Arizona shooting – false-flag terrorist attack against nanny state activists

Back in October, I predicted that the COINTELPRO website Nanny State Liberation Front would be used to fuel a false-flag terrorist attack against nanny state activists. As many of you know, there was a shooting spree at a Safeway in Arizona where people – including a federal judge – were killed. Now word comes about of a “Safeway Amendment” to ObamaCare which allows Safeway to force all of its employees to undergo screening for everything from blood pressure to cholesterol to weight and to impose higher insurance premiums on employees who have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity.

Who have been harping for years that high cholesterol and obesity lead to heart disease? The nanny state.

Judge John M. Roll and Gabrille Giffords were not the intended targets of the disturbed shooter. The target was Safeway due to its new nanny state policy concerning healthcare “reform”.

It is clear that the shooter took the Nanny State Liberation Front’s “raised fist = anarchy” logo seriously and used that as his excuse to violently lash out against the nanny state. This was a false-flag terrorist attack against the nanny state. The shooter was influenced by a COINTELPRO website, a fake Monsanto-shilling “anti-nanny state” website set up by the Military-Industrial Complex to incite violence which would be used as an excuse to go after TRUE anti-nanny staters who have ZERO corporate backing.

MARK MY WORDS. The corporate media will attempt to link the shooter to other fake “anti-nanny state” groups such as the Center for Consumer Freedom (a Monsanto front), the American Council on Science and Health (a Monsanto front), and Junkscience.com (a Monsanto front). After that, neoliberal propagandists such as Daily Kos and Huffington Post will use those connections to launch a propaganda assault on TRUE anti-nanny staters such as Alex Jones, Kevin Trudeau, and me.

I told you back in October that I have never condoned and never WILL condone any physical confrontations with nanny state activists such as CSPI (or any CSPI member such as Michael Jacobson) or MeMe Roth. I stand by that statement now, and I will continue to stand by that statement. Any person who launches a physical confrontation against Jacobson or Roth is NOT a true anti-nanny stater – they are a government agent or a MKULTRA subject programmed to carry out such an attack.

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FBI now watching this blog – government planning on false-flag attack on nanny state shills?

WARNING: COINTELPRO to use “anti-nanny state” blog to associate “anti-nanny staters” with “domestic terrorism”!

CSPI is a food industry front group like their fake opposition

CSPI’s ultimate agenda is Big Business, Big Government, and Big Tyranny.

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/cspis-resident-gmo-shill-gregory-jaffe-is-a-lawyer-not-a-scientist/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/warning-cointelpro-to-use-anti-nanny-state-blog-to-associate-anti-nanny-staters-with-domestic-terrorism/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/center-for-consumer-freedom-basically-says-anti-gmo-activists-are-racist-and-want-starving-africans-to-die/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/why-do-the-food-police-and-hfcs-shills-both-say-hfcs-is-the-same-as-sugar/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/salmonella-eggs-there-was-prior-knowledge-it-was-allowed-to-happen-on-purpose/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/cspi-food-nazis-take-a-cue-from-pnac-and-911-use-salmonella-false-flag-to-justify-the-food-patriot-act/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/animal-rights-groups-peta-pcr-pcrm-caught-shilling-for-beefdairy-industry-front-ada/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/controlled-opposition-phony-animal-rights-groups-pcrm-peta-still-shilling-for-beefdairy-industry-front-american-dietetic-association/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/define-irony-member-of-cspis-nana-nutritional-advocacy-coalition-also-fronts-for-coca-cola/

http://freedomandlinux.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/define-irony-member-of-cspis-nana-coalition-is-a-mcdonalds-front-group/

WARNING: COINTELPRO to use “anti-nanny state” blog to associate “anti-nanny staters” with “domestic terrorism”!

Guess what I found while doing a Google search on CSPI? A blog called the Nanny State Liberation Front. Now I’m against the nanny state, but unlike the Nanny State Liberation Front, you will never see me shill for the phony “personal responsibility” food industry shills at the Center for Consumer Freedom.

