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From a poster on Instapundit’s open thread tonight. (GRAPHIC. ABOUT COMMIES):

Read through the Hoyt link someone posted below, but can’t get back to because of Disqus reload issues.

Folks that find it, and read it, may thin “there she goes again”, and is just being too darn scary.

All in all - she is not being nearly scary enough. Yes, she has lived under totalitarian control. And it was bad.

But what she alludes too is really pretty vanilla. How do I know? I have seen this movie play out in real time, live action. I was a linguist in the AF for over 20 years. A good part of that time was spent in an aluminum tube about 5 or 6 miles above spots very, very close to a couple of places you may have heard of. Specifically Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. A front row seat as the Ortega brothers attempted to smother Nicaragua. The bloodbath of El Salvador putting up with communist guerrillas in an area the size of what most Americans would call a County. The things you heard about on the news were the tip of the iceberg, and usually sanitized versions to avoid an R rating. I have no illusions of how MS-13 became so vicious and bloodthirsty. I have seen what happened when people were told to hand over the last of the food for their families, and said no. It was usually the last thing they ever said. I saw campesinos shot by helicopter gunships simply to see the hat fly off their heads for a bet about how far it would fly. I saw repeated episodes of the “boom boom, out go the lights” gag as the power to San Salvador, a city of almost a million, was regularly sabotaged. I saw the fear of the “Mano Blanco” - the death squads that sought out and killed opponents - including, if you recall, some nuns and a priest. This is how sharp edged and hard it can be.

Bad? Yeah, it can get bad, very quickly, patina of civility be damned.

Another example - Beirut. Had an Uncle that went far with Caterpillar when he was the guy in the right place at the right time when the Egyptians figured out that heavy equipment built for Siberia worked for crap in a gritty desert. He was Stationed in Beirut, and he actually confirmed that, during his time there, it was “The Paris of the Mediterranean”. He had no real illusions about it, which is why he packed my very pregnant Aunt off to Geneva to give birth to my Cousins. And how long did it take for Beirut to go from beachfront elegance to sniper alley hellhole? 1 year? 2? 3?

A hard rain is coming. And no, Sarah is not overplaying it. She’s really being rather calm about it. She knows. And I’ve seen it, too.

Hug your loved ones. Pray to your God. Remember rule #1. Don’t panic. There are still people alive in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and even Beirut. It will suck sweaty vinegary bawls, but many of us will live through it. The bad news being, of course, that we may have to.

Suerte, mis amigos.