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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>We really need to put pressure on these F*!&^#(&-ing A*!&^#(&-holes at the Boy Scouts of America. They really do not seem to care about the world we all inhabit, and need to be put in their place.<BR> <BR>MAKE, Sparkfun, Adafruit are into pressuring the BSA. If we can get a bunch of hackerspaces to do the same, we will make an impact.<BR> <BR>"<font color="#800000">no matter what happens, how we all react to a group like the BSA will define "us" fighting and losing is ok, but i think you need to fight it all the way… think of a world where there are hacker scouts, learning sharing and it would all start with a shared victory together over an old oppressive scared group trying to get in the way of the future.</font>" -- Phil Torrone, of Adafruit<BR> <BR>Here are just a few places to add some well-placed comments:<BR>>>>>>> Boy Scouts Google+ page:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts">https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Boy Scouts Facebook page:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Bot Scouts on Twitter:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://twitter.com/boyscouts">https://twitter.com/boyscouts</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Boy Scouts on YouTube:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years">http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Email:<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:PR@scouting.org">PR@scouting.org</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> The official publication for the adult volunteers site:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/">http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Twitter:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/scouting">http://www.twitter.com/scouting</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Facebook:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine">http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Email:<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:scoutingmag@gmail.com">scoutingmag@gmail.com</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Boy's Life Magazine:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://boyslife.org/">http://boyslife.org/</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Twitter:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://twitter.com/BoysLife">https://twitter.com/BoysLife</a><br>>>>>>> Email:<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:boyslife.mag@scouting.org">boyslife.mag@scouting.org</a><br><BR>Best,<BR>Mitch.<BR> <BR> </div></body>
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