Citadel Update

The following paragraph is copied and pasted from Kerodin’s blog:

“I chose to marry Holly. Yes, stalking was involved, moving into a hotel very near her home (she lived in another state at the time) was involved when she wasn't looking, and I had to nearly resort to duct tape, but we married.”

Back to me:

How fucking creepy is that?! Oh my god! Does he break the law in every single aspect of his life? And what kind of mental/emotional issues does she have, that she would think an obsessive stalker who won’t take no for an answer is a fit marriage partner? Someone close to me had a stalker. She found moving from friend’s house to friend’s house and changing her work hours in an attempt to be unpredictable terrifying, not romantic. What a freaky household that must be.

I haven’t written about Kerodin for the past week and a bit because that time was for honouring the vets, and Kerodin’s name should never be mingled with those of honourable people.

I wanted to, though, because he is bailing on everything. He wants to off-load all of his schemes onto other people. He claims they have the potential to be money-makers, after an initial infusion of cash, but big businessman Kerodin couldn’t reach that potential, so he is out.

Since then, he has asked for ideas from people – What would they like him to do next? – but no one has any reason to believe he’ll follow through. He’s also whining that not enough people are giving money for the cause.

Surely this will convince people that the citadel will never be made.

It turns out, I guess, that he really is moving this time. He is begging for money for himself to start a martial arts/yoga studio in St. Maries, Idaho. Residents, beware. Why does he need to beg for money? Surely the string of successful business ventures he’d created over the course of his life, the ones he kept saying he had to wrap up before they could move, would convince a bank to give him some financing.

He says he wants to be the beginning of bringing other III business into the area. How, exactly? It’s a tiny studio that will have to run off the tiny population of St. Maries, Idaho, which is 2,402 people. Do you know how many supporters his movement has, across the country? Close to 50. He posted that. Quite the come down from the over 200 families he said applied to live in the citadel way back in February. The local sheriff was reported as saying he thought the citadel was a scam and that even if it happened, it would clearly be an oligarchy, with Kerodin and co controlling everything, and referred to it as a cult. Residents were reported as being against the idea.

Kerodin will probably try to convert people. Just the thing you want with your yoga lesson: An unhinged political rant. And his “principles” forbid him taking money from anyone who doesn’t think exactly as he does. Even if they manage to scrape by, it’s not as though they’ll be creating employment in the area. He’ll be of no assistance to anyone else.

I think that just as hard for him as the complete financial failure are all of the people pointing out that he’s acting like a psycho. He expected to take over – and take advantage of - the “patriot” movement, but instead most have treated him like a pariah, someone who makes the whole movement look so bad that he’s basically doing the work of their detractors.

And to no one’s surprise, Kerodin has briefly put aside the calls to murder everyone who isn’t a III patriot to begin calls for the members of the III patriot group to turn on each other. That’s right. Time to start stabbing each other in the back. I once made a joke about Kerodin and his five friends being the first to get stomped. By the time he’s done, he’s really only going to have five people on his side. If he’s lucky.

He’s telling people if they see someone wearing a III badge, and through their psychic abilities determine that the guy isn’t a real threeper, to just march right over and grab that patch or piece of clothing off him. One commenter pointed out that Kerodin’s advocating assault with legal consequences (where the hell has that guy been up to now?) and wrote that if some random stranger approached him and tried to pull off a piece of his clothing, that stranger would be flattened. Another commenter said that Kerodin’s pushing the kind of blind, unthinking hive mind that he accuses the government of demanding. A third said it wasn’t a patch that made a man, but his actions, like helping other people. Kerodin kinda back peddles in his answers to all of them. Let’s see if that stays up.