Kickass and Posse Comitatus by Bill Stokes

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By Bill Stokes

Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper the useless remembering of his reporter days when he was on the hit list of the Posse Comitatus at a couple of locations. One was a road where he was warned never to drive if he wanted to continue living and the other was his weekend cabin in the woods where a US Marshall wanted to hide cars as part of a Posse raid.

Obviously nothing came of either situation and the keeper’s contact with Posse leaders, who saw themselves as great protectors of peace and citizen rights, consisted of a number of interviews at various locations where it became obvious the Posse leaders were on ego trips and swimming in water over their heads.

It did not end well for them, and the keeper is reminded of their demise now only because of the convoluted POTUS attempts to mix military force with citizen freedom in a dangerous narcissistic ego trip.

It sets up a threatening road for the keeper to “drive” but he will navigate it with Phyllis’s help while boring her with stories from his long-ago Posse days.