So apparently this photo got a lot of press in the UK.
But when you take a look at it in widescreen, as it were, you get a somewhat different impression. (CHT François.)
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Bobbie in the second rank, front and center.
You see that? That helmet there? That’s a POLICEMAN’S HELMET.
Mind you, the Chaldeans…
Photo credit: Bastiat.