Re: PA availability, was: [semi OT] Women wargamers

You wrote: 

>> i was thinking an american would. in particular, i would have 
thought >john atkinson would whip out his byzantine coppers and prove 
me wrong.
>
>As I recall, the excubitores were well armored, and took the opinion 
that >if they could catch you, you were guilty.

Excubitores were military elements of Imperial Guard, but as I 
mentioned, Byzantines did not have the same military/police split we 
do, nor did they have Posse Commitatus.  

We can also point to the Nika riots where two generals with their 
personal bucellaroi killed approximately 5,000 people, with another 
5,000 suffocated in the crush to escape.  Doesn't Narses rock?	And as 
for Belisarius. . . For an SF version of this incident check David 
Drake's Counting the Cost (included in his new compilation Caught in 
the Crossfire).

John M. Atkinson