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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2269500" data-attributes="member: 14159">Exactly.  Mace didn't have a lot of options.  When they first tried to arrest him, he killed 3 Jedi Masters, the second time he tried, Mace barely survived the Force Lightning attack.  As he pointed out, he had the Senate eating out of the palm of his hand, even with ironclad proof it was highly unlikely he could be convicted.  The entire justice system was crumbling because of him, and turning him over to it would have probably lead to his acquittal, and Palpatine's same condemnation of the Jedi.Did Mace have binders in his robe, and was planning to slap the cuffs on Palpatine and march him out of there and out to be booked?So, what could you do, he was repeatedly resisting arrest with very lethal force, the justice system was so corrupt that he couldn't recieve a fair trial, and if you let him go the galaxy would plunge further into chaos.  Unlike the prior incident with Dooku that Anakin was referencing, Palpatine also wasn't helpless when Mace was over him.  He still had his hands and could throw lightning (as he very well proved), Dooku had his hands cut off when he was beheaded by Anakin, so in that respect he was, ahem, completely disarmed.</blockquote>