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by elfismiles » Thu May 02, 2013 10:34 am
by seemslikeadream » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:33 am
by elfismiles » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:45 pm
Report: DHS At Active Shooter Drill In Texas?
Infowars.com
August 24, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXInEAYuaG4
Did the Department of Homeland Security attend a recent active shooter drill in Hutto, Texas? We don’t expect that question to be answered truthfully any time soon.
On Friday, Infowars reported on an active shooter drill taking place at the Hutto Independent School District. Tactical EMS, firefighters and police trained alongside crisis actors simulating the unlikely event of a school shooting.
When Infowars reporter Jakari Jackson asked a Hutto ISD spokesperson if the DHS played any part in the drill, he was first told that at least one DHS member was in attendance.
Later, Infowars received an email retracting that statement. It clarified that the DHS had not attended the drill and that the spokesperson had confused the Department of Homeland Security with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.
According to a leaked memo marked for official and law enforcement use, the DHS had listed Austin, Texas and Pasadena, California as potential terrorist targets. Infowars published the classified memo earlier this month.
We trust the statement’s retraction was done in earnest; however, in light of the recent announcement that terror drills would be taking place around the Austin area, in addition to the fact that on numerous occasions drills and exercises have served as cover for real or perceived to be real attacks, we can’t help but find this official statement-then-denial business fascinating.
Hutto is just 30 minutes outside of Austin. To be sure, Infowars did not observe any federal employees or federal markings on any vehicles.
http://www.infowars.com/report-dhs-at-a ... -in-texas/
by elfismiles » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:04 am
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by elfismiles » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:32 pm
Missouri Teachers Object to Being Shot During Drills
Missouri students and teachers required by law to participate in active shooter drills
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 6, 2014
Teachers in St. Francois County, Missouri, have complained after they were told part of their duties include being shot at with pellet guns during “active shooter” drills. Officials told the teachers they would be required to wear goggles to protect their eyes.
Active shooter exercise in Indiana. Photo: Staff Sgt. Brad Staggs, Atterbury-Muscatatuck Public Affairs
After four teachers contacted the Prosecuting Attorney’s office in the state, Associate Superintendent Sarah Long told KMOX in St. Louis said teachers “could sign up to work in department meetings and in other professional developmental opportunities” instead of participating in drills they found “too scary.”
Missouri students and teachers are required by law to participate in active shooter drills. “In August 2013, the state legislature took a cue from a handful of post-Sandy Hook lawmakers, like the ones in Illinois and Arkansas, and voted to require every school district to conduct simulated shooter drills,” NBC News reports. Drills are “meant to help law enforcement craft strategies to take down active shooters, as well as to familiarize teachers with the sound of guns and teach them to act quickly.”
According to Missouri State Teachers Association spokesman Todd Fuller, the issue has come up before in other school districts in the state. “I think what we’re going to see is a need to readdress and reevaluate the statute,” he told KMOX.
Jerrod Mahurin, the St. Francois County prosecutor, acknowledged teachers had contacted him asking for legal advice. They did not file a formal complaint.
Active shooter drills conducted by police are now routine across the country. In rural Oregon last year, teachers were traumatized when masked men appeared unannounced at a high school in Halfway and burst into a teachers’ lounge and opened fire with blanks.
In January of last year Illinois students in classrooms at the Cary-Grove High School endured police firing blanks in school hallways “in an effort to provide our teachers and students some familiarity with the sound of gunfire,” according to principal Jay Sargeant, CBS Chicago reported. “From the school’s request, they want to let the students know what the sound of gunshot might be, should that occur in their school,” Cary Police Chief Steven Casstevens added.
A number of parents said they were not informed prior to the drill, although the school district claimed it had sent out email notifying them. It said the uninformed parents did not receive the email due to a technical problem.
In the past drills have contained political messages. For instance, in 2004, cops in Muskegon, Michigan conducted a “mock attack” on a school bus as part of a terrorism response exercise. The terrorists portrayed in the exercise were said to be fanatical homeschoolers.
The exercise was a simulated “attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled,” Homeschool World reported in September, 2004.