This post by the NSLF was about the anger CSPI stirred up – sort of makes CSPI seem like an agent provocateur, eh? – when they called for McDonald’s Happy Meal toys to be banned, never mind the fact that one of the steering committee members of CSPI’s NANA Coalition is a McDonald’s front group. That’s something that the Nanny State Liberation Front won’t talk about because it doesn’t suit their agenda.

The Nanny State Liberation Front won’t talk about how CSPI and the Center for Consumer Freedom are Rockefeller/Monsanto puppet organizations pretending to be against each other while shilling for GMO foods. You won’t hear the Nanny State Liberation Front expose how CSPI and the Center for Consumer Freedom are funded by CFR members.

What you WILL find on the Nanny State Liberation Front is an effort to link patriots and TRUE anti-nanny staters with Big Food shills as well as right wingers. Among the sites listed in its Blogroll are:

• Above Top Secret
• American Council on Science and Health (industry front which says BPA and HFCS are good for you)
• Center for Consumer Freedom (the most prominent industry front group…funded by several corporate members of the CFR)
• David Icke
• Free Republic
• Godlike Productions
• Infowars
• Junk Science (run by Steven Milloy, a Monsanto lobbyist)
• Prison Planet
• Republic Broadcasting Network
• Rogue Government
• USWGO

At this time the COINTELPRO blog makes no effort to add my blog – or my sister blog devoted to the manufactured obesity epidemic, the Obesity Reichstag Chronicles – to the Blogroll. Perhaps my blog is persona non grata because I expose how the fake “food police” and the fake “personal responsibility” crowd are both funded by the same criminal elite banksters who created the obesity epidemic with aspartame and MSG. Of course that doesn’t mean that the COINTELPRO twits at the Nanny State Liberation Front will – in the future – add this blog and my sister blog to its Blogroll in an attempt to link my blog to the Center for Corporate Fascism. And if some mental midget-slash-MKULTRA patsy decides to use the Nanny State Liberation Front as an excuse to carry out some kind of attack on “food cops” such as Michael Jacobson and/or MeMe Roth, the federal government could use that as a pretext to add “anti-nanny staters” to the growing list of potential “domestic extremists”/”domestic terrorists.” Just let it be know that I will NEVER advocate any physical attacks on people such as Michael Jacobson or MeMe Roth or any acts of terrorism against them or their organizations. What I WILL advocate is the federal prosecution of Jacobson, Roth, CSPI, and the Rockefeller Foundation for their roles in creating the obesity epidemic.

Just remember the golden rule: If a so-called anti-nanny stater exposes the shenanigans of groups such as CSPI while giving groups such as CCF and ACSH a free pass, then they are not true anti-nanny staters. Instead, they are part of a calculated effort to equate TRUE anti-nanny staters with industry front groups and industry shills. This must be why misguided PETA worshippers routinely smear me as a CCF shill.

Food industry apologist MeMe Roth censors “Food The Ultimate Secret Exposed”

On August 3, I plugged Alex Jones’ “Food The Ultimate Secret Exposed” video on one of MeMe Roth’s videos in two comments. Needless to say, the food industry apologist did not approve my comments. By censoring my comments, MeMe Roth proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is an apologist for the aspartame/MSG industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGYitGIIps

The comments are as follows:

Comment #1:

@z777z Watch the video “Food The Ultimate Secret Exposed”. It’s the food companies causing obesity, not parents. Short of going all-organic and eating raw foods, how can one escape the soft-kill toxins that the food industry puts in the food by design? How can one escape the aspartame and MSG and HFCS when it’s in everything? Picture two planes labeled Aspartame and MSG crashing into the twin towers on 9/11. THAT is obesity. Obesity is a result of the food companies false-flag poisoning our food

Comment #2:

Oh and MeMe, if you censor my comment about aspartame and MSG, then you prove to everybody that you are an apologist for the aspartame/MSG industry. But I already know that you are because you belong to CSPI’s NANA coalition which is partly-steered by the American Diatetic Association….which is funded by McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. A nutritional advocacy coalition which has a steering committee member funded by McDonald’s and Coca-Cola…how Orwellian.

