Active Shooter Drill w/"Vendetta/Facebook" BS goes terribly wrong in Bay County

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How and Why Behavioral Intervention Teams Make K-12 Schools Safer
http://www.aggressionmanagement.com/White_Paper_K-12/AMIS_Behavioral_Intervention_Team_for_K12_WhitePaper.pdf

1. Our purpose: To provide educational institutions with the tools to sustain safe and secure school environments by offering a system that prevents and mitigates violent activities (i.e., shootings, bombings, assaults in general).

2. Our program: Campus Behavioral Health Risk Consultants, LLC and the Center for Aggression Management, working with the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA) have developed practical, objective and scalable Behavioral Intervention Teams that maximize their results without overwhelming school resources; this - method is called Aggression Management Intervention System or fp I AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team. Based on years of research into aggressive behavior and the development of practical tools to identify, measure, and assess emerging human aggression, AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team is an effective system for achieving maximum school safew. AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team has four principle attributes, which are each practical and scalable:

A) Objective and culturally neutral indicators of potential aggression in place of the current subjective ones.
B) Measurable quantitative indicators of potential aggression that provide for applied scientific “cause and effect” principles, in place of the current qualitative ones.
C) District-wide approach that enables schools to prevent violence by getting ahead of threats, rather than the current situation which is too often reactive to committed acts of aggression.
D) Forensic process with longitudinal tracking that more readily leads to legal defensibility in contrast to the current situation in many school districts where poor communication between administrators, parents, students and teachers fail to identify aggressors in a timely basis, which can result in significant lawsuits.

3. The current state of K-12 safety: Research has determined that from the Moment of Commitment (the point when a student pulls their weapon) to the Moment of Completion (when the last round is fired) is only 5 seconds. If it is the intent of a school district to react to this violence, they will do so over the wounded and/or slain bodies of students, teachers and administrators.

Educational institutions clearly want safe and secure schools. Administrators are perennially queried by parents about the safety of their schools. The commonplace answers, intended to reassure anxious parents, focus on the school resource officers and emergency procedures. While useful, these less than adequate efforts do not begin to provide a definitive answer to preventing school violence, nor do they make a school safe and secure. Traditionally school districts have relied upon the mental health community or local police to keep schools safe, yet one of the key shoitcomings has been the lack of a system that involves teachers, administrators, parents and students in the identification and communication process. Recently, colleges, universities and community colleges are forming Behavioral Intervention Teams with representatives from all these constituencies. Higher Education has changed their safew/security policies, procedures, or surveillance systems, yet K-12 have yet to incorporate Behavioral Intervention Teams. K-12 schools continue spending excessive amounts of money to put in place many of the physical security options. Sadly, they are reactionary only and do little to prevent aggression because they are designed exclusively to react to existing conflict, threat and violence. These schools reflect a national blindspot, which prefers hardening targets through enhanced security versus preventing violence with efforts directed at aggressors. Security gets all the focus and money, but this only makes us ï safe, rather than to actually @ige us safer.

Some schools today are relying on law enforcement and/or mental health models of threat assessment to improve school safety.

A) Current Law Enforcement/School Resource Officers Threat Assessment Models are of limited applicability as follows:
1) Law enforcement-based threat assessment models depend at best on sophisticated tools and technology that are not readily adapted outside the law enforcement context, and at worst, on profiling. When effective, they offer insight into potential criminality. However, much of the behavior that falls within the purview of school conduct administrators is not criminal in nature.
2) Law enforcement officers are restricted to thresholds of “reasonable suspicion” and "probable cause” before they may take any official action beyond a simple conversation. To do so puts the officer and the school district at risk of a lawsuit. Law enforcement threat assessment models tend to address threats to facilities and organizations. That capacity is impoitant, but there must be a broader approach to threat assessment. Threat assessment tools designed to avert terrorist acts or assassinations may be valuable, but do not address the comprehensive issues of school violence that rarely involve such actions.
3) In his new well-researched book, Just 2 Seconds, Gavin deBecker illustrates that the span of time from the moment a shooter pulls his/her weapon (Moment of Commitment) to the point when the last round is fired (Moment of Completion) is approximately five seconds. The only way a school can avert a tragic event is to identify this perpetrator prior to his/her Moment of Commitment. We can and must accomplish this.
4) Some law enforcement agencies use profiling as a means to identify an aggressor. According to the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education’s report on Targeted Violence in Schools, there is a significant difference between “profiling” and identifying and measuring emerging aggression; We can and must assess objective, culturally neutral, identifiable criteria of emerging aggression.

B) Current Mental Health Threat Assessment Models are of limited applicability:
1) Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy,
2) Educational institutions historically rely on school counselors for some measure of insight and analysis of threat assessment. While this function brings a necessary element to the table, it is only part of the overall threat assessment capacity needed. In addition, counseling services are spread dangerously thin, as school districts are coming to over-rely on their counselors with heavier caseloads and asking them to take on an increasingly large number of mental health issues (suicidal students, social skill training, developing outreach programs on health and wellness topics).
3) The tools used in the mental health field, often based on actuarial data and academic studies, are essential for assessing the potential for harm to self and suicidality. However, assessing for the potential of harm to others is also an essential element, and in this task school mental health assessments lack the ability to predict this violence and are therefore not as reliable.
4) One must acknowledge not all risks brought to the attention of schools’ conduct administrators stem from mental health roots. A more easily obtainable and applicable capacity for assessing the potential of harm to others is needed.

4. Using law enforcement and mental health models: As school districts move progressively back to a commitment of “in loco parentis,” educational institutions often find themselves caught between the subjective nature of mental health threat assessment and the necessary high legal thresholds of law enforcement involvement. Example: A counselor tells you a student “may or may not harm him/herself” or avoids the assessment altogether claiming it is outside their ethical obligations or scope of practice. Law enforcement has no probable cause to act. Schools are caught in the middle with concerned administrators, teachers and parents depending on the school to do something. Many schools are quickly being overcome by subjective statements made by students, parents and teachers, all of which is time consuming and can be overwhelming. The challenges are described as:
A) These current approaches are highly subjective as they do not use objective, measurable indicators. They are wrought with stereowping and profiling, and therefore result in far too many false positives.
B) Each call and stated concern must be thoroughly investigated. In the absence of an objective system, this can easily overwhelm the school’s ability to respond in a timely basis, if at all.
C) The process is generally reactive to incidents rather than preventive. It does not get out in front of the aggression as needed and does not protect schools against the horrific Moment of Commitment.
D) It does not easily achieve legal defensibility of actions taken, and can place the perceived legal necessity to do somet/1/hg above what may be in the best interests of students or the school district. One can easily see the problem is finding objective criteria that can be fairly applied and which do not othervvise discriminate against certain students. Similar to the futile attempts by schools, corporate America has been encumbered for years in trying to profile an aggressor prior to their hiring by virtue of their past history or future propensity to demonstrate aggression at work.

The above Wall Street Journal graphic illustrates the difficulties plaguing corporate America and now school districts in their endeavor to identify a potential aggressor prior to admission to schools.
A) Once a student has been admitted to a school and, in the absence of comprehensive due diligence, the school now wants their expulsion, that school district can be liable for discrimination or other causes of action.
B) Requiring a psychological assessment can be seen as an invasion of privacy and raises serious confidentiality concerns as well.
C) Requesting information from prior schools may not bear fruit, and many vvill not respond appropriately for fear of an accusation of defamation.
D) Requiring additional restrictions on students without comprehensive due process can result in an ADA action.
E) Relatively few of those who have committed oveit acts of aggression have criminal records, therefore, requiring a criminal background check does not eliminate the vast majority of aggressors as well as minors’ records are sealed.
F) School Districts that do nothing to address this emerging problem will most ceitainly face increasing liability of gross negligence for acts of aggression in their schools.
G) School Districts are rapidly losing their strong legal defense that violence was not foreseeable, due in pant to current methods that make aggression more “foreseeable.”

5. How the AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team provides school districts with a safer and more secure schools: Based on years of research into aggressive behavior, and the development of practical tools to identify, measure, and assess emerging human aggression, AMIS is the most effective system any behavioral intervention team can use to achieve maximum school safety and security in a practical and scalable way. AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team consists of three basic components, as follows.

A) First, AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team establishes a trained cadre of First Observers (FOs) who provide school-wide eyes and ears in order to identify potential aggressors. These Observers apply objective indicators to measure emerging human aggression. The use of “objective indicators” avoids both the stereotyping of individuals as well as preventing the overwhelming number of subjective sightings, all of which must be investigated. FOs are not new staff, but instead include frontline resource officers, teachers, and administrators and any other personnel who are already in positions to observe and repoit.

B) The second component is the AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team software-based Objective Recording System (ORS). The software provides a Dropdown Tool of objective indicators and a recording mechanism for the FO to chronicle the indicators observed. It also records how the third component - the Qualified Responders (QRs) - respond and what their results are. The software makes the process eminently objective because it illustrates scientific “cause and effect” principles and therefore provides a higher level of legal defensibility. ORS also has the capacity for longitudinal tracking of an individual’s behaviors over time, permitting a school to track emerging aggressive behavior across all grounds, offices and classes.

