YOU show up in sandals wearing love beads carrying a picket sign ready to protest. Your opposition shows up in steel toe boots, swinging

I don't get your point here. 

I mean if you are alluding to the creeps with the Nazi regalia shouting Jews Go Home, they were not shouting at hippies.   They were shouting at very irate opposers.

And I am not trying to stick up for the Nazi's.  But the people on the other side were not wearing sandals and love beads and flowers in their hair.  They were PISSSED.