Why are people not being arrested? Is this not a threat? Why are authorities turning away? Didn't the "Union" boss say there will be blood - there will be a civil war and this is only the beginning? Or do the crime of leveraging threats only apply to certain people?

God Save the Republic!!!!

Does anyone know who and what the Brownshirts were?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -- The Sturmabteilung (SA) ; Storm Detachment or Assault Division, or Brownshirts) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their main assignments were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies; the disruption of opposing political parties and the fight against their paramilitary units (esp. the Rotfrontkämpferbund); and the intimidation of Jewish citizens (e.g. the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses).

Sound like a pollitically organized group protecting a power base and is anti-business, depending on who owns the business.