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by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:44 am
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Terrorizing Your Children and Training Them for the Police State
The Norman Police conducted their third annual school shooting scenario drill Thursday morning
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_arti ... =getnorman
All of This Is Just Advertisement for Mentally Ill People to Shoot Up Schools
Endless Promotion
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_arti ... =getnorman
http://www.infowars.com/archives/July_02/07-17-02.htm
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:00 am
Military Takeover Of Schools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmC5xmoh-4
The Military decided to takeover a school in San Antonio, Texas to show the kiddies what to expect in the future.
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:09 am
26 March, 1999
By Jenny LaCoste
News Journal staff writer
The sleepy atmosphere that precedes first period was broken at Hobbs Middle School on Thursday morning by the sound of Marines, Navy and Coast Guard pilots marching through the school's halls.
While sixth-graders in Lynnette Whitfield's geography class were watching CNN reports on NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia, they heard a voice bark over the intercom: "Military personnel, take your classrooms."
The mock "takeover" of Hobbs Middle School by pilots and flight students from Whiting Field was a way to illustrate what martial law is all about, said Lt. Troy Beshears, a Coast Guard pilot assigned to Whiting Field Naval Air Station.
But once the sailors and Marines were in the classrooms, their mission was to teach for a day subjects such as math, science, history, and geography and give teachers a break.
"We're going for shock value initially," said Navy Lt. Dan Deutermann, 29. "but in the classrooms we're showing the students practical applications of what they're learning."
Some students brought up questions about the Kosovo situation.
Seventh-grader Cory Keelan selected Yugoslavia when a Navy ensign teaching geography asked students to name their favorite European country.
"I just like the name of it. It sounds cool," said Cory, 13. "I've been hearing it a lot lately."
Whitfield said her class knows more about Yugoslavia than just the name. Her students have been learning geography of the area, the history of the ethnic groups involved in the fighting that has killed more than 2,000 people in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo and keeping tabs on the current NATO air assault on Yugoslavia.
"Some of my students still don't really have a grasp on the situation, but others do because they talk about it with their parents," she said.
One of Whitfield's students, Julie McCool, said the presence of the military personel in her school made the news she had been watching from Yugoslavia seem a little more real.
"I just don't want it to get much worse," said Julie, 12.
Navy Ensign Kelly Robbins taught a class on geography, charting a Pacific cruise he took on an aircraft carrier and talking about his ports of call.
While an enlisted sailor working in intelligence, Robbins said he had to brief admirals, senators and Secratary of State Madeleine Albright, but middle schoolers made him nervous.
"At least with them, I knew what questions to anticipate," said Robbins, 27. "With kids, you're not sure what they might ask."
Besides giving students insight into places like Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore, Robbins gave the kids an idea of what it's like to be in the military.
He spent his first Christmas as a sailor in Hong Kong.
"You don't get to come home for Christmas?' Cory Keelan asked Robbins.
"No' not when you're on a ship," Robbins said.
"Did you get Christmas dinner?" Corey, 13, pressed.
Besides geography, flight students taught physiology, explaining how night goggles work with the human eye, aerodynamics and geometry.
"Kids don't realize that there are freeways in the sky and we have to use geometry to figure out our couse when we fly," said Beshears. "We're just showing them that the skills they're learning now are applicable in life."
The visit is part of the Whiting Field Adopt-A-School program coordinated by Beshears. Every instructor and flight student paricipating volunteered to take part.
Last year, students from Hobbs and another school communicated via e-mail with a Coast Guard lieutenant on a cruise bound for the South Pole and had a video teleconference with their frind once she got there.
Visit the Pensacola News Journal
http://web.archive.org/web/199910090428 ... urnal.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/199910090428 ... acola.html
Navy, Marines Raid Classrooms (Students Apply Math, Science To Strategic Plan)
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There is also a photo (which was cut off from the fax paper size) but here is the photo caption: photographer credit Tony Gilberson/News Journal
"Lt. Quwan Smith, left, gives a little personal instruction in math and navigation to Vanessa Gignac on Thursday at Hobbs Middle School. Personnel from Helicopter Training Squadron Eight at Whiting Field Naval Air Station took part in Military Madness at the school."
http://www.seizethemagic.com/lol/05worl ... 2kmar.html
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:15 am
Here they are.... exclusive photos of "U.S. Army Cobras" in a North Austin, Texas school yard. "Conditioning for the Children." See the nice men in the helicopters.... they are here to help you....
thanks to Sean for the photos.
