brownshirts

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Barack Obama's brownshirts are after Glenn Beck.

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  • They're not even particularly good brownshirts, thankfully. —  RedState
  • The Republican brownshirts are equally willing to kill American critics of the Bush regime as to kill Taliban and al Qaeda. —  Dandelion Salad
  • AlGore seemed to know so much about the right-wing "brownshirts" as VP .... —  Latest Articles
  • I could go on about the permanent campaign that has potential to evolve into a corps of brownshirts, al la Nazi Germany in 1939, but it makes me ill to contemplate. —  Latest Articles
  • Letter #1 cited Mark Levin, a radio talk host who has taken benign references in speeches Obama has made about increasing opportunities for national service and expanding the government's civilian capacity for nation-building overseas and cooked them into allegations that the president wants to build an army of "brownshirts" to subjugate the masses. —  The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS
 

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