nazi compound (Boise, Pocatello: schools, living, gangs)

[rickers]

I've met mark several times at gun shows in Spokane. He seems to be a very nice guy.

[Trace_Rinaldi]

I think Mark Furhman got shafted by the prosecutors, and media.
If I ever met that guy I would buy him a beer. His commentary on FOX news is always right on.. I guess that makes me a racist or a nazi or whatever..

[esselcue]

The whole OJ fiasco was one giant shaft. Furhman simply was collateral damage IMHO

[Sage of Sagle]

At the time of that case, I was working for a division of the department where I was intimately involved with the trial. It was a huge FUBAR'd mess, start to finish. LAPD majorly screwed up that crime scene, although the evidence was still there (and damning). But a green PD could have made Chris Darden and Marcia Clark look like buffoons...they just weren't up to the job IMO. That didn't help.

But the point was that they did succeed in discrediting Furhman, the prosecution's anchor witness, and it was a deft use of the race card to taint a jury's perception of a defendant's guilt. That's all it takes...

[Trace_Rinaldi]

Sage, I would venture to say even though he ended up being unfairly painted with a scarlet letter, he is better off now. I'm sure your aware of the silly things that have been going on in the LAPD since then. He is up there in Gods country, and loving life with people (for the most part) who took the time to understand what really happened. I bet he's getting paid much better now as well
Ya know, the sort of people that would hold up Mark Furhmen for living in NID as proof of racism or nazi activity, are better off staying away, and holding onto thier misconceptions about N. Idaho!
Those are the kind of people Im trying to get away from.

[bigbob25]

i wouldnt worry about the racist s i havent seen any negative matters here but id worry more about the frezzing yr but off in winter and going broke areas of the area im sure the thinkings still present but its more dormant in the strange few that think that way hahaha

[Sage of Sagle]

SKNAH...your post was appended to the thread which discusses the influence of the LDS church on life in Idaho...just in case you thought it was deleted...it was just moved to a more germane topical thread...

[mistyriverranch]

Here is a recent article about him and the comments afterward:
Bonner County Daily Bee

[RLangben]

Mark Furmans big downfall was committing perjury, also pleading the 5th for his right not to commit self incrimination when the jury asked him if he has ever falsified or planted any evidence in the simpson trial, or coarse this was after the perjury conviction.

Although they were never able to prove of Furmans evidence planting/manufacturing evidence/or falsified police reports, its still quite strange that instead of just saying no to the accusations he plead the 5th after he already committed felony perjury (But in all reality this is just one way to look at it, and just because you plead the 5th doesn't mean you are trying to hide something that is just a common theory.)

[stingraynm]

I went to college at U of I in Moscow and had MANY jaunts to the CdA area and surrounding wilderness. Personally, I never saw any sign of this stuff even when it was still "officially" there. Most of that region is more college youth and resort culture.

I moved to Northern New Mexico several years ago and have seen a LOT more racism here than I ever saw growing up in Boise and spending college years in N. Idaho. Of course, there's nothing "official" here, but it's very apparent to anyone who wants to go out for a drink or get equal service from a differing ethnicity. Many minorities feel entitled and even have historical spite between one another; particularly among the Mexicans and Native Americans. When I lived in Los Alamos, it's near a town called Española, where a lone Anglo truly dare not go at night.

The whole aryan nations rap in Idaho is really blown out of proportion nationally.

As for my statements about New Mexico, I now live in Albuquerque and it's just fine.

Ultimately, you can't ever judge an area by minority factions of violently narrow-minded creeps, but I think a person of Jewish descent could feel safer in CdA than a person of Anglo descent could feel in parts of New Mexico.