How do you know when you’ve gone too far? How to you recognize when your push for “security” is a thinly veiled excuse for tyranny? When you go for the children.
The stake through the heart of the USA has continued its plunge with a hefty hammer blow from Maryland’s Joppatowne High School, the first Maryland school to offer coursework to support the “anti-terrorism industry.” As the lead line in the USA Today article reads, “Call it vocational education for the 9/11 generation.”
That’s right, this Maryland school has not only enacted a three year course for training kids in the vocation of “Homeland Security”, but other Maryland schools and schools districts across the USA are actually attracted to it and looking to emulate it. The result, a new generation of kids who will be programmed to be paranoid snitches, even if they don’t go to work for the Homeland Security Department.
We’ve seen this kind of tactic before. They were called “Hitler-Jungen”, where children were drawn in under the concept of “securing the fatherland” in order to train and recruit for the Sturmabteilung of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Or in English, the Hitler Youth of the Storm Regiment of the Nazi Party. How long will it be before Homeland Security courses follow suit and become mandatory curriculum for students?
I have to ask, why is it necessary to offer high school courses for Homeland Security? What gain is there, other than to indoctrinate students into a mindset that they wouldn’t necessarily have otherwise? The vast majority of high schools have no curriculum for basic law enforcement techniques used by police, so why is it at all needed to teach “anti-terrorism” courses? Last, but certainly not least, what does it say about us that “anti-terrorism” has become a major growth industry?
People, wake up! This is how horrible things start. No good can come of this. As a nation we are paralleling late 1930′s Germany in so many frightening ways that it’s enough to make your head spin.
For once, can we learn from history and not repeat the same mistakes? Please?
