The movement arose in the 1970s in the United States among members of the Posse Comitatus, a white supremacist Christian Identity group founded by William Potter Gale. Posse groups believed that counties and local sheriffs held ultimate legal authority. They spread from California to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1970s and through the farm belt in the late β70s and early β80s.
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