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The following story reported by the Financial Times, is one of the most disturbing I’ve seen in a very long time. Here’s an excerpt from the article, titled: FBI Scouts for Younger Class of Cyber Sleuths
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking to enlist teenagers in its fight against cyber crime before they are lured into high-paying private sector jobs or fail background checks by smoking marijuana.
A first of its kind pilot program to be launched next autumn by the FBI will offer computer security classes to select high school students near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for university credit.
Personally, I see this as the statist equivalent of pedophilia. There’s so much about adults preying on young kids for sex that offends us, but at its core is the question of an unbalanced power relationship. We all know that teenagers are confused, impressionable and easily manipulated. What is so offensive about sexual predators is they are taking advantage of this vulnerable emotional state to gratify themselves. It’s almost always an unfair dynamic.
So if that’s the case, why should the FBI be allowed to target young kids when they are most impressionable, and in a captive environment like public school? How do you think the typical high IQ 15-year-old is going to react when an FBI agent singles him or her out as smart enough to enroll in a special “cyber” class. The kid’s ego is going to be launched into the stratosphere and he or she will feel special, perhaps even honored, to attend such a class. The FBI knows this, which is exactly why it is now targeting teenagers. I, wonder, is parental permission required? Either way, this should be against the law.
Not that I need to remind you, but the FBI has a horrific history. For starters, it was on the wrong side of history during the civil rights struggle a generation ago. In case you forgot about the letter it wrote to Martin Luther King telling to him to commit suicide, here it is:
The Full Letter Written by the FBI to Martin Luther King Has Been Revealed
In that post, I posed a question worth revisiting today.
Now ask yourself a question. Is the FBI any more ethical today than it was back then? I would argue certainly not. After all, it had a file on on tech prodigy Aaron Swartz, who was driven to suicide by the feds. Now imagine what the FBI could do to political dissidents in a world in which they have a backdoor into all your electronic devices, which is precisely what it wants.
If that’s enough for you, here are a few more modern FBI-related headlines:
The New York Post Reports – FBI is Covering Up Saudi Links to 9/11 Attack
FBI Moves to Broaden Hacking Authority – Google Says it Poses “Monumental Constitutional Concern”
And yes, I could go on; but let’s get back to the article at hand. As if it wasn’t already bad enough, the FT also notes that:
The FBI is not funding the programme and Norwin school officials say it will not cost them additional money as they will pare from the current curriculum to make room for the new class offerings.
Yes you read that right. The schools will take money from science and math classes and divert it into a statist, government pedophilia program. If I had a child in a school with such a program, I’d pull that kid out immediately. Absolutely revolting.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
Young minds are quick to adapt and see things that older ones filter out by virtue of their prior framework of learned interpretations of the world.
In this sense, it makes total sense to look for young minds to ferret out things in the new rapidly changing and developing cyber world, they will catch things older more rigid thinking will never notice and stay on top of things while they learn.
I don’t consider that predatory, I consider it realistic for the times.
@Anon, if you can’t see the inherent evil contained in an out of control government “training” kids for “special services,” then you obviously did not pay attention to Hitler’s playbook leading up to the war.
There is literally nowhere to avoid mandated death/illness or insanity in this country anymore. Everywhere you look, go, turn, see is chock full of it.
Makes me wish for China to shut down supplylines and massive EMFs to take it all away. And, yes, I realize the horror of that.
Funny thing is I don’t think the horror of what we are already doing is going to be much, if any, better. Just slower to die. We humans seem to prefer it that way.
The very people the FBI needs to deal with this stuff, are the people that hate the agency the most, and with good reason.
It’s the same with pretty much every federal agency.
Probably more interested in grooming snitches than recruiting actual agents.
TC,
Maybe you’re right.
China does this sort of thing with their innovative youth who do things that haven’t even been thought of yet by their elders. Surely our 60 year old’s can easily outsmart and out maneuver those Chinese kids by thinking they way they did in the 1980’s when they were still young, fresh and innovative too on their spiffy new 8086 based computers.
Same as Hitler’s “Brownshirt” program. History rhymes.
Admin must not have noticed this link before he posted this piece!
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/04/13/the-new-york-post-reports-fbi-is-covering-up-saudi-links-to-911-attack/
Anon: I know first hand that the military wants young people because they don’t know enough “to think for themselves” and any that can are rejected for “sensitive” jobs; TPTB only want people given to following orders and NOT deep thinking (like Snowden).