Carlson: Redoubt movement alarming

In his column this week, Chris Carlson of the Carlson Chronicle wonders why Idaho officials aren’t taking the American Redoubt movement more seriously:

“The legitimate concern that Idaho’s elected officials should be sounding alarm bells about is the tendency of national media to want to characterize the Redoubt movement as the reincarnation of the Richard Butler/Neo-nazis plague that afflicted Idaho’s image world-wide for years. Jame Wesley, Rawls and the redoubters are certainly hard right libertarian conservatives who can intimidate simply by showing up at meetings wearing their pistols whether there is an open-carry law or not.  There is no evidence, however, that they espouse the hate-filled, white supremacist racist views of Butler.  National and even international media are already monitoring and watching perhaps hoping they are.” More here.

Question: What do you think the American Redoubt movement is?