Comments on: Scary Riot Gear

By: Jodie

Jodie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:45:16 +0000

check out this year’s look http://shemuses.net/2008/07/29/intense/

By: Alcibiades McZombie

Alcibiades McZombie — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:07:31 +0000

I think there was also some German immigration to South America in the 19th Century and the German government bought some colonies at some point.

By: Clayton E. Cramer

Clayton E. Cramer — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:29:21 +0000

Minor correction: it was a predecessor of Lopez, “El Supremo” who passed the mandatory interracial marriage law.

By: Clayton E. Cramer

Clayton E. Cramer — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:18:04 +0000

Actually, German influence in South America predates World War II. Paraguay, for example, was one of the few countries willing to take German Jews before World War II, and one of the few countries willing to take German Nazis after World War II. Why?

Paraguay’s population in 1940 was lower than in 1840, largely because of a deranged dictator named Francisco Solano López, who ran a very modern police state, required those of European blood to marry non-Europeans, and simultaneously took on Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay in a war. He managed to reduce the population from 525,000 to 221,000 in just a few years, and 90% of the adult male population was gone.

By: kaveman

kaveman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:48:31 +0000

I’m confused.

I looked at the picture and I don’t see any of them holding that little note pad with the traffic infraction templates.

weird, no?

By: Jim W

Jim W — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:16:12 +0000

Does not deflect bullets.

By: Rustmeister

Rustmeister — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:42:30 +0000

You’ll see a lot of goose-stepping in South America. There’s a big German influence down there. There was a big influx in the 1940’s for some reason….

By: R.J.

R.J. — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:17:18 +0000

Uh huh. And when does Darth Vader show up?