In the exercise, an undercover police officer took a classroom hostage to test the university’s emergency communications system.
It happened in Room 236 of Moore Hall during a small American Foreign Policey [sic] class. For 12 minutes, students lined up against the wall, and one began praying. Many of them, including the professor, were unaware the ordeal was a drill.
Gee, sending out emails and text messages--just like at Virginia Tech. And don't you just love the idiot administrator Anthony Brown, explaining "Those are the kind of gambles you need to play in order to find out if the system will really work"?
And lest you wonder what the "system" is, don't take my word for it, take theirs:
So everyone is disarmed except "The Only Ones," the only morons who would pull such a bone-headed stunt--authorized, naturally, by bone-headed administrators.
We told them we were going to have a drill, they protest. Just not what kind.
Yeah, I remember those--the fire alarm would go off, the teacher would explain it's a drill and we'd need to get up and walk out in an orderly manner to our designated spot in the parking lot for a head count.
Oh, but "had anyone compromised their safety, they would have called it off right away," we're assured.
So what happens when someone is put in a situation where they think they're going to die any second? Adrenalin shoots through the system, the heart starts pumping like a trip-hammer, breath speeds up, the entire system stresses--have these idiots never heard of heart attacks? What if the new mother had still been pregnant and the shock induced a miscarriage?
And what the hell was the point of the drill? That you can scare the hell out of unarmed people? Get them to do anything you say at gun point? How does that improve campus safety?
But I guess we did prove one thing: Campus cops, even though it took 12 minutes for them to get there, plenty of time for the entire room to have been wiped out, will not hesitate to burst into a classroom in force--when they know the gunman is one of their own and the weapon he's deploying is a fake.
How about we do a real drill, give the administrators a taste of their own medicine, see if they agree it helps "to test the security measures and make faculty and students feel safe." Because it wouldn't be "our intention to frighten or scare anyone."
Honest to God, when I first received this link, I thought it was a hoax. Nobody could be that stupid, not even people who work at it like college administrators and campus "Only Ones". But I do now see why they're so intent on keeping guns out of student and faculty hands. Because had that stupid sonofabitch burst in on an armed American who knows how to handle himself, there's a good chance the day would have ended in even more violence than the "Only Ones" initiated.
And it would have served the silly bastard right.
The only thing left to do now is to identify everyone who took place in this plot to commit assault, unlawful detention, terrorist activity, and whatever other charges can be filed, and get every one of the conspirators involved charged and prosecuted by the local DA and the feds--as you or I would deservedly be if we ever committed anything so bizarrely twisted, negligent, threatening and hazardous.
[Via HZ]
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You have a drill like that with me in the class and the perpetrator is likely to be justifiably shot.
Fight islam Now
Even being disarmed, if any of the students had recognized that the weapon was a fake he could have been beaten to death with chairs. Someday, one of the "exercises" is going to result in the death of the perpetrator. That day can't come soon enough.
These idiots are lucky everyone in there were resigned to be sheep. Had someone been carrying against policy been there we might be talking about something different at this point.
I teach full time at a local college and carry concealed, in conformity with law but against school policy, each day. I shudder to think what would have happened if my classroom had been chosen for such a "drill."
See, guys, they'd use that as a reason why they were right that students and faculty should not be armed--because an unnecessary death resulted that wouldn't have if only the police have guns.
Any doubts that's the way it would play out?
This whole damn story is so unbelievably stupid, part of me wonders if there was an intelligence behind it hoping that would happen. Nah, I think my tinfoil hat is coming loose again.
The stupidity of it amazes me in two specific ways:
(1) They assume that because school policy forbids firearms, that people will check their natural right to self-defense at the door. Typical bureaucratic mindset: "But we SAID you can't do that! How dare you do it!"
(2) The news article says that the warning was kept vague so that it would be realistic. Realistic? It could have been WAY MORE REALISTIC, and would have been had it been in my classroom. And I can't be the only one.
I hope they prosecute that cop and the administration for kidnapping, making terroristic threats, and conspiracy to commit said crimes.
What do you bet this "drill" would never be attempted in Utah.
Utah University Administrator to campus police: "We will be conducting a drill like the one in NC."
Campus police: "Are you NUTS! I'm not getting MYSELF shot!"
How ironic. That's probably why you won't see any mass shootings there in the first place.
"It's really to test the security measures and make faculty and students feel safe."
Most likely to test whether people are still sheep. If you think you're going to die, why not fight back.
Don't you hate that phrase, "feel safe"? How about allowing them to be "safe"?
With recent atrocities so well in mind of students on campii it is both a wonder and sad that the fake terrorist wasn't beaten to death.
It is a wonder that people who have seen how these situations usually turn out for the unarmed victims didn't violently resist even in face of what they had reason to believe was an armed assailant, for they had every reason to believe they had nothing to lose by trying to take him down and thus save their own lives.
It is ineffably sad that having this knowledge not a single one of them had the will to attempt survivial. That none of them thought highly enough of themselves to risk themselves in an attempt to assert their right to life, but rather lined up against a wall hoping for the dispensation of privilege of life at the whim of what they thought to be crazed killer, is truly sad and speaks ill of the state of character of our society.
"So what happens when someone is put in a situation where they think they're going to die any second?"
He stops and checks his e-mail?
Don't tell me I'm the only sysop who sees the absolute folly of using e-mail for emergency communication, or even transport-assured communication. Department stores have figured out more effective ways of alerting staff of shoplifters. These Nobel laureates can't be bothered to discuss even the fundamentals with their commsci department.
So THAT'S why they don't want students to be armed! They don't want to get shot when they pull this lunacy!
What about Monclair State
University requiring students
to carry school-provided cell
phones? Information Week May 2006.
It would be interesting to see
administration response to
student-initiated drills -- although unarmed resistance
might not be that worth practicing.
Had that happened when I was last in a classroom the perp would likely have had his fool neck broken. At those ranges knife and hth can be effective, especially with a class full of targets.
Want to bet that anyone killing such a criminal would get prosecuted?
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