New Jersey HS stages mock terror attack — by right-wing “Crusaders”
posted at 5:07 pm on April 3, 2007 by Allahpundit
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I guess it’s not just Hollywood that has a hard time finding real-life bad guys these days.
Well, at least they’re preparing. If the Russians had done the same, they might have been able to stop those Orthodox Christians at Beslan.
The purpose of the drill was to test the reactions of police, faculty and administration…
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.
Exit question: Which is more disturbingly topsy turvy, this story or this one?
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Ah see. I told you, don’t mess with us Catholics…we’ll declare a Crusade,make you guilt-ridden Mary worshippers, take away your condoms and declare the pope ruler of the earth.
AMEN! AMEN! MARY! CRUSADE!!!! HAHAHA!!!
Bad Candy on April 3, 2007 at 5:16 PM
Up is down
Black is white
Dogs and cats living together
*sigh*
I try not to believe the world sucks :|
dc84123 on April 3, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Allah Akbar we found a target
Defector01 on April 3, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Believe it, the world sucks.. and the Dems are making it worse by the day.
Viper1 on April 3, 2007 at 5:18 PM
Un-friggin-believ … wait, no isn’t. This makes perfect sense in a blue state like Jersey. I hereby renounce my birth into this left wing socialist paradise. It used to be a Pubbie state, but now, thanks to govt handouts, it’s an terrorist appeasement dhimmi state. Good riddance.
Tony737 on April 3, 2007 at 5:18 PM
Yup, we’re just overrun by those Crusaders here in Jersey.
Must have been the folks dancing in the streets of Paterson on 9/11.
Good grief.
JammieWearingFool on April 3, 2007 at 5:19 PM
They must be taking their cues from Law & Order.
If they had a storyline making any reference to Jihad, no matter how true, CAIR would be suing them, their families, and their pets into oblivion.
MoxArgon on April 3, 2007 at 5:26 PM
They admit that they would expel a student for praying before class? Wow.
Kahuna on April 3, 2007 at 5:27 PM
In the immortal words of Sponge Bob Square Pants: It’s opposite day!
TheBigOldDog on April 3, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Why am I surprised? These are the same people that react to real-live already-happened terrorism by claiming we did it to ourselves, or that our real priority should be, um, the weather.
Mmm-kay.
At this point, if a liberal told me the sky was blue, I’d go check. Their reality based community is now the polar opposite of reality.
It’s too bad in a way. I like their version. I wish the President was one-tenth as hard on terrorists and illegal aliens as the Hitler they make him out to be. I wish our biggest problem was, uh, the sun, and not the guys trying to build nuclear weapons. I really wish the next time terrorists attack, I’d wonder for even a second if they might not be Islamic.
It’s not that I don’t understand that liberals just avoid reality. But I don’t get how the reality they always imagine is so the opposite of the real world. Doesn’t that cause serious migraines?
Professor Blather on April 3, 2007 at 5:28 PM
So, who wants to lay bets on how long it takes Christians to start violently rioting to protest this outrageous mischaracterization of followers of the Christian faith?
aero on April 3, 2007 at 5:28 PM
No surprise, NJ is another planet…I wonder if their ‘dome cities’ are experiencing global warming.
budorob on April 3, 2007 at 5:30 PM
Topic of my syndicated column tomorrow.
Michelle on April 3, 2007 at 5:30 PM
It’s not surprising.
They don’t pick Christian fundamentalists as the “fake terrorists” because they are actually afraid of them. They pick them for precisely the opposite reason – They don’t fear them at all.
Sure, they’ll trot them out like a boogey man to scare the kiddies every now and again, but, the real adults don’t actually believe in the boogey man.
The truth is that they know that, other than annoying the standard few prominent Christian leaders, nothing really bad will happen.
Now, do a mock terror attack where an Islamic terrorist who gained access to the school by being hired as a bus driver takes over the school – well, the reaction will be much different and the folks in Jersey know it.
JadeNYU on April 3, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Gawd, I must be mellowing in my old age. If this allows them to plan for an attack, and not be overrun by the aclu screaming about oppression and profiling, at least they’re planning, right? No?
(I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if this was an intentional snark. Pennsylvania did get hit on 9/11, if you recall.)
