US Border Patrol Pull LOADED Guns & Detain Boy Scout Troop For Taking A Picture

[kpete]

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Fox said one of the Scouts took a picture of a border official, which spurred agents to detain everyone in that van and search them and their belongings.

“The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox said.

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Another of the Scouts was taking luggage from the top of a van to be searched when something startling happened.

“He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here’s this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man’s head,” Fox explained.



MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/23/1316003/-US-Border-Patrol-Pull-Guns-Detain-Boy-Scout-Troop-For-Photography
Read more: http://www.kcci.com/news/boy-scout-from-iowa-is-subject-of-alaska-border-dispute/27102496#ixzz38IXRECrw
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http://www.kcci.com/news/officer-points-gun-at-boy-scout-at-canadian-border/27078396#!bksUX5

[DirkGently]

1. And the Scout leaders approved.

Charles Vonderheid with the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America said Troop 11 learned a valuable lesson.
“We want to make sure they follow the rules. A Scout is a good citizen. It would be a great lesson in civics for that young man and that troop,” he said.

Nooo, not a proto-fascist organization founded by an admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, not at all.

Baden-Powell admired Benito Mussolini early in the Italian fascist leader's career. In 1939 Baden-Powell noted in his diary: "Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc. – and ideals which Hitler does not practise himself."[10]:550

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell

[Jim__]

2. Yes, always follow the rules. Never, ever question them.

It's a great lesson in civics. They should become good citizens. Sigh.

[DirkGently]

4. Because if you point guns at kids' heads,

... no terrorists can come!

We are great at this type of magical thinking. Ban the tweezers, and there will be no box cutters. Expel the girl for bringing Midol to school, and there will be no heroin.

Not just ineffective, offensive, and dangerous, but also plain stupid and transparently cowardly.

[oldandhappy]

3. we are a crazy country

We are so full of fear. We have so many rules. We have so little freedom. Bin Laden won. We are destroying ourselves. Anger and fear are dominate now. Sad. Can we organize a day to take flowers to the Border Patrol? We need to demonstrate positive responses. Not sure how to do that. Maybe a pipe dream.

[kpete]

5. oldandhappy

Can we organize a day to take flowers to the Border Patrol?


I am old+mostlyhappy
and I would love to go back to the time when flowers were our weapon of choice

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Not the first time:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-immigrants-rights-criminal-law-reform/aclu-sues-over-abuse-photographers-border

[dembotoz]

7. oh i bet some of the scouts learned something

nothing like having a gun pulled on you to understand that stuff can happen to them too

[bemildred]

8. Winning hearts and minds.