C) Engage this aggressor with all needed resources at hand. Upon completion of the intervention, the QR members can then record their engagement and results demonstrating the use of scientific “cause and effect” principles within AMIS’s Objective Recording System (ORS). This helps QR members remain objective, which places them on a path to legal defensibility and offers an extra measure of protection for students, teachers, staff and school districts.

What do QRS know that untrained Behavioral Intervention Team members do not? They:
1. Understand the difference between Primal and Cognitive Aggression,
2. Know how to objectively measure aggression, and
3. Know which techniques to deploy to maximize their results.

See the following schematic for an illustration: Cognitive Aggression Primal Aggression

Can a school district identify someone who intends to do harm in one of their schools? The horrific shootings at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech (VT) and subsequently, Noithern Illinois University (NIU) demonstrate the need to understand the critical difference between two dramatically different kinds of aggression. Typically, school resource and law enforcement officers are trained to look for the “Primal Aggressor” (red-faced and ready to explode) when in fact these school shooters, are almost always classic “Cognitive Aggressors” (cold, completely detached and determined). If weapons were not visible, Columbine, the VT and NIU shooters probably could have walked right by most school security officers without being noticed. The Primal Aggressor is the person who loses control, possibly from an escalation of anger. The Cognitive Aggressor is a far more dangerous and elusive predator. It is not instinctual for one human-being to attack another; an aggressor must disconnect, depersonalize, and turn his or her victim into an object. As any human escalates up the Aggression Continuum, their body language and behavior expresses this disconnection with their victim. In the extreme, when an aggressor decides to give up their life for a cause (murder/suicide - Columbine Shooters/VT Shooter/NIU Shooter) they also disconnect from their own well-being. One can observe in this level of aggressor the thousand-yard stare and watch as their whole body and behaviors lose animation. This behavior and body language is predictable in all humans. It does not matter what culture, gender, education, age or hierarchy - viitually all humans respond with the same culturally neutral indicators. Perpetrators of murder/suicide present themselves as calm, deliberate and focused aggressors with no remorse or compunction about multiple killings without regard for age or gender. While a Primal Aggressor can become lethal in the extreme, they wpically can be defused, whereas Cognitive Aggressors become tactical and extremely lethal. In the AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team, students, parents, teachers, staff, and school resource/security officers become the frontlines for identifying these lethal Cognitive Aggressors. They must learn the measurable indicators that describe them. They must learn the techniques to defuse them.

6. An Example of AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team at work An aggressor is walking across school property. A member of the First Observers (FOs), and there are many on school grounds, observes some of the indicators that illustrate this individual might be a potential aggressor. AMIS’s Cognitive Aggressors provide specific body language, behavioral and communication indicators that can identify one of five levels of risk from “mild” to “extreme”. The First Observer (FO) immediately relays this information through the Objective Recording System (ORS) to an on duty Qualified Responder (QR). These objective indicators are recorded on the AMIS Dropdowns Tool, which produce a level of threat on its “Aggressionometer” or meter of hostile intent; providing an accurate indicator of emerging aggression and the level of threat posed by this aggression. One or more Qualified Responders (QRs) who are on duty can then objectively evaluate the level of threat and decide whether to take action, and if so, what action. These Qualified Responders can ask First Observers for more information before arriving at a course of action, which ranges from no action to a variety of interventions, including the arrest of the individual who rises to the “probable cause” threshold of law enforcement. The same process is followed in classrooms, cafeterias, administrative offices; wherever an aggressive action may occur. The goal of the AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team process is to prevent violence and aggression in most any form, through the identification of the potential aggressor and timely intervention by ceitified personnel. The system is designed to provide objective documentation and the capacity for longitudinal tracking of an individual’s behaviors over time. This can ultimately achieve legal defensibility, prevent or mitigate aggressive acts and ensure a safer and more secure school environment.

7. Training the Teams: AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Teams are provided training and ceitification. In this way a school district will be assured each ceitified paiticipant is fully competent at their requisite skills. FOs are usually trained in one-day workshop. Qualified Responders are always trained in-person, with a training utilizing role play and table top exercises, preparing them to respond to potentially intense circumstances in the most professional manner.

Program One: First Observers (FOs)

This FOs’ one-day workshop provides comprehensive coverage illustrating the distinction between AMIS’s Primal (adrenaline-driven) Aggression and Cognitive (intent-driven) Aggression.

Within this program, paiticipants will learn measurable (body language, behavior and communication) indicators that can help QRs (trained Behavioral Intervention Team members) identify aggressors before they effect their terror, prior to their Moment of Commitment. Paiticipants will learn these measured and objective indicators as well as the means to transfer this information through AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team sophisticated Objective Recording System (ORS) in a forensic procedure of sharing, which can permit Qualified Responders (QRs) to engage the prospective aggressor with the intent to prevent potential aggression. If prevention is not available, the QRs will focus on defusing this aggressor and if defusing is not available, these measurable indicators will assist the Qualified Responders (QRs)/School Resource Officers to bring the full resources both on and off the school grounds to bear to mitigate the possibility of a horrific attack. It is not the objective of this course that a First Observer (FOs) should engage an aggressor. Alternatively, these skills will promote and offer methods for a First Observer (FOs) and those in their care to remove themselves as a target of an aggressor.

There are four wpes of distinct First Observer (FOs) audiences:
Selected students
Selected parents
Teachers
Administrators
Others - bus operators, maintenance personal, etc.

Those who complete the course successfully receive a Ceitificate as a First Observer (FOs). Program Two: Qualified Responders (QRs)

This four-day, in-depth, face-to-face training (including ORS training) provides comprehensive coverage illustrating the distinction between AMIS’s Primal (adrenaline- driven) Aggression and the Cognitive (intent-driven) Aggression. Adjunct to this face-to- face training is ORS training for QRs. In the face-to-face training, participants learn to understand the implications of these culturally-neutral, measurable Primal and Cognitive Aggression indicators; how to engage a potential aggressor in the most effective way and prevent aggression at all levels. After 21/2-days of content training, there are 21/2 more days of intensive skills-application, and tabletop exercises including practice-role-playing and assessment. Much as each school district determines which individuals will participate as Behavioral Intervention Team members, so will they determine who will be their Qualified Responders (QRs). We recommend representatives from administration (especially those responsible for conduct), Mental and Behavioral Health and School Resource Officers as core paiticipants on any Qualified Responders’ Behavioral Intervention Team. With the following focus:

1. Based on measured culturally-neutral indicators, how to maximize their engagement creating the best possible - best practices - response to prevent, to defuse, or to mitigate aggression.

2. Customize our methodology for each school district, designed to address a legal cross-examination by utilizing a forensic objective process which can be easily documented and referenced.

3. Paiticipants will learn about the Core Team and how to utilize Supplemental Resources outside their Core Team (on or off school grounds) to maximize results in a professional way.

4. Discuss the role of school recourse officers, mental health counselors, etc.

5. Discussion of Reasonable Suspicion. (The Supreme Court has held that police may briefly detain a person if they have a reasonable suspicion the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. This reasonable suspicion must be based on “specific and articulable facts” and not merely upon an officer‘s hunch.)

6. Participants learn the appropriate application of HIPAA and FERPA regulations within AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention Team.

7. Using our Objective Recording System (ORS), participants learn how to reference, report, track, develop constructive outcomes and compile data collection with a focus on legal defensibility.

8. How to interview a First Observer (FO) to maximize collected information. AMIS’s Behavioral Intervention System allows any educational institution or school district a means of identifying, interviewing and proactively addressing potential threats, safety breaches and/or violence.

Campus Behavioral Health Risk Consultants, LLC, the Center for Aggression Management and the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA) come to this issue in our new post-Columbine, Virginia Tech and NIU world, from a variety of perspectives including clinical, legal, safew/security and education bringing together disciplines of administrators, resource/security officers, teachers, parents and students promulgating a culture and environment that is measurably safer.

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Hey look at this...The Mortgage Fraud and Active Shooters is a planned narrative...


Clay Duke, Bill Husfelt, and Subprime Mortgages – An American Tragedy
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/clay-duke-bill-husfelt-and-subprime-mortgages-an-american-tragedy/
Posted on December 15, 2010 by willyloman by Scott Creighton

Repealing Glass-Steagall, Sub-prime mortgages, Goldman Sachs, collateralized debt obligations, the SBA, the Race to the Top, Bill Husfelt, and Clay Duke. How two men met and neither knew why. Yesterday Clay Duke walked into a Bay County School Board meeting and he never walked out. He painted a V symbol on the wall in red spray paint, took out a gun, and announced that he was going to die that day. But Clay Duke wasn’t a violent man, at least he wasn’t yesterday. He allowed the audience members to leave peacefully and when a woman snuck up behind him, hit him on the head, and grabbed for the gun, he just pushed her down and allowed her to leave as well. I say he wasn’t violent because even though he fired his gun, he was standing within point-blank range of the man who fired his wife and he missed him completely. This was after he had turned and acknowledged the presence of an armed guard who had entered the room. Superintendent Bill Husfelt even said during the brief standoff that he knew that Clay Duke didn’t want to hurt anyone and that he was only there to get the police to kill him. Clay Duke didn’t want to kill anyone yesterday. He wanted them to know what they had done. He wanted them to feel it first hand.  He wanted them to remember.  And they will. But Clay was talking to the wrong people. Clay Duke’s wife had been fired by the Bay County School Board and his unemployment insurance was about to run out. When he stepped to the council members sitting behind the counter, he told Superintendent Husfelt “You fired my wife”

THIS IS A PLANNED NARRATIVE...THE RAND PROFILING SYSTEMS EVEN BEFORE THIS FALSE FLAG HAVE BEEN TARGETING ANYONE TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MORTGAGE FRAUD AS POSSIBLE PATSIES/TARGETS FOR DEMONIZATION.

