Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Pickin' On The Boy Scouts
Just heard it on one of my conservative newsletters. The ACLU has brokered a deal where the Boy Scouts will no longer be able to organize troops or get any military support on American military bases.
Levi Strauss cut off all support of the Boy Scouts a couple of years ago, according to my information. I emailed them on the subject, telling them that unless I heard that my reports were false, I would no longer wear, give as gifts, accept as gifts, or have anything further to do with their products. I also included a brief rant about how THEY might feel that influencing young boys that taking a penis up their butts was acceptable, I did not. If they CHOOSE that lifestyle as consenting adults...fine. So be it. Know who else, on the quiet side, is gradually phasing out Scouting support around the country? The United Way. Look into this, ok? Raise hell. Contact your congressdogs.
Unlike most rabid ranting conservatives, I'm not totally down on the ACLU or Liberals in general until they start wandering down a pro-socialist or communist path. I've experienced the horrors of a fundamentalist church and its built-in evils first-hand. We do NOT need that crap in this country. Look at how much fun the average Muslim has.
BUT! Oh yeah, double but! Keep your damn noses AWAY from scouting! Just from being a Cub Scout, I learned to love and respect the woods, and the basics of survival. My alternative teachers were a pair of cousins who liked to take their .22 rifles into the woods and kill everything that moved.
Now, I'm no great naturist. I think PETA is essentially a lunatic organization, other than their efforts to stop unnecessary cruelty to animals. My idea of roughing it would be to have a satellite link on a Winnebago so I could admire the scenery and be online at the same time, and sleep in a bed that isn't vulnerable to a grizzly ripping it apart and munching on my head, or a snake deciding my crotch is a NICE warm place to crash for the night. But now THEY want to BAN fishing! Why? Even with catch and release, in which I see most fisherman faithfully partipating, we're hurting their delicate little lips. Oh, goodness me! They HEAL, PETA, and the fish gets smarter and harder to catch. Of course, they're after the deer hunters, too. Ever seen a whole herd of deer that have starved to death over winter? Pretty nasty. There are GOOD wildlife protection laws in place, and they won't eradicate the deer, they'll carefully allow enough culling so they don't all starve in winter, they retain a healthy herd year after year. Wildlife officers are some of the bravest, most responsible cops in the country. There's a whole system there that WORKS, unlike most government programs. Leave it the hell alone.
Who takes care of the cute little ducks and geese, makes sure they have enough wetland, fights developers who want to destroy those wetlands? Ducks Unlimited. Yeah. The hunters. They don't ever want to run out of ducks. They buy land when they can, and fight like hell to protect government-owned or privately owned wetlands all over the country. And yeah, they go out and shoot ducks AFTER they've paid dues to their organization, obtained proper licensing, have a GOOD dog with them so none of their kills are wasted. The result? There's plenty of ducks. There's not enough duck hunters to kill them all. They're healthy, they have places to go all year for their natural migrating urges.
But boy scouts? They have nowhere to migrate to! The great annual jamborees, where troops from around the country can come together, make new friends, compare natural building abilities in the wild, learn how NOT to cut yourself with a pocket knife and other useful skills, they're having to take it. From who? A bunch of fat, rich lawyers with screwed-up social "conscience". Because they acknowledge God and disallow such skills as blowing another guy and buggering, suddenly they're bad guys? I PUKE on you, ACLU. Stick with something like preventing national IDs.
Oh, I've seen "statistics" about how homosexual pedophilia is a tiny minority. They're crap. I know gay dudes. I acknowledge a very few as friends. I've sat in on conversations. They have consciences. They have standards. But most of them, I really believe sticking them out in the woods with a batch of pubescent boys is pushing it. Hell, they can always go PC and start up the Fey Scouts, which essentially will be pop-up tents, and learning to perform disgusting acts in the deep woods while owls hoot and woodland life goes on as normal as possible.
I hope I'm wrong about Levi's. I have a nice jean jacket, but man do I miss that old one.
