[marktwain]

"No tourists were anywhere but a plain cloths cop wearing gym shorts an tee shirt with a gun under his shirt very quickly came over to challenge us. Just taking a picture there pal."

When I was in Panama during the Noriega regime, one of our guys (who collected images of uniforms around the world) made a sketch of the ceremonial guards at (as I recall) the Presidential palace.

You could buy postcards with pictures of them, but he was arrested and spent a week in a Panamanian jail (they were merciful and put him in solitary) until we could get him out.

[Joe Boucher]

So that’s it?
We’ve become a banana republic!!!