InfoWars has great respect and love for United States Military Personal, but with Russian troops invading Anniston Alabama (12-15 March 99) accompanied by the elite Nightstalkers of the 160th and Army Special Forces Rangers and Operation Last Dance in South Texas (8 -20 Feb 99) where towns like Kingsville, Texas where buildings were severely damaged and set ablaze by the action. Local law enforcement were not even notified! Not to mention dozens of other training exercises conducted by this and other branches of the US Military. And to top it all off - The exclusive photos of Operation Urban Warrior from California, where the United States Marine's in conjunction with troops from 5 other nations, set up "concentration camps" and performed gun confiscation. All while working together with local law enforcement. With all of this information to consider and now we are receiving reports from literally hundreds of people with confirmation with these photos ..... it does not look good.... to have military helicopters landing in school yards as part of an obvious desensitization and indoctrination of our youth. It should be obvious to all, military helicopters "invading
http://web.archive.org/web/199905081648 ... chool.html
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:55 am
Kids being indoctrinated to accept biometric ID's at school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOT1uYxupDs
http://www.kidsafeid.com
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:12 pm
Y2K: MARINES, NAVY HOLD MARTIAL LAW EXERCISE IN FLORIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL
On Thursday morning, March 25, 1999, platoons of U.S. Marines, Navy and Coast Guard personnel occupied the Hobbs Middle School in Pensacola, Florida (population 58, 165)
According to the Pensacola, Fla. News-Journal, "The sleepy atmosphere that pervades the grounds was broken at Hobbs Middle School on Thursday morning by the sound of Marines, Navy and Coast Guard pilots marching through the school's halls."
"While sixth graders in Lynnette Whitfield's geography class were watching CNN reports of a NATO airstrike against Yugoslavia, they heard a voice bark over the intercom, 'Military personnel, take your classrooms.'"
"The mock takeover of Hobbs Middle School by pilots and flight students from Whiting Field was a way to illustrate what martial law is all about, said Lt. Troy Beshears, a Coast Guard pilot assigned to Whiting Field Naval Air Station" in Pensacola.
"But once the sailors and Marines were in the classroom, their mission was to teach for a day subjects such as math, science, history and geography and give teachers a break."
"'We're going for the shock value initially,' said Navy Lt. Dan Deutermann, 29, but in the classroom, we're showing the students practical applications for what they're learning.'"
"Several students brought up questions about the Kosovo situation."
"Seventh grader Corey Keenlan selected Yugoslavia when a Navy ensign teaching geography asked students to name their favorite European country."
"One of Whitfield's students, Julie McCool, said the presence of the military personnel in her school made the news she'd been watching from Yugoslavia seem a little more real."
"'I just don't want it to get much worse,' said Julie, (age) 12."
"The visit is part of Whiting Field's Adopt-A-School program controlled by Breshears." All personnel participating in the "visit" were reportedly volunteers. (See the Pensacola, Fla. News-Journal for March 26, 1999, story by Jenny LaCoste.)
(Editor's Comment: Were I a property-owning taxpayer in Pensacola, I would be burning up the telephone lines to City Hall, inquiring why my taxes are paying a teacher $25 per hour to sit around twiddling their thumbs while military personnel do the teaching for them. But worse than that is using those children as "Serbian stand-ins" for a martial law training exercise. Adopt-A-School Program, indeed. Sounds like something Madeleine K. Albright dreamed up.)
http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v04/rnd04_15.shtml
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:34 pm
YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE …
Florida under martial law?
Rumors persist despite official denial from Jeb Bush administration
Posted: October 25, 2001 / 1:00 am Eastern
By Sarah Foster © 2009 WorldNetDaily.com
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Martial law in the classroom
WorldNetDaily contacted Rev. Chuck Baldwin, pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., and host of the radio talk show "Chuck Baldwin Live." Baldwin is not one to dismiss allegations of martial law lightly. In April 1999, he denounced on the air a mock takeover of a nearby school by military troops.
"Does anyone remember the good old days when schools taught reading, writing and arithmetic?" he asked his radio audience at that time. "Nowadays, they teach political correctness, cultural Marxism and martial law. That's right, martial law.
