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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 30 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, return to the roots of boys will be boys

“For more than a decade now, Scouting America’s leadership has made decisions that run counter to the values of this administration and this department of war, including an embrace of DEl and other social justice, gender-fluid ideological stances. This is unacceptable,” Mr Parnell wrote on social media.

What were they up to before that decade?

Scout's Honor

In February 2020, the Boy Scouts of America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. By the end of that year more than 82,000 former Scouts had come forward with claims of sexual abuse that took place during their time as members of the organization — meaning, of course, when they were minors. Their claims span across decades and generations, all over the United States.

I know not everything they do relates back to protecting the wealthy global pedophelia network, but honestly this probably does.

There were even troops where boys from unstable homes were targeted and recruited by "scout leaders" with the promise of offering them better lives.

New Orleans Boy Scout Troop 137

The scoutmasters preyed upon children from unstable backgrounds and used them for child pornography and their own sexual pleasure, as well as pimping them out to pederasts in and outside of Louisiana.

By May 1977, nineteen men were charged with abuse in relation to Troop 137. According to then-district attorney of Orleans Parish, Harry Connick, the clients had abused other children in thirty-four different U.S. states, as well as in England. Contacts of the troop to pederasts abroad, as far as Saudi Arabia, were discovered, as were filing cabinets full of letters dating back to 1956 of men requesting access to boys.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Gender fluid is what Hegseth guzzles at airport bathrooms.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

In long, stringy ropes.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

When there is Jesus, little kids get fondled. Fucking disgusting.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think the scouts in the US started as religious (or at least not strongly religious), but there was plenty of molestation going on even back then. Or maybe I'm not remembering everything correctly--it's been awhile since I listened to the Behind the Bastards episodes on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2xoNCWd10

[–] deHaga@feddit.uk 10 points 11 hours ago

It was started by Baden Powell in the UK. He wrote a book called "scouting for boys". A lot of scoutmasters took that literally.