[Joe 6-pack]

"he wants to create a “brownshirt” civilian security force.”

scary. the problem is, lots of people would embrace such a thing."

There are those lionized by the right that have laid the groundwork for just such things...

[ripley]

“there are those lionized by the right that have laid the groundwork for just such things...”

the guardian angels have no powers of arrest except those allowed to any citizen. they have no objective except to help prevent crime. they are not an arm of the government. most important of all, one can tell them to go to he&& with impunity; one would not be able to tell an official, internal “government security force” to go to he&& without being subject to arrest.

above all, there is no blurring between “fighting crime” and fighting “crime against the state”.

big difference between curtis sliwa and his guardian angels and some official “internal security force” charged with state power to “make the people secure”.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"big difference between curtis sliwa and his guardian angels and some official “internal security force” charged with state power to “make the people secure”."

ditto

[El Gato]

There are those lionized by the right that have laid the groundwork for just such things...

The Guardain Angels are closer to the founder'd ideal of the citizen militia than to the SS or SA. For one thing, they are not under government control. They work with the authorities, sometimes, but not for them.