Article IV, Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive
(when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Dereliction of duty?
Mexico’s drug war and the risks of cross-border violence deserve top-level attention, President Barack Obama said in an interview today, but it isn’t time to send U.S. troops.
“We’ve got a very big border with Mexico,” the president said. “I’m not interested in militarizing the border.”
Last month, Texas Gov. Rick Perry… called on Washington to send a thousand troops or border agents.
“We’re going to examine whether and if National Guard deployments would make sense and under what circumstances they would make sense,” Obama told The Dallas Morning News this afternoon in an hourlong talk with 14 regional newspapers in the Roosevelt Room, near the Oval Office. “I don’t have a particular tipping point in mind. I think it’s unacceptable if you’ve got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing U.S. citizens.”
Okay, no troops…
(although that’s kind’a what I thought troops were for… you know, protecting the border from invaders’n stuff).
Howzabout that civilian defense force you went on about during the campaign?
Mebbe a Minutemen kind’a thing. BYO.
(Somebody should be “present.")
Oh, yeah… almost forgot.
DougM (constitutional fetishist) 
