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Officials Use [Fictitious Intruder] Ruse At Wolcott High To Clear Halls For Drug Search
Courant.com ^ | October 22, 2011 | Rick Green

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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Full Title: Officials Use Ruse At Wolcott High To Clear Halls For Drug Search Say There's An Intruder In Building, But It's Just A Drill
1 posted on 10/24/2011 2:19:51 PM PDT by Immerito
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To: Immerito

“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”


2 posted on 10/24/2011 2:24:29 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Immerito

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.


3 posted on 10/24/2011 2:31:14 PM PDT by microgood
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

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.


4 posted on 10/24/2011 2:32:06 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
Some schools have big drug problems. They wanted to find out who the dealers were.

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.

5 posted on 10/24/2011 2:33:18 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

““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.


6 posted on 10/24/2011 2:35:39 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
They wanted to find out who the dealers were.

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.

7 posted on 10/24/2011 2:35:48 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

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.


8 posted on 10/24/2011 2:36:21 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood

They failed to mention that THEY themselves were the dangerous intruders.
I would be furious if they did this at my kid’s school.


9 posted on 10/24/2011 2:39:47 PM PDT by Clump (the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: heartwood

“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.


10 posted on 10/24/2011 2:48:10 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: tacticalogic

“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?


11 posted on 10/24/2011 2:52:38 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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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.

12 posted on 10/24/2011 3:07:09 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Immerito
Our school uses 2 levels: 1)general no travel, kids are not allowed to leave class while the drug dog is run through the halls and by lockers but in-classroom activities continue, 2)Lockdown, students hide in classroom, which is only to be used if there was an intruder.

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.

13 posted on 10/24/2011 3:11:14 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: tacticalogic
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.

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.

14 posted on 10/24/2011 4:06:29 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
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To: Immerito

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.


15 posted on 10/24/2011 4:07:37 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
Some schools have big drug problems. They wanted to find out who the dealers were.

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?

16 posted on 10/24/2011 4:10:08 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
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To: tacticalogic
The drug war and asset forfeiture laws have in a lot of instances made the police behave like, and be perceived as something more akin to bounty hunters than peace officers.

I prefer to believe that the WOsD and asset forfeiture has finally allowed their true characters to be plainly seen --goons.

17 posted on 10/24/2011 4:13:10 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
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To: Immerito
Moreover, how do the law abiding students view the police, now that they know that the police lied to them?

As liars who are never to be trusted?

18 posted on 10/24/2011 4:15:26 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

This is a Communist tactic. Create a phony crisis in order to invoke Marshall law. Expect more of this in the next year.


19 posted on 10/24/2011 4:26:15 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
Some schools have big drug problems. They wanted to find out who the dealers were.

Well, as long as they found drugs and caught the dealers. Oh, wait..."No drugs turned up in the search."

20 posted on 10/24/2011 4:26:15 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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