They all look really prepared in the picture. It would make me think twice about doing any terrorist things.

Someone beat me to the barf. I hate being the second to hurl.

Thanks for reinforcing the connection between the timelines, Warren.

When I was a GS we worried about getting our first aid badges and nature badges! Talk about politicizing something innocuous! If they were teaching survival skills that would be great but this seems pretty suspect to me.

The blatant disreguard for the constitution is appaling and yet, most don't even know whats happening. Obamas followers support it. Their parents think it's a good idea to have children help out.

We chould be plowing through the doors of congress and physically removing these criminals away from the seats already.

FEMA and Homeland Security are not in the best interests of this country. In my mind they are the enemy and should be treated the same way.

I had been indoctrinated into the Boy Scouts and ran the whole gamut from Cub, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, Boy Scouts, Eagle, and Explorer Scouts. Let me tell you, at that point in time, I would have done anything for a patch!

Needless to say, I haven't allowed my daughter to get involved in Girl Scouts, although I sure do like their Thin Mints.

You know, if this was a C.E.R.T. program (Community Emergency Response Team) which is the modern day equivalent of Civilian Defense from the 50's, then I'd think it would be a pretty good idea. Heck, growing up in Detroit in the 70s, we were given basic C.E.R.T. training in Public School from Kindergarten onward (although in retrospect I'm not sure if I would trust those old 1950s films from C.D.).

However, putting Girl Scouts in defense of Homeland Defense? What next? The Girl Scouts become devotees of the goddess Minerva/Pallas Athena and become official Spear Shakers and card-carrying members of the Order of the Helmet? Although young women in the Ancient Celtic and Pre-Dorian Greek world were left at home to defend the Homeland, they were trained from birth to be fiercer and more skilled fighters than the expendable men that were sent off to fight battles in foreign lands, but American young women are not the skilled and fierce warriors that the Ancient Celtic and Pre-Dorian Greek women were.

I'm not particularly comfortable with the D.H.S. umbrella agency nor with F.E.M.A. being involved in this. Granted, F.E.M.A. oversees national training for the Civilian Corps and C.E.R.T.s, but I would feel much better about it if the higher agencies up the food-chain kept out of it and left it to just the Civilian Corps or C.E.R.T.s to handle.

The first Girl Scout that turns me in for being a suspected Terrorist because I only bought one box of Thin Mints this year instead of four is going to suffer the wrath of my 12 year old daughter whom I'm going to send to teach her a lesson about tattle-tailing!

It is amazing to me to watch how the original program (which by the way is consistent with what we taught our scouts for years -- but in Canada, they are just Scouts, they are not segregated by gender) gets spun so quickly with allusions to Nazi and secret police references.

Practically speaking, trying get any scout to "snitch" is a significant problem for Scout leaders. ("Who puked in Melissa's sleeping bag?" "No one is going swimming until we find out who painted Jimmy while he was asleep!") I assure you that kids are lot harder to "recruit" than the posters are giving them credit for, and certainly not just by giving them a piece of cloth.

But just to hedge my bets, I'll keep my mouth shut if I see a GS wearing an "Artillery Spotter" or "Enhanced Interrogation" merit badge.



[edit on 9-9-2009 by metamagic]

Upon reading this story, I instantly had this image that one day very soon.. I might be taking a lovely hike when I suddenly hear.

"Tango down!"
"All clear!"
"Breaching!"
And several rapid fire gun shots. All shouted by little girls.

I wonder if in future pictures, all these little girls will be holding MP5s or P90s in their pictures, with a black beret and wearing a camo painted war face with extra magazines and grenades lining a harness strapped to their body.

Those are some girl scouts I wouldn't want to mess with.

I guess I am going to boycott girls scout cookies for now on.

Really what a group of littler darlings will do to the big bad people in the nation?

AWESOME THREAD! AGAIN!

Warrenbb, you rock, you uncover a lot of good stuff!

KUDOS!