Posted on 04/23/2006 6:12:02 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Police said a group of seventh-graders hatched an elaborate plan to cut off power and telephone service to their middle school, slay classmates and faculty with guns and knives, then escape from their small Alaska town.
The arrest Saturday of six students in North Pole, a town of 1,600 people about 14 miles southeast of Fairbanks, marks the nation's second breakup of an alleged Columbine-style school attack this week. Five Kansas teenagers suspected of planning a shooting rampage at their high school were arrested Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the massacre in suburban Colorado.
The Alaskan seventh-graders had been picked on by other students and wanted to seek revenge, Police Chief Paul Lindhag said. They also disliked staff and students, he said.
The students had planned to disable North Pole Middle School's power and telephone systems, allotting time to kill their victims and flee from town, Lindhag said.
A parent alerted police of rumors of an attack, Lindhag said. He would not elaborate on the case, or what kind of documented evidence led to the arrests.
"These are the ones who had major roles in this," Lindhag said. "All our information came through our interviews."
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BIG PING
"Slay" it's such a good word.
Don't get the wrong idea, I'm glad the little buggers were stopped.
Here is another alternative.
Have cable, but dont let children watch the crap on it. There are programs on tv that are not bad for children (sports, etc).
Homeschooling is great, but it is not for everyone.
The problem here is a lack of morals and values in society as a whole. It is more acceptable to be a gay man or a lesbian woman than it is to be a born again christian in society right now, that is very sad.
No kidding! Last week, the police busted 26 drug dealer students at my old high school. One was selling drugs with his parent!
That does seem a stretch, but 9/11 was also a conspiracy that was unimaginable. If they were to follow things along your lines, I wonder if somewhere in the plots they would find a few muslims.
Mee Too... Santa must be consoling himself on raindeer sausage.. washed down with Moose Drool(beer) tonight..
I guess I am the only one that expected this.
I homeschool, but I was leary on the 19th and 20th. I told my kids with all the attention given to terrorism these past few years, I expected another Columbine these past few days. I really did. If I had my kids in hs that day I am not so sure I would have sent them.
Homeschool Ping!
This is the third case THIS MONTH ALONE.
April 5 -- Students in NJ were arrested:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609820/posts
April 20 -- Students were arrested in Kansas:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618469/posts
And today it's Alaska.
If these were homeschooled kids, "experts" would be all over the news criticizing homeschooling, claiming the kids are alienated, and calling to outlaw it. Government-run schooling always gets a pass.
There were six of them and they were picked on by other students? There were times in my school career I would have been thrilled to have six friends so I'm not seeing the picked on loner thing happening here. And who cares for crying out loud. Not in so many words but my parents said, "suck it up."
Just one more reason I am so thankful that my 3rd and last child is graduating from high school next month. If we had to do it all over again, knowing what we know now, we would have home-schooled or searched for a private christian-based school. And with us living in a rural small community with the K-12 school attendance not much over 800+, I would never have thought the (bad) changes that have happened in our school over the past 20-30 years would have occurred. It was a good school system back in my day.
Its rampant liberalism oozing its way into society. While I believe in freedom to do what you want. There is a thing called self control. Just because I can partake in any number of deviant vices or behavior, it doesn't mean I have too. Our television is rife with hedonistic behavior. Its no wonder our youth are lost.
My worry - How much of this is kids talking stupid, and how much was a real threat?
Kids (adults, too) say a lot of things they will never do and would be unable to carry out, even if they wanted to do so.
My thought was that there is just something really off about the time around April 20. Actually, it wouldn't be surprising if these kids thought it would be cool (in their warped minds) to pull something off like this around the anniversary of Columbine.
If you add the kids from Winslow High School here in South Jersey that makes the third case of planned attacks on schools in the last month.
It's true that kids will make threats but not intend to carry them out. That's probably why later other kids say, "He always said he would do it, but I thought he was just talking." What kid doesn't have revenge fantasies?
But, in the NJ case, the teens not only made the threat on the internet but also attempted to buy arms twice from underground dealers. In KS, the teens had the plans and the arms.
I wonder how much prison time they're looking at for planning but not carrying out yet? In our school district, students were arrested for making prank bomb calls and placing a fake bomb on the roof of the school, and at least one of them did two years in jail.
I was a loner in high school. I was introverted and shy. I was picked on and bullied. My dad had a shotgun and rifle and I had access to them. But my parents had taught me right from wrong. I believed in God. It never entered my mind to exact violent revenge.
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