Also, it cannot be overstated...there is absolutely no verification that the Facebook page was truly his doing, or that he was not helped to do it as part of standard props that are used for all active shooter drills. They are now using fake web pages and even fake web videos in Table Top exercises and there ar 20x the number of table top exercises than the live terror exercises.

So even though RAND is targeting anyone with a brain and free thought, this guy has no record whatsoever of being an informed constitutionalist exposing the lies by anti-government gloablist trilateral terrorists like the ones being targeted for demonization. But, the narrative they are using is one that seems to stem from the MIAC report and earlier.

So what happened right before this?

CPS Attempting to Kidnap Children From Foreclosure Truth Blogger:
"How much time do you spend on the computer?"
"We understand you are a 'blogger' and what exactly is your blog about?"
"Also it is said you have a 'conspiracy mind'"

http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2010/12/is-govt-trying-to-find-out-who-has-what.html

EXCERPT:
Is The Govt. trying to Find out, Who has What now? I ask, because - Child Services Interviewed My Child - Wanted to Know if We Had Solar Panels, Exactly Where We Go Camping and Hiking , If have Alternative Energy, If Food Stored, Then Came to my House! Updated Article on 12/3/10 with Video Clips From Interview

UPDATED 12/3/10 - VIDEO CLIPS OF INTERVIEW - AT BOTTOM and in an individual post here.

I have been very hesitant about releasing what happened to me regarding Child Protective Services.  But after discussing this with Dave Hodges, from the Commonsense Radio Show on Republic Broadcasting, he said I need to get this information out to the public.  This happened about one month ago now.Here is how it all began.I got a call from Child Protective Services, the woman said they had gotten a "call" about me and abuse of my child.  I was in shock, when she told me this.  I was completely confused and it also freaked me out, as I could not comprehend on why someone had called Child Services on me.  Anyone that knows me, knows how blessed I feel, in having my "miracle child"!I asked the woman, if they were going to have to go to her father's house also, she said "OH, I didn't know the father did not live there".  I gave her, the father's phone number and name.  I also, asked "How can I be sure, you are who you say you are".  She gave me the phone number for the office and said I could call it back.  After she let me know they would be at my house early the next morning and I was still completely freaked and confused on how someone could even think I have ever abused my child, I hung up.  I called her father and let him know what was going on.  The phone call was just a few minutes before my child was due home from school. When my child got home, I got a bigger shock!  My child told me, child services had come to her school that day and interviewed her!  I told her to wait, to tell me anything, as I wanted to put her on speaker phone with her father so she could tell us at the same time, what questions they asked.
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Please read the entire article ... this is SO disturbing I am having chills.
This woman's 'activities' would well describe just about ALL of us on
this forum. Are they going after our children as a deterrent - or just
using CPS as a pretense to get their feet in our doors?

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My child said, these are the questions they asked " Does your mother have SOLAR PANELS?  Where Exactly does your mother take you camping?  Where exactly have you gone hiking? Do you hike and then camp?  Does anyone else go with you camping?  What do you do when you go camping?  Does your mother have alternative energy?  Does your mother have stored food?  Does your mother have any guns?  Does your mother saying anything about "The end of the world"?  What kind of remodeling has your mother done to your home?  Do you have a "safe room", like a bomb shelter in your home?

My child also said she told child services, her father does not live with me and there was shared custody and that included being at my house for one week and then her father's house for one week.  So my child TOLD Child services the father and I did not live together!  I was upset, as the woman then lied to me on the phone saying "She did not know the father didn't live here".   I hung up with her father to call Child services and confront the woman.  Besides Child services asking what I considered were the MOST Bizarre questions I had EVER heard of, for a child abuse case!  What the the World do ANY of those questions have to do with "Child abuse"?!!!!!  

When the child services woman answered the phone, I started into her right away, saying she was not truthful  about not knowing the father didn't live here to me on the phone earlier!  She was a little taken back it seems, that I would be confronting her as I was!  She said "she did not remember my child telling her that"!  I was telling her "Really?, MY Child TOLD you all about her living with her father and about her brother there and Everything, and you DON'T remember that?!"   She said "No" she didn't!  I then said I had a HUGE problem with that fact then, because "What else, doesn't she remember in her conversation with my child, when she had just interviewed my child?".  I also asked her "Why in the world would you ask a child about "the end of the world and even put any ideas like that in a child's head"?  She was flustered and said "they have to ask questions in regards to any accusations".

I told her " I will have witnesses here tomorrow, to make sure things stay "straight"!  I also told her, she would NOT be allowed anywhere else in my house, EXCEPT for my child's room, since that was required.  *Child services has to confirm a child has a bed to sleep in, clothes and food, with any visit to a home*.   She asked me Why - they would not be able to see the WHOLE House?  I told her, because the ONLY thing required is her bedroom and that would be IT!  She somewhat hung up the phone on me, with exasperation from the call.    

I was One Upset person now!  To me this was the Most Bizarre event happening.  I sat back down with my child and asked her..  "was there anyone else in the room besides the child services people?"  My child said "No".    I then asked my child "Did they ask, if I have ever hit you, did they ask if I drink, did they ask if I do drugs"?  She said "No", they did not ask ANY questions such as that!  I was NOW completely confused!  How in the heck, is it Child services did NOT ask what I would think would be NORMAL Child Abuse questions that would be abusive to a child!  NOT ONE NORMAL CHILD ABUSE QUESTION WAS ASKED!

I called my sister, who lives by me and then I called some neighbors and asked them to be witnesses the next morning.  Also I asked my sister to bring her video camera, as I wanted to TAPE the whole Child services interview! The next morning, my neighbors and sister arrived early and my sister set up the camera, we waited. The child services people as I opened the door saw the video camera rolling - there were 3 of them.  The woman had brought her associate and her supervisor with her.  They waved at the camera and I told them, for their protection as well as my own, the WHOLE interview was going to be recorded. I told them, I had a right to know what the Accusations were against me, though they did not have to say WHO made the accusations, as soon as they acknowledged the camera.

The woman said the accusation was "mental abuse and neglect" against me.  I asked how child services, decides if there is "mental abuse", since that is very subjective in opinion?  They simply agreed it was "subjective".  I then said, "Well, I will show you her room, clothes and food now, so that part is over with".  I took them to her room (I had all doors shut to all rooms of the house, as I felt it was none of their business in seeing any other rooms of my house).  Then we came back and I opened up the fridge and freezer and then showed them the pantry, so they could see food was there.  My sister followed us with the camera, everywhere we went, taping the child services workers.

They then asked if they could sit down and discuss the accusations.  First they asked me "normal questions, my date of birth, my name, my child's date of birth, my address, and other form questions as that. They then asked me, if I had ever talked to my child about "the end of the world"?  I told them "No, in fact I asked my child if kids ever said anything about it, just a couple of weeks before.  My child told me "Yes, kids say stuff about 2012"  I told my child NOT to listen to any of the ridiculous stuff kids say".  I then told the child services people, I know they asked my child about it the day before and my child TOLD them I had NEVER said anything about "the end of the world" to her!  So don't they take my child's word for that?!  She said "Yes, they do".  So I said "then you know I have not said anything regarding end of the world type stuff".  

Then she asked if I had "stored food"?  I told her... I follow the guidelines which FEMA has up on their site and I am a Red Cross Volunteer and have gone out on disasters with the Red Cross and I have had all the training with the Red Cross, in knowing that people should  be self reliant for a couple of weeks, without needing help from the government or any other source during that time.  So "I follow the Guidelines of  the government and recommendations from the Red Cross in that respect"!

They then asked if I had an "alternative heat source" for my house!  I said "Yes, I have a Yukon Eagle heater, which burns, wood or natural gas for heating my house".  I said "I have saved lots of money by heating my house with wood, compared to natural gas".  oh, they said "a problem with it could be carbon monoxide", I told them, natural gas heaters had problems with that, besides I have carbon monoxide sensors. . They asked if they could see it (which it is downstairs in my basement), I went and got a brochure and the owners manual on it from my file cabinet and handed it to them, so they could look at it there.  I was not going to take them downstairs to my basement, as I felt they did not have a right to "check out my house in all ways".  They mentioned wanting seeing it once more, I ignored it and I went on to another subject.  The supervisor was familiar with the unit I have, as he said they have lots of them up north, where he came from.

Then they asked me, "what renovations have I done on my home and do I continue to do renovations to it"?  I laughed and looked at my neighbors and sister as they too laughed.  I told them, I have done lots of renovations, and my sister and I put the wood floors in here, I tiled the entrance and I just redid the hall ways and the outside entrance.  I also had taken down walls.  The supervisor asked "what walls and where exactly were taken down"?  I stood up and said "right here, I took down walls that used to go across here and the wall that separated the kitchen and den".