Center for Consumer Freedom’s new “HFCS is good for you” propaganda video

I left the following comment, and I know one thing…it won’t be approved because I expose MeMe Roth and CSPI of being food industry apologists who cover up the effects GMOs, aspartame, and MSG in causing obesity. The Monsanto-shilling CCF can’t allow an infowarrior such as myself to blow the false paradigm wide open and expose the REAL obesity truth.

Processed sugar isn’t good for you…but how can you say that HFCS is nutritionally the same as sugar when HFCS contains mercury? Never heard of mercury being in HFCS. This is propaganda from Monsanto-shilling food industry lobbyists. And instead of calling people such as MeMe Roth and CSPI the “food police”, how about calling them “food industry apologists” when all they do is ignore the evidence of GMOs, aspartame, and MSG causing obesity?

Define irony: member of CSPI’s NANA Coalition is a McDonald’s front group

The American Dietetic Association, which is a steering committee member of CSPI’s NANA Coalition, is funded in part by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is a front group for Monsanto, Cargill (Cargill Meat Solutions and Cargill Animal Nutrition Division), Pioneer (a DuPont front), DuPont Qualicon, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (the banksters…why am I not surprised?), U.S. Bancorp Ag Credit (the banksters AGAIN!), Bayer, Dow AgroSciences, Pfizer, Kraft/Oscar Mayer Foods, Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart, and…you won’t believe this…MCDONALD’S and WENDY’S.

http://www.beefusa.org/affialliedindustrypartners.aspx

All these years when the libs bitched about the Center for Consumer Freedom being funded by the fast food industry and being a front group for them……and it turns out that CCF’s “opposition” – CSPI – is linked to the fast food industry as well.

Michael F. Jacobson goes on the O’Reilly Factor and bitches about McDonald’s using Happy Meal toys to seduce innocent kids into a lifestyle of unhealthy eating habits and obesity and diabetes……and now it comes out that a steering committee member of his NANA Coalition is FUNDED BY A MCDONALD’S FRONT GROUP!

Michael F. Jacobson, YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE AND A FRAUD! And the people are starting to wake up to the fact that MeMe Roth is a Monsanto apologist.

streetfightspdx

3 days ago

That bitch MeMe Roth needs to go after the chemical industry or genetic modified ingredients & Monsanto…She didn’t mention genetic modified ingredients she probably eats all kinds of genetic modified foods and breathes toxic sludge like most people…

WE ARE WINNING THE INFOWAR AGAINST THE FOOD INDUSTRY APOLOGISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IMPORTANT EDIT!

HUGE smoking gun I just found. Dr. Cynthia Goody (McDonald’s Director of Nutrition) and Julia Braun (McDonald’s U.S. Nutrition and Labeling Manager) are members of the American Dietetic Association! The ADA is a 100% McDonald’s front group! CSPI’s NANA Coalition has a McDonald’s front group as a member while CSPI complains about Happy Meal toys! CSPI and the NANA Coalition are FRAUDS!

http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=4598&id2=3765

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/food_quality/nutrition_choices/kids_nutrition/food_to_feel_goodabout.html

Bilderberg HHS Secretary and Surgeon-General-slash-Burger King shill call for mandatory BMI ratings of all Americans

Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS
Thursday, July 15, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69436

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks to reporters at HHS headquarters in Washington on July 1, 2010. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
(CNSNews.com) – New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.

The obesity-rating regulation states that every American’s electronic health record must: “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.”

The law also requires that these electronic health records be available–with appropriate security measures–on a national exchange.

