There he is in all his glory, an NYPD "White Shirt", the now feared NYC police commanders, raring back and using both hands to club Occupy Wall Street marchers. Other footage shows a whole squad of white shirts swinging away. But "squad" is wrong word, that already denotes boys in blue. So what's the Murder-of-Crows syntax for a gang of black-gloved White-shirts? Love it: a thug of whiteshirts. 28160
Tag: Brownshirts
Libertarian me-first values exemplified by face-stomping teabag Brownshirts
Move over RNC Kicker, Rand Paul preemptive-linebackers Tim Profitt and cohort Mike Pezzano have been identified as the "lead stomper" and protester-wrangler of yesterday's face-stomping video. MoveOn activist Lauren Valle was holding a sign meant to highlight Kentucky senate candidate Paul's corporate fealty when she was tackled to the ground by the teabag duo. Profitt's index finger pronounced, as he stepped off atop her head, that he meant the girl to read his Tea Party button literally: Don't Tread on ME. 20376
Redneck Mother Fucker
Brownshirt, Blackshirt, Blimp-neck, Dittohead, Wingnut, Cracker --the term you're looking for is REDNECK. Musically, Randy Newman gave it humanity, and Jerry Jeff Walker gave it love, and the Grateful Dead tweaked his lyric to capture what I think is the essence of the good ol' boy: his thinking man self image. 7260
Hummel volunteers were unfit for Nazis
Godmother Superior of kitsch, Maria Innocentia Hummel, intended her “Volunteers” to be a plea for peace. The forlorn would-be soldiers were an insult to Hitler, but a half century later, the United States would pervert Hummel’s satire and enlist the little boys into the war against Iraq.