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Homeland Security Trains Scouts To Fight Terrorism

The Department of Homeland Security is training teenage scouts how to conduct armed raids on terrorists and drug dealers.

In a program which officials have described as "about being a true-blooded American", boys and girls as young as fourteen are being put through their paces by DHS Border Patrol agents.

The New York Times Reports:

The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.

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The training, which leaders say is not intended to be applied outside the simulated Explorer setting, can involve chasing down illegal border crossers as well as more dangerous situations that include facing down terrorists and taking out “active shooters,” like those who bring gunfire and death to college campuses.

Some youngsters have described the program as enjoyable due to the fact that they get to shoot guns and learn about discipline.

Eyebrows will be raised over the nature of the role play situation however, due to the fact that in at least one instance the "terrorist" to be neutralized was described as a "disgruntled Iraq war veteran".

www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html
www.infowars.net/articles/may2009/140509Terrorism.htm

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Dude, I already addressed this, you weenie.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=38286

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There have been numerous cases over the last three decades in which police officers supervising Explorers have been charged, in civil and criminal cases, with sexually abusing them.

www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026779.html

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Baby-faced Trigger Pullers: Isn't that a silencer?

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Looks like an Airsoft (or Airsoft clone) MP-5. The orange muzzle is kinda a giveaway. At least they're correctly keeping their fingers off the triggers.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Baby-faced Trigger Pullers: Isn't that a silencer?

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Looks like an Airsoft (or Airsoft clone) MP-5. The orange muzzle is kinda a giveaway. At least they're correctly keeping their fingers off the triggers.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Thanks, Geezer. Sheesh, I was hoping PN would know a little more about his weaponry than to be taken in that easily...

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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Originally posted by AG05:
Whatever teaches proper gun-handling skills and trigger discipline.

Hell, I'm all for the idea of teaching kids not to view the firearm as an object of irrational fear. I wish like hell that they would've had a propgram like this when I was a Boy Scout. All we got were single-shot .22's.

Mercy is the mark of a great man.
Guess I'm just a good man.
Well, I'm alright.

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Originally posted by AG05:
Whatever teaches proper gun-handling skills and trigger discipline.

Hell, I'm all for the idea of teaching kids not to view the firearm as an object of irrational fear. I wish like hell that they would've had a propgram like this when I was a Boy Scout. All we got were single-shot .22's.

Mercy is the mark of a great man.
Guess I'm just a good man.
Well, I'm alright.

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One of my best friends learned to shoot in the Boy Scouts, and it's to my great chagrin that he's a better shot with my rifle than I am! But I get even with him by being a better shot with his Glock .45 than he is. :)

I don't have a problem with programs to teach kids gun safety and responsible shooting. I am a bit disturbed by programs teaching them SWAT tactics, though...

On the flipside of that, I wonder how many of the larger gangs are sending young members to join the military to get some real-world training (and maybe to get an inside line on military-grade weaponry...). If they aren't doing it, they'd be fools not to try.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Don't bet on it, BK - it's being taught by the same kind of might-is-right hoo-rah rocket jocks all too willing to crush your face in the gutter with their boot cause they're THE LAW, and you're just a perp waiting to happen.

Seriously, if you saw the level of mental and political indoctrination they've carefully avoided mentioning here - you'd be as revolted about it as I am.

It's the nature of the business when you give authoritarian folk extreme amounts of power with no proper oversight or check against abuses, that things will go that way, and certain folk will gravitate to positions that feed their inner need to lord over and abuse people to silence their inner demons.

Sure, the story is they'll only be used against terrorists and enemies of the state - which alone should give you pause, but you remember me pointing out from the very beginning that the ADS pain ray was NEVER intended for use against anyone else but us unruly peons, right ?

Note that the Dirty 3rd on domestic detail is the only unit they're shipping them to.

They're not being trained to do that to terrorists, they're being trained to do that to US.

And that, fellowman, is what bothers me so.

-F

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