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The image shows

mrG — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:59:11 -0400

The image shows kevlar-packed flac-jacket camoflaged officers (plural) combing the woods with a German Sheppard, their quarry? A frightened 14 year old boy 'armed' with only a knife and explicitly "not believed to be a danger to the public" but hey, what a GREAT opportunity to drive home the 'importance' of the lunacy of the Lockdown Drill. Welcome to the future.

"They know who he is, there's no issue there," Const. Steve Starr, media relations officer with the Grey County OPP, said in an interview. "It's just a matter of making an arrest in due course of their investigation."
[ Grey Bruce - Ontario, CA ]

Just to recap: Multiple armed officers and their dog, grade-school boy who is not a threat, a school full of needlessly frightened children. Let that sink in, and then I'll tell you about the little 8 year old girl who was fine with general police/army imagery until the first fake terrorism-attack exercise in her school; now she reacts to such images with a full-on panic attack.

I expect the authorities will recommend we drug her.

Too true to be funny. The

a stranger — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:19:00 -0500

Too true to be funny. The anti-terrorist measures I see being taken don't actually _do_ anything, other than scare the very people they're supposed to protect.

Current score: Terrorists 1, population 0.

Lock Down Your Heart

mrG — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:09:13 -0500

And beware, there are infidels at the gates ready to rend it asunder -- we decided to yank our kids from the school today, in protest of the Lock Down Drill being foisted on our kids in the name of anti-terrorism. We're going to take them shopping instead, as it seems that for all the commercialism and materialism that may deck the malls, that world is still nonetheless within the seasonal message of goodwill and hope that maybe, just maybe there is the slimmest chance that some child-in-arms Prince of Peace may someday make all such terrors of young hearts a thing of the past. Let's have a drill to lock-down into that concept, eh?