She then said "We understand you are a "blogger" and what exactly is your blog about, also it is said you have a "conspiracy mind"?  I was a little shocked at this question and told them "mainly my blog is about the Foreclosure Fraud that has been happening".  They asked how many hours I spend blogging, as that is where the "neglect" part of the accusation came in, in that I spent most of my time "blogging".  I told them the weeks I don't have my child "I blog more and spend more time on the computer".  But when I have my child, I spend time with my child!  My neighbors piped up and said, "we see her outside playing with her child and she is probably one of the best mothers and my child is about the most well balanced child they have ever come across".  One neighbor said "we would not have the problems we do, if all kids were raised, as I was raising my child, as she is so balanced".

I told the child services people, "I spend lots of time with my child and I was raising her to "give to others" and that my child and I do fund raisers for the Red Cross and she loves volunteering and doing what she can for others!"  I told them, "I have let my child know, doing for others is one of the best things you can do in your life and beauty comes from the inside, not the out".

Then they said "Well, here is the biggest accusation and one of the oddest accusations we have had before.  They said I was accused of "Being a member of a Top Secret Agency, that worked against the Government".  My sister, neighbors and I began laughing very hard with this!  I looked at them and said "Are you Serious?"   I asked them to repeat the accusation, after they did, I just laughed and said "No" as I continued laughing! The supervisor did say "Well, I would think you would be having "men in black" come see you, if you were". They then began talking about "militias" and how they raise their children, I just listened to them and the way they were saying it, left it with a question to me on if I was involved in any.  I made a comment saying "I would have absolutely no clue, about anything regarding militias, as I had never entered that realm or researched militias".   I asked them directly and asked them to be honest, regarding them seeing any validity to the accusations.  They said, "they didn't see any problems or validity of the accusations to me, before they left".
 
I was waiting for all the questions about my camping with my daughter and so on.... those questions never were asked and at the time I did not think about asking about it either. I asked them "do you have any more questions"?  They said 'No". They were at my house for about one hour and after they left, I called my child's father, to let him know they were on their way. After a few hours, my child's father called me and said "they had been at his house for 2 HOURS and the whole time, they were grilling them about ME"!  He said, they asked him all kinds of things about my camping, and if HE knew where we went and what we did while camping!  He also said "they said they were concerned, since I did not let them see the downstairs of my house". He said they asked him, if he knew what my blog was about and did he read it?  He told them "mainly financial stuff and the diseases from last winter and if they were so worried about it, they could get on the internet and read it themselves".

I was completely flabbergasted!  I was "WTF"?  They did NOT ask ME about my camping with my child and they had TOLD me, they didn't see any problems, yet they were telling my child's father something different!   I called and recorded my message for the child services woman saying "I don't understand where there is a problem with me taking my child camping and Where we go, as you Never asked me a single thing about that"! I will say, I have left 3 messages for her, since that day, asking for clarification on what the problem is with camping and Why is there a problem with our camping?  I have never received a call back!  Last week, I called and spoke to the supervisor that was here that day and said I wanted to know what accusation was in my regards to camping with my child?  He had to look and would call me back.  When he did call back, He said "he could not find one on the paperwork".  He also said, the accusations were unsubstantiated in their opinion, but they were going to be talking to my child once more.  ***That has still not occurred, as of writing this*** SO.......  I still would like to know why there were so many questions about my camping with my daughter and where we go camping, hiking and what we do, when we camp.  When they had asked my child she told them "we camp in a tent and make sure not to be next to an RV, due to their generator noise and we go hiking to falls and on trails".  So if my child told them the type of stuff we do, they don't ask me, BUT then they grill my child's father on it..... What the Heck is WRONG with Camping?!

The day they were here, I will admit, I was completely Freaked out the whole time, as I had never had anything like this happen before.  I did not confront them, with the questions they asked my child and why they asked my child the type questions they did, as I wanted to say as little as possible and not open any doors for them to conversations!  I do regret now, not confronting them on the camping, solar panels, alternative energy, etc. when they were here.  I also feel, they did not want to get into those questions, due to the camera filming everything too! I did ask them.... were there any claims of "physical abuse" and they said "No", there was nothing in claims of my abusing my child that way, only the "mental and neglect". Now here are my questions about this whole ordeal.............. and the accusations of Mental abuse and Neglect.........................

How does if I have Solar panels have anything to do with of those two accusations?
How does Where we go Camping have anything to do with those two accusations?
How does where we go hiking have anything to do with those two accusations?
How does what we do when we go camping have anything to do with those two accusations?
How does Who has ever gone camping with us, have anything to do with those two accusations?
How does if I have any stored food, have anything to do with those two accusations?
How does if I have an alternative heat source have anything to do with those two accusations?  
I would like to know How doing Renovations on my house has anything to do with those two accusations?
How does what I write on my blog, have anything to do with those accusations?

I could possibly understand, if a parent talked about the "end of the world" to a child, how that would completely mess up a child's mind, so in that regards, I do not believe that is such a "crazy" question!  Though I did want to ask the child services people - "Are you going to go after those children's parents, the ones who are telling MY child, the "end of the world is coming"?  But I did not. I would like to know in fact, in my doing lots of outdoor things with my child and going camping, is that not then a conflict to the accusation of neglect of a child?  To me, that means a parent is far from neglecting a child, as they are spending time with the child outdoors, spending time together without T.V.s or other distractions!  When  did camping become being part of child abuse? To sum this up, I drove myself crazy for awhile, wondering WHO would have made these accusations against me.  I have accused a family member to thinking it was possibly a neighbor, to her father's relatives.  BUT, now that time has gone by and I have been able to think more clearly about it, including having a conversation with Dave Hodges from the "Commonsense Radio Show", I am now of the opinion, another branch of the government, possibly sent Child Services to my home. Dave Hodges, mentioned he has had previous shows about Child services and they are used by other branches to find out what people have or don't have, as it is the easiest way to get information. A person can not refuse child services into their house as they have a complete right under law to come in and they have to see a child's room, clothes, and food, no matter what the accusation is. One point I found out, after my child was interviewed, is.... they interviewed her, without anyone else in the room, I found out, a child has a RIGHT to have their own advocate and witness in the room with them when being interviewed by any government agency!  I have let my child Know the rights now and have said "if they ever come back, you can Insist on having someone else in the room with you, Including your parents"!

Where does that leave this all? I was fearful of revealing this information, in case child services could come back on me for it.  But Dave Hodges explained "People NEED To know what is Happening" and "the more exposure to it, the less they can get you"!  I don't know if all of that is true, but the hours I have spent dwelling on this whole ordeal, I have come more convinced, None of it makes ANY SENSE!  The accusations do NOT match the questions!  The questions had Nothing to do with Child Abuse!  The questions were All about What I may or may NOT have! So, is it actually from my having this blog and the comments I have made in regards to my thoughts and opinions on various subjects?  

I will also clarify, I understand from seeing and living first hand, what disasters are like and what you need. I have experienced seeing them through the Red Cross, when I have gone out on disasters as a volunteer and I have lived through a major disaster, when I lived in St. Croix Virgin Islands when Hurricane Hugo hit.  I lost everything I owned and it basically wiped out the whole island.  I lived without electricity for 8 months after, besides having to live in an incomplete Hurricane damaged house and living with doing for yourself and others for a few weeks immediately afterward.  We did not have the grocery stores or anything immediately after for a few weeks, in fact, I learned very fast, why having a little extra food is a good thing.  There is nothing wrong with understanding "disasters do happen" and having some things in ready.  Ask those, who went through Katrina, ask those who have been flooded out in Iowa, Nashville and other places.  Ask those who due to ice storms have lived without electricity last winter in Kentucky or in the North East.  Ask me and all the others who were isolated on St. Croix for a time after Hugo, before any help could arrive.  Ask those in Haiti after the large earthquake.  

But, what does being prepared as per the FEMA government website and other organizations recommend, have anything to do with child abuse?  So, IF someone does Follow the guidelines of FEMA, then they are possibly on a list for the government to check out or being accused of child abuse?So...... now the question is, are others who have been public about their opinions on varied subjects, have had the government check on them?  Has child services been used in other cases where they asked bizarre questions, compared to abuse questions? Dave Hodges from the Commonsense Radio show and I may join forces to find out, if there are other cases and people out there who have had this similar type incident happen to them?  Is the government going around and trying to find out, what people may have or not have?  Is the government going around, trying to find out if there is a "place in the woods" people plan on going to (hence the camping questions)?

