TonySinclair:
And Rachel Maddow, probably among others, is pointing out on her show that his racist views should hardly come as a surprise, since his rants about county sheriffs being superior to federal authorities have their roots in the days when local sheriffs bravely stood up to the meddling Feds who were trying to enforce civil rights laws.
See also [url=]Posse Comitatus.
The Posse Comitatus organization was an extreme right-wing tax resistance movement active in the U.S. in the 1970s and early 1980s. It was strongest in the rural Midwestern states where a farm foreclosure crisis gave them an appealing recruiting target. Less an organized group than a decentralized movement, they generally held that the only legitimate form of government was at the county level (posse comitatus is Latin for “power of the county”) and did not recognize the state or federal government. They believed the county sheriff was therefore the head of state, and the unorganized militia of the county (themselves) was the sheriff’s enforcement arm under their admittedly bizarre reading of common law. (See: pseudolaw) It is not documented exactly how Posse Comitatus activists felt that this would work in areas of the country with weak or non-existent county governments (such as New England or Alaska), or in New York City, where the governments of five counties (the Five Boroughs) have been completely subsumed by the city government.
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While Posse Comitatus is not active in any significant sense, its ideology led to the sovereign citizen movement as well as the closely related militia movement. The anonymous propaganda tract known as the Citizen’s Rule Book is also believed to have been written by either members or sympathizers of PC due to its ideological slant.
wonky
April 25, 2014, 3:52am
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suspicious What kinda name is Miskatonic, anyhow? Are you one of them furriners?
Frodo
April 25, 2014, 4:20am
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Furriner! He was in New England before the pilgrims arrived.
Before the Native Americans too…
jayjay
April 25, 2014, 4:44am
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Yeah…probably better not to ask TOO many questions about certain people’s ancestry ‘round that neck o’ the woods…
The Interesting Times Gang from Ian Banks’ Culture novels. They would get shit handled.
Step into my circle and we’ll…discuss it.
Posted in the wrong forum. I guess you guys have gotten a little jaded about nonsense in this thread.
Hey, careful there! You don’t wanna get Banned from Arkham !
bup
April 25, 2014, 2:33pm
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When you have to say “I’m not a racist,” you’ve already lost.
I know, I know. Nobody is ready to say Bundy’s lost, yet, but I’m going out on a limb and calling it.
Golly, I wonder what he thinks of Arabs.
And I bet I can guess how he feels about the Jew.
It’s pretty sad that he’s “lost” due to something irrelevant to the case, though, not because he’s a thief.
MacCat
April 25, 2014, 3:23pm
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“We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,” said former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, a Bundy ally. “If they are going to start shooting, it’s going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers.”
Lest you worry too much about those women, Stephen Colbert pointed out they will protect them with a line of children.
The Ballad of Cliven Bundy
Not exactly irrelevant. He was ranting about people on public assistance, which one could reasonably say he was. And, well, a melon farmer complaining about negros, talk about biting the hand.
Or maybe everyone but me has you on ignore.
a35362
April 25, 2014, 4:14pm
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Hey! Evil Captor is cool, one of my favorite posters. WTH?
Evil Captor is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful poster I’ve ever known in my life.
Your eyelids were blinking something else in Morse code when you wrote that, right?
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