Virtually every week, more people involved in the movement are sent to prison for crimes ranging from illegal gun possession to such common-law tactics as filing false property liens and passing fake checks. Official crackdowns have militiamen and other Patriots in constant fear of informers. The Movement Abandoned For years, Patriot heavyweights gathered twice a year in Shepherdsville, Ky., for the nearby Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Members of militia coalitions like the Third Continental Congress and the Southeastern States Alliance set up tents there and filled meeting halls. But divisions persisted and worsened.
Thousands still attend the Kentucky gun events.
Reflecting the change in audience, the fairs were recently renamed Lifeline Expos. To some, it all amounts to a sad state of affairs. This is not true. The IBT was not seized or taken, it was given away . But that does not mean that radical antigovernment sentiment is going away.