2oo7 world scout jamboree ... now forget it

awhat a great day it was at the 2oo7 world scout jamboree!! it was great to talk to so many from around the world. in fact, over one hundred and sixty countries were present today. the day started out very iffy weatherwise, but by mid-morning things started to lookup. inside the jamboree there were some huge puddles of wet water from the overnight downpours. my last scouting event, by the way, was at AP Fort Hill in Virginia where I spent the day there back in 1986 at america's national jamboree. the states, of course, has the largest number of scout members in the world. the american scout presence here at hyland park was pretty big, too. security at the 2oo7 event was almost oppressive compared to the 1986 event. everything this year is completely computerised and designed to nab one and all who they suspect of any possible wrong sexual motives... we're living in a world of ever growing suspiciousness of others and at where trust is a dying commodity at every level of our big brother society.
athe scout movement has lost its innocence like so many youngsters we read about thesedays killing each other for the least little thing in london's urban jungle. go to peckham for a ride and see what i mean ... i must say that i found a huge white population of male and female scouts with hardly a black face peeping at me!! obviously gangstra and hiphop and goth kidz don't don scout uniforms very readily, do they?
aoh yes, females were admitted to the scout movement in the early 1990's. such adds a balance against the canopy of homosexuality in an all young male environment that was once the scouts. also today, as the times noted yesterday in its two page spread on marking the 100th anniversary British scouting, there is an increase of youngsters wanting to belong to the faternity of likeminded kidz. around 28 million of them belong now. although such places like cuba along with north korea, (which i recently visited at it's capital of pyongyang) don't harbour scouts per se but rather youth pioneers instead. otherwise, scouting is global in every sense. it the world's largest peace youth movement, so i read elsewhere on the internet. did i enjoy my visit to the world scout jamboree? not really!! it was too suffercating to me. it was too programmed and too controlled at every leg for such day visitors like me ... but i was gald i went. just some very quick and rushed thoughs to share with you ...