I'm not sure what to make of Robert T-G's post. It could be that he was using irony to comment on the fallacy of looking at a few photographs and trying to sum up a whole nation and regime from them. This would be a clever comment, if a little over the heads of some of his intended audience.

The other possibility I can think of is that Robert was serious. In that case, the man is, as Joseph Stalin put it when speaking of a certain type of Western leftist, a 'useful idiot'. America could easily achieve the same results as North Korea. All we would have to do is have detainment without trial (there goes every suspected gangsta, including quite a few wannabes from the suburbs), along with anyone criticising anything the government does.

Reduction of the food supply to the non-wealthy and connected to barely subsistence levels would make the vast majority of the population skinny and malnourished, and some of the real poor would die off, easing the strain on the health care system. Universal male conscription would reduce unemployment to zero and special forces could keep in training by regularily infiltrating over the Mexican border and blowing installations up. The immigration problem would be solved, as no Mexican would want to come to the U.S..

Yeah, that sounds like a good plan of action (by the way, this is an obvious and heavy-handed use of irony).