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Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by poncho, May 18, 2009.

  1. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

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    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.

    The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed.

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    “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.”

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    Obama youth?

    Meanwhile on the other side of the pond...

    Town halls hire citizen snoopers as young as SEVEN to spy on neighbours and report wrongs.

    Children as young as seven are being recruited by councils to act as 'citizen snoopers', the Daily Mail can reveal.
    The 'environment volunteers' will report on litter louts, noisy neighbours - and even families putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.

    There are currently almost 9,000 people signed up to the schemes. More are likely to be recruited in the coming months.

    Controversially, some councils are running 'junior' schemes which are recruiting children.

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  2. Magnetic Poles

    Magnetic Poles New Member

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    Sounds like an American Stazi.
     
  3. matt wade

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    ....waiting for the 1984 reference to pop up.
     
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