Quote:I discouraged my kids from joining ANY pseudo-religious group.
I didn't have kids,so I discouraged my Godson. I figured his parent's chronic Catholicism was enough of a cross for him to bear. (ahem) .
Found something interesting today: Seems the original British Fascist Party (1923) took some of its ideals from the Boy Scouts Movement.
Quote:The ideals of the Boy Scout movement, with which many early members had also been involved in their younger days, also played an important role as the British Fascisti wished, according to General R.B.D. Blakeney, to "uphold the same lofty ideas of brotherhood, service and duty".[1] At its formation at least the British Fascisti was positioned in the same right-wing conservative camp as the likes of the British Empire Union and the Middle Class Union and shared some members with these group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Fascists
