Are Boy Scouts being trained into the new Gestapo?
5/18/2009 at 5:54 PM
Well its was only a matter of time. The Homeland Security department of our neighbors to the south are teaming up with the Scouts organization and training them in counter-terrorist and border patrol tactics. Of course natural disaster response and other humanitarian assistance tactics are being learnt, but is we all know we didn't go to Afghanistan/Iraq to prevent forest fires. Abu Ghraib wasn't the result of an imminent flood. Guantanamo isn't about preventing famine.
Besides, its Homeland Security, not FEMA that are taking the lead role.
Submachine guns, raid tactics, armed law enforcement, and border patrol lessons have no part in Scouts. My Suggestion: Critical Thinking. It will serve you in any situation, violent, peaceful, crisis, or otherwise.
But no, the world is dangerous, lets take teens and teach them urban warfare and how to properly raid your brown neighbors home. Be sure to give them replica MP5s, they have to get used to a future of short violent lives filled with fear and paranoia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html http://www.scouting.org/Media/PressReleases/2006/060203.aspx