[DugwayDuke]

"Hold on partner...Read that again. Nowhere did I tie Ridge to the Posse act. In fact I do not mention it at all."

Exactly my point. This is not the constitutional issue you alleged. It is a modification of a law that did not even exist until the 1800s. You may object Ridge calling for this change, but you go to far in saying that such a claim means he should be arrested for violating the constitution.

"That said, if you were to take the law unto your own hands, I think you might well have to answer for your actions in a civil court, I would not wait for the military to act. Good intentions are just that and sometimes are misguided. I want no part of military power of arrest and that is what this is about."

Fine, given a choice of potentially losing millions of Americans to a WMD, I'll take that chance. What would you have to say to an officer who said he could have prevented such a loss but chose not to intervene because of this law? Would you sitting on a jury rule send this man to jail?

BTW, this would be a military matter and no civil court could claim jurisdiction.

[cynicom]

Dug...

Partner, you read a whole lot of things into a post that are not there, no one else seems to see them. As far as military matters go, what you say sounds very scary to me, and I would suggest caution if you ever think of over riding civil rule. You scare me. I was military once and never met anyone like you.