[LisaFab]

It is my understanding that under the circumstances you outlined above, the military would not need arrest powers. They would be repelling an open, alien attack on our soil which is the military's number one purpose.

I am absolutely against the military having arrest powers on our borders or anywhere else in the USA. It is what the founders feared most but were blessed with General Washington's easing the tensions among his unpaid officers corps after the revolution. A lesser man could have used that tension to rule the new country as many military leaders have done and continue to do.

[Pistias]

They would be repelling an open, alien attack on our soil which is the military's number one purpose.

Bears repeating.