Yeah, Don, and thank you for bringing the the discussion back into focus... When folks throw out the term "brownshirt" they are referring to folks who got the general population lathered up to commit acts that are inhumane...

Somehow, regardless of the case that mentally ill Glen Beck tries to paint, Obma isn't bringing about the deaths in various populations... So "brownshirt really" isn't at all an appropriate analogy...

However, in the mad dash to Iraq, I recall being harrassed by a number of Bushites in an aiti-war march in Washington, D.C... Iraq is the closesst thing to the genocide that Hitler and his folks committed and if we are looking at this from purely a historical perspective, it was those creeps who best fit the term "brownshirt"... And, of course, anyone who used up bandwidth, including some here in Mudville, who did purdy much the same...

B~