"It seems that last week at the Hobbs Middle School in Milton, Fla., a mock military takeover was staged to demonstrate martial law. I am not making it up. Military personnel from the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard took part. The exercise began when these words thundered over the school intercom system: 'Military personnel, take your classrooms.' A Navy lieutenant who participated said, 'We're going for shock value.' The occupying force then proceeded to take over the teaching assignment for the day. Shock value? I guess so," declared the outraged minister.
Asked about the concerns regarding the governor's recent executive orders, Baldwin told WorldNetDaily he was frankly surprised when he heard about them from some of his listeners.
"Jeb Bush is the most truly conservative member of the entire Bush family," he said. "He comes across as very kindhearted, even humble."
Baldwin confirmed that apart from the wording of EO 01-262, which he views as very problematic, there have been no reports of military activity of the kind conducted by federal forces at Hobbs Middle School during the early days of Bush's administration and the final months of President Clinton's.
"I think we have a good man, and I do not think he would intentionally abuse the authority of his office," Baldwin remarked.
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25051
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:40 pm
Mock gunman terrifies students
Elizabeth City State drill sours
Jerry Allegood - Staff Writer
Published: Wed, Feb. 27, 2008 12:30AMModified Wed, Feb. 27, 2008 05:32AM
An armed man who burst into a classroom at Elizabeth City State University was role-playing in an emergency response drill, but neither the students nor assistant professor Jingbin Wang knew that.
"I was prepared to die at that moment," Wang said Tuesday.
The Friday drill, in which a mock gunman threatened panicked students in the American foreign policy class with death, prompted university officials to apologize this week to Wang and offer counseling to faculty and students.
Anthony Brown, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the university was testing its response to shootings of the sort that have shaken campuses around the country. "The intent was not to frighten them but to test our system and also to test the response of the security that was on campus and the people that were notified," Brown said.
The drill was conducted just eight days after a gunman stormed a Northern Illinois University classroom, killing five people before he took his own life. Brown said students, staff and faculty were notified five days in advance that a drill would take place. The word went out via e-mail and text messages. Not everyone got the word.
At 1:31 p.m. Friday, e-mail and text messages kicked off the drill with the announcement: "This is a test. ECSU is holding a test drill where an armed intruder will enter a room in Moore Hall and be detained by campus police."
The mock intruder, a campus police officer, carried a red plastic model gun, according to a university news release.
Wang, who teaches history and political science, said Tuesday in a telephone interview he was having a discussion in his foreign policy class when the man came to the door and said he wanted to talk with him.
"Suddenly the man pointed the gun at me," he said.
Wang said he did not know whether the gun was real. "I saw the gun but didn't have too much time to think about that," he said. "The man was serious."
Up against the wall
The intruder instructed Wang to close the door and then ordered the seven students to line up along the wall. Wang said the man told them that he had been kicked out of school and that he needed a lung transplant.
At one point, Wang said, the man threatened to kill the student who had the lowest grade point average. Wang offered to let him sit in his class, he said, but the man rejected attempts at negotiation.
Wang said some students thought the gun was fake, but they were not sure. "I was the guy who was feeling the gun on my back," he said.
After about 10 minutes, the class heard people talking outside the door, and campus police rushed in and subdued the man. "Even after this was over, nobody explained it," Wang said.
He said colleagues told him that students in another classroom blocked a door with a table and chair -- just as students did in Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in April, when 32 students were killed by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho.
During ECSU's drill, some students sent text messages to their parents, Wang said. Another staffer told Wang that students said they were prepared to jump out of a window.
The Virginia Tech shooting has led universities across the United States to re-evaluate safety and implement new procedures for identifying troubled students and notifying people in the event of an emergency. Many campuses have conducted safety drills. In January, UNC-Greensboro held an active shooter exercise that was attended by law enforcement and university officials from around the state. But that drill was planned for winter break, when students were not on campus.
'Factor in the safety'
Will Morehead of EnviroSafe Inc., a private company in Mebane that specializes in planning and evaluating emergency response, said he could not speak in detail about the ECSU drill without knowing details of how it was carried out. But he said there should be safeguards in place to protect participants.
"The realism needs to be there, but you need to factor in the safety," he said.
John Pierce of Bristol, Va., a spokesman for a pro-gun Internet group called OpenCarry.org, said the university's drill was poorly planned and dangerous. He said people in the class could have been killed or injured trying to escape or could have harmed the role player.