***Note*** I have talked to Dave Hodges yet again today, he feels after talking to someone else who is an expert in regards to child services, is that I was being profiled and assessed in what kind of "threat" I may be for homeland security. If that is the case, does that mean having a voice and using our voices to speak up in what we feel are wrongs happening in a peaceful manner and exercising our "rights" as citizens, we are then considered possible "threats"?  So does that mean everyone in the United States who may not have a blog, yet they still will voice their thoughts and opinions on what is happening in the United States and around the world to friends and co-workers are possibly "threats"? Yes, I have a blog, it is a place where I can voice my peaceful but frustrated opinions at times and provide information some may not be aware of at times.  Does that make me someone "to watch"? I would like to say "I have more faith in our government, than them feeling people exercising their First Amendment rights to Free Speech are "threats" to the government, when they are done in a peaceful manner".  But can I say that with full confidence?  Right now, I am not sure.  If this whole ordeal was to find out what I may or may not have and to do an assessment on me by the government, then I would like to know...... have I moved to another country and just not know it?  Have I moved to a country that feels everyone is a threat who may not agree with their policies, they are profiled and are threatened with their children being taken away?   What country have I woken up in and when exactly did I move from the country I thought I was living in? I have always raised my voice, when I  use to think it mattered to the politicians.  I have called our elected government officials many times and voiced my opinions on bills (TARP, Stimulus, FISA) and have emailed all I could voicing my opinion in Washington, D.C.  I have always felt we should stand up and have our voices heard.  When I gave up, in realizing Washington D.C., was deaf to the people's voices, is when I gave up trying to have my voice heard with them.  I then began this blog, through the frustration of talking to the elected politicians as much as possible and knowing I was drowned out through the "yelling" of the lobbyist and big money of corporations and banks. So, I have had my little blog, to give a spot for my voice, I do not break the law in any manner by voicing my opinion, but due to my voicing my thoughts and opinions, on my small blog ...... it seems, I may be considered a possible "threat"?   Someone.......... please wake me up, when I am back in the country I thought I was living in!

***Also, this is why, some may have noticed I have been slack on my "foreclosure fraud" information over the last month and not on it as much as I was previously, but I am getting back to myself now****

btw: Yes, I do see that Quantico comes into my blog quite often. OH, one other comment - my child went from being a Straight A student with a couple of B's all her school years,  to getting F's on tests and began failing classes, the week after this happened!  My child was very Traumatized by the Child services ordeal, as she was/is aware of child services and what they do from T.V. etc. and she was Freaked out that she may be "taken away"!  So......   she has now just begun "not worrying" about it at this time.

Now everyone is waking up to the total control grid all around us...

If you talk about foreclosures...THEY WILL COME FOR YOUR CHILD!
If you watch the movie Gasland...YOU ARE ADDED TO A TERRORIST WATCH LIST
If you talk about TSA Rape and Cancer agents...YOU CANNOT GET A JOB!

That is exactly what these psychos are doing! The best way to bring down dictators is for the psychos to expose themselves as dictators!  Congradulations New World Order... YOU JUST WOKE UP ANOTHER 10 MILLION PEOPLE! AND THE OTHER 100 MILLION JUST WOKE UP TO ANOTHER LEVEL! Information on CPS:
CASE STUDY: Baby Cheyenne and the CPS Terrorist Network
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?board=496.0
How this fits into the overall NWO plans as being just one piece of the GIG/MOOTW/CA operations:
Anti_Illuminati for dummies. The ultimate study guide for the layman.
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=192063.0

Search Terms:
GIG - Global Information Grid
EBO - Effects Based Operations
CA - Civilian Affairs
CMOC - Civilian Military Ops Center
MOOTW - Military Operations Other Than War
NRO - National Reconnaissance Office
HUMINT - Human Intelligence
Interoperability
Full Spectrum Dominance

FamLink looks like a serious system of social control, extortion, intimidation, manipulation, and a terrorist act against every parent in America:
FamLink - CPSs latest weapon against families Part1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJkbCFB7yWQ

FamLink - CPSs latest weapon against families Part2/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHnSMuSH1EM

[Both by uswgo]

WTF...Looks like FamLink/SACWIS/Rockefeller/Banksters/CPS are all very threatened by people exposing MORTGAGE FRAUD who have radio shows which also EXPOSE CPS TREASON and TYRANNY.


CPS is now further watching you under FamLink!
Patience S: FamLink will hold more records then the police department
http://culturewav.es/public_thought/103863


A new threat has been emerged to American families and even parents according to a testimony by Patience Summers on Dr Shirley Moore’s show, Justice4Us. The 2 hour episode titled Stop the Foreclosure’s Now that aired on October 27 2010, had a woman by the name of Patience Summers that was calling in at around 50:00 into the show, was told by Dr. Shirley Moore to talk about the new National Child Protective Services (CPS) database system which is going to further allow CPS into not just all sorts of private information on each family that gets in any kind of commotion with CPS but also a system that is vulnerable to easy hacking. Also according to more research through documents notes and info added from papers into Famlink is suppose to be destroyed after the information is properly added which means CPS can easily lie about parents and there will be no real evidence to back up claims by CPS. This can mean that under digital decree CPS can have more extensive abilities and digital records they manage to find any excuse they can deem to snatch children away from healthy and good family, and even families with political views that the U.S. Government deems as “Dangerous”.

According to the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Children’s Administration, on the Operations Manual page, it is saying that it is not just criminal records checks that will be required but also a Famlink check which means that FamLink will be a new form of records held on people even though it is not quite clear what records are held by FamLink. So FamLink is not a criminal database but a whole new set of records maintained by the Department of Social and Health Services or Social Services for short. So According to the investigation of this document I have found out that FamLink went Live at around February 1st 2009, it is used for not just Child Protective Services (CPS) but it’s also used as a automated financial, tracking, reporting, and completely digital system for all social workers to have to use. It is a completely digital system that will require computer skills but the flaws with the system is that hackers and corrupt CPS Workers can easily make false cases in order to snatch children because there is no paper trails, no physical evidence, but only digital based evidence which can easily be tampered with and counterfeited. If techno engineers can easily counterfeit coins and Drivers licenses then they can easily set up any family to lose their children via CPS Visits.
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Patience S: FamLink will hold more records then the police department w/MP3
http://uswgo.com/patience-s-famlink-will-hold-more-records-then-the-police-department.htm?theme=Mobile
Author: Brian D. Hill

According to a New Report from Patience Summers from October 31’s edition of Dr Shirley’s BTR Show “Justice4Us”, Patience explains that FamLink will hold more records then the police department, and will be used by hospitals to usher in Social Workers to assume whether you have the right to take the child Home or Not. Also according to Patience’s Testimony about her research and of writing the article about FamLink National database she explains that if you were a sexually active teenager, if you were a sexually aggressive teenager, if you knew karate, if you have a high IQ, and pretty much if there is any suspicion of child abuse or even drug usage then you will be added to the database without any probable cause or the rights to challenge the evidence that Social Workers from CPS can use against you. The fact wen have to rely on a Reporters testimony instead of complete and open honesty from the Social Services Department means that Obama has again broken his Campaign promise to Transparency or even the rights to legally challenge anything Social Service Workers have on your record. Could this be the way to politically targeting people in order to indoctrinate the youth into pro fascist/communist/socialist/dictatorship type families that will be abusive in order to beat the child to be passive and beat the child to submission for the New Shameful Government that is about to be upon us.
[...]
FamLink is Unconstitutional and needs oversight and we need the ACLU to look into what FamLink basically is or else we are asking to have our children taken away for almost any reason entirely.
If you wish to see some of the transformation of this child kidnapping ring from humbler beginings (yet always an open act of treason) when much of the congressional records were published, here is a 91 page paper on hearing concerning a major federal push made in 1997: http://ftp.resource.org/gpo.gov/hearings/108h/90545.txt

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Another county in Florida posts their Request For Proposals concerning insane ACTIVE SHOOTER drills to the internet:

http://www.hernandocounty.us/pur/pdfnob/10-0026RFP.pdf

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
FOR
ACTIVE SHOOTER TABLETOP AND
FULL SCALE EXERCISE RFP #10-0026
FOR HERNANDO COUNTY, FLORIDA
PROPOSALS TO BE SUBMITTED TO:
HERNANDO COUNTY PURCHASING AND CONTRACTS
DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES TO:
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HERNANDO COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE
SEALED BIDS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY: 4:00 P.M., FRIDAY JANUARY 08, 2010

