Wow, they've done it. US to create Nazi Youth. (USA Today article)

[Worst Username Ever]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=3&u=/usatoday/20040810/cm_usatoday/kidsroleinsecuringusa

[geek tragedy]

1. Reminds me more of the "Duck and cover" ads from Southpark. eom

[Taverner]

2. Bring on the fear!

Just in case your parents aren't sufficiently scared enough, your kids can help drive home the fear!!!

[WLKjr]

3. Well, it's started

Be scared. War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength..............

[amber dog democrat]

4. Freedom is Slavery

be very afraid.

[madmax]

5. If they try this crap at the school my grands attend

They will have to deal with one very ANGRY GRANDMA.

[KurtNYC]

6. Among the instructions should be

And remember kids, if the country comes under attack while the President is filming a commercial at your school, gently remind him that he is the nation's only CIC and that as such it might be appropriate to scramble some jets immediately. If he insists on you reading the rest of the Pet Goat story, please read very very quickly.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

7. Children are the front line for institutionalized fascism. FEAR FACTOR.

"...1950s-style panic-inducing drills that don't do anyone any good."

Inducing panic most certainly does someone good. The fascists and their fear machine that makes people accept a permanent war economy and police-state atmosphere.

This study showed that fear of death causes people to embrace Bush.*
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/campaign_fear_dc
(Fear of Death Wins Minds and Votes)

Read Noam Chomsky's explanation of how this country's economy was directed into a permanent war economy instead of a human services economy.
http://www.counterpunch.org/merlin07312004.html
(Chomsky Interview in Counterpunch.org)

"The term "permanent war economy" is attributed to Charles Wilson, CEO of GE, who warned at the end of World War II that the US must not return to a civilian economy, but must keep to a "permanent war economy" of the kind that was so successful during the war: a semi-command economy, run mostly by corporate executives, geared to military production. Among other very important contributions, Melman has written extensively on the harmful effects of gearing much of the economy to military production rather than to civilian needs. What he describes is correct and important, but there are other dimensions to be considered. After World War II, most economists and business leaders expected that the economy would sink back to depression without massive government intervention of the kind that, during the war years, finally overcame the Great Depression. The New Deal had softened the edges, but not much more. Business understood that social spending could overcome market catastrophes as well as military spending, but social spending has a downside: it has a democratizing and redistributive effect while military spending is a gift to the corporate manager, a steady cushion. And the public is not involved. People care about hospitals and schools, but if you can "scare the hell out of them," as Senator Vandenberg recommended, they will huddle under the umbrella of power and trust their leaders when it comes to jet planes, missiles, tanks, etc."

[ArkDem]

9. That's a scary thought. Almost everyone is afraid of death.

I know I'm not looking forward to it.

[shance]

8. Dems need to ask some questions on this - this looks like more influencing

Yes, a little Nazi-ish.

Our national dollars do NOT not need to be spent promoting more arrogance and drilling more over the top Bubba nationalism in our kids when they arent even getting a decent EDUCATION.

[havocmom]

10. the ol 'do it for the children' ploy

comes right after the 'patriots don't question authority' ploy fails every damned time. :grr:

The true last refuge of scoundrels is using kids for cover. Guess we can be glad they are resorting to this. Means they have given up on this year's battle and are looking towards a future of new, improved ditto heads nodding like bobble head dolls when this starts up again in a few years.

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. remember kids, tell your parents to vote for Bush

that's all this is. :puke:

[havocmom]

12. Be sure and rate the story high

it is gonna disappear off the radar pretty soon if we don't get the # up.

Thank you, you wonderful evilDUers you!

[carpediem]

13. Terrorizing kids for politics does nothing to defeat terrorism.

I have intentionally not told my kids details about terrorism because I want them to have as normal a life as possible. I am glad that this isn't going to be taught in their classrooms (K and 2nd), but there are a lot of 4th-8th graders on our street who will talk about it.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. Not Nazi youth...

just more of the same bullshit I remember from the 50s and 60s. When I was a kid, we had TV and radio commercials telling us how to identify Communist spies and saboteurs. Sometimes, they were in the movie houses mixed in with the previews. "Public service" messages my ass.