He called for the state to make it legal for individuals to carry firearms for self-defense. He said North Carolina is one of 16 states that make it a crime for people to carry firearms on campuses.
University Chancellor Willie J. Gilchrist said in a prepared statement that the drill was a learning experience. He said the university needed to increase the usual scope of scenarios, which generally involve hurricanes, tropical storms and evacuations.
"Unfortunately we learned lessons from frightened students that result when live scenarios are carried out," he said in a news release. "However, we want our campus to be ready in case of such an event."
jerry.allegood@newsobserver.com or (252) 752-8411
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/968432.html
February 29, 2008
ECSU Mock Gunman Drill Frightens Students, Faculty
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – Students and faculty at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) are being offered counseling after some unknowingly became participants in an emergency response drill Feb. 22 in response to the Northern Illinois University (NIU), which occurred eight days earlier.
During the drill, a campus police officer playing the role of a gunman entered into classrooms carrying a red plastic model gun. Some ECSU students and faculty received E-mail and text messages five days prior to the drill; however, others did not, according to Anthony Brown, vice chancellor of student affairs.
At 1:31 p.m. on the day of the drill, alert messages were sent out informing the campus community that a drill was to take place in Moore Hall. Assistant professor Jingbin Wang, whose American foreign policy class was taken hostage, was unaware of the drill, along with his students.
Wang said the “gunman” lined seven students against the wall and threatened to kill the student with the lowest grade point average. The “victims” were told that the man had been kicked out of school and required a lung transplant.
Wang added that he didn’t have time to consider whether the “gunman’s” weapon was real.
Ten minutes after the drill began, campus police restrained the man.
http://www.campussafetymagazine.com/New ... ewsID=1759
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:41 pm
Nursing Practice Management
Bring Your First Aid Kit: An Unannounced Mock Drill
Marilyn Marcontel, RN, MA, NCSN, CNA, FNASN
Theresa Wolf Grant, RN
Theresa Wolf Grant, RN, is the director of health services of the Denton Independent School District (DISD) in Denton, Texas. She has been an RN for 30 years, 15 of which have been in school health. She is certified in the Emergency Nurse Association’s Trauma Nursing Core Curriculum, serves as regional faculty in BLS for the American Heart Association, and represents the DISD on both the Denton Emergency Planning Advisory Council and Healthy Communities Coalition
Disaster preparedness has taken on new significance in our country since September 11. School nurses, advocates for school safety, must address new challenges in crisis management and emergency response. Our nation’s schools remain relatively safe places, yet well-known events in the last few years dictate the need for movement from attitudes of complacency and denial toward vigilance. Natural disasters, accidents, and violence can threaten the well-being and lives of students and staff, and in a few short minutes a peaceful learning environment can change into one of chaos with multiple casualties. Although schoolwide drills for events such as tornadoes, explosions, and shootings remain imperative, they do little to prepare the school nurse for her role in immediate response. Staging an unannounced mock disaster at a districtwide nurse meeting is one way to ensure a higher level of preparedness. It also acknowledges the legitimate concerns of crisis competency among school nurses who are often and understandably the most trusted first responders to health crises on campus.
Key Words: crisis competency • disaster preparedness • emergency response • mock disaster • school nurses
The Journal of School Nursing, Vol. 18, No. 3, 174-178 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/10598405020180030901
http://nsca.allenpress.com/cgi/content/ ... t/18/3/174
1: J Sch Nurs. 2002 Jun;18(3):174-8.
Bring your first aid kit: an unannounced mock drill.
Grant TW.
Denton Independent School District (DISD), Texas, USA.
Disaster preparedness has taken on new significance in our country since September 11. School nurses, advocates for school safety, must address new challenges in crisis management and emergency response. Our nation's schools remain relatively safe places, yet well-known events in the last few years dictate the need for movement from attitudes of complacency and denial toward vigilance. Natural disasters, accidents, and violence can threaten the well-being and lives of students and staff, and in a few short minutes a peaceful learning environment can change into one of chaos with multiple casualties. Although schoolwide drills for events such as tornadoes, explosions, and shootings remain imperative, they do little to prepare the school nurse for her role in immediate response. Staging an unannounced mock disaster at a districtwide nurse meeting is one way to ensure a higher level of preparedness. It also acknowledges the legitimate concerns of crisis competency among school nurses who are often and understandably the most trusted first responders to health crises on campus.