2.4.a TABLETOP EXERCISE
A two day, eight-hour, classroom-type seminar, to be conducted in 1st Qtr 2010.
Approximately 45 participants each day.
Prepare Exercise Plan and After Action Report.
Contractor shall supply Management and HSEEP compliant materials such as: Situation
Manual (SitMan), PowerPoint, and After Action Report (AAR), for Tabletop Exercise
(TTX). Exercise Plan (ExPlan), Controller Evaluator Handbook, Master Sequence of
Events List (MSEL), Safety Plan, Exercise Evaluation Guide’s (EEG) and After Action
Report (AAR) for Full Scale Exercise (FSX)
This seminar will address the critical aspects of preparing for an “active shooter”
situation. Conduct a discussion in philosophy and tactics, required in policing, to deal
with an “active shooter” situation. Discuss the roles of School Administrators and Fire
Rescue personnel. Design for law enforcement administrators, fire administrators,
school administrators, communications officers, school resource officers, and first
responders.
Topics of discussion:
Incident Preparation
Media and Parents
Incident Command Post
After Action Reports
Tactical Command Post
Unit Debriefings and Incident Debriefing
School Evacuation Centers
Post Stress
Accounting for Students and Staff
Training Presentation and Video
2.4.b FULL SCALE EXERCISE
A one day, eight hour full scale exercise to be conducted in 1st Qtr 2010 involving
approximately 60 participants. Prepare Exercise Plan and After Action Report. The
exercise will be designed to evaluate the response of multiple agencies during the first
response phase of an active shooter within a school incident. Agencies being evaluated
are Hernando County School District, Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, Hernando
County Fire Rescue, Spring Hill Fire Rescue, Brooksville Fire Department.
2.4.b.1 PRIMARY AGENCIES INVOLVED
Hernando County School District (HCSD)
Hernando County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO)
Hernando County Fire Rescue (HCFR)
Brooksville Fire Department (BFD)
Spring Hill Fire Rescue (SHFR)
Hernando County Fire Corp. (HCFC)
2.4.b.2 TRAINING OBJECTIVES
Evaluate the response of the School District staff and student response
Evaluate the response of the School District Communications –radios, cell phones, parent link
Evaluate the response of the School Resource Officers
Evaluate SRO/School Plans for Active Shooter
Evaluate Road Patrol response and actions
Evaluate Road Patrol Supervisor response and actions
Evaluate Communications Center for accuracy and timely dispatching & notifications-Code Red
Evaluate Incident Command from onset to termination / Transition to Unified Command
Evaluate Plain Language Communications Protocol
Evaluate Crisis Response Team Negotiator and SWAT
Evaluate Public Information Officer Actions (PIO)
Evaluate Fire Incident Response Support
Evaluate Scene Size Up
Evaluate Direct Fire Incident Response Support in Tactical Operations
Evaluate Scene Search & Rescue
Evaluate Activation of Triage and Pre-Hospital Treatment
Evaluate On Scene Triage
Evaluate Direct Responder Safety and Health Tactical Operations
2.5 PROJECT DETAILS
2.5.a ACTIVITIES AND TASKS
Fire Rescue
Activity: Activate Fire Incident Response Support
Definition: Receive alarm signal and respond to incident site
Critical Tasks
Res.B2a 4.2.1 Establish and implement on-scene management for firefighting (utilizing
ICS)
Res.B2a 4.1 Receive notification of incident
Res.B2a 4.3 Respond to scene with initial fire suppression resource assignment
Res.B2a 4.4 Arrive on scene
Performance Measures Metric
Time in which first fire suppression resource arrives on scene exercise response time
Initial resource assignment is assembled in accordance with NFPA 1710 and NFPA
1720 (National Fire Protection Association Standards) Yes/No
Personnel accountability system is implemented upon arrival Yes/No
Time in which tactical operations are initiated Within 2 minutes from arrival on scene
Activity: Size Up (Assess Site)
Definition: Observe scene and provide situation report
Critical Tasks
Res.B2a 5.1.1 Observe incident site upon arrival and conduct initial size-up (site
assessment)
Res.B2a 5.1.4 Provide verbal situation report
Res.B2a 5.2.1 Communicate need for additional resources
Performance Measures Metric
Time in which situation report is provided to additional responding personnel/units Within
2 minutes from arrival on scene
Activity: Direct Fire Incident Response Support Tactical Operations
Definition: In response to indication of fire, provide coordination and management of Fire
Incident Response Support through demobilization
Critical Tasks
Res.B2a 3.2.1 Coordinate with On-Site Incident Management
Res.B2a 3.3.1 Assign a Safety Officer to oversee firefighting operations
Res.B2a 3.2.2 Establish objectives for conducting firefighting operations at incident
scene
Res.B2a 3.4.2 Assess resource requirements
Res.B2a 3.4.2.1 Coordinate fire attack, victim rescue
Res.B2a 3.2.3 Coordinate fire suppression operations
Res.B2a 3.5.1 Notify other agencies as required by law
Res.B2a 3.5.2 Communicate internal incident response information
Res.B2a 3.3.4 Maintain personnel accountability system
Res.B2a 3.3.2 Provide for responder safety, in coordination with Safety Officer, including
responder rehabilitation
Performance Measures Metric
Time in which incident command for firefighting operations is
Established Within 5 minutes from arrival on scene
Time in which responder rehabilitation is established within 60 minutes from arrival on
scene
Activity: Search Scene and Rescue
Definition: Upon arrival on scene, initiate search for trapped or endangered victims,
remove victims to safe area, and request or provide medical treatment appropriate to the
injuries/burns they might have received
Critical Tasks
Res.B2a 6.5.1 Initiate search for endangered, trapped, or injured victims
Res.B2a 6.5.2 Remove endangered, trapped, or injured victims to safe area
Res.B2a 6.5.5 Initiate or request treatment for victims
Performance Measures Metrics
Primary and secondary search is completed within appropriate time give the size of
structure, available resources, and incident conditions Yes/No
Activity: Activate Triage and Pre-Hospital Treatment
Definition: In response to a notification, respond, mobilize, and arrive on scene to begin
emergency medical operations
Critical Tasks
Res.C1a 4.1 Dispatch and support medical care personnel
Res.C1a 4.2 Complete scene survey
Res.C1a 4.2.1 Establish scene safety, based on the type and severity of the incident
Res.C1a 4.3 Establish triage, treatment, and transport areas
Performance Measures Metric
Time in which EMS responders are notified and dispatched toward the scene Within
response time
Activity: Triage
Definition: Once on scene, provide initial and ongoing emergency medical triage of ill
and injured patients that prioritizes their respective treatment and transport
Critical Tasks
Res.C1a 5.1 Conduct initial and on-going pre-hospital triage in accordance with a
jurisdiction’s prescribed triage methodology (e.g., Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment
(START) Triage)
Hernando County Fire Corp
Activity: Direct Responder Safety and Health Tactical Operations
Definition: Upon dispatch of responders, provide management and coordination of
Responder Safety and Health capability, through demobilization.
Critical Tasks
Res.B1b 3.1 Maintain coordination and communication on safety and health issues
between agencies and departments
Law Enforcement
Critical Tasks
Res.B1a 3.3.6.1 Establish and maintain communications with EOC, dispatch center, and
responding units
Res.B1a 3.3.6.2 Direct and coordinate with arriving local, tribal, regional, State, and
Federal first responders
Res.B1a 3.3.4 Monitor/measure performance of assigned resources and request
additional resources as needed
Performance Measures Metric
Time in which additional resources are requested following initial scene assessment
Frequency with which resources are tracked and managed from arrival on scene or at
staging area until release
Time in which communication is established with appropriate local, State, and Federal
response entities
Critical Tasks
Res.B1a 4.1.1 Conduct initial assessment (size-up) (first arriving units)
Res.B1a 4.1.2 Determine initial incident site perimeter (first arriving unit)
Res.B1a 4.2 Initiate and implement the Incident Command System (ICS)
Res.B1a 4.2.5 Transfer command between oncoming and outgoing Incident
Commander as appropriate
Res.B1a 4.2.4 Request additional resources as necessary for operations and on-site
incident management
Performance Measures Metric
Frequency with which resources are tracked and managed from arrival on scene or at
staging area until release
Frequency with which communication is established with appropriate local, tribal,
regional, State, and Federal response entities
Time in which initial incident conditions are reported to responding units
Critical Tasks
Res.B1a 5.1.2 Establish the command structure to manage the incident and meet
objectives
Res.B1a 5.1.3 Establish branches, groups, and divisions needed to manage the incident
and meet incident objectives, strategies, and tactics
Res.B1a 5.1.1 Establish an incident command post (ICP), incident bases, camps,
staging areas,
helispot or helibase, and other facilities as required
Res.B1a 4.2.2 Coordinate operations with specialized emergency response teams (e.g.
SWAT/tactical, bomb squad/explosives, HAZMAT, Land-based Search and Rescue)
Res.B1a 5.3.2 Transition from incident command to unified command for incidents
involving multiple jurisdictions, a single jurisdiction with multi-agency involvement, or
multiple jurisdictions with multi-agency involvement
Res.B1a 5.2 Implement processes to order, track, and assign incident resources
Performance Measures Metric
Time in which on-site incident command is established. Within 5 minutes from arrival of the first unit on scene
Time in which the Incident Commander designates command and general staff, dependent upon complexity and scope of incident Within 30 minutes from establishment of command
Command is successfully transferred to incident command organization able to manage the level of complexity and achieve the incident objectives
Critical Tasks
Res.B1a 6.1 Establish incident objectives, priorities, and operational periods
Performance Measures Metric Initial incident priorities and objectives are effectively communicated Yes/No
2.6 RESOURCES PROVIDED
Hernando County Sheriff’s Office and the agencies listed above will provide all classroom, facilities, meeting locations, apparatus, exercise support personnel (victims, runners, moulage), and equipment used by exercise participants.
3.1 RESPONSE REQUIREMENTS, GENERAL 
Failure to respond to all points may be grounds for rejection. Likewise, failure to supply any information required to accompany the proposals may cause a rejection of the proposal as non-compliant. The County reserves the right to request additional information and/or presentations, if clarification is needed. Proposals that do not substantially conform to the contents of the bid request, consequently altering the basis for proposal comparison, may be disregarded and considered as unresponsive.