The simulated attack was funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
http://www.infowars.com/missouri-teache ... ng-drills/
by elfismiles » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:33 pm
by elfismiles » Fri Mar 14, 2014 5:35 pm
Homeland Security Conducts Unannounced School Lockdown Drill
Federal occupation of America expands
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
March 14, 2014
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its operations by running unannounced school lockdown drills, another sign of the federal agency’s encroachment into more areas of Americans’ lives.
Image: School lockdown drill (YouTube).
“On Thursday, March 6, a team comprised of ten officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, and the NJ Department of Education’s Safety and Security Task Forces visited Glen Ridge High School to conduct an unannounced school lock-down drill,” reports Georgette Gilmore. “With the exception of Glen Ridge Superintendent Dr. John Mucciolo and Chief of Police Sheila Byron-Lagattutta, no Glen Ridge Public School personnel received advanced notice of the exercise.”
The federal/state “security team” later reported their satisfaction with GRHS Principal Dirk Phillips for activating the school’s lockdown procedure when ordered to do so by DHS officials and police.
“The NJ DOE team told us that of all the schools they have visited, GRHS was one of the best,” said Superintendent Dr. Mucciolo, confirming that the drills are now becoming commonplace throughout the region.
While authorities justify school lockdown drills as necessary exercises to prepare for potential school shootings, the likelihood of one happening is miniscule. Critics have pointed to the fact that the drills achieve little else than traumatizing school children.
Some have also argued that teaching kids to “shelter in place” rather than evacuate the scene of a shooting is bad advice because it is likely to lead to more casualties. The process of having children submit to armed masked men during school lockdown drills is also contradictory in that it teaches them to behave exactly the same way towards an actual gunman.
A much more successful policy would be to eliminate gun free zones (victim disarmament zones) around schools and institute training programs to arm teachers and school staff, but since that would encourage Americans to be responsible for their own safety and not dependent on government, the feds are never going to support it.
Although warnings of Homeland Security being turned into an occupying army have been met with derision by some, that’s exactly what it’s beginning to look like.
Earlier this week, we reported on a SWAT raid in East Williamsburg during which neighbors complained of how they were “utterly confused and frankly terrorized” by DHS snipers pointing flashlight guns at them even though they were situated in a different building.
In addition to the DHS having its own agents increasingly involved in domestic law enforcement activities, the federal agency has poured over $34 billion dollars into local police departments, money which has been used to purchase armored vehicles and other equipment normally reserved for policing occupied countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.
During public testimony at a Concord City Council meeting in New Hampshire last year, Colonel Peter Martino, a former Marine Corps Colonel who was stationed in Fallujah, warned that the DHS’ role in militarizing domestic law enforcement was a disturbing lunge towards martial law.
“What’s happening here is we’re building a domestic military,” said Martino, adding that police are now “wearing the exact same combat gear that we had in Iraq, only it was a different color.”
http://www.infowars.com/homeland-securi ... own-drill/
by elfismiles » Fri Mar 14, 2014 5:42 pm
Lockdown Nation
We routinely terrify and traumatize kids to spare them terror and trauma.
By Dahlia Lithwick
Parents wait across the street from Spring High School in Texas for their children to be released from a lockdown after a stabbing at the school on Sept. 4, 2013. Photo by Thomas B. Shea/Getty Images
This is the way we live now.
•Ukiah, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 10. Three South Ukiah schools locked down after a report of a man with a rifle near the church behind one of the schools.
•Hiddenite, N.C., Tuesday, Dec. 10: Hiddenite Elementary school locked down after a nearby bank robbery.
•Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Dec. 10: Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School locked down after a “vague threat” found written on a bathroom wall.
•Lake Villa, Ill., Tuesday, Dec. 10: Five Lake County schools locked down over two separate incidents, one involving a man wielding a rifle in his home during a domestic dispute, the other involving a student who brought a weapon to a middle school.
•Milwaukee, Friday, Dec. 6: James Madison Academic Campus put on lockdown after unsubstantiated report of a gun on grounds.
•Tempe, Ariz., Friday, Dec. 6, Fees College Preparatory Middle School locked down after police found a boy carrying a BB gun on campus.
