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.snip...
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/NEWSWho 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.