march on, brownshirts!

Second post of the day straight out of 1933... Father of a dead soldier is carrying a mock coffin with the son's picture on it during the most recent antiwar protest. Gathering of Eagles brownshirts snatch the photo and kick the crap out of him.

DailyKos diary here; photo from Crooks & Liars here.

Comment 87 sounds right out of the SA playbook:

Like most of you , I don’t agree with their tactics or their politics, but the GoE members, I believe, were only trying to restrain Carlos after what appeared to them an assault on their friend. If it were really that serious of a beatdown as this article implies, there would have been arrests, and charges filed.

Fortunately the other commentators aren't falling for it. Still sad though.

Update: turns out that the father involved was the one who set himself on fire when military representatives came to his house to deliver news of the son's death.