PMID: 12079182 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12079182
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by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:51 pm
Drills, new security measures mark return to schools
Volunteer students participate in a mock emergency at Bresheer High School in Pittsburgh ALSO:
Justice Department to grant $15 million to fight school crime
August 16, 1999
Web posted at: 10:20 p.m. EDT (0220 GMT)
From Correspondent Gary Tuchman
HIGHLAND PARK, New Jersey (CNN) -- Some schools may be safer this fall, thanks to volunteers who screamed and ran this summer -- in special drills to help school officials and authorities prepare to handle an attack like the one at Columbine High School.
"We will be able to respond. We will be able to minimize the loss of life," said one official at Bresheer High School in Pittsburgh, where band members pretended to be victims.
At New Jersey's Highland Park High School, administrators and faculty held workshops to talk about how to avoid making students feel disenfranchised.
"I keep reading that what creates stress is the inability to choose, the feeling you have no power over your environment," said one teacher. "If we want to get rid of stress, we have to give kids more power."Some schools, including Columbine High School, now require students to wear IDs
That view is echoed by the co-author of a book called emotionally intelligent parenting. Maurice Elias is also one of the experts who participated in a federally mandated guide to safe schools after last year's school shooting in Springfield, Oregon.
"We want to make sure that the emotional intelligence of our kids is put on an equal par with the intellectual development of our kids," said Elias, of Rutgers University.
At Highland Park High, there are no plans for metal detectors or security guards. But more and more schools in the United States are resorting to those measures.
In addition, some schools, like one in Hallsville, Texas, are now requiring all their students to wear computer-generated IDs.
"As much as I don't want to wear it, I will for the sake of the school," one student said.
Experts say it's important to note that most schools have been and will continue to be very safe places. But they warn that educators should never underestimate the importance of social and emotional education, saying that a student who doesn't feel part of the mainstream is more likely to create his or her own agenda.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/16/school.safety/
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:55 pm
June 12, 2007
D.C. Schools Holding Mock Shooting Rampage Drills
NBC4 reports that Alice Deal Jr. High School in Tenleytown was the first school to hold a mock shooting rampage drill yesterday. The drill, which simulated a shooter coming to the school with a gun intending to kill as many people as possible, will be repeated at other D.C. schools in the coming weeks.... In the scene, the mock shooter is a disgruntled parent upset about his child's grades. To retaliate, he rushes the school building with an M-16 semiautomatic gun. The rampage begins with a security guard being the first to go down. Then the gunman fires at students.
"We heard the gunshots and my class is on the first floor," student Elizabeth Stone said. "The gunshots were really close by. The teacher went over and closed the door. We had to move our desks and everything."
The mock shooter -- a D.C. police officer in costume -- held a third-floor classroom hostage in the simulated emergency. Then the shooting intensified.
Sounds pretty damn scary. In fact, the story also quotes a parent who has mixed feelings about the drills. On the one hand, everyone seems to agree that schools need to be prepared to deal with deadly situations like these. On the other, simulating the actual sound of gunfire in schools is almost certain to frighten many students, drill or not. What do you think about drills like these in our schools?
Screen capture from NBC4
http://dcist.com/2007/06/12/dc_schools_hold.php
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:59 pm
Emergency workers stage casualty drill
CATHERINE RODRIGUEZ
Pocono Record Writer
October 08, 2006
The Stroud Township Fire Department and Suburban EMS responded to a chemical spill that killed a number of people
and Stroud Area Regional Police and their SWAT team successfully negotiated the release of several hostages at
Stroudsburg Intermediate Elementary School.
Well ... not really.
Monroe County's first-ever Mass Casualty Drill, dubbed "Monroe Vigilance," was staged at the school complex on
Chipperfield Drive Saturday morning, including police, fire, EMS, and coroner operations, along with Monroe County's
Dispatch Center and Pocono Medical Center.
Under the watchful eye of Cocciardi and Associates, a group that plans and administers exercises such as these,
scenarios were set up and acted from start to finish.
Students from Keystone College were the victims; some were "killed" in the chemical attack, others were "injured" and
several became "hostages." Jay Selwood, 20, a freshman, said their role in the exercise was part of the first-year
seminar that helps freshmen adjust to campus life.
