I guess when people spend hundreds of dollars on video tapes and a couple of thousand dollars for seminars from someone who spouts "official SEAL system" nonsense and denigrates other systems, they tend to get emotionally attached.
It seems to me that SCARS does provide some basic techniques, which can be useful for rank beginners. However, the issue at hand is its supposed superiority over others. It clearly is not. In terms of "value" (or "bang for the buck"), it fares badly compared to many other "combative" type systems out there (and from much more legitimate people with actual police and military experience). It's downright highway robbery to charge several thousand dollars per person for "super secret" seminars when other instructors teach arguably much better material at fractions of the cost.
I also see that we have now passed the "grappling" craze and have moved to "combatives" craze. Combatives are great so long as they form a component of overall training (classical Kodokan Judo, for example, contained Kata training, sportive/sparring training AND combatives). I find it distasteful that many combative instructors claim "learn how to fight in 2 days of seminar!" As someone pointed out previously, learning to fight (in any fashion, be it with hands, knives or guns) takes a knowledge of sound and effective techniques, muscle memories of those techniques from constant practice, an ability to apply the techniques against fully resisting opponents AND physical attributes. It is criminal to market to people that they can do this in two days or even two weeks (or even watching videos).
On the other hand, if "fighting mindset" is what some of these guys profess to teach, they really ought to charge less and get rid of mumbo jumbo lingo, because the "fighting mindset" takes an altogether different set of training and experience to develop.
Skorzeny