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McDonnell will send his Jack-booted thugs to NLS and shut you down, for promoting "non-republican" idea's!!!
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Yes, those certain members of law enforcement who do get off acting like "Jack-booted thugs" had theirs.
OpEdNews - Diary: Rampage of Reprints Refuses to Relent 2009
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Jack-booted neo-con thugs do * not* represent the "Grand Old Party."
Huckabee Watch Update Teachout, Zephyr 2007
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Jack-booted thugs is a better characterization of how liberals react to conservatives.
Speakout Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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They elected to stop the Republicans in the Congress from allowing Dubya to ignore our Constitutionally guaranteed protections from his Jack-booted agents of fascism.
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Jack-booted men, gasping heavily for breath, passed by within feet of them.
Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967
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Jack-booted, buff-coated troopers; scarlet militiamen; brown, stern-faced Tauntonians; serge-clad pikemen; wild, ragged miners; smockfrocked yokels; reckless, weather-tanned seamen; gaunt cragsmen from the northern coast -- all pushed and jostled each other in a thick, many-coloured crowd.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Wayne LaPierre, sent a fund-raising letter describing federal law agents as "Jack-booted thugs" who wear "Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms."
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Wayne LaPierre, sent a fund-raising letter describing federal law agents as "Jack-booted thugs" who wear "Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms."
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Jack-booted thugs holding you at the scruff of the neck?
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local mrfxx 2010
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