by Tumerica, OpEd News

Mystery Country 1

• Protesters clubbed; 3500 imprisoned 
• The president assumed power in a coup 
• The Constitution was suspended and martial law is in effect
• Re-election of the president was only questionably legal
• Is considered to have become a police state
• Extremists are making increasingly more powerful attacks

Mystery Country 2

• 2400 protesters imprisoned in 2004 in one protest alone, manhandled, pepper-sprayed, and shot with rubber bullets
• The president assumed power in a much-disputed election, fraught with hanging chads, supporters storming the election returns recount, Supreme Court intervention, and admitted e-voting fraud, under-counted ballots, and other voting fraud
• Has been chipping away at the "it's just another G*^ D$%&# piece of paper" Constitution with the Patriot Act, the destruction of Habeas Corpus (illegal detentions without charges or hope of trial and torture--Guantanamo is but one example), illegal wiretapping of private citizens, imprisonment of anyone deemed an "enemy combatant," --can you think of more?
• Re-election of the president was only questionably legal
• Creeping toward a police state, via control of the media, federally-sponsored propaganda campaigns, violent silencing and/or detention of protestors
  Extremists are making more powerful inroads