Here's a brief follow-up to a post from last week, Burma on the Potmac. It's another story of security apparatchiks gone wild at the federal Agency for Control of Scary Darkies, also known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The controllers have now "disappeared" more than 100 detainees, suddenly dispersing them from a California holding pen to points unknown. Not even the captives' lawyers know where they are:

The "disappeared" -- that horrifying designation which first gained currency in Stalinist Russia then later spread throughout Latin America in the militarist regimes carefully cultivated by Washington -- is now a present and growing reality in the United States itself. As we said the other day, anyone who believes that this kind of arbitrary treatment

As the man said, it's a nightmare.

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