"It was an easy 'A'," Selwood said. "And we don't have to get wet like in some other drills." He played a patient with
arm lacerations, blood in his ears, runny eyes and nose, and he "smelled funny," an allusion to the chemicals. He was
said to be "fearful."
Another student, Chris Reinwald, was playing the part of a 4-year-old boy who lives near the school and was "crying
and fearful, and was panicking."
"It's cool playing a victim," he said. "I don't mind."
What ultimately happened to their characters isn't known.
"This drill has been in the works for 10 months," said Bob Groff, who was the information officer for the drill. "It has
nothing to do with the recent school shootings."
It was originally planned to be a much larger exercise, according to Groff. The late Harry Robidoux had been working
with Cocciardi on a drill that would have encompassed almost all of Monroe County.
"Harry's death in July caused the exercise to be scaled back," said Groff.
Cocciardi works with municipalities on planning, preparing and critiquing drills, and has worked with several of the
other counties in the eight-county Northeast Pennsylvania Counter-Terrorism Task Force, which includes Monroe,
Carbon, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Lehigh, Pike and Wayne. The latter two are the only ones that have not
yet held a drill, and they are scheduled for the spring.
Wayne County lost everything in last June's flooding and is currently in the process of moving into a school building
that was recently purchased.
The scenario that was used for Saturday's drill centered on a violent white supremacist/anti-government organization
that was bent on the overthrow of the federal government and establishment of a new nation. Raids of several
methamphetamine labs resulted in the arrest of their national leader and other high-level operatives. The group
supported themselves by selling methamphetamines and bank robberies. All of the labs were heavily fortified and large
amounts of weapons were found along with stores of ricin, an extremely toxic chemical.
The group led authorities to believe that a significant event would happen over the weekend of Oct. 7.
At about 9:15 a.m. Saturday, simultaneous calls to 911 operators were received from the intermediate school reporting
that people were affected by some sort of chemical release by armed individuals. First responders were dispatched.
SARP established a command center and asked for additional EMS units as well as the 911 Center Incident Command
Post. There were reports of dead people in and around the building. A mass decontamination area was set up and a
water supply officer identified for the decontamination activities.
Pocono Medical Center was notified and told to expect contaminated victims. At one point, 10 contaminated people
showed up unannounced at the emergency room. A short while later, a group of "worried, well" people showed up at
the hospital, those who were not injured but were concerned for their health, and they were given public health
information.
While all this was going on, police and fire officials were working together to decontaminate victims and identify those
that were dead and those who would need help to get cleaned up and checked out.
The dead were taken to a makeshift morgue; the coroner's office was called and the mass fatality team was requested.
Groff, acting as information officer, went from place to place checking up on operations and making sure everything
was being done properly. As the focus of the drill shifted from public health to a hostage situation, the angle changed a
bit. The "shooters" took hostages and the leader could be heard screaming, "I want to talk to somebody!"
Stroudsburg's SWAT team slowly crept around the side of the round building which houses Stroudsburg Intermediate
Elementary School, while snipers set up in various locations around the school.
Lt. Brian Kimmins of the Stroud Area Regional Police arrived and assisted with negotiating. All it took to get two
hostages released was a pizza. The gunman's cell phone went dead and a "throw phone" was activated so police could
still talk to him.
At times it felt as though nothing was happening. "It's supposed to look that way," Kimmins said. "As long as the
gunman is talking, he's not shooting anyone."
"This is the worst kind of building to have a hostage crisis in because it's round. There are no corners and no windows
in some areas. The only building that would be worse than this is a high-rise," he added.
Eventually, all ended well. The participants gathered in the multimedia room at the junior high school for a debriefing.
Cocciardi Associates gave everyone high marks, especially considering it was the first drill for everyone. The SWAT
team was given high praise for its diligence and good outcome.
"Drills like this are an excellent opportunity to find out how to work
together and where our weaknesses are," said
Kimmins. "We get money from Homeland Security for individual training. Now we have to figure out how to work as a
team. We work with the school districts because they have their own plan, so we have to get them to mesh."
During the debriefing, which was kept short, quick critiques were given as an overview of the entire exercise.
Very high marks were given to the SWAT team, which successfully ended the hostage situation, and the coroner team
was praised for its proactive handling of their problems. Cocciardi representatives said that the coroner's office went to
the command center with their problems and their questions were answered. Coroners did not have the resources for
decontaminating the dead, but they went out and used the resources at hand.
