Posted on 10/24/2011 2:19:43 PM PDT by Immerito
At Wolcott High School one morning this week, an urgent announcement crackled over the intercom: a threatening intruder was in the building and students were told to immediately take refuge in classrooms.
Doors were locked and police, with dogs, moved in. Students stayed huddled in classrooms where they were told to stay away from the windows.
But what sounded like a frightening situation was just a search for narcotics. Drug-sniffing dogs combed the school while students stayed in locked classrooms, believing that an attacker was roaming the halls.
Drug-free schools are an admirable goal but I wonder when we reached the point where the war on drugs justifies police searches under the ruse of a Virginia Tech-style attack.
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“war on drugs”
It’s a sad day when a libtarded MSM rag sounds like some posters at Free Republic.
Some schools have big drug problems. They wanted to find out who the dealers were.
“state law requires schools to have regular emergency drills”
Now if there is a real crisis the students will probably not believe it. I certainly would not trust anything the cops say after going through something like this.
Emergency drills = yes.
Telling the kids there was a gunman loose? That’s a bit much. I have no objection to using a drill to do the search, however.
Hope they found them, because it probably won't work the second time now that the students know they were lied to the first time.
““state law requires schools to have regular emergency drills””
I doubt the law requires schools to claim that an emergency is taking place in order to serve as a ruse for a search.
Maybe they should consider doing an actual police investigation, like interviewing witnesses or following leads.
Or they could just continue with the unconstitutional searches, shoot a few dogs and cruise around in a confiscated Camaro.
They didn’t announce that it was a lock-down drill. They said there was a threatening intruder.
If they said there was a drug-sniffing dog, everyone stay in your class, they could have noted who made a break for their locker.
My children have been told if there is an attack on your school, go out the window if you can and be ready to fight if you can’t. Now I have to tell them, but first make sure it isn’t just a War on Drugs SWAT team because they might kill you.
They failed to mention that THEY themselves were the dangerous intruders.
I would be furious if they did this at my kid’s school.
“My children have been told if there is an attack on your school, go out the window if you can and be ready to fight if you can’t. Now I have to tell them, but first make sure it isn’t just a War on Drugs SWAT team because they might kill you.”
What’s even worse is that the time it takes to ascertain the presence of a SWAT team may be precious seconds or minutes your child may not have, if an armed criminal is in the school, shooting innocent students.
“Hope they found them, because it probably won’t work the second time now that the students know they were lied to the first time. “
Moreover, how do the law abiding students view the police, now that they know that the police lied to them?
The drug war and asset forfeiture laws have in a lot of instances made the police behave like, and be perceived as somthing more akin to bounty hunters than peace officers.
As a parent, teacher, and FCA leader at what I consider a great public school, I want the drug dog run through from time to time. No kid can be kept from being around drugs 100% of the time, any parent who thinks so is fooling themselves.
There's two types of cops in this world --those who've been caught in their lies and those who have yet to be caught lying.
No high school in Arizona would dare to do this. Too many armed students. Though they will get sent to study hall for an hour if they brandish.
You sound like an expert on the subject.
Perhaps you can point me to where I can read about all of Wolcott High School's illicit drug problems.
Or, are you just mindlessly parroting the WOsD propaganda?
I prefer to believe that the WOsD and asset forfeiture has finally allowed their true characters to be plainly seen --goons.
As liars who are never to be trusted?
This is a Communist tactic. Create a phony crisis in order to invoke Marshall law. Expect more of this in the next year.
Well, as long as they found drugs and caught the dealers. Oh, wait..."No drugs turned up in the search."
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