{"id":10475,"date":"2017-07-28T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:34:27","slug":"usa-today-trump-jamboree-speech-scouting-antidote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/usa-today-trump-jamboree-speech-scouting-antidote\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY: Trump Jamboree Speech As Scouting Antidote"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>USA Today, July 28, 2017<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/07\/28\/upside-trumps-despicable-boy-scout-speech\/513530001\/\"><strong>Trump&#8217;s Boy Scout speech may have set kids on the right path<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby James Bovard<\/h2>\n<p><em>President Trump telling Boy Scouts that Washington is a \u201csewer&#8221; could actually be an antidote to much of what they are taught on following authority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Much of <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/Y1DqB0tgm2mWHO?domain=cnn.com\">the media was shocked and horrified <\/a>by President Trump\u2019s Boy Scout Jamboree <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/07\/24\/speaking-boy-scouts-trump-attacks-media-and-demands-obamacare-repeal\/506688001\/\">speech on Monday<\/a>. Many commentators are talking as if Trump\u2019s raucous,\u00a0free-wheeling spiel exposed underage children to political pornography. Instead of railing against Hillary Clinton and boasting of his victory in last year\u2019s election, Trump supposedly should have delivered the usual \u201cour wonderful political system\u201d speech.<!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\"><strong>Some people will never forgive Trump for telling Scouts that Washington is a \u201csewer.\u201d Actually, that message could be an antidote to much of what Scouts hear. Trump\u2019s speech, insofar as it spurs doubts about political authority, could be far more salutary than prior presidential Jamboree speeches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">When I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/historyofscouting.com\/history\/history-1960.htm\">1969 Scout Jamboree in Idaho<\/a>,\u00a0President Richard Nixon sent us a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B13phnj4WIPCbEFiRU1KaWJzWVk\">message praising our idealism<\/a>. But the type of idealism that Nixon and the Scouts often glorified was more likely to produce servility than liberty. Before being accepted into the Jamboree troop, I was interviewed by adult Scout leaders in a nearby town. The most memorable question was: \u201cWhat do you think of the Vietnam situation?\u201d Even 12-year-olds had to be screened for dissident tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Jamboree occurred one month before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodstock.com\/about\/\">Woodstock music festival<\/a>. Instead of tens of thousands of people chanting antiwar slogans, the Jamboree exalted the military in all its forms. Instead of acres of half-naked hippies, the Scouts were protected by \u201cuniform police\u201d who assured that every boy wore a proper neckerchief at all times. Instead of<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/WD4ABZhLeQepS1?domain=youtube.com\"> Joan Baez belting out \u201cWe Shall Overcome,<\/a>\u201d the Scouts listened to \u201cUp with People,\u201d a 125-member singing group created as an antidote to \u201cstudent unrest and complaining about America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><strong>The motto for the <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/0JwgBrhwRXRWcl?domain=history.oa-bsa.org\">1969 Jamboree was \u201cBuilding to Serve.\u201d<\/a> But I later wondered: Building to Serve whom?<\/strong> The Jamboree put one government official after another on a pedestal, starting with Secretary of Health,\u00a0Education and Welfare\u00a0Peter Finch \u2014\u00a0and extending to anyone with a three-word government title.<strong> Letting politicians define the goals and terms converted service into a recipe for servitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">After the Idaho trip, I lingered in the Scouts long enough to finish the requirements for Eagle rank. The official Eagle Scout pocket card I received included Nixon\u2019s signature as \u201chonorary president\u201d of the Boy Scouts of America. The Scouts presented Nixon with their highest civilian award \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scoutingmagazine.org\/silverbuffalo\/\">the Silver Buffalo<\/a> \u2014\u00a0about the same time his aides commenced clandestine operations that would make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2017\/05\/17\/president-trump-richard-nixon-and-watergate-which-memo-smoking-gun\/101787980\/\">Watergate<\/a>\u00a0a household name.