Tanya on April 3, 2007 at 5:32 PM
I still want to know why these reality-challenged children don’t just tweak reality a bit … rather than making every day opposite day.
That kind of self-delusion takes a lot of work.
Professor Blather on April 3, 2007 at 5:35 PM
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH BIG RED?
Yes, it’s very good they’re planning, not so good that they’re demagoging the hell out of right-wingers to do it. Why do the attackers even need an ideology? Call them the Trench Coat Mafia. Same deal.
Allahpundit on April 3, 2007 at 5:36 PM
I grew up just miles from that school, and I frequently drive by it when I go back to visit my relatives.
South Jersey is much more moderate/conservative than North Jersey, in the shadow of NYC. Needless to say, pulling a stunt like this demonstrates that that faculty’s worldview is light years away from the parents of the students who attend there.
I actually knew the former chief of police in Burlington Township for a time; and I know he’s got to be staggered by the local police’s involvement in this, as well.
Ed Driscoll on April 3, 2007 at 5:37 PM
This happened in New Jersey?
Where’s the realism?
Here’s a better scenario ….
Now that’s more believable, huh folks?
fogw on April 3, 2007 at 5:37 PM
Looks like we were thinking the same thing.
As annoying as it is (as a Christian)to always be ‘the bad guy’, I just see it as a way for them to do their training without the risk of riots and lawsuits.
Although, I think they may have been better off going with a general terrorist theme or picking on a group that’s not a religious group (i.e. ecoterrorists take over the school and threaten to kill people unless the Jersey government stops using styrofoam).
JadeNYU on April 3, 2007 at 5:38 PM
You’ll be warning people of the rising Crusader threat we face, right?
Go ahead Michelle, its too late, we menacing Catholics can’t be stopped. Resistance is futile.
Bad Candy on April 3, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Sorry Bad Candy, except for the inevitable United World Order led by the Pope, it’s not the Catholics that the left tends to fear.
I’d be willing to bet it was those frightening and dangerous evangelicals that the folks in Jersey had in mind.
JadeNYU on April 3, 2007 at 5:41 PM
again; anti-semitism
no rampaging occupying Jewish troops? I’m offended
Defector01 on April 3, 2007 at 5:42 PM
isn’t the analogous situation a pair of secular nihilists entering the school and gunning down as many as possible out of contempt at the general population for being conformist and normative?
i mean, i’m not irked that they didn’t go with islamism, but they didn’t have to make up a whole new threat.
jummy on April 3, 2007 at 5:42 PM
I think a religious group would have totally different, frightening behavior than a Dylan Klebold. Think Waco, not Presbyterians. Of course that would only be acceptable if the cops acted the whatever-religion part out. And the attackers wouldn’t be kids, which would also be a strange dynamic.
And I’m guessing (only guessing) that this whole thing might have originated with that report that the terrorists were getting licensed to drive school buses?
Beats the hell outta me. I’m just glad they’re planning.
Tanya on April 3, 2007 at 5:46 PM
This is one reason why I left New Jersey.
Home of the Toxic Avenger.
Kini on April 3, 2007 at 5:47 PM
That’s what they want you to believe.
Slublog on April 3, 2007 at 5:51 PM
the message should have been “we are prepared”.
instead, they made it, “we are afraid of you.”
jummy on April 3, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Exactly. Why bring in religious themes when we have real scenarios to reference?
Esthier on April 3, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Well, part of the irritation is that they’re obviously thinking of Muslims here (”Crusaders”?) and just as obviously consciously choosing a different group so as not to give offense. As for the difference between Waco and Columbine, true, but I wonder if that’s less a matter of ideology than of tactics, i.e., siege versus rampage. If you’ve got hostage takers who are willing to be “martyred” for their beliefs, I suspect you’re close enough to the target model-wise that you don’t need to layer an ideology on top of that.
They should have made the attackers fanatic believers in the North American Union. That would have been kind of awesome.
Allahpundit on April 3, 2007 at 5:54 PM
Wait, maybe I don’t get it but I don’t find the Fox News story topsy turvey at all?
The NJ school thing is just f’ed up, but I am certain there is a point in every pilot’s life where they have to consider a suicide move in order to save civilians, their wingman, or others.
