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Posse Comitatus

LC control no.n 90698211
Corporate name headingPosse Comitatus
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Found inNUCMC data from University of North Dakota Library for Kahl, G. Papers, 1981-1983 (Posse Comitatus)
Turner, C. There was a man, the saga of Gordon Kahl, c1985: p. 30, etc. (Posse Comitatus; local organizations based on sheriff's Posse Comitatus; "Power of the county" (force of citizens summoned by sheriff to maintain public order); in 1970s became a movement with members meeting (officers, etc.), chiefly in western states, to protest income tax, Vietnam War, labor unions, etc.; sometimes called terrorist group; strictly a local affair and not a state or national organization; subversive organization)
Encyc. Am. relig., 2nd ed., 1987: suppl., p. 961 (Posse Comitatus, a tax-protest group which has strong links to the Identity movement.)
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