Get Off My Honor!: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America

by Hans Zeiger

Hans Zeiger may represent the hope for the future. He is not the typical postmodern young twenty something. You don't see his type portrayed on The Real World on MTV. But he isn't alone. He is part of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805431802
• ISBN13: 9780805431803
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: B&H Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

People need to get a life and get off the Boy Scouts!!

I bought this book for my husband and he loves this one also. He can't believe some of the attacks on the boy scouts. He is only half way through and he loves it. Some people just need to get a life and leave the Boy Scouts alone. Just a thought: This is the only guidance that some of these boys get, being raised by a single parent or grandparents. The Boy Scouts ROCK!!

Great Reading

Every scouter should read this book.If we don't speak out for what's right. We will have no scouting or any youth program . Loose the youth,we loose the country.

Makes an excellent case for the Scouts

In this wonderful book, author and Eagle Scout Hans Zeiger explores the Boy Scouts of America, their history and principles, and the assault that they have come under from the modern American Left. Now, this is not a scholarly and unbiased look at the Scouts. Instead, what it is is an impassioned defense of the Scouts and the ideals that they hold, ideals that are increasingly out of step with the modern world - ideals like loyalty and honor. I must say, this is a great book, one that makes an excellent case for the Scouts. Indeed, the very fact that the BSA still turns out such well-reasoned and articulate young men as Mr. Zeiger is a source of great encouragement. If you are a supporter of the Boy Scouts, and want to read about them and the assault on them, then this is a great book to get. (Indeed, if you are a supporter of the Scouts, turn to the last chapter of this book, which includes seven things you can do to support them.) I highly recommend this book to everyone!

Upfront: I like it

Hans Zeiger, a 19-year-old Hillsdale College student, writes a fascinating history and social commentary on the Boy Scouts. Documenting the unchanging, solid values upon which the Scouts were established, he delves into the honorable past and current attacks on the Boy Scouts. In the face of a modern-day assault, he writes, "honor has been nearly forgotten by a generation of Americans...products of a morally relativistic culture." Though never a Boy Scout myself, I can see where Zeiger is coming from. He makes a good argument about the necessity for the Scouts to retain their traditional honor, which he believes has been thrown by the wayside by a current "relativistic" generation. As a fellow Seattleite (Hans Zeiger is too), I have read the attacks by the gays, atheists, and even the Seattle Times (though masked) against the Boy Scouts. Their policy is to constantly criticize and whine about the Boy Scouts in hope that they will someday give in to their demands for gay and atheist Scout leaders. Living here in Seattle, I have already heard enough of their "progressive" opinion. But Hans Zeiger writes from a different perspective. Even if you are in disagreement, it is refreshing to hear the other side of the argument. Yes, he may be unabashedly conservative, but at least he doesn't try to hide it and feign neutrality. I like his honest, upfront style of writing, and it makes for a very good read in "Get off my Honor".

A Far-Reaching Battle

Zeiger, a 19-year-old college student has done a splendid job of tracing the liberal assault on the Boy Scouts of America. He points out that all other scouting programs that have allowed themselves to be separated from the guiding principles and morals present when they were founded have floundered and ceased to be a dynamic force in building tomorrow's leaders out of today's youth. I love his references to Churchill on the place of Scouts in the future of Western Civilization. The book is sobering in that it paints the stark reality that BSA programming is being injured because of the costs required to defend themselves on two simple matters of self-determinination, including reference to "God" in their motto. I would almost get a little discouraged were it not for two facts: (a) Zeiger gives practical ways we can support the BSA and (b) the fact that an intelligent and articulate 19-year-old is sounding a clarion call for America to return to its moral roots in all areas of public life! Very encouraging.