Kinda like the Zabala guy who was ordered discharged from the Marines (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/03/
BAGJEP0JVC1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea)
Quote:
“During a three-month period that summer, one of Zabala’s superiors repeatedly gave speeches about “blowing s — up” or “kicking some f- a-,” which caused him to wonder “how someone could be so motivated to kill,” he wrote in his court petition in April 2006.”
Hello, that is the job of the military! WTF were you thinking when you signed up? That you would be picking daisy’s?
DKK
LifeTrek on April 3, 2007 at 5:55 PM
The Universal Studios advert next to the story about Brit fighter pilots being asked to fly kamikaze missions.
spmat on April 3, 2007 at 5:56 PM
CARNE ROJO!
Slublog on April 3, 2007 at 5:57 PM
i think i see a tom clancy hit in that.
jummy on April 3, 2007 at 5:57 PM
Tanc?
Bad Candy on April 3, 2007 at 5:57 PM
I live in New Jersey, born and bread. It is like I live in another world. The most corrupt state in the union and surprise…it’s ALL being run by democrats. Governor, state senators, house reps, state assembly, you name it! No other state can say this. Not even MA. I laugh because every day I still see a Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers. I know I’m not the only conservative here (by far not), but sometimes it feels like I’m overwhelmed by in your face “I’m liberal and I’m proud” know it alls. This story does not surprise me. Why do you think they hate “24″ so much. It’s the only show that doesn’t use white, male, Christians as the antagonists. Gotta go I think I just heard my taxes go up… (again).
trader67 on April 3, 2007 at 5:57 PM
These Pennsylvanians chose to make the terrorists religious Christians because there was an incident not too long ago where religious Christians ( Amish school children ) were massacred at one of their schools in that state and this is a way to rub it in and stir up confusion between victim and perpetrator.
Perchant on April 3, 2007 at 6:01 PM
If you choose to call it that. Clint Eastwood has mellowed in his old age as well.
Planning is fine, but propaganda that runs 180 degrees from reality under the guise of planning is something entirely different.
thirteen28 on April 3, 2007 at 6:01 PM
This mock attack is worthless for terror preparation purposes. What the school is baldly teaching the kids is an important hard Left prejudice. They stage a mock attack by scary, armed men in front of impressionable children, and the bad guys are Christians who want prayer and probably, if time had permitted in the scenario background, “creation” alongside evolution.
The only thing the children will carry away from this is an indelible impression that Christians are crazy freaks who want to kill people. Everyone comfortable with that?
This is coming creepily close to the First and Second century smears that Christians engaged in cannibalism (a hysterical rumor based on the Holy Communion of bread and wine). Nero, among other Roman Caesars, used just this kind of mob-bait to justify his attacks on the followers of the new religion.
This is standard behavior for public schools these days. The NEA is a huge block that supports the Democratic Party platform in politics, while in the classroom,they actively promote “good” things (Left) and “bad” Republicans/conservatives/Christians.
naliaka on April 3, 2007 at 6:02 PM
Actually, Allah, I may have to disagree here. Most Christians believe in a separation between Church and State. Muslim fundamentalists don’t. There is also a part of the Muslim religion, which is the extreme part, called the right-wing. Jihadists are on a “Crusade”.
Then again, this is New Jersey.
amerpundit on April 3, 2007 at 6:05 PM
I’m glad they’re training to fight against a Beslan style attack but why make up such a ridiculous terror group. The more realistic the training then the better the odds are of using that training effectively so they might as well have used simulated Muslim terrorists complete with bomb vests and shouting “Allah Akbar”
.
Yakko77 on April 3, 2007 at 6:11 PM
180 degrees? If someone had a gun to my head and was muttering “God is great. God is great.” over and over in English, would I be any less freaked than if they were saying it in Arabic? Hmm. Nope.
More like 90 degrees.
Tanya on April 3, 2007 at 6:13 PM
I remember when they did something like this at the local school here…but when they did it here it was something like the Trench Coat Mafia and had students playing as the gunmen.
EnochCain on April 3, 2007 at 6:17 PM
As the Ubergruppenfueher of the New Crusaders lodge 78, Bayonne, NJ, I am appalled at the use of our name in order to portray desperate gunman taking over a school at gunpoint.
Whenever we attack school children, it is strictly with rattan swords and rubber daggers. This is in contrast to members of the New Jihad, who use Islamic children strapped with explosives to blow up other Islamic and Jewish children.
