2's rant proves he really didn't do any fact checking. First and foremost from what I've learned Deo isn't the person who contacted the convention center. I will no longer support or speak up for 2. His telling the fandom that we need to be more accepting without looking into who he's promoting. Sovereign citizens are bad news. These people are a legal nightmare. If they were nazi it wouldn't really be a problem for the fandom. More often than not sovereign citizens end up in jail or prison. The furry raiders have proven themselves to be sovereign citizens and in no way should their behavior be acceptable to anyone.
A long but very informed video. With some great links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M67DglZDkT4
If anything you should check out his link to a lawyer's response to the cease and desist letter.
Kage is only one voice on a board. I wouldn't exactly claim Anthrocon has higher standers. Not after their 'taking the con into a new direction" statement. This statement, without explanation, should worry the talent at that con.
I don't pass judgement on people unless I have verifiable facts and exsplenations, and don't rely trust sensationalist news sources. Especially if they don't cite their information and report hearsay. Also I would not put much stock in that video and the listed age on FA having anything to do with Hitler. It's not uncommon to see people list tripple digit age markers. Just something I found odd. Correlation does not imply causation after all in all cases.
From what Iv read and digged up on FA it would appear that only 2 members of the board are into the Sovereign Citizen Legal wonkeyness and I haven't seen any evidence that they are members of the Furry Raiders and not just friends of them. And both of them would reject being part of any such anti-movement and take offence at the term from what Iv seen of their retorts on the Colroado Furs FA page journal. As well as one one of their FAs and personal websites since they post everything. Per a previously posted journal on one of their FA's it appears they were already checked out by a U.S Marshal who found no harm and wrong doing after a neighborhood complaint and its my practice to leave people to their eccentricities so long as they are neither breaking the law or causing harm to others. I read the breakdown of the C&D letter by that lawyer and do agree that it is horribly written and probably unenforceable but there is no such thing as a fake or illegal C&D letter, nor do you need a attorney to send one (though you probably should consult with one for you know what you are doing for you don't end up being sued over it). It was certainly bad PR.
As for the Furry Raiders being "NAZIs" I would need definitive proof of that and not hearsay since....well they stooped being a existing thing after WWII ended. Sure you can espouse their beliefs and hold little rallies wearing brown shirts and call your self a Nationalist Socialist but that doesn't rely make you anything but a poser. The term gets thrown around a lot by people who have no understanding of it's meaning now days to the point its reached a over used cliche. Far as I can tell, besides the acts of a few bad apples the worse thing the Furry Raiders did was overbook a number of rooms they could not have used back in 2016 before the Con room block opened (which they later begrudgingly or not released) and wore attire (mainly arm bands) that appeared to be similar to that worn by the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Their leader my have acted like a Furrzi as well and said some rather offensive things while claiming to be trolling or so Iv read. They also apparently organized a lot of community events I never went to so can't comment. But that's no reason to advocate violence or demand everyone in their group be banned from a Convention because of the actions of a few bad apples. I was there in 2016 and did not see any problems or violence...though I did find the armbands odd since I was not aware of the group and don't rely follow local things.
There is a lot of rumors, conspiracy theories and claims being made by both sides. People seem to forget that social media is a public venue and things said can have consequences. It appears (to me) that after this situation escalated and the owner of the convention's parent company chose to respond in a rather careless manner. The hotel found out and wasn't willing to take the liability risk given the hostile exchanges and accusations online without increased security (to the tune of around $22,000 per one of the board members) and I imagine after more than a year of this drama the chair had enough and decided to fold the Con. I think its tragic that a personal conflict between two small groups over things they disagree with killed anentire convention and ruined things for everyone because they couldn't keep it to them selves or agree to disagree. More baffling is the number of people on Twitter congratulating them selves on bringing down RMFC as if it's some great victory. From what Iv seen everyone involved has some blame and no one wants to take responsibility and just point the finger at everyone else and now there is this Alt-Right vs SJW thing that its taken on which I just see as politicized idiocy.
Well that's my take on the entire thing so far.
Hopefully things don't go down hill with Anthrocon since I still plan to attend one day in the future. Going to look for another nearish Con to attend.