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OK, Maybe Those 6 Year Olds ARE Dangerous

Imagine, you're a six year old terrorist in the Taft kindergarten class. You finally get your chance, a major operation on the NASA Glenn Research Center. You've been in the community for years, a sleeper since birth. Probably indoctrinated in the womb.

The yearly field trip is coming up and you get ready to strike.

Well, thank goodness our Homeland Security Department has taken steps to prevent these six year old terrorists from attacking one of our greatest institutions. All foreign national kindergarteners are forbidden from stepping foot on the NASA Glenn Research Center. Field trips are cancelled, children are restricted to the four walls of their classroom, to be kept under careful surveillance.

WHILE ATTORNEY GENERAL Alberto Gonzalez assures the U.S. Senate that the Bush Administration’s domestic eavesdropping program is a vital “early warning system” for terrorists, another homeland security measure strikes at a local elementary school.

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.

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