I can only guess the school authority pinheads that came up with this drill are in total denial and were born after September 11, 2001.
Hening on April 3, 2007 at 6:21 PM
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH BIG RED?
Allahpundit on April 3, 2007 at 5:36 PM
“I’m Tanychka, I love to garden, and remember my wonderful dog? – you bought the gift…”
Entelechy on April 3, 2007 at 6:27 PM
Can’t say that i blame them. Muslims have won the public relations war. Don’t say anything bad about muslims or you’ll be labeled politically incorrect and banned from blogs.
forged rite on April 3, 2007 at 6:33 PM
And sued and harassed and shunned from polite society and possibly beheaded. But of course we’re the bad guys.
forged rite on April 3, 2007 at 6:54 PM
Hmm, suicide to stop terrorism. Bill Maher would admire the good guys for once.
James on April 3, 2007 at 7:10 PM
But white people can’t shoot up schools or blow up buildings…
Nonfactor on April 3, 2007 at 7:11 PM
And there are no white radical Muslims?
EnochCain on April 3, 2007 at 7:15 PM
I have no problem with this as long as they have also prepared for senarios that actually have a whole number percentage chance of actually happening. Like an alligator coming up through the sewers and attacking the lunch lady or a gaggle of Elvis impersonators demanding that the duck tail hairdo come back into style.
csdeven on April 3, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Yes, because there are just numerous instances of right-wing crusaders committing acts of terrorism these days, aren’t there. Hell, you can’t even turn on the news these days without hearing about some skinhead/Richard the Lionheart-wannabe killing dozens of innocent civilians, can you?
thirteen28 on April 3, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Ah, I see. (Sorry, I was leaving work and missed this.) The way I see it, if they say it’s Xtians, they make some people mad, admittedly unfairly. If they say it’s Radical Islam, they get to be fair, but they get sued by the ACLU and the local taxpayers foot the bill. Which one will blow over faster?
Maybe they’re thinking of banning headscarves like that school in Paris. ;o)
Yes, he knows who I am, psycho.
Tanya on April 3, 2007 at 7:44 PM
You’re preaching to the choir. I’m not saying it’s RIGHT that PC-ness and appeasement are winning. I’m just saying it’s TRUE.
Tanya on April 3, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Wait!…Don’t you remember the right wing crusaders hijacking those airplanes on 9-11 and crashing them into the WTC, the Pentagon and that field in Pennsylvania? How about that Christian evangelist, Richard Reid, the infamous shoe bomber or the plot by those Pentecostals to mix fluids together and blow up those trans-Atlantic flights…or the attacks in London, spain and that school in Russia. And that Catholic student who ran over a bunch of other studentsin North Carolina because they wren’t Catholic? You don’t remember that? Well why not?
sdd on April 3, 2007 at 7:55 PM
All the Christians in the community should get together in front of the school and have a peaceful protest. And they should pray while they are at it.
Rose on April 3, 2007 at 7:56 PM
It’s the Columbine High School scenario mixed with right wing extremism and religious fanaticism for dramatic effect. I’m surprised they didn’t include some of the “Going Postal” scenario and make these guys Gulf War vets dressed in postal uniforms as well.
RedinBlueCounty on April 3, 2007 at 8:23 PM
If it makes you feel good to call others names, Ms. Post, have at it. We’re just observers of your game, that’s all.
Entelechy on April 3, 2007 at 8:41 PM
Why do they even have to give the mock hostage-takers an identity anyway. What, do they handle a hostage situation differently for wacko Christian hostage takers than for say bank robbers holding up in a school, or Islamic hostage takers?
Waiting for the embassies to start burning…waiting…waiting….
vcferlita on April 3, 2007 at 9:14 PM
First of all, does this group, the “New Crusaders” even exist? A quick search turned up nothing for me. Second of all, can they site one example of anything remotely close to this ever happening (I can however site the Columbine killers, one of whom was wearing a shirt that read “Natural Selection”). Also, a girl wouldn’t be expelled for praying before class, that’s retarded.
But above all else, would such a radical even have their daughter attending public school in the first place? Give me a freakin’ break.
As long as no Muslims’ feelings were hurt in this staged situation, we can all go about our business.
RightWinged on April 3, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Why doesn’t somebody DO something?
