Big Mick, LH has said it well - excellent post!

The so called 'war on terror' has been a big boon to bullies, thugs and scum pumped up on adrenalin who now get to live out their 'Mortal Kombat' fantasies in the real world. They even get to dress up and rough up real people. Some of the thinking behind this is driven by the neo-con ideal of 'action, not words' In other words, get tough and do something, leave the thinking and philosophising to hand-wringing lefties. This is actually identical to fascism as espoused by Mussolini. He had gangs of blackshirted thugs (the parallel is not lost on me) going around pouring liberal doses of cod liver oil down the throats of anyone who disagreed with the rgeime.

If we were to take the slogan 'War on terror' seriously we would have to start by locking all these so-called security agents (thugs) and Dubya up on Alcatraz, because they way things stand, people are starting to fear their own elected (!) governments more than they are these 'terrorists'. Terrorists to the left of me, thugs to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle....