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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Posse Comitatus
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 15:18:53 EDT
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> > The  federal  government  already  identifies  Posse  Comitatus  as  a
> > terrorist organization, and the KKK has been known as one for  a  long
> > time.   [I  don't  know whether they enjoy the official designation at
> > present.  Probably not, since they're so fragmented.]
> 
> As it was explained to me, "posse comitatus" is not an
> organization, but rather a common law concept that results
> in temporary organizations.  That is allegedly the reason
> that "posse comitatus" cannot be declared illegal.

Has it occurred to you that a group of people could name a criminal
organization after a common-law concept?  I mean, "international
business machines" is not an organization, but the class of business
machines that cross national boundries, right?  It may be that a 
terrorist Posse Comitatus does not exist, but the derivation of the 
name is hardly a proof one way or the other.

>                                               But the clincher
> was WEEI's moronic self-contradictory repetition of the
> propaganda against the p.c. Kahl had been in (I remember the
> gist of it; it was hilarious.):  The posse comitatus is a
> neo-nazi extremist organization bent on anarchy.
> 
> Nazism, a variant of Fascism, an extreme (in the sense
> that it rarely gets so virulent) form of socialism, is
> about as opposed to anarchism as you can get.
>
> 				David Hudson

Right-wing terrorist groups in Italy and elsewhere have for years
conducted their attacks on civil order, with the stated intention
of discrediting the ability of democratic institutions to maintain
order and causing popular demand for a police state.  I have no
reason to believe that the mythic Posse Comitatus operates on such
a basis, but "fascists bent on anarchy" is not the oxymoron that you 
hold it to be.

						Baba