Jewel on April 3, 2007 at 9:37 PM
ART IMITATES LIFE?
Did anyone see last week’s South Park episode, “The Snuke” where Cartman suspects that a new Muslim student is behind a terrorist threat that involves having hidden a suitcase nuke in Hillary Clinton’s snatch (suitcase nuke in snatch = snuke) just as South Park’s citizens prepare for her big campaign rally? You can watch the whole episode there. (It’s 20 minutes you’re not likely to forget!)
With that episode in mind, I must point out the fact that the Hilldog (as they call her in SP) was just HERE IN NEW JERSEY YESTERDAY appearing with our ethically-challenged Governor Corzine not too far from the above school in Burlington Township.
Don’t miss the scene where they have the Hildabeast in stirrups to remove the snuke. Imagine being the one who drew the short straw for that task. It’s HILL-ARIOUS!
Just in case I can’t get that link thang to function you can cut and paste the web address (I have no connection to it other than I frequent it regularly to counterbalance all the Rosie/Pelosi/Penn/Streisand… insanity).
NightmareOnKStreet on April 3, 2007 at 10:22 PM
P.S. for the above South Park link: you don’t have to download the episode onto your hard drive you can choose the “Stream (watch now)” link. You might want to empty your bladder first…
NightmareOnKStreet on April 3, 2007 at 10:25 PM
That does it, I am no longer a Jerseyite.
This is so stupid. How about an eco-terror group, attacking the school for serving hamburgers and chicken tenders in the lunchroom? Or an animal rights group attacking the school for disecting frogs in science class? Or, perhaps, a muslim group attacking the school because the team’s mascot is a wild boar? No no, let’s make it a Christian group attacking the school for not letting a student pray, because we all know *they* won’t cut our heads off. What does that say about how these people view muslims? What, are ALL muslims terrorists? You think you can’t have “muslims” in your training because, what, they might turn *violent* or something??? Whattaya tryin’ to say about muslims, huh?
Tony737 on April 3, 2007 at 10:41 PM
I seen that too.
“Somebody snuck a snuke in her snizz.”
lol
csdeven on April 3, 2007 at 11:21 PM
So what struck me was the ideal that someone could get suspended for praying before class… That this would be in anyway a pretext for a terror attack… We still have a Constitution! I guess that modeling an attack after, let’s say, two guys in Trench Coats who ask kids if they are Christian then kill them if they say yes… I guess that would be a bit too far fetch.
Gwillie on April 4, 2007 at 2:21 AM
I glad this rule wasn’t in place when I was going to school…..I would have been expelled every day fro every class. “Please God get me through this test, class or hour.” Or “Please God have ___________ (enter favorite hotties name) say yes to the date, dance or whatever.”
Something about “in a handbasket” comes to mind.
We really should start cracking down on all the right winged nutjobs. I submit myself for detention and I’ll chain myself to the horizontal brass pole in front of the vertical one.
VikingGoneWild on April 4, 2007 at 2:47 AM
If you have trouble with the South Park link, it is on You Tube also in 3 parts. Just enter “South Park 1104 The Snuke” in the search bar.
MalkinFan on April 4, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Trader67, you’re not the only conservative in NJ. Hello from another one.
Consider moving to Hamilton (Mercer Co.). You’d at least have something right here. The school district is surely as looney left as Burlington’s, and our mayor is a big lib, but our township council has a veto-proof 4-1 Republican majority. Not surprisingly, our taxes are the lowest in the county, for which, not surprisingly, the Democrat mayor takes all the credit.
Regarding what happened half an hour down US Route 130 in Burlington, groan! I won’t say it couldn’t happen from some nutjob sullying the name of Christ, but I can think of many more likely sources. Frankly, I think today’s anti-war movement would be more likely to go completely unhinged like that, but it wouldn’t be PC to label them that way in a drill, now would it?
flutejpl on April 4, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Gosh all we got to do was huddle under our desks in preparation for the A bomb. Even as a child this struck me as rather thin.
honora on April 4, 2007 at 2:22 PM
A few ideas for groups America’s schools might consider featuring in future terrorism drills:
1) NASCAR Fans
2) Swift Boat Veterans
3) Libertarians
4) Fox News Correspondents
5) Global Warming Deniers
Blacklake on April 4, 2007 at 6:21 PM
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