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“Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor,” begins a shocking New York Times article reporting on how the Boy Scouts are being trained to take on domestic terrorists, which apparently would include war veterans and American citizens if the Homeland Security definition of a terrorist is to be applied.
Homeland Security and the FBI are behind the effort to indoctrinate and train the Boy Scouts to become tomorrow’s Gestapo. “Our end goal is to create more agents,” April McKee, a senior Border Patrol agent, told the Times. “Before it was more about the basics,” said Johnny Longoria, a Border Patrol agent. “But now our emphasis is on terrorism, illegal entry, drugs and human smuggling.”
Is this the literal creation of Hitler-Jugend style youth brigades designed to act as the front line for eventual programs of mass internment and gun confiscation in the advent of a national emergency?
In Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth succeeded the Boy Scout movement. Hitler Youth training was militarized in comparison to the Boy Scout network, which was largely based around education. Boys aged fourteen and upwards, as well as a separate branch aged 10-14, were trained at preparatory schools to become future Nazi leaders. At its height in 1940, and after it had become mandatory to join, the Hitler Youth boasted no less than 8 million members.
In other situations, Boy Scouts are trained to disarm “suspected terrorists” and subdue them, including Iraq war veterans.
Scouts are trained to identify the enemy. In a competition in Arizona, one role-player wore traditional Arab dress. “If we’re looking at 9/11 and what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy in Imperial County, California, “then maybe your role-player would look like that. I don’t know, would you call that politically incorrect?”
Politically correct or not, Homeland Security and the FBI realize Arabs are not the enemy — “rightwing extremists” are.
Last month, Infowars reported on a document produced by the Department of Homeland Security’s National Infrastructure Coordinating Center identifying advocates of the Second Amendment, veterans, pro-life activists, and militia members as dangerous terrorists. A subsequent DHS document, entitled “Domestic Extremism Lexicon,” pinpointed “antigovernment” types “rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority” as possible terrorists. “Islamic groups are specifically excluded from this document,” writes Benjamin Sarlin for the Daily Beast.
Originally posted by redhead57
I just don't buy that the boy scouts are in the business of training anti terrorism forces. I think AJ is stretching here. But if wrong show me a link. red
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Originally posted by redhead57
I just don't buy that the boy scouts are in the business of training anti terrorism forces. I think AJ is stretching here. But if wrong show me a link. red
How about the New York Times? Will that do?
www.nytimes.com...
Man, this is just bizarre I tell ya. They send these vets to a war fought for oil, lie about it, and turn around and start training the vets' own kids to kill them?
[edit on Sun May 17th 2009 by TrueAmerican]
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by timewalker
Okay, I have to step in here a bit, and disagree to an extent.
Now, while I speak on conspiracy theories, and my repulsion of Government cover-ups, etc, here on ATS, I think InfoWars has gone a bit bonkers here.
I created this thread here to talk a bit about Boy Scouts in the Survival Techniques Forum.
Boy Scouts : International : Survival : All Scouting Organizations
The reason being of course, that I am a Boy Scout adult leader.
Talk about a bit of over-hype if you ask me.
I am an adult volunteer within the Boy Scouts of America, and I love it, because it teaches you about "Be Prepared."
I was while in High School, a Police Explorer, and while I cannot speak about the current aspects necessarily of what they teach youth, when I was in it we were being taught about everything Law Enforcement, dressing like Law Enforcement Officers, training like them, showing presence like them.
The biggest difference was we had no access to guns or weapons, being youth.
Again, I cannot speak directly about the Explorer Program right now, but, Homeland Gestapo?
I don't think so.[edit on 15-5-2009 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
I think InfoWars is a bit off the mark on this one.
While they are training with Law Enforcement Officers, there are policies, procedures, and protocols that they utilize in order to do what they do. The bad cops you always hear about or read about in the papers are usually either rookies cutting their teeth, making major mistakes, or the perpetrator is blowing their story out of proportion because of their ignorance of the law they broke.
And yes, I know racial profiling happens, I wholeheartedly disagree with it.
