Mugabe calls out the troops. Democracy surrenders.

From All Africa - "Zimbabwe: Mugabe mobilizes war vets"

Mugabe has routinely used war veterans in recent elections to spearhead a campaign of violence and terror against the opposition. The war veterans played a pivotal role in the tightly contested 2002 presidential election, won by Mugabe by 400 000 votes against the MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai.

The ex-combatants were also used to spearhead the government's controversial and often violent 2000 land invasions which critics blame for causing food shortages and exacerbating the country's economic crisis.

War veterans this week said they were not prepared to accept anyone else as a presidential candidate in next year's joint elections.

From "V for Vendetta"

Dominic: So do you know what's gonna happen?
Finch: No, it was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty. And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do. At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word. And then...
[Dominoes collapse with TV footages showing conflicts between rioting
citizens and the anti-riot police]

Watch the future unravel.