BECAUSE YR NEVER TOO YOUNG TO LEARN HOW TO SHOOT FOREIGNERS

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ITEM: The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago as a way to prepare youths for jobs as police officers and firefighters – is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence.

“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”

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. In a simulation here of a raid on a marijuana field, several Explorers were instructed on how to quiet an obstreperous lookout.

“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”

Youth, patriotism, guns, violence and an unspoken assumption that the bad guys will be foreign brown people.

What could possibly go wrong?

By the way, is it just me, or does the second photo look like a scene from John Hughes movie? Or a Madness video? Apart from the guns, I mean.

Future people of tomorrow,

This is dF

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[dinopollard.livejournal.com]

Someone should send this story to Michelle Bachmann. This is what an indoctrination youth camp REALLY looks like.