[muawiyah]

I think we gave that e.....n business up when the common people (who provide those pike men or riflemen) got the vote eh.

The privileges of nobles are very circumscribed these days.

[achilles2000]

Wrong. Sleeping on guard duty in a combat situation has been a captial offense in the US military. Even today Article 113 of the UCMJ—Misbehavior of sentinel or lookout -allows for execution.

By sleeping on guard duty in Afganistan the “victim” could have gotten everyone in his unit killed.