teabagger Alert!!! – Crazy Right Wing News – ‘New Conspiracy Theory – Boy Scouts Are Obama’s Youth Army, Coming To Take Away Your Guns’

‘Just look at this picture for a moment. Let the words sink in. This picture, being circulated by conservatives, implies that these youths are some form of Obama-created fighting force, called the FEMA Corp’.

‘The origin of this accusation comes from a right-wing conspiracy website called It Makes Sense Blog. On it, you find numerous radical conspiracies of a similar nature. They themselves appear to have derived this particular one from this very strange piece from YouTube’.

‘Here’s the video :

‘As found in Factcheck, the program being discussed is a program begun by the Boy Scouts of America over 60 years ago, the Explorers program’.

‘One form of this program is titled the Law Enforcement Exploring program, and was designed to teach crime fighting skills to those between the ages of 14 and 20’.

‘The pictures come from a New York Times article where one group of the LEE youth participated in a mock raid on a marijuana facility to give them the feeling of what the police can and do experience on a regular basis’.

‘They were outfitted with dummy weapons, as one can note, with the red tips, and given the chance to find out for themselves what it means to be a drug enforcement officer’.

‘As for the FEMA Corp, the name comes from the FEMA webpage for their AmeriCorp partnership program titled “FEMA-Corp.”

‘This group of 1600 AmeriCorp volunteers have been trained in FEMA procedures related to helping distribute goods in case of a federal disaster’.

‘This group was critical for Hurricane Sandy relief. So much for being a bunch of crazy kids out to take guns, the real corp in this case was too busy handing out water and food to those areas destroyed by Hurricane Sandy’.

From : http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/10/new-conspiracy-theory-boy-scouts-are-obama-youth-army-coming-to-take-away-your-guns-video/