"Youth Corps" In Action As Explorer Scouts
Seen Policing Christmas Parade Squad stands to attention with lowly "green
shirts" sent to the back of the line
In the wake of reports that Explorer Scouts are being "trained
in post-9/11 law enforcement methods", a group
of youngsters have been captured on video working in tandem
with police in St. Petersburg, Florida, at a christmas fair.
We Are Change activists spotted the group roaming the streets during the parade,
clearly wearing clothing adorned with police insignia.
When the group were asked what they were doing at the parade,
the lead scout became extremely secretive about their association
with the local police department and attempted to hide their
badges and jackets.
The group described themselves as "very similar"
to academy police, and told the activists that they were "looking
for lost kids".
"We are affiliated with them but we do not have the powers
of police... we are a part of the department I guess."
the leader of the group told We Are Change, adding that they
routinely ride along with officers on active duty.
The young girl seemed to back track after continued questioning,
later stating "it is a volunteer organisation, it has nothing
to do with the police."
However, the squad of 14-19 year olds stood to attention, military
style, when a police officer arrived on the scene, with lowly
"green shirts" ordered to take the back of the line.
"If we went into Martial law or a state of emergency,
they're here to protect everyone else." one of the other
members of the group said when asked why he wanted to be affiliated
with the police.
When asked if they had heard of the Hitler Youth, the at-first
voluntary but later mandatory youth corps brigade that succeeded
the Boy Scout movement In Nazi Germany, the scouts replied that
they had.
Police officers in St. Petersburg refused to answer questions
regarding the squad of scouts.
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This activity dovetails with several recent reports detailing
how the Department of Homeland Security is actively enlisting
both the Explorer
Scouts and the Girl
Scouts.
Programs
being run by the DHS are training Scouts how to
conduct armed raids on discontented American citizens, described
as “terrorists” and “drug dealers” by
Homeland Security.
One of the “terrorists” that the Boy Scouts were
trained to kill in one scenario, according to the New
York Times report on the story, was actually a
disgruntled U.S. war veteran.
In the mock training scenario, the Boy Scouts were ordered
to, “Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,”
by a Border Patrol agent, who added “I guarantee that
he’ll shut up.”
We have also received
reports detailing how the police and even the military
are engaging with Scouts at jamboree events where they demonstrate
"chase and takedown" scenarios along with mock SWAT
raids.
At one event in Wisconsin, the National Guard unveiled a combat
simulator and invited Scouts to ride through the streets of
Baghdad and try to differentiate citizens from terrorists, saving
the former and executing the latter.
Seeing the Scouts in tandem with police will also increase
concerns that President Barack Obama’s promised “national
civilian security force” is gradually being
formed from such groups.
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