Mock Terrorist Drill at New Jersey School Uses Right Wing Christian Fundamentalists as Terrorists

Many Think Public Schools Are Liberal Indoctrination Camps, Could They Be Right?

By Chaotic Ramblings, published Apr 05, 2007
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On March 22, 2007, the Burlington Township High School conducted a mock terror drill using Right Wing Christian Fundamentalists as the terrorists. The scenario revolved around a family attacking the school after their daughter was expelled for praying before class. Disturbed by the fictional scenario, many Christian students went home and complained to their parents.

In the mock terror drill, the gunmen, portrayed by two Burlington Township police detectives, were members of a right wing fundamentalist group called the "New Crusaders". This group supposedly didn't support the separation of church and state and had entered the school, shot some students and took over the school's media center because one of their daughters had been expelled for praying before class.

Many sources are highly irate about this mock terror drill, stating that using "Christian" fundamentalists, instead of Islamic terrorists, makes no sense. The school Superintendent, Chris Manno, worked with Burlington Township Police Department to come up with the strange scenario for the mock terror drill. "You perform as you practice," Superintendent Chris Manno said prior to the exercise. "We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible." Considering the fact that prayer before class is protected by the Constitution, the basis of the scenario was completely unrealistic.

In response to Chris Manno's statement above, Bob Pawson, a Trenton public school teacher, asks, "So what allegedly real condition was imagineered? A grotesque scenario saturated with Christian-bashing prejudice and bigotry; a scenario which could never possibly occur."

Burlington Township released the following statement on April 4, 2007:

 
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  • Mock terror scenario revolved around two right wing Christian fundamentalists attacking a school.
  • Christian students were outraged and reported the mock terror drill to their parents.
  • Fox News Channel seems the only mainstream media organization to report on this story.
Resources
  • Burlington County Times
  • Christian News Wire
  • Burlington Township Press Release
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instead of loving those who choose to live differently from them and living alongside them in harmony, they have separate. they are judgmental and hateful. the act, in their dealings with others, the opposite of Christ. they even act in their dealings with fellow i.f.'s the opposite of Christ! the most obvious of these and the most prevalent example is with the homosexual community. i am not suggesting that everyone should believe the same way. i'm not suggesting that homosexuals or heterosexuals are right or wrong, even. i am simply stating that those who are filled with Christ's love, exude love. i am stating that they don't belittle or look down on someone because of their lifestyle or beliefs. i think it's unquestionable wrong to insult anyone verbally and then to wave a sign in front of their faces telling them they are going to hell and then to get upset and shocked when, in a terrorist evacuation drill, they are portrayed as the terrorists! perhaps it's time i.f. took anothe

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Posted on 07/20/2007 at 12:07:00 PM

 
service at an i.f. baptist church and is asked to leave because pants on a woman are ungodly and immodest. it seems like most i.f.s have the tendency to bash anyone who doesn't believe exactly the way they do. according to them, there is only one way to praise or to seek God's face or what have you. the majority of i.f.s claim to know everything about the multifacetedness of God, and in turn, they begin to judge others based on their personal beliefs of how God is. is it any wonder people of other faiths see them as potential terrorists? how much does it take to go from publicly scorning someone because of their lifestyle to wanting to obliterate them in the name of Jesus? don't get me wrong, i'm not suggesting that i.f.'s are terrorists. i'm just looking objectively at the signs. and to me, someone who was raised i.f. it's no surprise that people think they are capable of such actions. i.f.s seemingly have gotten away from teaching love the way Christ taught it. instead of loving

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Posted on 07/20/2007 at 12:07:00 PM

 
i believe this is a wake up call. christians today, mostly of the independnt fundamental(i.f.) denomination spend the majority of their time shooting people down. forgetting that we all are equal in certain aspects. that no one is more righteous than the next. don't believe me? who sits at football games holding signs that scream of God's "hatred" for the homosexuals at the same time forgetting that God disapproveds of liars, too. i simply mean, if they are going to target committers of sin, shouldn't they start by holding a revelation 21:8 sign in front of the mirror? revelation 21:8 states: "[and] lal liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone...." who hasn't lied before? why are i.f.'s picking toothpicks out of other's eyes when they have coffee table legs dangling from their irises?! my point is this. i.f.'s are sort of notorious for passing judgments. we've all heard the stories, a woman wearing pants goes to a sunday morning worship service a

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Posted on 07/20/2007 at 12:07:00 PM

 
...In short, I for one am unwilling to sacrifice the security of the schools in our nation in the name of political correctness, on the alter of liberalism. I know the facts won't change liberal minds; as Micheal Savage often says, liberalism is a mental disorder. It's only hope for a cure is rehabilitation through extensive education. So call me racist, bigoted, and hateful, because those words are merely the liberals default response to sound logic.