The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law.  Specifically, the regulations issued on Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, define the “meaningful use” of electronic records. Under the stimulus law, health care providers–including doctors and hospitals–must establish “meaningful use” of EHRs by 2014 in order to qualify for federal subsidies. After that, they will be subjected to penalties in the form of diminished Medicare and Medicaid payments for not establishing “meaningful use” of EHRs.

Section 3001 of the stimulus law says: “The National Coordinator shall, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National Institute of Standards and Technology), update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (developed as of June 3, 2008) to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: (i) The electronic exchange and use of health information and the enterprise integration of such information.‘‘(ii) The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.”

Under this mandate in the stimulus law, Secretary Sebelius issued a regulation–developed by Dr. Blumenthal–that requires that all EHRs keep track of a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI) score. Body Mass Index is a ratio between a person’s weight and height, and is used to determine whether or not someone is overweight or obese. It is the preferred method of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for measuring obesity.

Michelle Obama has made dealing with the problem of childhood obesity the main theme of her term as First Lady.

According to the CDC,  “BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.”

A person’s BMI score is used as a tool to screen for obesity or excessive body fat that could lead to other health problems. While it does not actually measure body fat directly, according to CDC, the BMI scores generally correlate with a person’s body fat percentage.

The new regulations also stipulate that the new electronic records be capable of sending public health data to state and federal health agencies such as HHS and CDC. The CDC, which calls American society “obesogenic” – meaning that American society itself promotes obesity – collects BMI scores from state health agencies every year to monitor obesity nationwide.

“Electronically record, retrieve, and transmit syndrome based public health surveillance information to public health agencies,” the regulations read.

With the spread of electronic health records, the CDC apparently will be able to collect such data more efficiently and with greater accuracy because the electronic record keeping systems can send the data automatically, eliminating the need for government – both state and federal – to keep, send, and process physical records.

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The Surgeon-General was in fact a Burger King advisor! The Obama administration and the fake anti-obesity activists are food industry apologists covering up the roles that aspartame and MSG have played in the manufactured obesity epidemic! Regina Benjamin was a Burger King shill, and the anti-obesity activists belong to fake nutritional advocacy coalitions headed up by food industry front and Monsanto fronts! When will the libsheep wake up and realize that people such as MeMe Roth and organization such as CSPI are actually food industry apologists helping to cover up the TRUE causes of obesity?! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/health-nominee-an-adviser-to-burger-king/

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/dennis-byrne-barbershop/2009/08/obamas-surgeon-general-nominee-advises-burger-king.html

http://entertainment.wagerweb.com/politics/regina-benjamin-also-works-for-burger-king-14441.html

http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/dr.-regina-benjamin-paid-by-burger-king/259468/Aug-13-2009_5-15-pm/

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Define irony: When an anti-obesity crusader is a member of a nutritional advocacy coalition headed by food industry front groups

Food Nazis Using Obesity Reichstag to Bring on New Holocaust

MeMe Roth, the ultimate apologist for the food industry and whitewasher of the obesity epidemic

Define irony: When an anti-obesity crusader is a member of a nutritional advocacy coalition headed by food industry front groups

http://premierespeakers.com/meme_roth/bio

Ms. Roth is a member of myriad industry organizations including BetterSchoolFoods, Two Angry Moms, BanTransFat.com, New York Coalition for Healthy School Food, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)’s National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA) Coalition, as well as CSPI’s Global “Dump Soft Drinks” Campaign, the “Food Marketing to Children” Work Group, and the “School Wellness Policy” Committee. Ms. Roth is on the Board of Advisors for Women for Family Nutrition (www.wffn.org) and Chairs the Education & Awareness Committee for the Children’s International Obesity Foundation (www.ciofoundation.org) Additionally, MeMe Roth was a nominee for the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee on Child Obesity Prevention.

