Town Hall Brownshirts?

Recently there's been a lot of press about violent protests and shout-downs at town hall meetings where people can "interact" with their elected representatives. Many people in the Democratic party are saying these are "Astroturf" movements and not grass roots as the people participating are insisting.

Now, since the current administration feels it is under organized assault from it's opposition, who I guess is the American Public, they will now send out AFL-CIO members to balance out the playing field with "counter-protests" at these meetings.

Anyone who has studied history would say this sounds an awful lot like the Brownshirts of Ernst Rohm or the Squadristi of Benito Mussolini that used similar brute tactics during their political careers. There's a term for taking politics violently to the streets and using scare tactics and brute force to persuade people. It's called Fascism.

Fascism is a behavior, not a political system. If political victory is the strategy, then fascism is a tactic.

The things I see lately are disturbing to me, as to many others. I just hope we can reach a peaceful solution and that politics doesn't take to the streets again as it did during the 1960's.