The Tea Party Youth Re-education Fun Camp

I swore to myself that I was going to leave this one alone, but Jeff Luken's Tea Party Indoctrination camp for the youth of the land who have been brainwashed by the public education system just begs for ridicule and scorn.

One of the fun activities planned for these youngsters is to isolate them in "an austere room" and make them sit quietly for awhile before being paraded out to "the party" area where they will be pelted with red, white, and blue confetti that they will then be forced to clean up. Jesus H. Christ, does that ever sound like fun!

Then to teach these newbies to the Tea Party Youth Corps about socialism another game will be played. This one will involve shooting guns, albeit squirt guns, but guns nonetheless. How the hell did these right-wing loonies come to equate guns with socialism? Never mind, I get it! Socialism is communism and both are evil and all socialists and commies must die.

I can't imagine why, but visions of that indoctrination session brought to mind Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant: "I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL."

Wow! The YMCA summer camps of my youth were nothing like that. We went swimming, canoeing, hiking, had marshmallow roasts, camped out, learned archery, and a bunch of other fun stuff. Our counselors never did discuss political ideologies, religion, the Constitution, or that the future president of this country could be a scum sucking Muslim negro from Africa.

It is truly mind boggling to think of what the Tea Party's kids will be like when they grow up after spending a couple of summer sessions with Luken and his Jungmannschaften.

What is truly ironic about Luken's Tea Party Youth Camp is that just a short time ago the Tea Baggers blasted President Obama's Camp For Youth as being the equivalent of a Nazi youth indoctrination camp.



I don't care whose youth camp it is; any camp that crams political ideologies down the throats our young people is wrong. If you want to send your kids to a camp this summer, try the Y.