Thanks for your insight my friend and also for your recommendation. As providence would have it I shall be there very soon and now plan on taking the spousal unit there based upon that huge thumbs up.
The whole Tennessee vs Garner argument was an interesting aspect of that article since that case has been so relevant in my work. I don't think that I have ever read where this was applied to anything other than law enforcement before this article and it just got me thinking about how broadly this was being applied outside that area.
I would hope that we could just make France a territory without going through the whole statehood thing if it should ever come to that.