A Culture of Death
Jane: Good evening this is 20/40 for Sunday May 23rd. Tonight's big story, Boy Scouts: the Culture of death. Dick is hear to bring you this special report.
Dick: Thank you Jane. This past Thursday a copycat shooting occurred in Conyers, GA. The suspect was 15 year old Thomas Solomon JR. Thomas or as those who know him call him T.J. is a member of a paramilitary group known as the Boy Scouts.
Jane: The Boy Scouts? But I thought they were about helping old ladies across the street.
Dick: Well that's what they would have you think. However many aspects of this fringe group are questionable. For one thing the big event each summer is the week long camping trip of all men and YOUNG BOYS. I interviewed an Ex-Boy Scout and this is his take on it.
Crispy: Ya I was in the Boy Scouts for a short time, I had just reached my teens and went to summer camp. All the boys there were so happy all the time and the men always seemed to have these big unnerving smiles all the time. I just couldn't understand why they were all so happy there, no stereos, no girls, everyone having to share the showers, it just seemed so unnatural.
Jane: It almost seems these camps are just breeding grounds for pedophiles.
Dick: And that's just the half of it. They are forced to wear these uniforms which I saw worn by gays during my undercover story on the evils of San Francisco, I even saw one do a strip show wearing the exact same outfit. Other activities are ghost stories around a camp fire which programs these boys towards death and the paranormal. Special badges are earned for starting Fires. Obviously appealing to pyromaniacs. Another badge is for survival skills, building shelter, making traps, finding their way through the forest.
Jane: Those are great skills if your on the run or society collapses, but why are they necessary in modern times??
Dick: Well Jane I can't say I understand these people but I can say that many people that join militias that people like the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was involved with were once Boy Scouts. But even worse than that they even have a badge for Archery!!
Jane: ARCHERY!!!! First it's bows and arrows next thing you know they're carrying automatic rifles into the class room!!
Dick: Well Jane it's happened, and it's not the first time these Boy Scouts have been in trouble. Just listen to these reports:
From APB online...
ABILENE, Texas (AP) -- Sixteen-year-old Brandon Lund wanted his father dead. So the teenager came up with a solution straight out of the T.J. Hooker reruns he loved to watch: He hired a hit man. But when Brandon had a change of heart, the former Boy Scout learned that calling off a hit isn't like canceling a dentist appointment. On Monday, the alleged hit man, Billy Don Wilson, went on trial on murder charges for allegedly breaking into the Lund home with five other people and killing Brandon's father for his $5,000 gun collection in 1998. Brandon was slashed with a knife, but survived.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (APBNews.com) -- In 1995, a judge sentenced James Helming, a St. Charles assistant Boy Scout leader who was convicted of sodomy, to 24 years in prison for molesting a 13-year-old member of his troop.
killer of Matthew Shepard At school, Henderson blended in with the crowd, just another dark-haired, polite young man. One of his childhood loves was scouting. He earned 21 merit badges to become an Eagle Scout.
New York daily news
The nation's top Boy Scout executive was arrested after a security scan showed a loaded revolver in a bag he was trying to carry onto a flight, police said. Jere Ratcliffe, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America, was picked up Sunday morning at Miami International Airport after an X-ray revealed the .32-caliber gun in his bag. Guards opened the bag and discovered the gun was loaded.
A respected Queens cub scout leader was charged with murder yesterday, one day after the body of a woman was found in a room where the suspect ran scout meetings.
Brooklyn scout leader was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually abusing two of the boys in his group, police said. Meanwhile, Vasquez, of E. 97th St., a former altar boy and boy scout who attends a private school, was undergoing psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital. Vasquez, a deep gash on his right cheek, nursing a bandaged left hand, had been muttering suicidal remarks as he sat on a bench in the arraignment. His lawyer said anti-depressants that Vasquez was taking were wearing off. Detectives took the slight, clean-cut, dark-haired boy to the hospital. Inspector Richard Seta of Manhattan detectives said that it was done as a safety precaution and that Vasquez would be examined by a psychologist on Tuesday. The youngsters and McMorrow knew each other from partying and in-line skating in the park, authorities said. On Thursday night, the three sat by the lake drinking, and the party turned gruesome reportedly because McMorrow made a pass at Abdela. Vasquez became enraged and allegedly cut McMorrow's throat from ear to ear, then stabbed him more than 30 times.
- Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird
1995 -- THE WEIRDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY In May in the Bronx, N.Y., former Boy Scout leader David Weiser, 31, was charged with assault in connection with a private club he ran whose induction ceremony seemed to be the severe paddling of boys' buttocks. About 40 boys and young men were members, and police seized photographs and wooden paddles from the club, as well as club records and copies of its by-laws. Unexplained in news reports was why Weiser called the club the "CB Mafia" and what the club did, other than recruit new members.
Jane: OH MY GOD!!! How can this organization exist.
Dick: Well Jane, hopefully we can destroy this evil soon, ladies and gentlemen, I beg of you if you see one of these monsters attack. Use whatever means possible to see to it these events do not continue!! Old ladies the next time on of these young hoodlums tries to help you across the street mace them don't hesitate for an instant, the life you save may be your own.
Jane: Thank you very much Dick, coming up next: Pants, where would T.J. have hid the shotgun if schools forced everyone to wear kilts...
Now this is obviously satyr and exaggeration, however it is basically what 20/20 did to the Gothic subculture with it's report following the Littleton shooting. Even though this is not a true news report the news quotes are real and my quote in this mockery is from my experience as a scout, I have put more true facts in this fake report than they did in their report and it's still BS!!! For more on my feelings about the irresponsible media go here