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Posted on 05/03/2007 at 4:05:00 PM

 
Like everyone else, I have no problem with terrorist drills, but I just want to know what is unreasonable about expecting the superintendent to follow his own advice, and spend time practicing for scenarios that are likely to occur. The few events that liberals have scrounged up which they claim are 'Christian' terrorism are ridiculously uncommon, and besides that, the "christians" who commit these acts are so distorted from what the Bible teaches that it is irresponsible journalism to refer to them as Christians. On the other hand, Islamic terrorism is rampant and often takes the form of child murder. We have seen time and time again the depths to which Muslims will sink to follow their sick religion, including school shooting, such as the recent one which I believe took place in Russia. These Islamic terrorists, unlike their 'Christian' counterparts, are actually obeying what the Quran commands regarding Infidels, and even other Muslims who seek to live peacefully. In short, I for on

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Posted on 05/03/2007 at 4:05:00 PM

 
Whoever said that christians haven't been persecuted "just because the were christians" on a grand scale needs to look into the Roman Empire. Christians were rounded up thrown in a ring and ripped apart by lions for the entertainment of others. Rome was set on fire by nero and the christians blamed. Every group has had its persecution. History turns the persecuted into the persecutors. No group is without exception. There are Radical extremists on all sides. To identify the entire group by the individual actions of a few people isn't right. I think it was a smart idea to practice being attacked at school but why did they have to pick such a name for the group? It has obviously been taken the wrong way by many people. You can't please everyone but you can try and ensure that what you're doing isn't taken the wrong way.

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Posted on 05/03/2007 at 4:05:00 PM

 
The whole "New Crusaders" makes it pretty clear they are talking about Christians. Who else is associated with the name "crusader"?

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Posted on 04/21/2007 at 10:04:00 AM

 
Heather, I guess I would have to say that they (christians) are the only group aggressively pushing prayer as an agenda in America, and the only group with one of their own at the top (pres) and the group most likely to have fringe members of its movement attempt acts when their agenda falls out of favor...(discredited and gone administration, loss of political power, etc..and then there is the fact that most terrorist acts perpetrated in America already have a christian tie-abortion clinic bombings, Waco, etc...

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Posted on 04/21/2007 at 10:04:00 AM

 
I am still stumped as to why people are associating this with Christians. I think it's kind of arrogant to assume they were referring to Christianity when nothing in the drill was exclusive to Christians. People of all faiths pray, and people of all faiths care about prayer in school and want their religion better represented in schools and the government. The term Crusader no longer just applies to Christians, but anyone who conducts some sort of Crusade. I've heard the Muslim terrorists described as Crusaders. And haven't you heard of the Caped Crusader? :) Why have people just decided that because it was about prayer in school, it means the group was Christian? Did they suddenly become the only group that prays, wants prayer in school, and wants better representation by the government?

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 1:04:00 PM

 
It's beyond me why officials thought it was a good idea to have angry Christians as the terrorists. Despite any alleged realism they were going for, how could they not predict upsetting so many people. When I was in high school, we acted out a similar scenerio (terrorist attacking school, shooting students, etc.), but no label was used -- Islamic or Christian or anything else. Good article, Chaotic.

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 12:04:00 PM

 
Nothing chaotic about these ramblings. There are people even right here in AC that believe fervently that Christians are not worthy of the rights afforded everyone else. Good write. Stay on the point, Marine.

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 9:04:00 AM

 
The point here is that a terrorist is a terrorist. That is a small group of people that cannot fulfill it's goals thru persuasion and leadership, attraction and truth. It must resort to scaring people into submission to the will of the group's manifest. It does not matter who does that, if it's a person using a Christian tag, a sectarian atheistic tag or a freaking Muslim tag. If someone is telling me or anybody what I will or will not do with my mind, my body, or my soul without my voluntary consent...then they are out of bounds...and maybe they are even terrorist...sounds like a wife I had once...now there's one to be rolled and checked for clarity...

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 9:04:00 AM

 
(What were you, molested by a preacher...?) Get ...help. You are a terrorist. You make me want to come to Oregon and see what the heck so much hate and anger looks like in one place.

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 9:04:00 AM

 
Jeff, would you please plan and execute a movement to eliminate all of the people you think need to be eliminated so that we can get on with something worthwhile. The petty idiotic junk you continually propagate is not "Christian". It is a pre-existing manifest of hate to which the perps have tagged a label of hijacked Christianity and they, Jim Jones, That clown from the Branch Davidians, etc are not "Christian" at all. The difference is, we will say so. The only people from the other side of what you are "really" talking about who wanted to be freed from tyrrany were the Iraqis. They BEGGED us for !@ years to come and clean house. When the need arose, the action was taken. Do you stop midwipe when you see that you did not finish...do you sit back down and complete the job or do you just leave and wait dirty till the next need for a significant bowel movement arises? Damn, dude, get off the "I Hate Christians Soapbox". We get it already. What were you, molested by a preacher...? Get

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 9:04:00 AM

 
First of all, I don't mind terrorist drills. I am a conservative Christian, but I am not a terrorist. Also, why offend any Arab students you have by making it seem like Islamic terrorists are the only ones? Why not just say "If a terrorist invades, this is what we do." Why do schools feel the need to label the terrorists instead of just making sure people know what to do? Labeling them was not right. And just a side not, Christian terrorists like the "God Hates America" movement are 99.9% probably not Christians.

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Posted on 04/07/2007 at 8:04:00 AM

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