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Government Wants School Children To "Think
Like 7/7 Terrorists"
Crass indoctrination exercise criticized
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A government teaching pack, provided to secondary schools throughout
the UK, has been strongly criticized for asking children as
young as ten years old to imagine themselves as suicide bombers.
The teaching pack contains an exercise in which
children are required to "prepare a brief presentation
on the 7/7 bombings from the perspective of the bombers".
Pupils are asked to put themselves in the shoes
of terrorists and provide possible justifications for carrying
out attacks such as the ones on the London transport network
in July 2005.
The pack has also been adopted by several police
forces across the country.
The London
Telegraph reports that the pack was made available
through a Government-sponsored website called www.teachernet.gov.uk.
It has since been removed in the wake of media attention.
Politicians and 7/7 survivors have criticized
the move:
Jacqui Putnam, who survived the Edgware Road
bomb on July 7, said: "I can't see why anyone would think
it is a valuable exercise to encourage children to put themselves
in the position of men who treated people in such an inhuman
way.
"To encourage children to see the world in that way
is a dangerous thing. Surely there must be a better way of
achieving their objective?"
Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Bar, said
the pack risked "encouraging the sort of belief we're
trying to work against".
Patrick Mercer, the chairman of the Commons terrorism sub-committee,
said: "How useful is it to pretend to be a suicide bomber
if it defeats the object of the lesson? Imagine the uproar
if we suggested that children play-acted the role of Hitler."
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Such indoctrination can be seen as an attempt
to bolster the government's support for the ailing 'war on terror'
which has been thoroughly exposed as a grossly inflated contrivance
used as justification to impose more draconian laws and strip
away civil liberties.
Asking young children to imagine themselves as
terrorists blurs the lines between horrific acts of extreme
violence and everyday life. It forces the issue into people's
faces, even though the threat is almost wholly manufactured
and has been hyped to a frenzy in order to secure more power
and control and counter resistance towards whatever the government
chooses to do.
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