•Stockton, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 5: Grunsky Elementary School placed on lockdown as a result of a domestic dispute in a nearby residence.
•Genesee Township, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 5: Kearsley High School placed on lockdown after someone calls in a bomb threat.
•Howard County, Md., Thursday, Dec. 5: Lockdown at Laurel Woods Elementary School and Forest Ridge Elementary School.
•Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 4: West Orange High School on lockdown after a 15-year-old student shot by another student in face and abdomen.
•Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, Dec. 4: Meadowdale High School on lockdown after unconfirmed reports of a student with a gun.
•Cincinnati, Wednesday, Dec. 4: Lincoln Heights Elementary School locked down when a woman was shot in the neighborhood, and someone shot into the back of a school bus dropping children off.
•Wake Forest, N.C., Wednesday, Dec. 4 : Wake Forest Middle School, Heritage Elementary School, Heritage Middle School, and Heritage High School all locked down after a robbery at a local bank.
•Greenbriar, Ark., Wednesday, Dec. 4: Greenbrier schools on lockdown when parents of children in the district were involved in a domestic dispute off-campus.
•Wingate, N.C., Wednesday, Dec. 4: All of Wingate University placed on lockdown after two people were fatally shot on a nearby street.
•Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4: Rutland Elementary School on lockdown after man crashes car nearby and escapes from police on foot.
That’s just a fraction of them. And that’s just one week.
Every day in this country, a school goes into lockdown after a bomb or a gun threat, a neighborhood crime or domestic dispute, or a false alarm. To prepare for such events schools must have (as mandated in some states) lockdown drills to train students on what the appropriate lockdown procedures are.
I find myself joining many other parents who worry that in teaching our children how to behave when somebody storms their classroom with a gun, we have unloosed something dramatic upon them without much serious reflection. Lockdowns are simply what we do now. My son’s elementary school was locked down the first week of school this fall when shots were heard in the neighborhood. He tells me they all pack themselves into the closet. He’s 8. But how often should we have lockdowns and why and when and how do they work? How are parents notified and what happens to the kids in the bathroom or off campus and who is studying the effects of all this?
We have convinced ourselves that there is nothing else we can do about the fact that children are not safe in school.
I don’t recall any serious national public dialogue about lockdown protocols or how they became the norm. It seems simply to have begun, modeling itself on the lockdowns that occur during prison riots, and then spread until school lockdowns and lockdown drills are as common for our children as fire drills, and as routine as duck-and-cover drills were in the 1950s.
Let’s agree from the get-go that doing nothing in the face of lethal school shootings is not an option. There is no dispute that Sandy Hook taught us, among other things, that having plans and protocols in place when an intruder is hell-bent on killing children will save lives, even many lives. And let’s also agree, as Sarah Goodyear points out, that the specter of mass school shootings was not something we had to contend with 50 years ago. As she explains, “If you look at the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history—those claiming 12 or more lives—half of them occurred during the 50 years between 1949 and 1999. The other half of those deadliest shootings occurred in the past six years—between 2007 and now.”
But as the list of lockdown stories above attests, many of the lockdowns in the last week occurred as a result of nearby crimes, local domestic disputes, false or ambiguous reports of armed individuals in the neighborhood, and runaway drug dealers. We have learned to err on the side of a lockdown under almost every crime-related scenario that occurs near any school. And the question is whether there is any cost to that and who is tallying it?
There are a lot of very thoughtful arguments against the lockdown culture we have quietly embraced in recent years. The first worrisome aspect is that in order to teach kids about lockdowns you need to teach them to do the impossible: become invisible and silent. Depending on the school policy, they may be taught to run in zig-zag patterns, crouch on toilet seats, huddle under desks, or mass themselves under the classroom door. But critics of the new lockdown culture worry that in so doing we teach them not only to be passive in the case of attack but that there is some standard way to react to any number of situations that are only truly comparable in that something bad is happening. We routinely terrify and traumatize them in an effort to spare our kids terror and trauma. We create realistic drills complete with fake cops and shootings in order to impress upon our kids that armed deranged gunmen are what? Really scary? I think they may already know that.
