And you're very generous with the learning curve, aren't you?  "That was my opportunity to learn something, and, if somebody else feels they were the victim, it's their growth opportunity to move on from caring too much about such things...if they refuse to grow and get stuck in the past, sucks for them"

hahha Tom Cruise bouncing on a couch

lazy cops like to say they can't prosecute...they also like to say it's a civil matter not a crime...but when an immigrant says "no no I won't prosecute that street gang" in my state they still come down on hard

Ok is that a constituitonal amendment or a statute? Because the Amendments give the states powers not allocated to the federal government and the federal government has never, ever forbade a governor to raise a militia.

Even at Little Rock where the gov. of Arkansas threatened to use state militia to prevent desegregation, Ike's response was to call out the 101st Airborne, not to forbid the muster of a state militia.

Where's the "federal limit"?  Never heard of it.  State militias were raised for the Indian Wars, and the Spanish war, and even after the Dick Act for riots and such.  the "national guard" was created in the National Defense Act of 1916

Actually no they don't have to let him go.  It might make it hard to go forward but in the tough cities just because a witness refuses to testify doesn't mean a felony case gets dropped.

neelix was the ship's whore

haha I guess you solved it by getting somebody to wake you

good lesson on the "living constitution"

Militia were a state power since the beginning.  State Militia "augmented" federal forces and were 2/3 of US forces in every war up to Spanish War.  By the time of the invasion of Cuba, magazine-loading rifles meant that nobody was making cartridges on the spot like at Bunker Hill...they had to have factory made ammo in the right size, at hand, immediately.  Since every state used a different rifle it meant NY Militia had to use NY ammo and CA militia hand to use CA ammo and neither could use federal US Army ammo.  No problem, just make sure the boxcars stayed with the passenger freight, right?

The invasion force at Tampico was supplied by a 1 track rail line.  Nobody got their own bags.

After this fiasco the Dick Act of 1906 offered states federal arsenals and armories and uniforms in exchange for federalized training of militias into fully-compatible forces.  This was reinforced by the National Defense Acts of 1917 and 1947 which gave them the same ranks and jobs as the federal military, and assigned state units set tasks within the federal military.

All this means, some 100 years later, you imagine that state militias are over.

But the practice of 100 years of -statute- cannot erase the Constitution.  Every state governor can raise a militia independent of the Feds.

only a romulan would ignore batman's challenge to fight hand to hand

we BEEN doing that it's called state militias

"The United States had two armies during the 19th century. The first, a standing army commonly referred to as the U.S. Army, had been authorized by the Congress in 1789. Designated the regular army, this force was composed of officers commissioned by Congress and enlisted men who joined for a five year period. In 1792, Congress created a second army intended as an auxiliary to the regulars called the militia. One major difference between the regulars and militia was the first was a national force while the second was the armies of the various states. Congress stipulated three instances when the militia could be called into federal service: to execute the laws of the United States, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions. This two-tiered arrangement formed the basis of the American military establishment during the Mexican War."

your photo doesn't show his rank so I'm left with an actor, playing some kinda Marine with a fat service record, testifying