Homeland Security Forces Cancellation of Kindergarteners Trip to NASA

[Clara T]

Homeland Security Counters Threat From Kindergarteners

Free Times/Michael Gill | February 9 2006

The kindergarten class at Lakewood’s Taft Elementary was planning a field trip to NASA Glenn Research Center. It’s a popular trip because it’s free, because the NASA staff already has age-appropriate tours that fit well with school curriculum, and, well, it’s outer space, for pete’s sake. They’ve got rocket ships.
And NASA works the education angle hard. According to the agency, “A major part of the NASA mission is ‘To inspire the next generation of explorers . . . as only NASA can.’” And of course they talk about math and science. NASA says about 400 school groups took tours last year.

But school principal Margaret Seibel says this year’s trip for Taft kindergarteners — we’re talking 6-year-olds here — had to be canceled due to homeland security concerns. Since new security regulations went into effect in May 1, 2005, access to the Visitor Center is restricted to United State citizens. All others might be terrorists.

No tourists from France, no exchange students from Tokyo and, no foreign national kindergarteners on field trips. “I was told they would not make any exceptions,” Seibel says.

Because two kids in the kindergarten class are not U.S. citizens, the teacher had to cancel the trip.
“It was just a policy that came down from the Homeland Security Department,” said Chief Community and Media Relations Officer Linda Dukes-Campbell. “We are a federal reservation, and we have to work within those ramifications.”

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/february2006/090206countersthreat.htm

[Redstone]

1. Every day, it gets more and more ridiculous. I think we've fallen down

the rabbit hole.

Redstone

[Daphne08]

6. I'm down here, too, wonderin' where the heck my country is.

[Redstone]

8. America used to be right here, but I don't know where it went either.

If you find it, please let me know where it got to.

Redstone

[DBoon]

11. I think the Soviet Union really won the cold war

and that's what happened to America

[Redstone]

12. We sure as hell are turning into Soviet Russia more and more

every day, aren't we?

Redstone

[Daphne08]

14. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one feeling this way.

[DBoon]

17. The Republican Party is now a "democratic centralist" organization

A Leninist vanguard party, instead of a traditional parlimentary party

Designed to seize power from the top down, to squelch dissent within the ranks, and to eliminate all opposition parties

[SPKrazy]

2. Kindergarten Terrorists?

Der Homeland Security is der crazy and rigid!

Kindergartners with backpacks full of.................cheese sandwhiches (no more peanut butter because of allergies)

Sad day in America

[Ilsa]

3. Nobody bothers to think any more.

Zero tolerance policies = lack of critical thinking skills.

[Montagnard]

dup

duplicate

[stevedeshazer]

15. Link?

Thanks in advance

[Montagnard]

4. You have never heard of midget terrorist?

I have three great-nephews that would qualify, ages 2 - 3and 4. Believe me they could close down NASA. Seriously, it is a damn shame the state of the world, we over-react and diminish the quality of our life. It is a shame for the children, with the exception of my nephews who should be sent to the pound. Just kidding.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. You gotta be kidding

Their feet aren't big enough for shoe bombs.

[Twist_U_Up]

7. Cant have the kids threatening all the Chinese spies at NASA.

[progressoid]

9. Damn Terrorist Toddlers

[RC]

10. Can't be having those kids touring NASA

They might learn something. Some of them might even decide to study hard so they can work there when they grow up. Now how is that going to fit into religious rightwingnuts ID myth?

[RandiFan1290]

13. Here is the site

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/visitgrc.html

Important Security Notice:
All adult visitors are required to present a government-issued photo identification, such as a driver's license. Effective May 1, 2005, access to the Visitor Center is restricted to United State citizens. Foreign nationals will not be admitted. Visitors should be advised that due to security procedures, they may experience a slight delay upon entering the Center. All vehicles are subject to inspection.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

16. Search those Teddy Bears!!! n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

18. How strange

[Neil Lisst]

19. Department of THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!

Bush is an excellent Chicken Little. The man who surrounds himself with an army of protective sycophants is a man who lives in fear, for he knows himself well. His life is a life filled with cowardice and hiding.