The data I have looked at about the stress caused by lockdowns is pretty ambiguous. Some suggest these drills are really traumatic, especially for young and special-needs children, and some suggest they are not. But what worries me most of all is that after a few dozen times, neither lockdowns nor lockdown drills will seem that much scarier than fire drills for kids. Certainly we can keep on moving the bar for what constitutes “normal” in American schools. But stop and think about that. Isn’t the argument that our children can normalize almost anything the problem, and not the solution?
It’s not just that the reflexive default to lockdown is overreactive, in that we now lockdown entire schools and clusters of schools for threats on bathroom walls, armed neighbors, local domestic disputes, and kids with pellet guns. It’s also underreactive, in that we have somehow persuaded ourselves that there is absolutely nothing else we can do about the fact that our children are not safe in their schools. We can’t stop the tsunami of people who want to openly carry guns in certain jurisdictions. We can’t pass legislation that would limit improper access to guns, even when 90 percent of the public supports it. And we can do nothing to truly ensure that kids aren’t living in a culture of daily deaths from guns. So in the absence of a public policy solution, or any kind of collective will to find a public policy solution, we just make a decision to treat armed killers in schools as we previously treated fires and tornadoes: as acts of God instead of failures of legislative and moral courage. There will be more and more shootings near schools and more and more lockdowns.
And so this is what we have tacitly agreed to do now: We ask our kids to pile themselves silently into their classroom closets, and we tell them this is what freedom looks like. Maybe. Or maybe the real message of our burgeoning lockdown nation is that we are all of us huddled there in the closet now, trying to be invisible and silent, and hoping that whatever is out there will just go away.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... _kids.html
by chump » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:56 pm
... I have noticed the same terminology being used from false-flag to false-flag event: “The Light and the Darkness” – It happens way too often to be a coincidence.
The “light” and the “dark” came into play big time at the staged Aurora event.
Many are unaware that Aurora means “The Dawn” and this happened to coincide with “The Dark Knight” Shooting.
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by elfismiles » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:28 pm
Published on Dec 30, 2013
This compilation features:
-All 5 of the WDMCS Interior videos,
-The CDMCS School Exterior video,
-The 36 Yogananda ("Lanza Home") video.
The only videos which were not included in this were the Outdoor Scene Processing, the Dash-Cam videos and the Vehicle Processing Videos.
These 7 are uploaded in entirety, not edited at all, the only thing was a conversion made from .wmv to MP3 so I could assemble them without crashing my computer. This was as big as I could get this video.
I will likely upload a second video getting the rest of the material in- The only one that I should have added here that I forgot to was the CDMCS outdoor scene processing video.
The other videos which were not included were the Dash-cam footage, which I found very boring and pointless, and the Vehicle processing video.
Hopefully this compilation will be easier to digest for the Sandy Hook researcher. This can give the viewer an idea of the huge amount of "redacted" that is shown in these videos. As some people pointed out in my other video, the "redacted" screens may have added simply to fool the viewer into thinking some sort of actual bloody evidence exist, when in reality it doesn't - sometimes the imagination is more powerful than reality..
The viewer "jumps to the conclusion" that something grotesque is being hidden when shown the blue or black redacted screen, when in reality it's just another video of a toilet in the bathroom or an empty hallway- something benign... just make people think something actually happened, when it didn't.
by chump » Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:22 pm
Michael Sinko
2 months ago
These videos are complete bullshit. I can't believe they actually released this. The house doesn't look lived in. The bed was completely neat, without a comforter. The bathroom didn't show any men's products (razors, deodorant, etc..) The water in the toilets is very faint, looks like the water was turned off months ago. The house is full of old TV's and computers. I thought they had money? "Nancy's" bedroom had ZERO blood splatter. She allegedly got shot while she was sleeping in bed and yet you don't see any blood splatter on the floor, walls, blanket, nothing.
