“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl.” This statement is reminiscent of how the Hitler Youth was bolstered into being “true-blooded Germans”. The inference is that if you are not a part of this “elite” group and are not concerned with killing what the police label as ‘terrorists’ or ‘illegal immigrants’ then you are NOT a ‘true-blooded American’.

In light of the fact that DHS recently released two letters designed to put the law enforcement community on alert to 1) returning military vets as potential threats and 2) profiling millions of Americans who oppose abortion, illegal immigration, gun control, homosexuality, and expanded govt powers, as associated with neo-Nazis, skinheads and other violent and racist ‘hate groups’, this is scary stuff people.

It appears DHS has an agenda to define ‘true-blooded Americans’ as anyone who is in complete lock-step with their policies.

Using Explorer Scouts as a recruitment source is a heinous and despicable act.

This is not a left-right issue, it’s an American issue. The US is becoming a surveillance state, and it's important for all Americans to insist that DHS put strict regulations on how it watches over American citizens.

America’s growing surveillance state http://digg.com/d1rFYT

Who’s watching the watchmen http://digg.com/d1rFYT

This is not a left-right issue, it’s an American issue.

Well said. After all it is totalitarianism what we should worry about, regardless of the ideological fig leafs used to conceal it.