Reply #8: Congress needs to limit the Guard to the original Constitutional use, i.e.

[jody]

"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions".

Louisiana had more than enough Guard troops to augment law enforcement if they were home.

The way to accomplish that is by repealing the National Defense Act of 1916, under which the militia, which had been an almost purely state institution, was brought under the control of the National Government. That's the source of our immediate problem both in state emergences and in Iraq -- presidential misuse of state militias.