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Why does Santa need a fighter escort? Children's groups outraged as NORAD militarises Christmas Eve
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 4 December 2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 12/04/2013 7:12:52 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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Why does Santa need a fighter escort? Children's groups outraged as NORAD militarises Christmas Eve tracker

• NORAD officials say the inclusion of jet fighters is a nod to the true mission of the agency - which is to track and intercept airborne threats

Outraged child advocates are blasting NORAD's new 3D Santa Tracker program because it includes a fighter jet escort for jolly old Saint Nick.

Some say the new online portrait could give kids the wrong impression about Santa Claus - associating him with the military and violence.

But Pentagon officials argue the North American Aerospace Defense Command is a military organization - its purpose is to track incursions of the airspace over the U.S. and Canada - and the inclusion of fighter jets into Santa's new digital flight across the world is a nod to NORAD's true mission.

Josh Golin, associate director of the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, says the new campaign is ‘reprehensible’ since it played on children's fears by suggesting that Santa Claus was vulnerable to attack.

‘It's a backdoor way of marketing to kids when they are not supposed to be recruiting until they are much older,’ he said.

Allen Kanner, a child psychologist with the same group, told the Boston Globe: 'Children associate Santa with gifts and fun and everything else that is positive about Christmas.

'They are associating this with the military in children’s minds. It is completely out of line.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: airforce; childadvocates; christmas; christmas2013; fakeoutrage; forthechildren; norad; pc; santaclaus; santatracker; usaf
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santa tracker photo: Santa tracker httpsantatrackeronlinecom_zps82f07db7.gif Some people need to get a life ...
1 posted on 12/04/2013 7:12:52 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

I fear Western Civilization has tipped too far to ever right itself.
2 posted on 12/04/2013 7:15:46 PM PST by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN '66-'67)
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To: DogByte6RER
"Outraged child advocates are blasting NORAD's new 3D Santa Tracker program because it includes a fighter jet escort for jolly old Saint Nick. "


3 posted on 12/04/2013 7:15:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: DogByte6RER

I’ve decided that people like this aren’t worth defending or being countrymen with. How do they think this nation came into being or stayed free? When can we get a divorce?


4 posted on 12/04/2013 7:15:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: DogByte6RER

Geeze Louise .... it’s fantasy not real. Good Grief!!!!!


5 posted on 12/04/2013 7:17:03 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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Has anyone asked this tart how is Santa supposed to defeat the SAMs and high altitude radar unless he has an escort? Some people...


6 posted on 12/04/2013 7:18:46 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: DogByte6RER

I think kids would like this......especially boys.


7 posted on 12/04/2013 7:19:31 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Some people need to get a life ...

EXACTLY.

I have come to actually HATE these type people.

8 posted on 12/04/2013 7:20:29 PM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: DogByte6RER

If you don’t want your kids using the NORAD “Santa tracker” then make your own tracker.


9 posted on 12/04/2013 7:21:00 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Or better yet, let Obama design your Santa tracker. If you like your Santa tracker, you get to keep it...


10 posted on 12/04/2013 7:23:50 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Wait 'til they figure out the whole "making a list and checking it twice" and how it relates to the NSA.
11 posted on 12/04/2013 7:23:59 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Well, if it’s good for our ‘Socialist Santa Clause’ (Obama), it’s good enough for the big guy!


12 posted on 12/04/2013 7:25:46 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: ComputerGuy

Stupid people!


13 posted on 12/04/2013 7:26:03 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: DogByte6RER

I may be crazy but it seems to me NORAD has been doing this for years...seems to me they tracked Santa on radar during the Cold War. Am I crazy? I swear I remember reports from NORAD on Santa’s progress on Christmas Eve, they made it sound all mysterious as if they didn’t have a clue what the “object” was they were tracking...


14 posted on 12/04/2013 7:26:07 PM PST by Tammy8
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To: DogByte6RER

I’m outraged by ginned up phony outrage by the perpetually outraged.


15 posted on 12/04/2013 7:27:32 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: DogByte6RER

FRAGILE PSYCHE ALERT!


16 posted on 12/04/2013 7:29:12 PM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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17 posted on 12/04/2013 7:30:58 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: DogByte6RER

Perpetual outrage must pay real good.


18 posted on 12/04/2013 7:32:28 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: DogByte6RER
you can't be too careful these days


19 posted on 12/04/2013 7:32:56 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: DogByte6RER

*pssst*

the fastest jets couldn’t even begin to keep up with the jolly ol elf.

he does every last mile in a single night... including stops for carrots, cookies, and careful delivery


20 posted on 12/04/2013 7:35:23 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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