Posted on 04/13/2002 7:39:19 PM PDT by SLB
SOMERSET, Ky.- A county sheriff was shot and killed Saturday during a political rally, state police said.
Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron was shot about 7:15 p.m. at a political rally and fish fry, state police trooper Craig Sutton said. A suspect was in custody but no other information was immediately available, Sutton said.
Somerset is about 80 miles south of Lexington.
I wish I could argue with you, but I can't. I had a fierce debate a couple of years back with someone who criticized me for saying I would turn in Eric Rudolph in a heartbeat despite my being pro-life.
he had been involved in Klan activities and a motorcycle club
I DON'T know I'm JUST guessing.
Well, at least he got one thing right...
Something wrong with the militia ?
Does his opponent in the election ride a bike? Just a thought?
We are talking the Posse Comitatus here, Centurion, and there is plenty wrong with them.
Intersting...
Religious fanatics are the same the world over, no matter what race or religion.
http://www.posse-comitatus.org/unitedpatriotradio/
and
http://www.posse-comitatus.org/
Seem to be down.
What is "posse-comitatus"?
Because Posse members believe that the Federal government is controlled by "enemies" - often meaning Jews - they resist paying taxes, as well as other duties of law abiding citizenship. Some members of the group have even refused to apply for driver's licenses, because this would imply submission to an "illegitimate, subversive" authority. Elements of the Posse's ideology, most notably its fierce hostility to Federal authority are echoed among today's militias.
The Posse has attracted Klan members and other anti-Semites. Among the avid promoters of the Posse during its period of development in the 1970s were Arch Roberts' Committee to Restore the Constitution, based in Fort Collins, Colorado; Western Front of Los Angeles, run by collaborators of the late anti-Jewish agitator Gerald L.K. Smith; and ex-neo-Nazi and Klansman David Duke of Louisiana, more recently head of the NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People).
In 1983, when active Posse member Gordon Kahl murdered two Federal marshals in North Dakota and became a fugitive, the group attracted nationwide attention. The marshals had come to arrest Kahl for a parole violation in connection with an earlier conviction for non-payment of taxes. Kahl later died in a shootout with Arkansas law enforcement officials in which a local sheriff was also killed; Kahl became a martyr to the Posse, the Aryan Nations and other extremists.
In October 1987, retired army colonel William Potter Gale - one of the founders of the Posse movement and the California-based Committee of the States - along with four associates from the Committee, was convicted of threatening the lives of Internal Revenue Service agents and a Nevada state judge. The five had been charged with conspiracy, mailing threatening letters, and attempting to interfere with the administration of internal revenue laws. All five were sentenced in January 1988 to Federal prison for a term of one year and one day. Gale died in April of that year, at age 71.
James Wickstrom, an Identity minister and a Posse leader, was convicted in 1991 in Pittsburgh of plotting to distribute $100,000 in counterfeit bills to white supremacists at the 1988 Aryan Nations World Congress. While in prison, Wickstrom transferred his leadership role to "Identity" preacher Mark Thomas of Pennsylvania, who was recently linked to the Freeman brothers, two neo-Nazi Skinheads charged with murdering their parents and younger brother; the brothers were reported to have attended gatherings at Thomas's compound. By the end of 1994, Wickstrom had been released from prison. He and Thomas are reported to now be rivals.
In March 1995, the Justice Department charged three members of Family Farm Preservation, an offshoot of the Posse Comitatus, with attempting to distribute $65 million in counterfeit money orders. The case is pending. (Anti-Defamation League, 29-30)
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