Instilling Fear: The Exercise of Terror on Unwitting Individuals.

Teachers gathered for a meeting on April 26 were horrified when two masked men wearing hoodies and wielding handguns burst into the Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway Oregon on April 26, and began firing blanks. The 15 instructors did not realize that it was an emergency drill and not a real attack.

Why?

To prepare teachers for the real thing, of course. The exercise was a drill, designed to test Pine Eagle's preparation for an assault by "active shooters" who were, in reality, members of the school staff. School officials say they will train teachers to better respond to a surprise attack. Thank God, students were not present on school grounds when the drill occurred, as they were home for an in-service day.

That's right. Two men wearing masks and hooded sweatshirts stormed the meeting room and began firing. At first, the teachers didn't know what was happening until they noticed that the shooting was not drawing blood, thus, part of a test. 

"Principal Cammie DeCastro said it became clear very quickly just how many of the school's 15 teachers would have survived. The answer: "Not many," she said.

Elementary teacher Morgan Gover, 31, said only two teachers would have lived to tell the tale. She admitted being scared, and also acknowledged she would have been among the casualties, having taken several fake direct hits from the shooters.

"I'll tell you, the whole situation was horrible," she said. "I got a couple in the front and a couple in the back."

Imagine if someone in attendance had a heart attack, or, in a moment of panic, did some serious damage to someone else. What if one of the teachers, already in fear of an attack, was armed? What about the emotional trauma? And, where is the anger? To be sure, someone(s) is/are angry; however, we'll never hear from those people because that would ruin everything!

Sadly, this abusive "exercise" has more to do with instilling fear in the population because a fearful public is much easier to control and manipulate.