Right-wing Fundie Xians don't like being portrayed as possible "Red Team" in Law Enforcement drill

[Ian David]

The following is from the website of an Apocalyptic Christian Suicide Cult that looks forward to the death of Israel and the Jews in a global War of Armageddon:




Then They Came for Me
Bill Haymin
July 20, 2007
By Elwood Mcquaid
www.foi.org

The headline read, “New Jersey School Stages Practice Hostage Drill – Portrays Killers as Fundamentalist Christians.” This was not something out of a Michael Moore movie. It was, according to news reports, a real-time drill staged to prepare local agencies to handle another Columbine. That, you will remember, is when two students shot up their local high school outside Denver, Colorado, in 1999, killing 13 people and wounding 24 others.

Burlington School Superintendent Chris Manno praised the New Jersey drill saying, “You perform as you practice. 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.”

However, this drill should have sent a chilling message to conservative Christians because the hostage-taking attackers were depicted as “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the ‘New Crusaders.’” According to an article by David Levinsky in the March 23 Burlington (NJ) County Times, the “Christian gunmen” were “seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.”

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Silence from the left-leaning Fourth Estate has prevailed for so long that few are surprised or outraged at the lack of balanced reporting when such events transpire. It’s simply the same story one more time. Why, however, are more evangelicals not sounding an alarm over where this phenomenon is taking us? Have we become self-inflicted victims of tunnel vision? Or are most evangelicals so uninformed that they are ignorant of the serious problems looming over the horizon? Perhaps the average Christian in Western society is so comfortable that indifference has become a state of life and people say to themselves, well, as long as it doesn’t affect me or mine.

More:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=32620



See also:


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http://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/right-wing-terrorism-is-re-classed-as-extremism-and-discreetly-ignored/


Monday, July 18, 2005

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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/04/2bb5abe0-d760-40fd-af57-6afa2ac7c06a.html

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Christian terrorist attempts car-bombing in Iowa
# Sep 26th, 2006
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060912/NEWS/60912022/1001/NEWS

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. So, the "Friends of Israel" are complaining because...

They do not want the police to storm the school when they break in and take hostages with the use of guns and homemade bombs? That must certainly be the case, because otherwise their allusion to Martin Niemoller's poem is totally nonsensical.

But then again, these are the Talibangelicals, so nonsensical is par for the course.

[TlalocW]

2. What do they expect?

Their kind just put out a first person shooter video game where you're left behind after the rapture and have to shoot people or convert them to Christianity. Just imagine a bunch of these religious whack-jobs driving to work on Monday morning after spending all night Sunday playing it. They pull up behind a car parked at a red light. They look at the bumper sticker that says, "Come the Rapture, this Car Will Be Unoccupied." They smile, but then they notice that they can't see anyone in the driver's seat (because the person is leaning across to the passenger side to pick something up that fell on the floor). They *SNAP*!!! and head to the nearest school with a gun.

I'm sure this is a plausible scenario. I'll email Jack Thompson to make sure.

TlalocW