A more thorough report will be put together and sent to the agencies involved so that they can work on their weak
spots and improve their overall performance.
The drill will probably be repeated next year, and it is possible that a drill centered in the northern part of the county
could happen next year as well.
Lessons were learned and ideas shared in what could have been a horrific situation, had it been real. And nobody got
hurt.
http://www.cocciardi.com/monroe.pdf?ID=7
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:05 pm
Mar-19-2006 23:54
Lincoln County Holding School Shooting Drill During Spring Break
Kevin Hays Salem-News.com
Specific information on the drill will be provided to area radio stations at the start of the drill. The exact date, time and location will not be announced to the public prior to that.
Agencies like the Depoe Bay Fire Department will participate in teh drill
Photo By: Tim King
(LINCOLN CITY) - Heading to the coast to get away during spring break???
Well, don`t be shocked or alarmed if you see a bunch of police and fire vehicles heading for, or outside a school in Lincoln County.
Lincoln County police agencies, the Lincoln County School District, Oregon State Police, area fire departments, and other county public safety agencies will be participating in a coordinated emergency school shooting drill at one of Lincoln City's schools during spring break, March 20th through 24th.
To maintain the integrity of the exercise and increase the realism for the involved participants, the lack of prior notification will better allow the agencies to evaluate their response systems in "real time" activities authorities said.
Agencies scheduled to take part in the drill scenario include the school district, Lincoln City Police Department, Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, Pacific West Ambulance, North Lincoln Fire and Rescue, Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police, Depoe Bay Fire and Rescue and Lincoln County Emergency Services.
Authorities hope that by getting the message out now, it will minimize alarm or confusion if residents or spring break visitors to the coast, see a large concentration of police cars, fire vehicles and ambulances heading for a school, they can assume the training exercise is under way.
The drill will include the use of guns that shoot non-lethal cartridges, similar to paint balls.
When the guns are fired, they do produce a sound very much like actual gunfire.
Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital is also participating in the drill.
The hospital will be in simulated lockdown for part of the exercise.
Hospital staff say that during the exercise public access to the hospital will NOT be limited or restricted
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/marc ... _31706.php
by elfismiles » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:07 pm
01/07/2008 05:15 PM
UNCG drill simulates school shooting (VIDEO)
By: Adrianne Flores
GREENSBORO -- Thirty-two people were kill and 17 injured at Virginia Tech last year in the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. On Monday, UNC Greensboro put itself through an elaborate drill, simulating what happened in Blacksburg, Va., hoping to prevent a similar situation.
"You don't think about it everyday, what you would do in an emergency, so I just kind of sparked that conversation so the department's people could start thinking about what they do,” said Bruce Griffin, an environmental safety official.
Hundreds of volunteers were on hand for the full-scale drill, including Greensboro police, Guilford County sheriff’s deputies and EMS workers.
"We want to learn where our weaknesses are and that's the biggest thing we can do is we test what we have, but we also want to know where our weaknesses are and grow,” said Griffin.
"We try to read the Virginia Tech report and gain a lot of insight from the lessons learned,” added Capt. Paul Lester, an officer with UNC Greensboro campus police.
School officials there came under fire for the way they handled the shooting, but local authorities believe they did the best they could under the circumstances.
"A campus is no different than a city,” said Lester, “and you can't lock down cities, you can't lock down a large entity such as a university. There are too many opportunities for people to enter the campus either on foot or by vehicle.
“We just have to try and respond as best we can given the situation that we are confronted with."
But UNC Greensboro officials hope through exercises like the drill on Monday, they will be able to avoid tragedies like the one at Virginia Tech. Few students were on campus for the drill though. Classes don't resume until Jan. 14.
http://news14.com/content/headlines/591 ... fault.aspx
by elfismiles » Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:51 am
Goose Creek Raid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6r9neE89Fg
On November 5, 2003, police raided a high school in Goose Creek, South Carolina, in an effort to purge the school of drugs. After rounding up the students and searching their lockers, no drugs were found and no charges have been filed.
School and police cameras captured officers bursting into the school hallway and waving their guns at students. As you will see in this video clip, police pointed guns at the students' heads, handcuffed them, and made them lie on the floor or kneel with their faces to the wall while an officer with a drug-sniffing dog searched backpacks and belongings.
