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...come a long way since Carol Kennicott, the heroine of Main Street, left home because "solitary dishwashing isn't enough to satisfy me $ --or many other women." Minnesota has a long liberal political tradition, but the state also teems with right-wing extremists like the vigilante group called posse comitatus. The whist players at John's Place solemnly declared Sauk Centre "the best town in the state," and the post-' 60s people in the Palmer House insisted it has the worst alcoholism rate in the state. Both assertions were examples of old-time boosterism: Sauk Centre isn't really...
...A.D.L. says Identity beliefs have influenced the Klan and many other white supremacist groups. A prominent spokesman for the movement is William P. Gale of the Ministry of Christ Church in Mariposa, Calif., once a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Gale has worked closely with Posse Comitatus, a right-wing antitax organization active in the Midwest. In 1983, Posse Comitatus Member Gordon W. Kahl and two others murdered a pair of federal marshals who were trying to serve him with a warrant in North Dakota. Kahl was killed when his stores of ammunition exploded during a gun battle...
...failure to file federal income tax returns. On May 28, Kahl's son Yorivon, 23, and Scott Paul, 29, were convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and six counts of assault in the episode. But the elder Kahl, a member of the ultraright-wing Posse Comitatus, a paramilitary organization that opposes income taxes and other forms of governmental authority, had managed to elude capture...
...probation after being convicted in Midland, Texas, in 1977 of failing to file federal income tax returns in 1973 and 1974. He had not reported to a probation officer in North Dakota, as required, and he had associated with "known tax-violator groups," in this case, the Posse Comitatus (power of the county). This loosely organized, insignificantly small, ultra-right-wing group, which has isolated chapters mainly in the rural Midwest, respects only one official: a county sheriff. It opposes all other government officials and institutions, especially the income tax system, and shares the antiSemitic, racist views...
...that Kahl was "polite and nice until you got him talking about taxes. Then he was off to the races." Kahl organized about ten people into a Posse chapter in Crane. He drove a Dodge pickup emblazoned with two large white stars and the words SHERIFF'S POSSE COMITATUS in black. "We heard now and then that Kahl had guns and ammunition at his house," recalls Weatherby, "but there was never any reason to check...