"Almost Heaven" in Idaho

[abduLMaria]

I watched this BBC Louis Theroux show on Bo Gritz and Almost Heaven in Idaho.  It seemed like a good bunch of people who wanted to live free.

But when I do a web search I get the ADL version, and other less biased descriptions that make it sound like it's shut down.

I understand Bo Gritz might have passed on, but does that mean the community he built is gone ?

I'm wondering if the Rick Ross article about it is accurate.


http://www.rickross.com/reference/milit ... tia88.html

Almost Heaven almost gone?
"Patriot" haven now silent a decade later

Casper Star Tribune/August 27, 2004
By Rebecca Boone

Woodland, Idaho -- The "No Trespassing" signs increase with the elevation along the Woodland grade until the tiny development of Almost Heaven, where they seem to mark nearly every house and trailer.

But there's few people to keep out of Almost Heaven these days. Interest in the so-called covenant community tapered off years ago after founder James "Bo" Gritz left, and nearby Woodland residents say many of the patriot movement's most vocal members have long since left as well.

"When Bo Gritz left, things kind of settled down," said Glenn Simler, a farmer who has lived in the peaceful Quaker settlement of Woodland for all of his 84 years. "The ones that seemed to be troublemakers took off -- I don't really know why. Law enforcement in the area got to them. It just wasn't a place that fit their ideas."

Almost Heaven started in the early 1990s with just under 1,000 acres on the rim of the plateau overlooking the Clearwater River. Gritz, a former military man who describes himself as the inspiration for "Rambo," envisioned a place where like-minded constitutionalists could live, free from excessive government control and safe from crime and other dangers.


http://www.adl.org/mwd/gritz.asp

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I did search and found this from not too many months ago:
http://giannihayes.net/?p=554