Ministry of Homeland Security Program Indoctrinates the “9/11 Generation”

Mimi Hall
USA TODAY
December 24, 2007

JOPPA, Md. — Call it vocational education for the 9/11 generation.

The nation’s first comprehensive high school homeland security program, a three-year course to help kids land jobs in the growing anti-terrorism industry, is in its infancy in Maryland. But it’s recently been attracting the attention of educators and school districts from as far away as California and Florida.

The program, started at Maryland’s Joppatowne High School with 61 sophomores, provides “an opportunity for kids to see relevance to being in school,” says Frank Mezzanotte of the Harford

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Students have toured a Coast Guard command center, visited a county detection center, practiced emergency response in a fictional town called “Joppaville” and heard an Iraqi-born speaker explain cultural differences between Americans and Middle Easterners.

“We’re trying to set high expectations,” says student Megan Bell, 15. “We don’t want to be known as just the school with the good football team. Now we have homeland security.”

Other school districts are taking notice. Mezzanotte says he’s been contacted by individual schools and education departments in more than a half-dozen states.

“Joppatowne broke the ground for all of us,” says Lise Foran of Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland. Next fall, Meade High School will begin a Homeland Security program. “We’re following in Joppatowne’s footsteps.”

And on Wednesday, Mezzanotte will be in Las Vegas, where he has been asked to give a presentation on the program to the Association for Career and Technical Education annual conference.

Some question whether the program will teach students to be open-minded about the government’s national security policies, given its goal of getting kids jobs with defense and homeland security contractors and the military. The liberal magazine Mother Jones dubbed Joppatowne “the academy of military-industrial-complex studies.”

Jonathan Zimmerman, a New York University history of education professor, says “the devil lies in whether this is going to be a school for education or indoctrination.”

Other educators applaud the school for taking steps to prepare kids for one of the nation’s expanding job markets and for connecting what they learn in school to what’s happening in the real world.

“This sounds to me like it has all the earmarks of what keeps young people in school,” says former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, now head of the Alliance for Excellent Education. “It gives them the skills necessary for the modern workplace.”

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  1. S. Wolf Britain on December 24th, 2007

    “Conform to the police state, even in high school and before, or you will be targeted as a (so-called) ‘miscreant’, ‘deviant’, ‘non-conformist’ (etc.), and be sent to a special school or ‘camp’ for ‘reeducation’”! That is what this country is very quickly coming to. True Freedom will no longer be televised, nor any longer be tolerated or allowed; and you will bow down to the jackbooted thugs and lick their boots, or become one of them, or they will grind you up under the heels of their gross injustice in the guise of “homeland security”! What country am I living in?! This is not an “America” that we were EVER supposed to become like and come to this point of living in!! How can the majority of We the People allow this insanity to occur and/or continue to allow to go on?!

  2. Chris Bouchard on December 24th, 2007

    Germany during WWII also had “,homeland security,” taught in schools. It was called the Hitler Youth program.

  3. Chris Allen on December 24th, 2007

    Those kids probably can’t even spell “Hitler Youth”. Our students can hardly find Iraq on a map but they’re being prepared to go and engage in combat with Iraqis. Or was the Iraqi cultural adviser speaking with them in order to teach them how to bring Iraqis more democracy. Or wait, that’s the same thing these days. Before you know it, public schools won’t receive any funding unless they adopt the Homeland Security program. Time is running out…

    “As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air-however slight-lest we become unwilling victims of the darkness.”
    ~Justice William O. Douglas~

  4. kevin on December 24th, 2007

    Considering that the department of homeland security is designed not to fight ‘terrorism’ but as a way to supress and control peaceful, law abiding, dissenting Americans I am sickened by this effort to indoctrinate young people.

  5. Robert Vlad on December 24th, 2007

    One of my friends called me today to wish me “MERRY CHRISTMAS.” He also went on and on about my conspiracy theories and how untrue they are. I just could not get it across to him that we are in serious trouble. That the our sovereignty as a nation will soon disappear because of the back door, dar, secretive dealings of the Bilderberg Group. He didn’t want to hear it, and said,”let them put camera’s into my home, I’m doing nothing wrong.” This is a scary statement to hear, reminds me of the movie Star Wars, when the begulied cheered at the collapse of liberty.

    We need to wake people up and inform them of what is happening around them. The answer to all of this is 1776.

