Thread: Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More

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Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More



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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: May 13, 2009

IMPERIAL, Calif. — 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.

In a training exercise run by Border Patrol agents, Explorer scouts from Visalia, Calif., prepare to storm a “hijackedâ€

I'm sorry, but this is getting to look more and more like Somailia, Mexico, Iraq where they send in children to fight. What is wrong with this picture. I was thinking about enrolling my grandson in scouts, but I guess he won't be going.

agrneydgrl
This does not sound anything like the Boy Scouts nor do they teach what the Boy Scouts teach. It says that since 1998 that the Explorers have been overseen by an affiliate of the Boy Scouts. I do not believe this has anything to do with Boy Scouts.
Could this group wind up being the Civilian force that Obama made refrence to??? Anyone?

Membership in the Explorers has been overseen since 1998 by an affiliate of the Boy Scouts called Learning for Life, which offers 12 career-related programs, including those focused on aviation, medicine and the sciences.

Oh yea huh. This is not a good thing. This didn't use to be a third world country. I am living in a nightmare and I can't seem to wake up. I can't talk to my sisters because they just think he is the best thing that has happened to this country and they think I am trying to compare him with Bush. Everytime I say something they say what about Bush. I said I didn't like Bush either. I am not trying to compare the two. I just want them to show them what he is doing.