Lets Make The Michigan Militia's Collective Head Explode

If you wanted to envision a world in which I was running around the Midwestern hinterland shooting US gov't personnel, this would've been the best possible first step. (Actual hat tip.)

Posse comitatus MATTERS. The closer we come to a world in which The Siege is a prophetic movie, the closer we come to ruin. I'm not particularly joking; not that The Siege was an especially good film - arguably a bad one, really, but I saw it ten years ago so who can recall - but even Bruce Willis' character, the general in charge of the US Army's occupation of Brooklyn, argued against declaring martial law. We have enough problems with the way our law enforcement agencies and agents related to the people they're supposed to protect; if you blur the military and the police, you wind up with a police state that treats its citizens like the enemy. I'm surprisingly humorless about this. I thought John Yoo was an immoral idiot; authoring a memo to the effect that the US government could ignore the prohibition against using the military on American soil, against American citizens, is the work of a monstrous fool or of a monster.

Never sure where to put all this anger.