A person, whether a Police Officer, a perpetrator, or an average citizen does what they do, based on their life experiences, knowledge, and education level.
[edit on 15-5-2009 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by timewalker
Read the name of the site. Info Wars. Meaning "Information Warfare"
Prison Planet. The name is not stating whether it is freeing, or imprisoning the planet.
If it were my website, I would have named it Freeing the Prison Planet.
Words, hold meaning, their intent holds power, and through that, motivates people to an end, through a means of information.
That's called propaganda.
[edit on 15-5-2009 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
For anyone who might want to do some digging of their own for information, you can go to a few of these websites.
World Organization of the Scout Movement
Boy Scouts of America : National Council
ScoutTube
By posting those links here, I am not condoning people to start trashing the B.S.A.
After I post them here, you're doing with them, what you will.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by timewalker
My take on Alex Jones is that he is a shill, placed out there, to agitate people into action.
This would be a way to distract people away from peaceful and intelligent action.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by timewalker
No problem.
I always try to research many websites about a particular story.
I investigate before I submit one to Breaking Alternative News.
That way I'm not only reading as much as possible, but as well I'm supplying information for other people to come to their own conclusions.
The Boy Scouts of America, overall, is an excellent program.
I have been an adult leader now for three years and I love it.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by timewalker
I did the same after you mentioned it. I appreciate that.
If you check out some of my threads in my signature, you will see I do not agree 100% with Government.
That is of course though because I am intelligent and I investigate.
I began learning about how to dig for information when I was a boy of six.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by jeffbagpiper
Like I've stated before, Scouting is a great program in its own right.
They teach anything and everything someone might want to learn of their own volition.
It is an international organization as well and it teaches values to strengthen character.
I for one believe Alex Jones is blowing things out of proportion, he's got an agenda, and from day one I have never trusted him, not because of anything he says or does, but he smells like a poison-rat, set amongst the mice that the Piped-Piper of Hamlin is leading off to be run off a cliff.
I always trust my senses, they are finely tuned and honed to detect nonsense.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by muzzleflash
The Boy Scouts of America do not teach children to kill.
The Explorer Program, is a branch of the Boy Scouts, the government utilizes to teach certain things about Government.
This means that it a separate entity, within Boy Scouts, a branch, separate, but similar.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Originally posted by Badgered1
Mostly funded and operated by the LDS.
The BSA today is NOT your Daddy's BSA.
Okay, are you now, or were you a Boy Scout?
The Boy Scouts of America are not "mostly" funded and operated by L.D.S..
While I will state that there are L.D.S. Unit's, they are a minority, so please check your facts.
Again, I am an adult Boy Scout leader, so I do know a thing or two.
"Mutters" about people who assume and don't fact check.[edit on 15-5-2009 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by cbianchi513
For people to go out and find out information for themselves is one of the best ways to find out fact from fiction.
[edit on 15-5-2009 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Man, this is just bizarre I tell ya. They send these vets to a war fought for oil, lie about it, and turn around and start training the vets' own kids to kill them?
Several years ago, two University of Nebraska criminal justice professors published a study that found at least a dozen cases of sexual abuse involving police officers over the last decade.
the Young Wandervogel movement, an organization similar to the Boy Scouts, but emphasizing a more romantic view of nature. Young Wandervogel was itself spawned by the Wandervogel movement and was quite open about its gay / pederastic tendencies, although this kind of affection was supposed to be expressed in a mostly nonsexual way. The founding of Young Wandervogel happened largely as a reaction to the public scandal about the erotic tendencies in Wandervogel, which was said to alienate young men from women.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Your analytical thinking patterns are far from being objective and leave a ton to be desired.
Opps, wait, I know why: You drudge your sourcings from the likes of infowars, the defunct and ailing NYT, etc. and then expect us to play along?
I'd wager that you, sir, are more part of the problem than any part of a so-called solution. Critical thinking for the win....not.
Originally posted by edgecrusher2199
Can anything that this man says anymore be trusted. He sounds more and more like a man with an agenda giving propaganda as hand outs everyday.