, that\u2019s because this wasn\u2019t just anybody. This wasn\u2019t Black Lives Matter or Antifa. It was the Patriot Front, a group made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/17\/congrats-to-the-media-for-finally-finding-a-white-supremacist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cwhite nationalists.\u201d<\/a> That\u2019s why we\u2019re supposed to believe this was so important. They were white racists and, as we\u2019re told by the FBI and the media over and over again, that\u2019s the greatest threat to the country at the moment. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not because anyone was hurt or that there was even any evidence that there was a specific plan of assault. They had no weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, anything can be a weapon, but generally speaking, a shield is meant to defend, not attack. And Chief White said there were regular attendees \u201cwalking around the [Pride] event with long guns and handguns and bear spray and all kinds of things like that.\u201d That\u2019s perfectly legal for them to do in Idaho, but it was apparently the shields police were concerned with.<\/p>\n<p>The police report from the arrest says that it was \u201clikely the intent\u201d of the group to \u201cincite physical confrontation and cause disorder,\u201d and \u201cuse violence and\/or the threat of violence to disturb the public peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, it\u2019s not that that\u2019s not serious, but consider the hostage situation the entire nation faced (and continues to face) through the summer and fall of 2020 when violent Black Lives Matter riots were raging in every major city. \u201cMostly peaceful,\u201d we were assured. In the case of Coeur d\u2019Alene, nothing happened, and in addition, White said plenty of activist groups were in the city at the same time, opposed to and in support of the Pride event, including the left-wing Antifa and the right-wing Panhandle Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Panhandle Patriots group is even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pbtUdNAVYw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on video<\/a> ahead of time saying they planned to go \u201chead to head\u201d with the Pride organizers and attendees. \u201cDamn the repercussions,\u201d he said. \u201cStand up, take it to the head, go to the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so why was there a major arrest of an unaffiliated group that had nothing but a single smoke bomb? (Which, by the way, would have had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2GDPJGfGaPc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">minimal effect outdoors<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>White said his department is even working with the FBI on this matter involving misdemeanor charges. (Hmm\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fbi-refuses-to-say-how-many-informants-were-involved-in-jan-6-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">where have we seen that before<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>This <em>is<\/em> an important story. Not because \u201cwhite nationalists\u201d are involved. But because for curious reasons, the FBI is.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the way Chief Lee White of the Coeur d\u2019Alene Police Department is acting, you\u2019d swear he just prevented a mass shooting in a preschool using only psychic abilities and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}