Posted on 04/02/2007 7:10:32 AM PDT by bahblahbah
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A local paper reports that a drill at Burlington Township High School in New Jersey involved police portraying mock gunmen, described as "members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the 'New Crusaders' who don't believe in the separation of church and state." The fake gunmen were said to have been "seeking justice because the daughter of one [member] had been expelled for praying before class."
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I guess I won't waste my time waiting for the drills featuring mock Jewish terrorists, led by wild-eyed, Torah-thumping rabbis....
...you left out:
"The justice department has called in an expert to handle the case. Veteran law enforcement pro Janet Reno has already called for tanks and firebombs..."
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This outrageously misguided attempt to condemn Christians would be fine for Law and Order as it is. What they do is take real incidents and switch the religion, political persuasion or race to be politically correct. What we conservatives have to fight is so pervasive. We need to keep praying as much as we did in November, 2000.
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — The scenario has played out in real life across America: Gunfire echoes through a school and students are held hostage.
But police, faculty and staff lived out their own make-believe version yesterday of just such a tragedy at Burlington Township High School, complete with Kevlar-clad officers, armed suspects and students portraying the wounded and dead.
The purpose of the drill was to test the reactions of police, faculty and administration.
“You perform as you practice,” Superintendent Chris Manno said prior to the exercise. “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible.”
The mock terror attack involved two irate men armed with handguns who invaded the high school through the front door. They pretended to shoot several students in the hallway and then barricaded themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.
Two Burlington Township police detectives portrayed the gunmen. Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.
To make the drill more realistic, about 10 students volunteered to act as hostages or wounded victims. Several faculty members helped simulate a complete school lockdown, followed by an evacuation.
The full student body was not present for the drill because of a scheduled half-day of classes, officials said.
At the start of the drill, an announcement over the loudspeaker system informed faculty and staff that a “Code 3 lockdown” was in effect, thus requiring students to remain in classrooms, away from all windows and doors.
School Resource Officer George Bogda appeared next, maneuvering through a hallway, toward the media center, where he located the gunmen and radioed his location to officers.
A short time later, a team of five police officers entered the school and moved up the hallway toward the media center with their firearms drawn.
They took up positions around the media center doors to contain the gunmen to the room so the rest of the rest of the school could be safely evacuated.
Members of the Burlington County Joint Tactical Team, more commonly known as SWAT for Special Weapons and Tactics, also arrived to evacuate wounded students and perform emergency first aid.
Observing and evaluating during the exercise were various police officers, school administrators and officials from the state and the county Office of Emergency Management.
Burlington Township Public Safety Director William Corter said the drill was the first live exercise testing the police and school response plans to a hostage crisis.
“This should really show how well we work together and respond,” Corter said. “If mistakes are made, we want to know how they should be corrected. The things we do right, we still want to see how we can make them better.”
Well, OF COURSE they are White, Christian terrorists...
Hasn't Hollywood taught you ANYTHING, yet?
White Conservative Christians are the most EVIL people on the planet, and to use any other group, like say....
I don't know.....
Muslims???
... might actually OFFEND someone, and we can't have that, can we???
I hope more than a few of them exclaimed: "WTF!"
The very real persecution of Christians must be making certain people feel a little guilty, and a little nervous these days. But the monumental cowardice of the new jersey police is even more frightening than their ridiculous fear of Christians. It will certainly be Islamic fundamentalists who will overrun their public schools and take hostages before any pseudo "Christian" group will ever do such a thing. Some will say that political correctness is the reason they chose a fantasy "Christian" group to portray as the hostage takers instead of Islamofacists, but personally I believe they feel there is some possibility that their little fantasy could really happen one day. This whole thing is just another prime example of how the government kicks Christianity around without conscience.
Contact F.I.R.E. and sue the teacher.
Contact F.I.R.E. and sue the teacher.
That would have been my response. My brother is nicer then I am, so he just started homeschooling. That was ten years ago.
You men, like the way the islime-ic terrorists in Tom Clancy's book, "Sum of All Fears" became Christian right-wingers in the Ben Affleck movie?
Insanity.
My thoughts exactly!
Amerika will become a very dangerous place for us Right-wingers with Hitlery. Hopeful that America will wake up to these evil klintons before they get back in and declare both a jihad and setting aside the Constitution, like their buddy chavez.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I found the school's web site, but no contact info. Anyone else have an idea where we can voice our protests?
You can pretty much bet that contact info was taken down about 35 seconds after they learned this story hit the paper.
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Are we ready for vouchers...yet?
Voice your protests to the police department, the school board,the superintendent, the union, the local Christan churches, the local papers, and all your friends and neighbors.
Print and drop the article around.
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