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]