is it the “Right Wing Whacko Minor Leagues”??

I’ll go with the latter.

And the following is a great illustration showing why progressives and liberals should be investing their time and lives in our military and police agencies.

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.

(Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More, NY Times, 05/13/09)

Yeah, this is about the Boy “We’re in it for the violence and excitement of it all” Scouts.

The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence – an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.

But not to worry .. it’s not all about violence directed to those who aren’t on the side of the Boy Scouts. There’s also “numerous cases” involving charges of sexual assault.

The above presents a horrible paradigm. A socially radically right wing organization like the Boy Scouts being groomed (ala the Hitler Youth) to be the ones who will exercise our various governments’ monopoly on legal violence.

What we need instead are folks who understand allegiance to people and freedom and cooperative living instead of radical causes … we need level headed progressives and liberals … those who are much less inclined to see violence as an acceptable … nay expected … response to any and everything.

We cannot afford to turn our military and police over to the radical right wing.