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Lisa0825

(14,487 posts) Sun Jun 29, 2014, 05:19 PM Jun 2014

"Welcome to Leith" - Help this Documentary Get Made!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/27/1309931/--White-Supremacists-Terrorize-Takeover-Small-Town-Welcome-To-Leith-The-Documentary

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903839421/welcome-to-leith-feature-documentary

I just read about this at Kos and watched the trailer. The deadline for them to be funded is 7/2. They are just under $50,000 right now, and have to make it to $60,000 by 7/2 or they lose the pledges.

I think this is an important documentary, and I'd like to see them get funded!

Leith, North Dakota is a registered ghost town of 16-24 people. Its inhabitants are mostly farmers or ranchers, with land passed down generation to generation. The town has an apocalyptic beauty set against a prairie backdrop of wide-open sky and fields of wheat.

In May of 2012, an outsider named Craig Cobb moved in and started buying up property. He accumulated twelve plots of land, some empty, some with houses in various states of disrepair. People figured he'd moved in to be close to the Bakken oil fields some 70 miles north. Turns out he was a notorious white separatist who was plotting a takeover of the city government. Shortly after his plans were unveiled, a family of fellow white separatists moved in to start fixing up his properties.

'Welcome to Leith' is a feature film offering a glimpse into a town struggling for sovereignty against one man's extremist vision. Filmed in the days leading up to Cobb's arrest for terrorizing the townspeople on an armed patrol, Welcome to Leith is an eerie document of American DIY ideals played out in one of the most under populated states in the nation.