June 25, 2004
Gore's "Green Shirts"
Al Gore, with his talk yesterday of "brown shirts" seems, as usual, stuck in the metaphors of the past. The Nazi brown shirts to which he alludes ran the streets of Germany, breaking heads and trashing stores, in order to intimidate Hitler's oppostion. A far cry from those that fisk stupid socialist ex-VPs.
While I don't see any such head-breaking behavior on the Right, I do see it on the Left, particularly from Gore's core support groups on the environmentalist Left, such as these folks at the Seattle WTO riot.
Perhaps we should be calling Gore's environmental shock troops "Green Shirts".