Grooming Victims 101 – For Bobbie Regan

The Portland Public School board voted 4/3 last night to renew their contract with the Department of Defense’s STARBASE program.  Board members Martin Gonzalez, Dilafruz Williams and Ruth Adkins had enough sense to reject the military contract. 

Bobbie Regan provided a testimonial supporting the program after visiting the Oregon Air National Guard base where the “science” classes take place.  She denied that the military was doing any recruiting (soft or otherwise) of K-5 kids .  Supposedly, kids were engaged in hands on science projects taught by non-uniformed personnel.  No weapons or hazards of any kind.  It would have been hard to tell that it was even a military base.    

The Portland STARBASE photos tell a different story.  Be sure to click on the upper right hand corner of the photos so that you don’t miss any of the pictures of the children, fighter jets and tank.   

The Department of Defense preys on the most vulnerable.  That’s why STARBASE targets at-risk kids.  

Grooming Victims 101     

• identifying a possible victim
• collecting information about the intended victim
• filling a need
• lowering inhibitions
• initiating the abuse

PPS has been exposing kids to the STARBASE program since 1993.  Bobbie may have visited the site but she didn’t do her homework. 

How did that call go?  Hi I’m Bobbie Regan calling because some pissed off moms think you’re trying to recruit 4th graders.  I’d like to come out and see if that’s true. 

Monday’s board vote was previously scheduled for a few weeks back but the board wanted extra time to review the program.  And this is what we get? 

Scary to think that we’ve left high school redesign in their hands.