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He also violently eliminated his rivals; less than two months before becoming Führer, he ordered the killing of Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the Nazi paramilitary group the SA, also known as "brownshirts," in a purge known as the "Night of the Long Knives."

NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011

Oh and by the way, brown is so 70s, today those 'brownshirts' are 'redshirts', which is much hipper and with the young crowd ... cool.

Discourse.net: Jon Stewart Tackles Obama Derangement Syndrome 2009

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) issued an apology after one of her aides floated the notion that health-care opponents are using tactics like those "brownshirts" who brought Hitler to power.

Arizona congressional candidate fires guns in ad; Alvin Greene's new website; Idaho awaits the apocalypse 2010

(The leader of this movement, Ms. Orly Taitz, has referred to those reporters who question her allegations as "brownshirts" and frequently compares Obama's actions to those of Adolf Hitler.)

Eric Alterman: Think Again: The Mainstream Media Opens the Door to Hate 2009

What they have set up is some future thug who goes even further and calls for action from these "brownshirts" while denying he "tells" them to act violently while at the same time supporting their motivations as being "real Americans".

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

Flag - waving, SUV driving would-be 'brownshirts' burned Dixie Chick CDs.

Why Newt Gingrich is Dead Wrong About Our Rights, Bush, and the Constitution 2008

We are expected to believe that Saddam Hussein had conspiratorial connections to 911 terrorists, but we are not expected to believe that the GOP stole the elections of 2000 and 2003 or that the GOP had anything do with the gang of "brownshirts" who were, in fact, financed by the Bush campaign.

A Genius, A Saint, and SCOTUS Agree: Conspiracies Exist! 2008

When journalist, Stanley Kurtz, was attempting to analyze Obama's role and work with the Annanberg Challenge, Obama unleashed his hoard of "brownshirts" on a local news show which was interviewing Kurtz to hound and intimidate the show and silence this critical analysis of the leader.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

When journalist, Stanley Kurtz, was attempting to analyze Obama's role and work with the Annanberg Challenge, Obama unleashed his hoard of "brownshirts" on a local news show which was interviewing Kurtz to hound and intimidate the show and silence this critical analysis of the leader.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

It has apparently never occurred to these young Russian "brownshirts" that, from my perspective, there is not a dime's worth of difference between Putin's increasingly fascist tyranny and that of George W. Bush in the US.

A Tale of Two Tyrants 2007