[meadsjn]

So if there is a major emergency in your neck of the woods, will you be shooting at the national guard or helping them to regain order?

You obviously and completely missed the point.

People in most parts of this country don't need the national guard, or any other authority to regain order. That seems to be a problem that exists where the local populace are already conditioned by over-bearing petty tyrants to not think for themselves or work together to deal with real life situations that arise.

In my neck of the woods, people would have to drive several miles to find someone to have a conflict with.

[Ramius]

OK. Whatever you say.

Be well.

Regards,

[cajungirl]

What you say has a kernel of wisdom. I do think that 98 % of us are peaceful, rational and will chip in to maintain our personal neck of the woods. You saw that on 911 and during the NY blackout,,people have a geniune concern for others, for order, for fairness and in large areas of the country we wouldn't need a military presence to maintain a civil society. Now over a period of time we might in places. Remember the Old West, someone had to be the sheriff. And assuming a foreign entity did this, a WMD attack, we might all have to tolerate some constitutional rights waived to defend our homes,,ie, I say shoot any obvious militant muslims on sight and ask questions later. Innocents will be hurt but when your home is at stake you don't wait for the niceties. That is what I think Franks meant, I don't think most of us would need martial law but certainly terrorists would need it and our usual hoodlums who prey on people. But your neck of the woods is like most of our necks of the woods. Nevertheless I will be on the side of the National Guard and will willingly submit to questions or searches if needed and will turn my head when terrorists among us are summarily dealt with and won't be calling the ACLU to complain.