http://www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/nana.html

Steering Committee Members

• American Cancer Society (funded by and controlled by Big Pharma and bankers)
• American Diabetes Association (funded by Monsanto)
• American Dietetic Association (food industry front group funded by ConAgra, Kellogg’s, the National Dairy Council, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and Monsanto)
• American Heart Association
• American Public Health Association (CDC front group)
• Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors
• Center for Science in the Public Interest (Rockefeller Foundation front group)
• Directors of Health Promotion and Education (CDC front group)
• National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
• National Association for Sport and Physical Education
• Society of State Directors of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
• United Fresh Produce Association (Monsanto front group)
• Susan Foerster, MPH, RD
• Jeff Sunderlin (member of Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures, which is a front group for the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and the CDC)

The evidence just keeps piling up and exposing the truth that the so-called “anti-obesity crusaders” are in fact shills for the food industry and the banksters who created the obesity epidemic in the first place.

And how ironic that CSPI, which supposedly pushes a vegetarian agenda, is in fact a member of a nutritional advocacy group alongside a food industry front group funded by the meat and dairy industries.

MeMe Roth, the ultimate apologist for the food industry and whitewasher of the obesity epidemic

I have been aware of the obesity epidemic for many years now. At first, I used to be a firm believer in the notion of “personal responsibility” until I found out that “personal responsibility” was actually code for “we can do whatever the hell we want against the consumers; we are above the law because we fund the politicians”. Since around 2007, I discovered the ugly truth about the obesity epidemic that the corporate media will never discuss, and the ugly truth is this: The American obesity epidemic is a manufactured crisis perpetrated by the food industry, the Rockefeller family, and the various front groups funded by the Rockefellers. The American obesity epidemic is the Rockefellers’ Reichstag Fire. Fat people are the new Jews, and the Rockefellers are the 21st century Nazis.

In my hard-hitting expose Food Nazis Using Obesity Reichstag to Bring on New Holocaust, I exposed the Rockefeller links to the obesity epidemic. In the article, I exposed the following facts:

• The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) not only advocated the use of trans fats in their Nutrition Action newsletter (which is their main source of funding aside from donations from “charitable” organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation), but they also supported a flawed study which basically said “aspartame is good for you.”
• The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is a front for the Monsanto Corporation which receives funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. While CSPI and CCF seem to be at odds on many issues, they are strong allies when it comes to genetically-modified foods.
• Many of the food companies which fund CCF are corporate members of the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, the two major soft drink companies – PepsiCo and Coca-Cola – are headed up by members of the Bilderberg Group. (PepsiCo’s Indira Nooyi and Coca-Cola’s George A. David are Bilderberg members.

As criminal as CSPI is for being part of the cabal who created the obesity epidemic, at least they have the balls to criticize food companies which engage in deceptive advertising, as was the case with Seven-Up which advertised its flagship product as “all-natural” until a lawsuit threat by CSPI made the Seven-Up Company stop doing so.

One person you will NEVER hear attack the food industry is Meredith “MeMe” Roth.

MeMe Roth claims she is an anti-obesity crusader. MeMe Roth claims she wants to put an end to the obesity epidemic. Yet she never attacks the food industry for putting toxic crap in the food supply. And you will NEVER hear her attack the Rockefeller links to the obesity epidemic. Why? Because she is bought and paid for by the Rockefellers, as evident by her “friends and favorites” on her flagship website National Action Against Obesity. Among her “friends and favorites” are known Rockefeller front groups such as CSPI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). What you may not know is that the CDC was once known as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations which engaged in Naziesque experimentations such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where 200 young black males were deliberately infected with syphilis and were refused treatment. Needless to say, they died from syphilis. So how do you like the fact that MeMe Roth is “friends” with an organization which murdered black people?

