If B.P. started scouting in 2006 what would it be like?

Scouter.com ^ | Oct 18, 2006 | Semper Paratus

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If B.P. started scouting in 2006 what would it be like?

PRESS RELEASE OF THE FLEDGLING SCOUTING MOVEMENT:
Mr. Powell is pleased to announce his plans to conduct an experiment in youth character development by assembling a group of 22 boys to spend a week camping with him at Brownsea Island. This 'camp-out' is intended to put into practice Mr. Powell's ideas of outdoor education and scoutcraft in building citizenship and character for the boys of today and the men of tomorrow. Mr. Powell notes that, “the most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct” and “the sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.” The outdoor experience is needed in Mr. Powell’s opinion, as more and more boys are sitting on couches playing video games and watching hour after hour of television. We look forward to this opportunity and reporting back on the wonderful results that are expected.

PRESS RELEASE OF NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION:
Mr. Powell's 'experiment' is doomed to failure. How dare he suggest that he is an educator. We have worked much too long and hard in creating our stellar public education system in this country, only to see an interloper, like Mr. Powell, come along and claim he knows a better way. For over a century, public education has proven that the best way to educate is to force participation, continue improving curriculums so that all students achieve equal results and constantly remind students and parents that we know what is best for them. Mr. Powell, the writing is on the blackboard. You cannot educate our youth outside of a multi-million dollar facility that offers free lunches, after-school care and ensures our jobs and pensions.

PRESS RELEASE OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN:
Mr. Powell is obviously a male chauvinist pig. His exclusion of the superior female gender from his little 'boys club' is just another example of the unending bondage that we have been subjected to at the hands of this neanderthal race that has been the scourge of our planet since the Venusians kicked them out of our estrogenical utopia. There will be a bra-burning vigil throughout the week as a sign of solidarity against the further indoctrination of this foul species.

PRESS RELEASE OF AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION:
We certainly don't know what Mr. Powell intends to do on that island. But, we will be following the developments very closely. We plan to have a cadre of lawyers standing at the ready to assist the families of these boys as they are placed in dangers too numerous to mention. Rumor has it that Mr. Powell intends for these possible victims to sleep in tents, which could discriminate against those who may be convinced that they suffer from agoraphobia. Likewise, it has been suggested that a fire may be set to keep warm, in spite of local ordinances controlling such outrageous behavior. A class-action lawsuit has already drafted and is ready to be filed. We care about these boys and their rights. So, we have made a special arrangement with our members to handle these cases on a 40% contingency basis.

PRESS RELEASE OF GREENPEACE:
We are told from a very reliable source that Brownsea Island was once the home of the red-beeked snipe and that this rare species may, in fact, return to the island in the next four centuries. Mr. Powell's 'experiment' will forever contaminate this land and ensure that the red-beeked snipe will never ever ever return. We have scientific studies that prove this. He must be stopped. We owe that to all the now and future red-beeked snipes of the world.

PRESS RELEASE OF THE ACLU:
As the defenders of the constitutional rights of all we deem worthy, we will make it our sole mission to attack and destroy Mr. Powell and his boys until his ideas are forever banished in the scrap heap of independent thinking. We alone determine what can be thought, said and acted upon so as not to offend our acute sense of righteousness. We declare war on this idea of scouting and will use our tax-exempt status to the fullest extent to crush this idea that is offensive to our self-given rights.

PRESS RELEASE OF NAMBLA:
We wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Powell’s movement. In fact, we are planning to be the number one sponsor of boy scouts. We just love the idea.

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A start-up boy scouting movement wouldn’t stand a chance today. Fortunately, its 100 year track record of success is too strong for anyone to believe its naysayers.

(from a post on Scouter.com)

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Later read.

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Oh, the above groups are putting all their objections (and approval) into place all right. It just took them 100 years to catch up.