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Drill Held at D.C. Transit Station Days Before Pentagon Shooting
http://www.infowars.com/drill-held-at-d-c-transit-station-days-before-pentagon-shooting/
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 6, 2010

Coincidence? Several days before John Patrick Bedell attacked two Pentagon cops and was killed, D.C. police staged a drill at the Friendship Heights Metro station in in Northwest Washington.

“Metro police and other emergency personnel will descend on the Friendship Heights Station starting at 11:30 Wednesday night for an anti-terrorist exercise in which mock gunmen open fire, killing or wounding several passengers,” Ann Scott Tyson reported for the Washington Post on February 22. “Agencies responding will include the Metro police special response team, as well as fire, police and emergency medical personnel from the District, Montgomery County and the FBI, according to a Metro statement.”

Washington Post video report on Blue TIDE, an anti-terrorism exercise conducted by the D.C. Metro Transit Police.

Prior to the Friendship Heights Metro station drill, on February 3, D.C. Metro Transit Police staged their largest anti-terrorism sweep ever, “some toting M-4 rifles and others guiding bomb-sniffing dogs,” according to the Post. “In coming months, they plan to hold similar drills for the effort, dubbed Blue TIDE (Terrorism Identification and Deterrence Effort).”

Drills are a prominent and highly suspicious feature of the attacks on September 11, 2001. New York City was scheduled to have a major terrorism training exercise September 11. It was called Tripod and was intended to test how well the city’s Office of Emergency Management would administer treatment in the event of a biological-terrorism attack. FEMA and the FBI were scheduled to participate.

FEMA spokesman Tom Kenney confirmed Tripod was scheduled to take place. He told Dan Rather on September 12, 2001, that FEMA was deployed to New York on Monday night, September 10th, to be ready to go into action on Tuesday morning, September 11th. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani confirmed FEMA’s presence in the city during his testimony before the 9-11 Commission in 2004.

During its Vigilant Guardian exercise held on September 6, 2001, NORAD practiced for dealing with the simulated hijackings of two commercial aircraft by terrorists. The simulated hijackings were to occur on September 9, 10, and the morning of September 11.

The previous month, on August 30, the Department of Transportation held a tabletop exercise as part of its preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. “During that exercise, part of the scenario, interestingly enough, involved a potentially hijacked plane and someone calling on a cell phone, among other aspects of the scenario that were very strange when 12 days later, as you know, we had the actual event [of 9/11],” Ellen Engleman, the administrator of the DOT’s Research and Special Programs Administration, said in October, 2001.

In early August of 2001, a mass casualty exercise was held at the Pentagon. The scenario envisioned a hijacked plane hitting the Pentagon. “[It was] purely a coincidence, the scenario for that exercise included a plane hitting the building,” General Lance Lord, the assistant vice chief of staff of the Air Force who was one of the participants in the exercise, told the Air Force Space Command News in September, 2002.

On the morning of September 11, within minutes of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the CIA was engaged in “a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building.” The Bush administration described the event as “a bizarre coincidence.”

And then there was the terrorist drill held in London during the July 7, 2005, attack. “At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now,” Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, a private firm on contract to the London Metropolitan Police, told the BBC.

After the London attack, math on the odds of a drill occurring at the same time was calculated. “The odds were one in 3,715,592,613,265,750,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. This is obviously a figure open to conjecture but it gives you an idea of the ballpark improbability we are talking about,” Paul Jospeh Watson wrote for Prison Planet on July 23, 2005. (See Probability of 7/7 Drill and Attack Coinciding.)

The odds on the drill at the Friendship Heights Metro station in in Northwest Washington and the Blue TIDE exercise held earlier prior to the Pentagon shooting are much lower, but suspicious nonetheless.

The exercises were not mentioned by the corporate media after the Pentagon shooting. The fact drills and exercises parallel such events are irrelevant to the corporate media. Its primary agenda is to engage in hysterical fear-mongering about “rightwing extremists” and 9/11 truthers and fallaciously connect them to a shooting by a mentally deranged man who not only wrote about 9/11 truth but the bizarre idea that marijuana should be the basis for the nation’s currency.

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Hernando County Sheriff's Office stages school-shooting drill
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/hernando-county-sheriffs-office-stages-school-shooting-drill/1101813
By Laura J. Nelson, Times Staff Writer

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SPRING HILL — Police, victims and bystanders knew it was all a drill. But Friday, everything from the two gunmen who leapt from a Ford Durango and raced into Explorer K-8 with rifles in the air to the hysterical victims with bullet wounds felt pretty real.  That was the point. A mock school shooting staged at the school Friday by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office marked the department's first attempt to train and evaluate its deputies in a live-shooting scenario.  Although deputies have been taught how to respond to a situation like Friday's, authorities say the hands-on aspect — with teachers, students, police, EMTs and the media — taught them more. "This was just controlled pandemonium, which is what we expected," sheriff's Lt. Matt Lillibridge said afterward. "And in real life, you'd have 1,500 kids inside instead of 40."
• • •
As the exercise began, the intercom crackled to life. "This is a lockdown — I repeat, a lockdown. We have two shooters on campus." A squad of four deputies sprinted toward the entrance, guns drawn. As they entered the school, other deputies outside set up a mobile command center. Ambulances and fire trucks from Spring Hill Fire Rescue set up triage centers in the shadow of the trucks to shield victims from possible gunfire.  Victims and students stumbled out the front door as the distant pop-pop-pop of gunfire and high-pitched screams echoed from the second and third floors. Reporters who placed calls to Explorer principal John Stratten were told the phone line must be kept clear for "emergency purposes."  Guns loaded with blanks, smoke machines, fake blood on the linoleum and dummies that had to be dragged outside made the experience more realistic, said Thomas Quisenberry, co-founder of Patriot Services, a Detroit-based company that provides training scenarios related to public safety and schools. Patriot Services created and staged Friday's scenario.
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Funding for the exercise, which cost the Sheriff's Office about $38,000, came from a state grant aimed at preventing domestic terrorism. Mark Tolbert, the emergency management coordinator for the Sheriff's Office, said most of the funding went to Patriot Services. Their training plan, which included three planning meetings, two simulation discussions and one drill for each of two shifts of deputies, was chosen out of 10 bids more than four months ago. The rest of the $38,000 went toward mock weapons, triage equipment and other supplies. The creation of these training scenarios stemmed from how law enforcement responded to the 1999 Columbine shooting, Lillibridge said.  Back then, law enforcement waited for a SWAT team to secure the building before going in. "But now we know you can't sit around and wait," Lillibridge said. "You can't afford to." The new system is called Immediate Action Rapid Deployment. Deputies gather a squad of four and enter the building immediately, moving toward the sound of gunfire. Reinforcements enter as needed. [The natural response if it was not for Columbine, but now they are profiling all the activities through DHS profiling analytics]
• • •
Patriot Services provided some of the effects during the drill. But the Sheriff's Office did some of it alone, including the victims' makeup. Quisenberry said victims sporting gunshot wounds, bloody clothes, bruises and even broken arms looked impressively convincing. "Hernando County did a Hollywood-quality job of staging this drill," Quisenberry said, pointing at a woman with a bullet wound in the center of her forehead. "We couldn't have done it better. Evaluators, who wore red shirts and patrolled during the drill, called the deputies in for a "hot wash," or breakdown of what went well and what didn't, after the drill ended.

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Council Holds Campus Shooter Exercises
http://www.wfrpc.dst.fl.us/uploaded_files/second_quarter_newsletter_2008.pdf
By John Gallagher 2008

During the month of May the West Florida Regional Planning Council held two separate SWAT “Campus Active Shooter” exercises in support of the Northwest Florida Regional Domestic Security Task Force (NWFRDSTF). The NWFRDSTF is comprised of multiple participating agencies in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, Okaloosa, Holmes, Washington, Bay, Jackson, Calhoun and Gulf counties.

Using funds provided through the state’s homeland security grant fund, Council staff spent months working with the exercise planning team on the details for a tabletop and drill. Prior to these exercises, the county SWAT teams had limited involvement with one another. Planners identified this as a potential homeland security gap. In a situation where the teams are in close proximity to one another, the ability to effectively communicate and coordinate actions is important to avoid potential friendly fire incidents or other issues involving search and apprehension of terrorists. The use of team-specific jargon could present a problem in communications, as could the coordinating across multiple frequencies. Staff orchestrated the planning effort, which focused first on evaluating best practices and procedures for team leaders and operations commanders, to coordinate their efforts in catching an armed suspect on a college campus. Taking advantage of an opportunity to gather all the regional SWAT members at the same location, planners also scheduled a half-day of training on Okaloosa County’s recently-purchased Bearcat multi-purpose law enforcement vehicle.

On May 5, regional SWAT team members from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Bay counties converged on Choctaw’s outlying field to train with the Bearcat, practice building entries and spend some time getting to know one another. Following the training and lunch, team leaders participated in a three-hour tabletop exercise aimed at discussing best practices for several teams to search for and apprehend a shooter located in a large, complex building.

