Beware the Black Boots

Geezus, this shit is getting freaky. I mean, who woulda thunk it. Outside, Orwell, of course.

I am not saying we are heading down the dark road to facism, nothing like that. But, er, having black booted "security forces" surround public buildings for suprise ID checks ("show us your papers").... if it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck...

In other news, Armando, over at Kos, has a great bit on the birthing of Salvadorian-esque death squads patrolling the towns of Iraq. The answer isnt more troops or going (honestly) multi-national, or even pulling out. Instead of Iraq being the next Vietnam, we'll just make it the next El Salvador. Hoo-ray.