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Nobody is that ignorant!
Last edited Tue May 6, 2014, 02:50 AM - Edit history (1)
Maddow: Posse Comitatus, "sovereign citizens", Jim Crow, the Reconstruction, and Cliven Bundy.
Published on Apr 26, 2014
Radical racist context missed in rancher hype
Rachel Maddow points out that Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's racist remarks are unsurprising in the context of his apparent adherence to the philosophy of the Posse Comitatus and Sovereign Citizen movements, rooted in post-Civil War reconstruction.
to Quixote1818.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017190307
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