When MeMe Roth goes on television to talk about the obesity epidemic, she never blames the food industry. NEVER! Who does she blame? She blames parents. She blames fat people. She blames authority figures. Instead of putting the blame on the guilty where it truly belongs, she blames innocent people who were made fat by the food industry. MeMe Roth is nothing but the Michael Moore of the obesity epidemic. In Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore said 9/11 was cauised by George W. Bush being some “idiot elf” and playing too much golf. Yet when Alex Jones asked Moore why he didn’t talk about hardcore 9/11 issues such as “NORAD standing down on 9/11″, Moore said “that would be un-American.” Michael Moore gave George W. Bush aid and comfort by whitewashing 9/11. Likewise, MeMe Roth gives aid and comfort to the food industry and the Rockefellers by whitewashing the obesity epidemic.

Until the people wake up to the reality of Obesity Truth, corporate shills such as MeMe Roth will continue to give aid and comfort to the obesity perpetrators while leading obese people down the road to tyranny, enslavement, and genocide.

MeMe Roth, you ARE a corporate shill. You DO give aid and comfort to the food industry. If you were a TRUE anti-obesity crusader, then why would you support making fat people pay more for airline tickets and being banned from restaurants? You whitewashed the obesity epidemic while leading people to their doom. Shame on you.

What your Girl Scout cookies purchase will now pay for…

Comment: I’m just waiting for the day when MeMe Roth – the Rockefeller-affiliated former employee of a prominent Madison Ave. advertising company (her words, not mine) – starts saying “Girl Scout cookies promote weight loss” and “It is your patriotic duty to buy and eat Girl Scout cookies“…after years of calling for Girl Scout cookies to be boycotted because “they cause obesity”.

“I never called for a boycott on Girl Scout cookies! You’re a kook and a food industry shill to say I did call for a boycott!”

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What your mint cookies purchase will now pay for…

David Kramer
LRC Blog
September 11, 2009

US Girl Scouts prepare for war, pestilence

The United States wants to enlist its 3.4 million Girl Scouts in the effort to combat hurricanes, pandemics, terror attacks and other disasters. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a campaign Tuesday to entice the blue, brown and green-clad multitudes to be even more prepared, with the promise of a new patch if they pitch in.

“This new preparedness patch will increase citizen preparedness and enhance our country’s readiness for disasters,” said DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano in a statement. Girl Scouts of the USA chief executive Kathy Cloninger said the tie up with Citizen Corps “provides an opportunity for our girls to lead the way in ensuring that their families and their communities are prepared for emergencies.”

But this should give you some “comfort”:

It is not the first time the girl guides have been called into action in defense of the homeland. During World War II, Girl Scouts “operated bicycle courier services, invested more than 48,000 hours in Farm Aid projects, collected fat and scrap metal, and grew Victory Gardens,” according to Girl Scouts of the USA.

It’s nice to know that the United States now has its own version of Hitler’s League of German Girls program.

UPDATE: Kathy Grable writes:

I got my daughters out of scouts long ago. Their [the Girls Scouts'] goal is moneymaking above all, and selling cheaply made uniforms and paraphernalia to sucker parents. When I objected to sending my very young daughter door to door I was told that they did not recommend the girls do that, that I could go with her and sell or do what most mothers did and take the order forms and catalogs for overpriced fundraiser crud to work. When I offered to simply donate $ rather than put the bite on co-workers, family, and friends I was told curtly “Then your daughter will not get a badge.” So how the heck are the kids earning badges when their parents are selling the stuff? It’s a scam and promoted endlessly because it is a “group” activity. The mothers were backstabbing snakes, only doing it to promote their kids over other kids. Finally, when the scout leader’s daughter nastily informed my daughter on the school bus that her mother said we didn’t sell enough cookies, we politely dropped out and never looked back. We left that suburban utopia for farm life; my kids rode their own horses, put in hay, were homeschooled (the older one is now attending Grove City College), and have friends of all ages, NICE people—although I’m certain the suburban utopians would not approve of my rusty 10 year old car or ramshackle farmhouse with a woodpile and propane stove outside. 4-H has become statist enough, but at least most of the parents haven’t drunk the kool-aid and try to circumvent the exploitation of the kids.