Using the University of West Florida’s field house as shooter location, the team leaders discussed developing and executing a plan as well as responding to injects posed by the facilitator. Tactics were not of concern. Evaluators focused on how teams would communicate with one another and the incident commander and coordinate their actions for maximum effect. [Did you all catch that? They are training citizens on how to plan school shootings. This is training to show people that this is a common thing and then they explain that it is common for people out of work, then they explain it is a normal response to anyone with domestic issues. Then more people have a whole new pathway available to them when before they did not. Also, while this is going on, all security via eschelon would have to be turned off, or these "nodes" would be excluded from chatter monitoring. That means that there must be central control over who gets monitored and with what intensity. It also means that black ops can shut down the chatter monitoring whenever they like and say there is a drill going on.]

On May 27, the SWAT teams met once again, this time at the University of West Florida field house, to implement their action plans in a realistic environment. Teams were paired up to make one run per group and each run lasted about an hour. Several actors served as students and one as the suspect shooter, providing additional realism to the exercise.  Both exercises were highly successful, not only in testing the team’s capabilities to work effectively together, but also in building camaraderie between teams that will last for the long term. Special thanks go out to the University of West Florida and NAS Whiting Field for their support for both events.

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Washington County staged a surprise shooter exercise at Chipley High School Thursday
http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/46987587.html
Posted: 8:28 AM Jun 5, 2009

School shootings continue to be a problem across the nation. Although it is difficult, law enforcement and first responders continue to devise contingency plans to prevent a violent rampage at their local schools. Washington County officials got some valuable training Thursday morning, when they staged a surprise emergency exercise at Chipley High School. Washington County agencies worked to make this simulated scenario as real as possible. A gunman enters onto Chipley High School's campus and leads authorities on a chase. The sequence of events was re-enacted several times with new elements introduced each time.
 
"This is what we call a functional exercise. It allows people to actually play. And we believe in the first responder world, you play like you practice, using live projectiles, encountering force-on-force or a bad guy so to speak," says Disaster Strategies and Ideas Representative Mike McHargue. It's the first time the county has held such a large scale operation involving law enforcement, Fire Rescue, EMS and Emergency Operations. The groups worked under stress and handled a variety of situations including multiple shooters, wounded victims and a hostage situation. Officers went into each situation as though it were real: wearing helmets, vests and carrying guns. "They can strike a bad guy with a projectile and they can also be struck. And that adds a dimension that you can never simulate on a tabletop exercise. The color of the bullets distinguished the good guys from the bad ones. Even though they only contained water, the impact was still strong enough to leave a mark. All participants had to wear earplugs and sunglasses for protection against the gunshots. WCSO Lieutenant Michael Qualls says, "the ammunition that you get shot with actually stings. It brings you to reality that you could be a victim in a situation like this." At the end of each exercise, officers went through an evaluation and debriefing.  Chipley High School Principal Patricia Dickson says, "we saw where our vulnerabilities were, we saw where our weaknesses were and now we have a very good idea how we need to increase our practice for these things. We know where we need to improve our plan." "I believe that every department across the nation should actually endure something like this." A company called Disaster Strategies And Ideas organizes these types of exercises all across Florida and out-of-state.


FYI...Washington County is located adjacent to Bay County

[One Revelator]

Automaton 911 operator “not authorized” to advise evacuation interrupts caller.

http://www.newsherald.com/video/?videoId=712477346001&lineupId=&play=now

Drill: Active Shooters -- Tyndall security forces train for school shooter scenario. (Apr 2008)
http://www.newsherald.com/video/?videoId=1498051808&lineupId=99536645001&play=now

DECEMBER 14, 2010
Clay Duke: Did He Have a Cap Gun, a Small Pistol or .45 Caliber Gun?

MORE WEIRDNESS IN THE NEWS... THIS TIME HERE IN PANAMA CITY

Today, Clay Duke, allegedly fired on school board members here in Panama City Beach, FL during their meeting and was then shot/killed by a security guard. However, the latest update says he shot himself in the head after being shot several times in the torso by the security guard.

Okay, that's bizarre in itself. But in various accounts, eye witnesses do not agree upon the weapon. One says it was a cap gun, another says it was a small pistol and a third says it was a .45 caliber gun!

So what was the weapon and what REALLY happened?

MORE:
http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-7625929/aHR0cDovL2F3b3JsZG5ld3N0b2RheS5ibG9nc3BvdC5jb20vMjAxMC8xMi9jbGF5LWR1a2UtZGlkLWhlLWhhdmUtY2FwLWd1bi1zbWFsbC5odG1s

Beyond spin, complete embellishment, possible fabrication.  Posted in forum “comments” section.  The google does not confirm the following story as real.

An AP Breaking News Special Report Update
by Sheila Holmes:

PANAMA CITY, Fla.- The ex-convict who calmly held a school board at gunpoint and then began randomly firing had circled the date on a calendar found in his mobile home, evidence he had been planning the attack for some time and he wanted al-qaeda to help him "end all schools and put them in hell" as the suspect wanted, police said.

The shooting at the Bay District board meeting was not "a spur of the moment thing," Panama City Police Chief John Van Etten told The Associated Press. Police also found anti-government paraphernalia at Clay A. Duke's home, but the chief didn't provide details but said that he is a fan of Osama Bin Laden and calls him Jesus and America satan.

"He was obviously interested in Osama Bin Laden and wanted him to take over the US," Van Etten said.

MORE:
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/silver-spring-md/T52H5FLMQBPPQESUC

I still don’t see evidence of funeral arrangements/obit for Duke.

Two news stations in FL are sitting on footage that could clear up any questions.

After reviewing the video that we do have, I conclude that Duke had live rounds in a semi-auto handgun.

[One Revelator]

Whatever happened to Littleton’s Purse?

Hi Ina,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to AuctionBytes readers.

Earlier this week, December 14, we had an incident in the news in Bay County Florida (Panama City area) where a man took the school board hostage for a period of time. This is close to our area and this incident hit the national news networks. As a sidelight to this story, one of the board clerks attempted to disarm the man with her purse and she was deemed as a hero in the incident as she bought more time for the authorities to arrive.

As a result, she listed the handbag on ebay with the total revenue from such pledged to one of the school board chairman's charity. You must know that this area of Florida was hammered economically this past year by the oil spill accident so charities were especially hurt.

When I saw this posting on Jim Griffith's facebook page (Griff) yesterday December 17th: "This is the purse used by school board member Ginger Littleton to try to disarm the shooter during the Bay County, Florida School Board meeting on December 14, 2010. (link)
eBay: Find School Board Shooting PURSE Bay County, Florida in the Collectibles , Advertising , Merchandise Memorabilia , Other category on eBay.

The listing number was 250744119410 and when I went to it last night I found it had been removed...the bidding had reached $1200.00 when I view it earlier and my reaction was "way to go ebay"...now it seems that the Grinch has once again come out of hiding. The money was targeted for one of the school board's chaities.

This was in violation of ebay policy with it's pet, Giving Works, but several questions arise due to this. Why can't ebay make allowances when the charity is obviously deserving and; why would their paid spokesperson advertise the listing on his facebook page?

Griffith is the self-proclaimed "guru of ebay education" yet he was obviously ignorant of the rule regarding authorized charitable listings. One poster on his page even posted this:

"I was under the impression that you had to go through eBay's giving works or such - It doesn't appear to follow the guidelines of non approved giving works organizations i.e. letter from the charity & proof of 501(3) (c) status etc"

To this point, Mr Griffith has not acknowledged his error...the only mention he posted was "the listing is in violation"...did he know this previously when he posted the listing?

Maybe Griff needs a refresher course in ebay's rules but the more important point here is that ebay, being a world leader in retail sales, needs to widen it's scope of agencies benefiting from charitable donations with maybe an emphasis on local charities.

BAH HUMBUG ebay...
Carl Gordon
ebay Education Specialist since 2004
past member Voices of the Community
member ebay since 1999

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y210/m12/abu0277/s07

Whelp, looks like this case is all wrapped up and ready for the memory hole.  No obit, “suicide” footage that we’ll never see.  High fives all around. Time to move on.

[Satyagraha]

Whatever happened to Littleton’s Purse?

Whelp, looks like this case is all wrapped up and ready for the memory hole.  No obit, “suicide” footage that we’ll never see.  High fives all around. Time to move on.

From the quoted letter in the post above:

"As a result, she listed the handbag on ebay with the total revenue from such pledged to one of the school board chairman's charity. You must know that this area of Florida was hammered economically this past year by the oil spill accident so charities were especially hurt"...

They were sure to run the drill in an area of Florida that was "hammered economically this past year by the oil spill accident"... how's that for hitting a community when it's already down?

Maybe, in a community hard-hit by the gulf oil spill, the school boards are more willing to be the beta test sites for false flag drills... do you suppose there are federal subsidies they get in exchange for their compliance?

[Dig]

From the quoted letter in the post above:
They were sure to run the drill in an area of Florida that was "hammered economically this past year by the oil spill accident"... how's that for hitting a community when it's already down?

Maybe, in a community hard-hit by the gulf oil spill, the school boards are more willing to be the beta test sites for false flag drills... do you suppose there are federal subsidies they get in exchange for their compliance?

If you look at their website and their strategic plan, etc... they has zero connection to any DHS bullshit. I mean nothing, they were completely living in a pre-911 world which is absolutely amazing. No interoperability, no GiG mandated compliance, nothing, nada, not a word.

That is very interesting.

[James Madison]

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