Homeland security moving to classrooms

[cyberpj]

Homeland security moving to classrooms
Schools offer programs to train professionals
By ERIC RUTH, The News Journal
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006

You can fight terror with bombs, or guns, or even with tough words. It's a battle that has taken Americans to foreign lands and into the realm of cyberspace. In Delaware, the struggle has entered the classroom. The weapon of choice is knowledge.

Across the nation and around the world, colleges are increasingly creating degree programs and other courses to prepare students for work in "homeland security," the broadly defined realm of protecting communities and businesses against terror attacks and natural disasters.

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Across the country, such programs are showing "dramatic growth," said Todd I. Stewart, director of the National Academic Consortium for Homeland Security, an organization that encourages collaboration among schools. The alliance now includes more than 330 universities and community colleges, including some overseas.

"There is not much consistency in these programs," he said. "They tend to emphasize different things. Some are broader, others are much more focused. Typically, a college or university takes a program they already have a strength in and builds on that."

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS/608240373/1006/NEWS


Who knew we had a director of the National Academic Consortium for Homeland Security??

This feels very frightening to me. Like another way to create a youthful army of soldiers for "The Homeland". If Americans don't wake up to these tactics soon, we're going to be lost to these fear-mongering neo-con fascists and there is no country out there big enough and bad enough to come and save us. Like Germany, they're going to get away with anything and everything that resembles protection from the boogeyman.

God help us.

[NotGivingUp]

1. it is VERY frightening. i never imagined that i would be seeing

the things that have been going on in this country. very, very bad path and i don't see it stopping. too many people asleep in this country. thorough brainwashing since birth.

[cyberpj]

2. p.s. How long before these kids are "called up" like National Guard? nt

[mopinko]

3. my daughter took microbiology

at a city college about 2 years ago, and things like anthrax, etc, were added to the course. they were told that "the feds" told them they had to study any organisms that had a potential for weaponization.

[cyberpj]

7. The college in this article is a small city college too. It's also

mostly minorities and of those, mostly blacks. I'm worried that they are targeting these schools because of that. And the less fortunate will again become fodder for our growing military industrial complex if their 'services' become necessary 'in a time of war'. Just as did our National Guard troops. I'm thinking of martial law type situations that might be claimed for any of a variety of reasons.

When I suggested this in passing conversation I was accused of overreacting and told that this was an exceptional opportunity for "the people in those schools". Enough said.

(And...I don't think there is such a thing as overreacting to this administration.)

[cyberpj]

10. weekend kick. nt

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Soon, every college and public school in the country will be required...

... to have at least one "political officer" on staff, filled by a person that has been investigated and approved by the DHS for his (could we really trust a woman?) loyalty to the President, ideological purity and devotion to the Republican Party and its ideals.

His job will be to make sure that teachers teach only what the Ruling Party wants taught, and that the students do not display any tendencies that deviate from Party doctrine.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. They should list these courses as 'Fascism 101'...unfortunately, we

have such a program here on my campus.

[kurth]

6. Homework exercise: Wiretap your friends and neighbors

and report all unpatriotic activities to your local Homeland Security chief.

[cyberpj]

8. Extra credit for turning in peers who participate in protests, or

gasp!
smoke pot.

[Anakin Skywalker]

9. Ooh Ooh! Spy On

your teachers! Report the librul ones! Report on your mommies and daddies too, kids!

[sofa king]

11. Duck and Cover!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover_(film)