{"id":10505,"date":"2023-04-22T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2023-04-22T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T18:06:25","slug":"states-are-cracking-down-on-militias-except-for-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10505","title":{"rendered":"States Are Cracking Down On Militias \u2014 Except For Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Vermont is one of at least three states seeking to strengthen its laws against paramilitary activity. At the same time, Idaho \u2014 a state with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/ruby-ridge-siege-25-years-called-rallying-cry\/story?id=49296439\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a long history of anti-government militia activity<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 is seeking to overturn its sole, unenforced law banning militias. The pending legislation represents two very different responses to what federal authorities say is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/militias-pose-a-serious-threat-so-why-is-it-so-hard-to-stop-them\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a growing threat of domestic terrorism<\/a>: Incidents of domestic terrorism, which includes violent militia, increased 357 percent from 2013 to 2021, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-23-104720\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a February report<\/a>&nbsp;from the Government Accountability Office. The new laws could shape where militias operate, and what they feel emboldened to do, in the years to come.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/state-militia-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/state-militia-laws\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vermont is one of at least three states seeking to strengthen its laws against paramilitary activity. At the same time, Idaho \u2014 a state with a long history of anti-government militia activity \u2014 is seeking to overturn its sole, unenforced law banning militias. The pending legislation represents two very different responses to what federal authorities say is a growing threat of domestic terrorism: Incidents of domestic terrorism, which includes violent militia, increased 357 percent from 2013 to 2021, according to a February report from the Government Accountability Office. The new laws could shape where militias operate, and what they feel emboldened to do, in the years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1730,1002,759,1035],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-idaho","tag-militia","tag-states","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}