posse co michlt tatus. all through the 197 0z mr. gale worked the farm belt states specifically planting chapters in clusters in places like kansas and texas. his texas chapter was founded by this guy, who s named gordon call. before the posse comitatus thing got going, gordon call had already announced that he would no longer pay income taxes because he said he was sovereign as a man. he said the government was satan. and for a long time it was one thing to be that one lone guy in texas with that crazy idea. but along comes this good organizer guy with the posse comitatus idea and all of a sudden he s the leading member of a movement. you know, the sheriff is the only law. way out there. racist christian identity movement called the posse comitatus. gordon kahl, the die from texas, he ended up serving time in prison for not paying his taxes because he didn t believe he had to. then he got out on parole, and he violated his parole. and once he violated his parole,
in north dakota tonight the manhunt goes on for an anti-tax fanatic want for the murders of two u.s. marshalls. late today a small army of lawmen stormed the farm home of 62-year-old gordon, but he wasn t there, and so the search continues. that was an nbc news report from 183. as authorities searched the area near medina, north dakota, for gordon call. he was a fugitive for two years after violating his parole for a conviction for refusing to file federal income taxes started in 1967. call, who died in 1983, in a shoot-out with local and federal authorities, and it s the sheriff of lawrence county, arkansas, that was also killed, had been a member of the posse comatatis, a radical anti-semitic group founded by a retired dry cleaning executive and one-time neo-nazi named henry beach. beach and his followers believed that the federal government had been subverted we a criminal conspiracy and that it had lost
always want a violent conflict with the government because they feel it is the shot that s going to be heard around the world. their life is going to be the martyr, the next revolution. they see themselves as, you know, reincarnated paul revere. we heard this for 40 years. we understand the talk. it all goes in a circle to mean that the united states government does not have any authority. and john, you know, john s reporting is so good on this. he points out what the former blm manager said. the sovereign citizens and the militia men put out about the sheriff has the power is really a phony one. one of the fathers of the movement was gordon call. and he said that all the time.
with the government because they feel it is the shot that s going to be heard around the world. their life is going to be the martyr, the next revolution. they see themselves as, you know, reincarnated paul revere. we heard this for 40 years. we understand the talk. it all goes in a circle to mean that the united states government does not have any authority. and john, you know, john s reporting is so good on this. he points out what the former blm manager said. the sovereign citizens and the militia men put out about the sheriff has the power is really a phony one. one of the fathers of the movement was gordon call. and he said that all the time. the sheriff, the county, he
members who got away are part of a militant anti-tax group. that manhunt for gordon call ended in another shootout in arkansas. nobody followed that story more than my next guest, james corcoran, chairman of communications, department of simmons college. he s also the author of bitter harvest. and the co-author of gathering storm: america s militia threat. mr. corcoran, good to have you with us tonight. what feeds this kind of angs or feeling that s an undercurrent in this country now? compare this to what you covered decades ago and where we are right now. generally, ed, this feeling that they re losing control. that somehow they re losing control of their government and somebody else, another, is taking it from them. and we saw that in the 80s with gordon call. he felt that the government had been infiltrated by a jewish-led