Sheriff Posse Comitatus = right wing extremist hate group?

in sheriff •  4 years ago 

"compound of a right-wing extremist group called the Posse Comitatus."
https://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/local/2015/07/12/dan-hintz-posse-comitatus/30009027/

"the Posse Comitatus inherits its virulent strain of white supremacy, racial hatred"
http://blog.billpercybooks.com/2015/08/how-to-create-sympathetic-fictional-characters-who-are-right-wing-extremists/

"right-wing anarchist ideology originating in the theories of a group called the Posse Comitatus"
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/sovereign-citizen-movement

"Gale published his first Posse manifesto in 1971, recommending the organization of local Posse groups throughout the United States and declaring the county sheriff was the only legal law enforcement officer."
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/hate-group-expert-daniel-levitas-discusses-posse-comitatus-christian-identity-movement-and

"The Posse Comitatus is a loose association of people who share the same beliefs, a blend of Christian Identity, tax protest, Sovereign Citizen ideology, and common law activism. Posse Comitatus followers believe that the sheriff is the highest legitimate government authority, and that the federal government has no rightful power over American citizens."
https://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/sheriffs-posse-comitatus

"The Posse Comitatus was a right-wing extremist group that contended that the true intent of the country’s founders was to establish a Christian republic where the individual was sovereign, and that the Republic’s first duty was to promote, safeguard, and protect the Christian faith"
http://nebraskastudies.org/en/1975-1999/foreclosures-lead-to-violence/posse-comitatus/

"Detroit-based attorney William Maze, @TheDUILawyer, tweeted, "Insane. But Sheriff Dar Leaf is a member of the far right Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) and has links on his page to 'Posse,' which can only refer to the right wing hate group Posse Comitatus.""
https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/michigan-sheriff-implies-that-extremists-arrested-in-plot-to-kidnap-gretchen-whitmer-were-merely-trying-to-arrest-her/

""Posse Comitatus" is also the name taken by a right-wing, antitax extremist group founded in 1969 by Henry L. Beach, a retired dry cleaner and one-time member of the Silver Shirts, a Nazi-inspired organization that was established in the United States after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany"
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/posse+comitatus

"The 3 Percenters share ideological DNA with other right wing extremist groups, like the Posse Comitatus, The Oath Keepers, and Sovereign Citizens, and especially the militia and patriot movements."
https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-militia-group-says-theyre-ready-for-civil-war

"Membership in four main rightwing extremist groups is estimated as follows: Aryan Nations--6,000; Posse Comitatus- -3,000; Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord--100; and Order--25."
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/right-wing-terrorism-united-states

"The recruiting effort is being conducted by disparate right-wing organizations ranging from Ku Klux Klan splinter groups and the paramilitary antitax Posse Comitatus to a reborn Populist Party"
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/20/us/right-wing-extremists-seek-to-recruit-farmers.html

"This FBI file is an excellent case study of the tracking of a hate group. A group of right-wing extremists, the Posse Comitatus was formed in Oregon in the early 1970s. Established as a group of citizens "voluntarily acting in the name of the local sheriff to enforce the law," the Posse Comitatus hated Jews, African-Americans, and government officials above the rank of sheriff."
https://www.gale.com/c/fbi-file-on-the-posse-comitatus

"This extreme right-wing group takes its name from the Latin for "power of the county." Its founders, Henry Beach and William Potter Gale, were radical localists who claimed that the county is the highest and only legitimate level of government to which citizens owe allegiance. it is only the county, they argue, headed by a sheriff chosen by the community's white male residents, that possesses the right to enforce the law. According to Posse doctrine, the law itself is derived from the Bible, English common law, the Articles of Confederation, and, more vaguely, the U.S. Constitution. In their minds, no "Jew-dominated" legislature or Congress has the ability to make laws that "real, white Americans" are obliged to follow."
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pd.045

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