Meet the Kanab Patriots (last names L, M)

One hundred and seventy five (175) area residents engage with Kanab Patriots FB page promoting hate, bigotry, disinformation, personal attacks, business attacks, extremism, war cries, carry weapons against neighbors, public health disregard and defense of criminal behavior including embracing locals who went to D.C. January 6th to keep Trump in power.. This is the sixth alphabetical post in the KURW “Patriot Series”.

This post features 23 people with last names beginning with the letters L and M who engage with Kanab Patriots. All Kanab Patriots are featured in the KURW “Patriot Series” by last names and can be seen here: A-C. D-F, G-J, K, N-P Q-T and U-Z.

As always, use KURW resources for Reforming Extremists on Hatewatch and email mgalaria@protonmail.com for corrections or support.

A few of the 175+ Kanab Patriots do not meet the criteria so are not included on KURW Hatewatch with 400+ of their neighbors and are marked “Insufficient for Hatewatch” or “Not on Hatewatch”. Some of the Kanab Patriots are included in the 60+ Red Level Neighbors for their extensive hate/extremism/bigotry, including the founders of Kanab Patriots: USMC Veteran Jeff Schwilk and partner Ly “Tana” Kou pictured above and detailed in slideshow in section 2 of 3 below.

The 23 Kanab Patriots, pictured above, with last names beginning with the letters L and M are featured in this post presented in three sections:

1. A Google Presentation of interacting slides for each of the 23 with information from their public posts on Facebook categorized by extremism, violence, conspiracy, politics, politicians, bigotry.
2. A Google Presentation of the founders of Kanab Patriots
3. Links to other KURW posts related to Kanab Patriots

1 of 4: Google Presentation of These 23 Kanab Patriots with last names L-M

Of these 23 Kanab Patriots, all but two openly support the J6 Insurrection or some call of war for 2020-2024 (Revolutionary or Civil) and conspiracies. This group consists of :

• 3 are US Veterans and/or spouses of US Veterans
• 4 are in public service including 1 elected official, 1 public staff, & 1 spouse of elected official and 1 EMT retired
• 12 are business owners or in a management position
• 7 are designated “Red Level Neighbors” for the depth & breadth of their public posts & public activism of extremism & bigotry
• ALL support at least one other extremist group or figure including: Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Network, Truckers Convoy, Oath Keepers, Stand for Freedom Utah, Two Red Pills, Rittenhouse & Q’Anon

Toggle through the Google Presentation Slides below that display the content of public posts for each person, in alphabetical order. The content is categorized by extremism, violence, conspiracy, politics, politicians, bigotry, etc. indicated in the top left corner of each slide.

Easy navigation between slides: jump from title slide to a person of interest and back to title slide using the yellow “Return to First Slide” box on each slide and the slide number links on the title slide as displayed below

2 of 4: Google Presentation of the Founders of Kanab Patriots

Co-founders Jeff Schwilk & Tana Kou moved to Kanab from Southern California in 2018. Jeff had some legal battles with hate groups that he founded and/or led there and already had other FB extremists pages before starting his first local page “Kanabians for Slow, Sensible Growth” then “Kanab Conservative Activism” now “Kanab Patriots.” The Southern Poverty Law Center (non-profit U.S. organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists) exposed Schwilk’s activities from 2007-2018.

Click links in this slide presentation to learn more and/or see KURW feature posts

• “Kanab Patriots” Recruits and Radicalizes Facebook Extremists or
• Kanab Veterans Bigotry/Extremism: Clifford Smart, Kenneth Guinn, Jeff Schwilk, James Head, Jim Torgerson, Dan Watson, Amos Lofing

3 of 4: How evidence is gathered and presented

The evidence is gathered from public posts on social media, public engagement at rallies/events, and legal information that is accessible to the public. In other words, no private information is used and evidence IS SIMPLY COPIED from the source posting the public evidence.

The evidence is presented in a Google Slideshow format categorized by topic instead of a collection of the screenshots of the evidence for three reasons (1) the categorized format reveals the magnitude of the hate for given topics so that people can better address that individual for targeted intervention (2) the screenshot format of the post can lead to an amplification of hate by others simply sharing that post and (3) the Google Presentation format allows for links to other sources while a screenshot does not.

Here are examples of how the summarized version on Google Slideshows (left side of image) are based directly from the screenshots of evidence (right side of image). In both examples the January 6th attack on the US Capitol is supported by Kanab Mayor CJ Johnson (top image) and Kanab Chief of Police Tom Cram (bottom image).

4 of 4: Other KURW Post Related to Kanab Patriots

• Kanab at DC Capitol Riot (Crosby, Vetere, Corson +8)
• Meet the Kanab Patriots (last names A-C) and Meet the Kanab Patriots (last names D, E, F)
• Kane County Commissioner Calls Kanab Patriots a Hate Group, But They Are Not the Fringe
• “Kanab Patriots” Recruits and Radicalizes Facebook Extremists
• Calls to Fight: Against Neighbors & Against US Government
• Bigotry LGBTQ+ (Part Two of Three)
• Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Recruitment in Kanab. Kudos Kane County Office of Terrorism