Btw, stupid Amerikan: damn fine quotation you quotated there.

Absolutely. Ownership is nine tenths of the law, they say. More like 99.9%, I say.

Arizona's official response to the Federal Action against 1070 should be (the sound of crickets) absolute indifference.  No defense should be mounted, no response forthcoming, and certainly no appearance in court to defend its actions.  The Feds can SAY whatever they want.  Their troops are all afield, securing my liberties from the various wedding parties in various -stans overseas.  WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero