The Mother of all Bad Ideas

Ridge and Democratic senators call for study of expanded military powers for domestic law enforcement President Bush has called on Congress to thoroughly review the law that bans the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines from participating in arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other police-type activity on U.S. soil. The Coast Guard and National Guard troops under the control of state governors are excluded from the Reconstruction-era law, known as the "Posse Comitatus Act."

I think Mark at the Morning Fix explains why this is a bad idea very well:

And it's been obvious and freedom ensuring and clearly enforced for well over 100 years because, well, we aren't Stalinist Russia, and we aren't insane, and most of us are well aware that an overzealous military empowered with such draconian authority is essentially what every sociopathic fist-clenched dictator from Marcos to Hitler used to gain power and maintain control and hack away at the very soul of humanity and pick up their personal dry cleaning on the nation's tab.

So. There it is.

Hello! Am I still asleep? If I am this is the worst nightmare I've ever had. Didn't Bruce Willis in The Seige teach anybody anything?