We also had the Duck and Cover drills in school.

Ye Olde Red Menace isn't around any more, so they've got to scare the shit out of everyone with terrorists.

Terrorists everywhere!

Check the closets and under the bed at night. They're comin' to get ya!

Pure, unmitigated bullshit. There are terrorists out there, but scaring the shit out of everyone is just propaganda, not the way to actually stop the terrorists.

Personally, of all the things that could hurt or kill me, terrism is WAY down on the list of things I worry about. It's also way down on the list of things I can do something about. We pay the assholes in government to take care of things like that, but they just son't seem to be able to do the job right.

If they can't fix the potholes, what can we expect from them?

[VOX]

15. "TV-ad blitz and partners galore" = more * campaign ads on our tax $$$

This whole thing has very little to do with safety and kids -- it's all about re-selecting *. Our tax dollars will be footing this effort to impart that warm-and-fuzzy feeling about BushCo making us "safer."

Of course, BushCo tells us on alternate days that we're safer, and then that we're still not safe!

[maxsolomon]

16. an AMERICAN shepherd dog mascot?

what is an american shepherd dog?

i know:
german
aussie

why not call it a freedom shepherd?

[chookie]

18. Isn't that a very telling detail?

That jumped out at me too -- renaming the very familiar recognized breed German Shepherd/Alsatian "The American Shepherd." That is totally fucked up, totally off the wall and certainly gives us an insight into the mentality of the people who have created this Nazikiddies organization.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. I noticed it too

a google search find a very few sites talking about North American Shepherd Dogs - they seem to be a rare miniature Australian Shepherd - see eg http://www.puppyshop.com/caninebreeds/ads/miniaustralian.htm

You'd think they could come up with something recognizable to people that's American - a prairie dog or something.

[Mika]

20. introducing.. "FREEDOM" The American Shepard Dog

That'll be the mascot's name. I'd almost be willing to bet on that.

[madrchsod]

17. good in ten or so years

we could be faced with our own "werewolfs"

[noonwitch]

21. It makes me nostaligic for anti-drug lectures

All we got in elementary school was bike safety lectures and anti-drug lectures, with the occasional assembly with anti-pollution messages. Ah, the glorious 70s, what a time to be a kid.
"Don't do drugs"
"I get high with a little help from my friends"
"Don't do drugs"
"What are those funny cigarettes that dad's smoking down by the creek with the teenagers?"
"Don't do drugs, and your dad's a jerk"

Mixed messages are so much fun for kids.

[ElementaryPenguin]

22. Bushler & Co. have outdone themselves this time!!

Guaranteeing themselves a fresh crop of scaredy cat, American sheeple for generations to come! These scumbags thugs are so incredibly revolting!

:puke:

[xxqqqzme]

23. a Luntz production

he is the repeat of......was it goebbels that planned all the nazi extravaganzas?

[TrogL]

24. I'm gonna have nightmares

I lived across the river from Buffalo NY and watched WKBK TV. They ran the infamous "duck and cover" ads. Every Saturday they'd interrupt my cartoons with an emergency broadcast warning (it seemed like every week, it was probably less). If I was in another room, all I'd hear would be that eerie whine.

Problem was, I was directly in the flight path for Buffalo International Airport AND a US military base. One time our house got buzzed by a two-engine bomber with smoke coming out of one engine.

Third problem, Buffalo was due East and a known nuclear target.

One morning, I was in the kitchen and the emergency warning thing started on the TV, moments later something big flew over the house and when I ran into the living room to see what was going on, there was a huge fireball over Buffalo.

:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

It was just a test, a routine flight, and the rising sun.

Nevertheless, I couldn't sleep properly for a week and I still have the occasional "bomb" nightmare.

[Joanne98]

25. The Boy Scouts

Partners of crime with the Homeland Security????????? Time to pull the children out!!!!!!!!