by elfismiles » Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:36 pm
chump » 16 Mar 2014 17:22 wrote:Did you watch this? The video was almost completely redacted. Is there is any evidence of a shooting on this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xZcBkbauFIMichael Sinko
2 months ago
These videos are complete bullshit. I can't believe they actually released this. The house doesn't look lived in. The bed was completely neat, without a comforter. The bathroom didn't show any men's products (razors, deodorant, etc..) The water in the toilets is very faint, looks like the water was turned off months ago. The house is full of old TV's and computers. I thought they had money? "Nancy's" bedroom had ZERO blood splatter. She allegedly got shot while she was sleeping in bed and yet you don't see any blood splatter on the floor, walls, blanket, nothing.
by Elvis » Sun Jun 08, 2014 4:12 pm
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/code- ... e-1.329756
"Code Gray" exercise under investigation by state
By TOM McLAUGHLIN / Daily News
Published: Friday, June 6, 2014 at 19:24 PM.
Florida Department of Health
A “Code Gray” active shooter exercise conducted in early March at the Okaloosa County Health Department may have gone a little too well for those who coordinated it.
The event is presently under investigation by the Florida Department of Health and, according to Fort Walton Beach Police spokeswoman Kathy McCauley, a “lawsuit is pending” as a result of the exercise.
On March 7, the county Health Department recruited at least one Fort Walton Beach police officer to enter its office as “an active shooter” to test the response of the staff.
“I don’t have any experience with guns and when I heard the shots I was shocked at how loud it was,” Health Department Director Dr. Karen Chapman told employees in an email sent out after the exercise was completed.
Chapman, one other employee and “the staff in Preparedness” were the only Health Department employees aware of the day and time of the “Code Gray” according to the email.
The sound of shots and panic
“A lot of people panicked, including my wife,” said Fort Walton Beach City Manager Michael Beedie, whose spouse, Katherine, works at the Health Department.
When the “shooting” started at about 11 a.m. at 221 Hospital Drive, Michael Beedie said, his wife “got out of the building to go for help.”
“She took off running, went maybe half a mile. There’s a police officer who sits at one location a lot so she ran to that area. She told him a shooter was at the Health Department,” Michael Beedie said.
The officer was able to notify Katherine Beedie about the exercise.
Others in the building tried to call for help.
Records indicate at least three 911 calls were made from the building, though one was made by a Health Department staff member to tell dispatchers the exercise was underway.
Hear a selection of 911 calls from the Health Department here, here, here and here.
That call, made from Health Department Emergency Preparedness and Response chief Elaine Bieber, also indicates someone may have been injured or suffered a medical emergency around the time of the live action drill.
“There was a victim, but not from the exercise,” Bieber told a dispatcher.
Investigation, lawsuit in the works
Nathan Dunn, a Florida Health Department spokesman, confirmed that “an active agency investigation” is being conducted into the exercise and for that reason a videotape made of the event could not be released as a public record at this time.
McCauley, the Fort Walton Beach Police Department spokeswoman, confirmed that the agency had been contacted about participating in the live action drill. She said the Police Department could offer no further comment.
“Because a lawsuit is pending,” she said.
County Public Safety Director Dino Villani said exercises like the Code Gray do offer an opportunity to test “protocols and procedures.”
But he also conceded there can be a risk associated with conducting a surprise exercise of this nature.
‘Scary’ but necessary?
Chapman told the Daily News Thursday she would discuss the Code Gray exercise as soon as she is cleared by the state health department officials to do so.
In emails sent to staff the day of the exercise and five days later, Chapman acknowledged the exercise was “scary” but explained the rationale for holding it.
“Sad to say in our world this type of incident could happen anywhere, even a county health department,” she wrote. “That is why we practice and make an exercise realistic so we can learn how we would react when not expecting it.”
Chapman also says previous exercises “were ignored by many staff.”
“Because those exercises were not taken seriously, the executive management team became very concerned,” she said.
Chapman states in her email that “the vast majority of the staff reacted appropriately” during the exercise but adds “six staff would have been victims of the shooter.”
In her emails, Chapman said there was “misinformation circulating about the exercise.” But after watching the video, she concluded it was “not true.”
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Tom McLaughlin at 850-315-4435 or tmclaughlin@nwfdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TomMnwfdn.
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