Villainy Without Bounds

I speak of course of Woodrow Wilson.

Glenn Beck's new book Broke was released this week, and as should be expected it is filled with such, let us say, useful history. And no history from Glenn Beck is complete without sufficient talk of Woodrow Wilson, who was the scourge of the Earth and all things beloved by God. 

Point in case, in Chapter 5, Beck informs:

Wilson’s desire to control got so creepy that at one point he decided to create a “new standard of manhood” for American soldiers. The result was a “Commission on Training Camp Activities” that regulated everything from approved soldier recreation to sexual practices, promising “protection and stimulation of its mental, moral and physical manhood. (p. 54)

Already Wilson's evil should be evident. How dare the government regulate a soldier's recreation? The last thing I want is for the government to tell soldiers what to do and how to behave.

But it gets so much worse. Just how did Wilson effectuate this "creepy" desire for control? To find out I went to the War Department's Commission on Training Camp Activities report, preparing myself for the horror I was about to read:

To the Young Men's Christian Association and the Knights of Columbus, for instance, the Commission has looked to supply a large share of the club life and entertainment inside its training camps. To the American Library Association it has instinctively turned for an adequate supply of books and reading facilities for the troops. To organize the social and recreational life of the communities adjacent to the training camps the Commission enlisted the services of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, which has placed representatives in over one hundred such communities and has harnessed the lodges, churches, clubs, and other local groups and organizations with the men in the camps. (p. 4-5)  

Thats right. Wilson's aims were so "creepy" that he brought in the YMCA. Wilson's desires were so perverse that he enlisted the help of such nefarious organizations as the Library Association. What more needs to be said?

So take heed of this lesson that Glenn Beck has taught us about villainy without bounds