"Our end goal is to create more agents," said April McKee, a senior Border Patrol agent and mentor at the session here.
Membership in the Explorers has been overseen since 1998 by an affiliate of the Boy Scouts called Learning for Life <http://www.scouting.org/Media/AnnualReports/2006/13lflsummary.aspx> , which offers 12 career-related programs, including those focused on aviation, medicine and the sciences. But the more than 2,000 law enforcement posts across the country are the Explorers' most popular, accounting for 35,000 of the group's 145,000 members, said John Anthony, national director of Learning for Life. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many posts have taken on an emphasis of fighting terrorism and other less conventional threats. [So much for the idea of building good citizens. Now it is building good soldiers (or agents)! They have come a looong way from when I was a Scout leader. Dennis] --- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, Frank Ney <n4...@...> wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html?_r=2&hp > > This freaking freaks me out. > > Frank Ney N4ZHG NY/EMT-B NRA(L) GOA CCRKBA JPFO ProvNRA LPWV > -- > CPUs execute their instructions in synchonization with the "ticking" of > an internal clock. This kind of thing isn't unusual in the real world. > Musicians play their music at the tempo dictated by the baton of a > conductor or the "ticking" of a metronome. Greek slaves used to row the > oars of their trireme warships in time with the drum beats. Politicians > spend money at 1.5 times the rate at which they can get their hands on it. > You get the idea. > - Gary Cutler, "A Buyers and Builders Guide to Windows PCs" >
