Sturmabteilung - My German grand-parents warned me

[AzNick]

Sturmabteilung - Also known as the S.A., nicknamed the Brown Shirts.

My German grand-parents fled Germany in 38, not because of their religion but because they were in the political opposition.

I got an earful growing up, about how the Brown Shirts could come back with their scare tactics.

They would swarm opposition debates, start arguments, call others liars, not let anyone speak, and then started to use violence.

Congratulations to the GOP for making my Opa and my Oma right.

[demosincebirth]

1. They got their due, too.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Tomorrow belongs to me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMVMNmrqJE

"You think you can still control them?"

[jwirr]

5. I had never seen that one. It is stirring and scary. Designed to make

one feel and not think. I especially liked to cameo of the old man. He knew better.

[Faygo Kid]

3. They are using Brownshirt tactics, and have their "leaders."

Rush, Beck, et al are mouthpieces for the powers that be. The screaming idiots are useful dupes.

It's an old story, and one that is coming to pass again here in this country.

[hobbit709]

4. My mother says the same thing

She lived in Austria.

And these idiots today better pay attention to history. After the brownshirts outlived their usefulness after Hitler got power, they were liquidated.

[AzNick]

7. Their leaders were, including Rohm

The others were either integrated into the SS or kept operating as brown shirts but slowly phased out.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. The RWingers are pre-empting the use of the word Nazi, did ya notiice?

THEY are calling the Dems and the President "fascist" and
Nazi"
Big tip off, that was.

[AzNick]

8. Of course they are... They want to turn it into name calling

Which is what the Nazis did.

[moondust]

9. Yes but that was during and after a great depression...

Surprise!

Hard economic times are fertile ground for radical movements.

Of course that was mostly after Germany was defeated in World War I which made conditions even worse for Germans, but who knows how bad things have to get before these kinds of things start taking root?

[Uzybone]

10. K&R