  6. Patrick Henry on December 24th, 2007

    Wait Mr.Rabbit, oh please do wait! I feel like we’ve hit the point of no return.

  7. Jacia on December 24th, 2007

    But Wolf, Ameridan IDLE is on!! The media teaches us not to care - but I do!!

    You are SO right with your comments!! I am trying to get out of debt and leave the US - isn’t that sad?!

    These kids who were 12 when 911 happened have NO CLUE what is REALLY at work here.

    I recently saw a movie at www.zeitgeistmovie.com . It has changed EVERYTHING!!

  8. Andy on December 24th, 2007

    Here’s a msn money article on how to profit from the police state:

    http://articles.moneycentral.m.....State.aspx

    we now have 25% of the united states work force empolyed in “security”

    In the washington dc area - radio ads about the burgeoning security field, and courses in homeland security are available towards a career in homeland security.

  9. starvo on December 25th, 2007

    They’ll probably offer a major in ‘harsh interrogation methods.’

  10. Rocky on December 25th, 2007

    Some of these kids will be perfect little patsies in the false flag operations to come. When asked by a government agent if they would like to help test the “security” of some facility, building, city, or whatever, the little indoctrinated morons will gladly agree. And if they’re not killed in the ensuing “terrorist” attack, no one will listen to them or even be allowed to hear what they were really supposed to be doing. It will all be chalked up to our Ministry of Homeland Security doing it’s job–and what a good job they did! Just think of Timothy McVeigh….

  11. Bitan Rambler on December 25th, 2007

    Holy crap. Bouch, is that you? Never knew we had more in common than an interest in the Dead and jazz! But I’m still here on Prosperity Island crunching words and you’re a lawyer.

  12. S. Wolf Britain on December 26th, 2007

    “Jacia”, perhaps you’re just trying to get a rise out of me, knowing what I said in another thread about Zeitgeist; but, in case you aren’t, maybe the non-religious, or non-anti-religious, part of Zeitgeist chances everything, but the first part that supposedly proves that all of Christianity is supposedly a lie, does not change anything and is nothing but lies. So, I can only hope and pray you were not influenced by the anti-Christian part of it.

  13. Jalteck on December 26th, 2007

    Wolf, not all of what you saw and heard in the 1st clip of ZIETGIESTMOVIE was false. most,in fact can be verified by documented evidence, and it is provided for your discretion. Even if the truth hurts, the rest of the movie is a MUST SEE . it should be required viewing for all patriots of american and a vital part of understanding why the world has come to this point. Fu@& the educational system alltogether. it doesnt work. did u know i read not a single word of the constitution while in school? We need to take back our country and teach our children whats really going on today.

    JALTECK, AGE 19, TAMPA,FL

  14. Huxley on December 26th, 2007

    The technocracy is rising, the serfs love their servatude…..I hate to say it but….I told you so!

  15. JB on December 26th, 2007

    A quote from Orwell may be appropriate. 1984 isn’t just a “story”; It’s a workable game-plan, and it’s being implemented right NOW…

    “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”

  16. S. Wolf Britain on December 26th, 2007

    “Jalteck”, sorry but B.S.! It cannot be proven by anything but false, so-called proof! The false so-called “truth” doesn’t hurt at all those who have discernment like myself, except as it extremely hurts our spirits for how it is deceiving people, especially young people like yourself, into throwing aside their Maker and their ONLY ultimate Hope in the very rapidly disintegrating-into-hell-on-earth-like-has-never-been-seen-before direction that we’re headed in! If you and anyone else isn’t restored to and ONLY completely dependent upon Him, nothing else matters, except that those who aren’t will be used of evil to harm and destroy more and more innocent people!

    Sure, you think evil will never use YOU! But we either have God as our only Master, or we have evil as our master! There is NO in between! So, please, for your sake, and the sake of all those reading this who don’t already know that Jesus the Christ is the ONLY Way (John 14:6), don’t believe any of that anti-Christ(ian) hype, or any of those anti-Christian lies. God’s word(s) is/are All-Powerful (Hebrews 4:12), and read them for yourself instead of believing what anyone else, including me, says about them! You’re going to need God and His Word(s), or you’re going to be on the wrong side of the fence, and lose your way eternally! There are no second chances after that, AT ALL!

    Excellent “1984″ quote, J.B.!!

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