SurvivalistsIn Idaho, Louis meets military enthusiasts and right-wing patriots who are preparing for a global catastrophe, including trips to survivalists' store Safetrek and a mountain refuge for conspiracy theorists called Almost Heaven. Louis also visits the Aryan Nation Church and helps to build a straw-bale home. The episode focuses on the survivalism movement and communities formed around it. The fact that several self-proclaimed survivalists were also hippies and environmentalists is a recurring theme. Although by the time the documentary was made, it was fairly easy to see these people as 'radical nuts', nowadays -thanks to documentaries like "Freedom to Fascism", which is available at GoogleVideo- one is inclined to think that they might not be that crazy. The googlevideo link to 'The Survivalists' is missing the hilarious ending, you just get a glimpse of it in a non-enjoyable kinda way..
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