"I assumed that they were trying to protect us, that it was like Columbine, that somebody got in the school that was crazy or dangerous," one student said. "But then a police officer pointed a gun at me. It was really scary."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6r9neE89Fg
The raid is similar to past examples such as Goose Creek South Carolina (video below), where armed police raided a high school with weapons drawn supposedly in search of drugs. Shouting officers aimed guns at students heads as they were ordered face-up against the wall, then into Guantanamo style squats as they were handcuffed and K9 dogs sniffed their backpacks.
No drugs were found and the Goose Creek Police Department, the city, as well as the Berkeley County School District had to pay $1.6 million for violating the rights of nearly 150 students caught in the raid. The three had to sign a consent decree barring similar activities in future but it included a waver where probable cause or voluntary consent could be cited to conduct further raids.
Having armed men terrorize children is by design and it is intended to normalize the police state and train students to accept it as a routine function of society when they leave school.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/no ... school.htm
Law Enforcement: Goose Creek Agrees to Pay Up, Change Ways in Settlement of Notorious High School Drug Raid Case
7/14/06
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/444 ... ment.shtml
A federal judge Tuesday gave final approval to a landmark settlement in the case of the heavy-handed 2003 police drug raid on students at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina. Under the terms of the settlement, the Goose Creek Police Department, the City of Goose Creek, and the Berkeley County School District will pay $1.6 million for violating the rights of nearly 150 students caught in the raid. The trio also signed a consent decree barring police from conducting law enforcement activities on school grounds absent a warrant, probable cause, or voluntary consent.
early morning high school raid:
no drugs or guns found
Caught by both school and police surveillance cameras, video of the raid helped make the case a cause celebre. The tapes show students as young as 14 forced to the ground in handcuffs as officers in SWAT team uniforms and bulletproof vests aim guns at their heads and lead a drug dog to tear through their book bags. Authorized by Principal George McCrackin because he suspected a student was dealing marijuana, the raid came up empty: no drugs or weapons were found and none of the students were charged with any crime.
"They hit that school like it was a crack house, like they knew that there were crack dealers in there armed with guns," said 14-year-old Le'Quan Simpson, who was one of the students forced to kneel at gunpoint in the school hallway and whose father served on a SWAT team.
Simpson's father, Elijah Simpson, a local deputy sheriff who has served on SWAT teams, said, "This was clearly a no-shoot situation no matter how you look at it. A school drug raid is not a SWAT situation, but that's how the Goose Creek police handled it." The police raid was unnecessarily dangerous, the older Simpson added. "It was crossfire just waiting to happen. If one door slammed, one student dropped a book or screamed, and then those guns would have gone off all over the place. Did you see the way they were swinging those guns around? That's not how you do it."
Following the raid, the ACLU brought a lawsuit on behalf of students' families charging police and school officials with violating the students' right to be free from unlawful search and seizure and use of excessive force. The lawsuit demanded a court order declaring the raid unconstitutional and blocking the future use of such tactics, as well as damages on behalf of the students. Joined by local attorneys, the lawsuit grew to include 53 of the affected students.
The American Civil Liberties Union represented 20 of them, including Simpson. "Goose Creek students now have a unique place in our nation," said Graham Boyd, Director of the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. "They are the only students in the nation who have complete protection of their Fourth Amendment rights of search and seizure."
Marlon Kimpson, a lawyer with Motley Rice LLC, the firm that represented most of the students, said students involved in the drug sweep must file claims by July 28. A claims administrator appointed by the court will then evaluate each student's claim and determine which students are eligible for the funds, Kimpson said.
"Any student who was searched and seized on Nov. 5, 2003, is now eligible for compensation and they have received notice of that," Kimpson told the Charleston Post & Courier. "It is now incumbent on the students to take action and have their claim considered."
Under the terms of the settlement, the affected students will divide $1.2 million among themselves, while the lawyers will pocket $400,000. Depending on the number of students who agree to the settlement, each could walk away with between $6,000 and $12,000.
The powers that be have learned a lesson, said Kimpson. "McCrackin is no longer in charge, the police have agreed to additional training and school district has vowed to change its policies with respect to the way they conduct drug raids," Kimpson said. "You must conduct drug searches according to the US Constitution. This settlement and this class-action lawsuit is notice to police officers and school officials across the nation that students don't shed their constitutional rights merely by entering a schoolhouse door."
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