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Published: 13 April 2026
10.1108/978-1-80686-881-020261002
EISBN: 978-1-80686-881-0
ISBN: 978-1-80686-882-7
... similar strategies to disrupt and delay court processes. While many of the original Posse Comitatus leaders faded or died, its core ideas persisted, giving rise to the Common Law Movement of the 1980s. This new era was marked by leaders attempting tactics still employed by present-day adherents...
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Published: 13 April 2026
10.1108/978-1-80686-881-020261004
EISBN: 978-1-80686-881-0
ISBN: 978-1-80686-882-7
... an individual’s path to violence. The incident that led to the shootout occurred in Medina, North Dakota, on February 13, 1983. According to court records, Mr. Faul was traveling with several people, including Gordon Kahl, a well-known tax protester and member of the Sheriff’s Posse Comitatus ( SPC ), Yorie Kaul...
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Published: 01 May 2025
10.1108/978-1-83608-120-320251002
EISBN: 978-1-83608-120-3
ISBN: 978-1-83608-121-0
... enforcement functions were carried out informally by various “civil institutions” during a major crisis or shortly after ( Monkkonen, 1977 ). For instance, the posse comitatus was a group of loosely organized men in early modern England who were called out to arrest fleeing felons or stood surety...
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Published: 13 September 2024
10.1108/978-1-83549-097-620242009
EISBN: 978-1-83549-097-6
ISBN: 978-1-83549-098-3
... introduced by the US Congress to the Posse Comitatus Act during the 1990s including the “drug exception”, which stipulates that in addition to providing equipment to law enforcement, the military can also train and provide military advisers to police organizations as part of the effort on the war on drugs...
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Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Published: 06 September 2021
EISBN: 978-1-78769-335-7
ISBN: 978-1-78769-336-4
...://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice/ Nevitt , M. ( 2018 , April 4). The military, the Mexican border and Posse Comitatus: Four key takeaways . Retrieved from https://www.justsecurity.org/54529/military-mexican-border-posse-comitatus-key-takeaways/ Nuñez...
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Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Published: 06 September 2021
EISBN: 978-1-78769-335-7
ISBN: 978-1-78769-336-4
... 25). Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/privacy-office . Accessed on September   13 , 2019 . Doyle , C. ( 2002 ). The USA PATRIOT Act: A legal analysis (No. RL31377; pp. 1 – 75 ). Washington, DC : Congressional Research Service . Elsea , J. K. ( 2018 ). The posse...
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Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Published: 06 September 2021
10.1108/S2040-726220210000024005
EISBN: 978-1-78769-335-7
ISBN: 978-1-78769-336-4
... that happen to have a border security nexus. Yet, others are formally created ( Khashu, 2009 ). The next section provides an overview of the latter. Conversely, the Posse Comitatus Act does not prevent the use of the states’ National Guard to support domestic law enforcement function when necessary. From...
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Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Published: 06 September 2021
10.1108/S2040-726220210000024006
EISBN: 978-1-78769-335-7
ISBN: 978-1-78769-336-4
... the specific agencies of the USIC. Department of Defense Legally, the DoD cannot operate domestically in a law enforcement capacity due to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act; “[h]istory supplies the grist for an argument that the Constitution prohibits military involvement in civilian affairs …” ( Elsea...
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Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Published: 06 September 2021
10.1108/S2040-726220210000024011
EISBN: 978-1-78769-335-7
ISBN: 978-1-78769-336-4
... that **** if you do not mean it.” I texted back a request for EOD support at six locations to support the presidential visit due to the strain on Boston Police Department (PD) assets. Despite, seemingly impossible bureaucratic hurdles and words like “Posse Comitatus” interrupting the conversation, within four...
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Series: Public Policy and Governance
Published: 04 July 2019
10.1108/S2053-769720190000031003
EISBN: 978-1-78756-048-2
ISBN: 978-1-78756-049-9
... and symbolic distinctions are made between the forces in “green” and “blue,” associating governments whose military police their citizens with more authoritarian regimes ( McMichael, 2017 ). This separation is seated in the Constitution and in the Posse Comitatus Act, but is also a widely held assumption...
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Serial: Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society
Published: 11 June 2019
10.1108/978-1-64113-543-620251047
EISBN: 978-1-64113-543-6
ISBN: 978-1-64113-542-9
... of violent incidents that is seen from militia groups like The Order and Posse Comitatus is much different than the street skinheads of Vinland. The National Socialist Movement, National Alliance, and many other militant Nazi organizations have straddled the line between organizing and revolutionary violence...
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Series: Public Policy and Governance
Published: 04 July 2019
10.1108/S2053-7697201931
EISBN: 978-1-78756-048-2
ISBN: 978-1-78756-049-9
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Published: 16 November 2018
10.1108/978-1-78769-171-120181004
EISBN: 978-1-78769-171-1
ISBN: 978-1-78769-172-8
... closely align military and law enforcement approaches, were introduced by the US Congress to the Posse Comitatus Act during the 1990s including the “drug exception,” which stipulates that in addition to providing equipment to law enforcement, the military can also train and provide military advisers...
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Series: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
Published: 11 September 2015
10.1108/S1521-613620150000020013
EISBN: 978-1-78560-190-3
ISBN: 978-1-78560-191-0
..., the Sheriff’s Posse Comitatus, the White Patriot Party, and the Aryan Nations in a series of publicized trials in the mid- to late 1980s. The Smith Guidelines required FBI field offices to refer potential terrorism investigations, involving two or more persons, to the Director or Assistant Director of the FBI...
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Series: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
Published: 11 September 2015
10.1108/S1521-613620150000020011
EISBN: 978-1-78560-190-3
ISBN: 978-1-78560-191-0
... of the Lord), the Ku Klux Klan, Militias, The Order, Phineas Priesthood, Posse Comitatus, and Sovereign Citizen groups that were considered to be threats of domestic terrorism or civil unrest ( Gurr, 1988 , pp. 549–578). These threats were all domestic. While their activities have been well documented...
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Series: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
Published: 11 September 2015
10.1108/S1521-6136201520
EISBN: 978-1-78560-190-3
ISBN: 978-1-78560-191-0
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Series: Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development
Published: 11 December 2012
10.1108/S1572-8323(2012)0000019011
EISBN: 978-1-78052-639-3
ISBN: 978-1-78052-638-6
.... In the United States, the Posse Comitatus Act (Title 18, USC, Subsection 1385) states: “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a Posse Comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall...

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