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"partner-outstream\">\u00a0Scouting has helped toughen millions of boys. But, at the same time, Scouting has too often encouraged unquestioning deference towards authority.<strong> Scouts have perennially been used as props to create an impression of popularity and rectitude for politicians.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">When President <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/wX4JB6UdKaKbcx?domain=presidency.ucsb.edu\">Lyndon Johnson addressed a Scout Jamboree in 1964<\/a>, he declared that seeing the Scouts\u2019 \u201csmiling, optimistic faces . . .\u00a0will give me strength that I need in the lonely hours that I spend in attempting to lead this great nation.\u201d Jo<strong>hnson also told the boys that \u201cgovernment is not to be feared.\u201d<\/strong> But Johnson\u2019s Jamboree appearance did not dissuade him from sending half a million troops to Vietnam, where some of the boys who heard his uplifting spiel that day likely pointlessly perished in a war for which<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/arpOBJhkAMAOSJ?domain=nytimes.com\"> LBJ continually deceived the American public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/271ABDiOYqYJiG?domain=washingtonpost.com\">First Lady Nancy Reagan addressed<\/a> the Jamboree in 1985 (her husband was recovering from surgery), and told the boys that \u201cNo one can use drugs and remain a true Boy Scout . . .\u00a0Scouts can help save their generation from drugs.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/the-war-on-drugs\">The war on drugs<\/a> that the Reagans re-ignited helped turn inner cities into war zones and sent millions of Americans to jail and prison. Almost everyone except <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2017\/05\/21\/wrong-direction-war-drugs\/101889528\/\">Attorney General Jeff Sessions <\/a>now recognizes that folly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/NVe2BDhoYgYGS9?domain=presidency.ucsb.edu\">Bill Clinton addressed the 1997 Jamboree<\/a> and gushed about the need for doing \u201cgood turns\u201d and service \u2014\u00a0safe pablum for a president who had been hounded by scandals and independent prosecutors for four years (he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/president-clinton-impeached\">impeached the following year<\/a>). Clinton closed with Washington&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/bAp9BmIe4O4Kc7?domain=articles.latimes.com\">\u00a0favorite bogus de Tocqueville quote\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 \u201cAmerica is great because America is good\u201d\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0the type <strong>of feel-good pablum forever cheered by slacker pundits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/JqeWBnfnxoxrux?domain=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\">George W. Bush used his 2005 Jamboree speech<\/a> to recycle War on Terror rhetoric: \u201cYou\u2019ll find that confronting injustice and evil requires a vision of goodness and truth&#8230; All of you are showing your gratitude for the blessings of freedom.\u201d But the Bush administration had long since <a href=\"https:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm\">demolished constitutional protections for privacy <\/a>and was<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/X8dVBlu2vZvkcv?domain=npr.org\"> secretly championing torture <\/a>as a<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/7GXDB7tgKDK4HK?domain=theweek.com\"> key to the victory of good over evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In the controversy after Trump\u2019s speech, some on the Left have compared the<a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/EJRLB5ho2A28S8?domain=foxnews.com\"> Boy Scouts to the Hitler Youth.<\/a> But it is unfair to the young folks who heard Trump\u2019s spiel to presume they will become mindless Trump-bots \u2014\u00a0or even Republicans \u2014\u00a0in perpetuity. Instead, T<strong>rump\u2019s bombast may have helped turn some of the attendees into lifelong skeptics of any politician on the hustings \u2014\u00a0a welcome corrective to Scouts\u2019 endless pledges of obedience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- cxenseparse_end --><!-- cxenseparse_start --><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>James Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, is a member of USA TODAY\u2019s Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter @JimBovard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today, July 28, 2017 Trump&#8217;s Boy Scout speech may have set kids on the right path by James Bovard President Trump telling Boy Scouts that Washington is a \u201csewer&#8221; could actually be an antidote to much of what they are taught on following authority. 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