The Citadel Project

[DeletedUser]

I have just heard about his, it's a project in Idaho to create a walled community where every home is required by law to have in posession an AR-15 and at least 1000 rounds of ammunition. And no, this is not a hoax; THE CITADEL!

It's like a cross between 1984, Escape From New York, The Shawshank Redemption in which all the inhabitants think they live in the preface to Red Dawn.

Just look at the map;

The Citadel will be a small planned community of 3,500 - 7,000 families of patriotic Americans who voluntarily choose to live together in accordance with Thomas Jefferson's ideal of Rightful Liberty: Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.

In essence, Rightful Liberty means that neighbors keep their noses out of other neighbors' business, that neighbors live and let live.

Marxists, Socialists, Liberals, and Establishment Republicans may find that living within our Citadel Community is incompatible with their existing ideology and preferred lifestyles.

And to cap it all off, none of the participants in the project are required to have background mental health checks.

All my brain can think of in response to this is HOW? and WHY?

 

[DeletedUser31931]

I tell you, it'd make a great place for mock medieval battles.

In all seriousness though, the idea sounds fine and dandy (if not a bit weird) until you reach the part about background mental health checks. It can't be safe to just let any nutter in there with a rifle, what are you going to do if he turns violent? Shoot him dead? If you ask me this sounds fishy. A huge base remotely in the mountains where everyone is proficient in rifles. Is anyone getting an image of Blofeld popping up in their minds yet?

 

[DeletedUser]

Hehe, but you think (apart from lack of background checks) that this is all 'fine and dandy' despite being a 'bit weird', did the perimeter walls and guard towers not put you off? Seriously?
Hey, maybe it's a Obaman Democrat conspiracy to lock away all them freedom loving gun loving patriots so he can continue his reign of socialism unheeded!

 

[DeletedUser31931]

Did you read the second part of my post? Image of Blofeld coming to mind, but seriously, I doubt they'd do anything, if they declared war on Obama, he'd probably just bomb the outer perimeter and ask them to declare peace. Then he'd surround the place and starve them out.

 

[DeletedUser]

Yeah, I saw the second part of your post. And this isn't really about what they'd do (they'll probably just kill each other) It's about the sheer principle.

 

[DeletedUser31931]

As a principle it's interesting. I have no clue on how it'll finally work, but as you say it'll probably end in anarchy and death. To be honest though, I find it hard to take this seriously, it just seems to be a lot like a repeat case of Rv. Jim Jones Jonestown and we all know how that turned out, don't we.

 

[DeletedUser618]

from their FAQs: The model will be similar in many ways to that of Disneyland.

kinda says it all

 

[DeletedUser]

from their FAQs: The model will be similar in many ways to that of Disneyland.

An armed compound founded on antisemitism? Sounds like just another militia.

 

[DeletedUser15641]

I think they watch too much of Jericho lol.

But a good idea for my new dream house

Hmm is it still in building or just a model?

 

[DeletedUser31931]

If you'd read their website, it says that it's still just a model, they will buy the land this year as well as starting construction.

 

[DeletedUser34315]

Honestly, if they can convince people to come join, and can raise the money to make such a place, have at it. That's the beauty of the USA- you're free to do just about whatever harebrained scheme you want to.

 

[DeletedUser31931]

Just so long as it doesn't turn dangerous, I completely agree.

 

[DeletedUser16008]

Someones not been playing enough D&D campagining.

Needs to be on a defendable hill so Orcs can't mass on more than one small area.... pffft call THAT a Citadel ?

Heres a better one a 12 year old made earlier.

Or this

See now THATS defendable with water ..... amateurs

 

[DeletedUser]

This Citadel group say on their website they got 20 acres atop a mountain, so if they ever actually build the place they will have the high ground against any invading D&D variety of orcs. The extremely high semi-automatic rifles & potatoes vs D&D orcs ratio should also be considered a strategic advantage.

What remains to be seen is whether such a currently envisioned community would truly be a sanctuary from their sworn enemy: the Dark Lord of the Potomac and his "orcs". If a completed Citadel were targeted by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named for annihilation, they could face stormtroopers, battle tanks, ground attack aircrafts, strategic bombers, drones, conventional and nuclear ordnance, chemical and biological weapons, and God knows what else.

 

[DeletedUser28032]

Well come the day that the zombie apocalypse arrives or the worlds power suddenly turns off or Captain Trips wipes out half the world then the citadel would probably be a really good place to be, however until that day its just a group of gun toting survivalists in a castle and odds are the plan will come to nothing.

 

[DeletedUser15641]

Theirs never a good place to be with except for your loved ones.

So if I am dying, better I die naturally, happily and that I made my family proud.

I wouldn't want to die in citadel

 

[DeletedUser16008]

Theirs never a good place to be with except for your loved ones.

So if I am dying, better I die naturally, happily and that I made my family proud.

I wouldn't want to die in citadel

I think the point is NOT to die if your in a citadel

 

[DeletedUser15641]

I think the point is NOT to die if your in a citadel

Human nature is to die when the right time comes, I don't think that the citadel can protect people from that.

 

[DeletedUser]

Human nature is to die when the right time comes, I don't think that the citadel can protect people from that.

What? Rubbish. Human nature is to survive. Although if you wish to start a conversation about human nature, then please start a new thread instead of spamming this one.

 

[DeletedUser]

Hehe, looks like a great new playground for survivalists. Of course the "no background check" scene kinda undermines the whole "sanctuary" concept. Ah well, not like it's a military assault base and the facility is not immune to Federal or State laws.

So while they may be going on the notion of, "my home is my castle," it doesn't really matter whether it's in a fortified medieval castle on a hill in Idaho, or an apartment complex in Harlem, it is "illegal" to "require" any citizen to own a gun, particularly a "brand name" weapon, such as the AR-15. Duh, posture all they want, they're still in the United States.