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To: PROCON

Back in the 1970s, the Boy Scouts got a bunch of leftist weeners in the national organization. The first thing they did was purge the BSA manual of anything useful or manly, and replace it with “inner city scouting/community organizer” crapola. Among collectors, that edition is regarded as the worst edition ever made.

Then they had a *real* brainstorm. Why not invite a whole bunch of inner city “yoots” to attend a summer camp on a BSA reservation?

In retrospect, they should have called it “vandalism camp”.

They really, truly trashed the place. The buildings were ruined, trash everywhere, even the mattresses they used were either burned or thrown into a river. Damages ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I mention this as an example of what will happen if you take such people out of their environment to offer them things they neither appreciate nor respect. Such things must be offered at a young age under adult leadership.


59 posted on 08/28/2016 12:06:40 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Heard a similar story regarding a troop from NJ mistreating pack animals while backpacking at Philmont Scout Ranch (NM) years ago. Don’t know the truth behind the story but it certainly seemed plausible to me.

Just as a side-note, the manual of the 80s/90s that I used as a Scoutmaster with my son and his peers had lost any of that “urban” flavor beyond having appropriately mixed participation in photos.


85 posted on 08/28/2016 1:41:38 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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