Police state or honest mistake?

Chris posted about the unnerving incident Tuesday when armored vehicles showed up at an anti-war rally.

Contrary to what one of our dim-bulb commentors said, it really did happen. However, it sounds more like an honest mistake than a prelude to the police state. Politics in the Zeros reports (from IndyMedia) that the APCs were lost:

I talked to one Marine with one of the "Striker" vehicles. He told me they had driven the vehicles up from Camp Pendleton the night before (Tuesday) on the freeway. Getting off the 405 Freeway going north, they would have passed Wilshire and Veteran where ANSWER had called a rally to protest the attack on Fallujah in Iraq.

I asked him if he was "rolling around Westwood" Tuesday night. He said, "Yeah, and we drove past that anti-war demonstration. We was lost. We're not from L.A. We didn't know where this place (WLA VA) was. We were trying to find it."

"Did you drive around the block twice?" I asked.

"Yeah, we did. We stopped to ask them (the protestors) directions, but they weren't very nice."