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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 09:14 AM Mar 2012

Lower Swatara Township Church's Mock Raid Draws Criticism

The men burst into the church classroom and ordered the 15 teens in the youth group to the floor.
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They covered the teens’ heads with pillow cases and bound their hands. One man waved an unloaded gun, while another yelled, his face daubed with camouflage paint.
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Instead, they found themselves face down, hugging the linoleum floor, said the Rev. John Lanza, who described what happened. If they listened, they wouldn’t get hurt, their assailants said.
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After bursting in on the youth group without warning, the raiders prodded the hooded kids into a church van and drove across the parking lot to the pastor’s house.
    
They led the teens through the garage, past the pastor’s motorcycle with crucifixes painted on its gas tank to an interrogation room in a dark corner of the musty basement.
    
Dust and loose insulation covered the floor beneath a single-bulb painter’s light suspended from the ceiling. It illuminated a lone chair.
    
The men questioned each teen for 30 seconds in the room, raising their voices to invoke fear, before releasing them, Lanza said.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/lower_swatara_township_churchs.html

They can try to justify this with whatever excuse they can dream up. They only wanted to play soldier or cop or something.

DUMBASSES!





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Lower Swatara Township Church's Mock Raid Draws Criticism (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 OP
Life imitates art. hobbit709 Mar 2012 #1
200 years as a country and this is what we've evolved to. onethatcares Mar 2012 #2
Religious freak show. Dawson Leery Mar 2012 #3
If someone pulled this crap on my kid, they would have some explaining to do. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2012 #4
Methinks these guys get a sexual thrill out of this mainer Mar 2012 #5
The appropriate charge is kidnapping. MineralMan Mar 2012 #6
Doesn't this cross some legal line? xchrom Mar 2012 #7
Yes, it's kidnapping. MineralMan Mar 2012 #8
Sounds like a delusional dress rehersal Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2012 #9

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. Life imitates art.
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 09:20 AM
Mar 2012

"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition"

It's all about fear. "BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID"

Starting with fear of god and going downhill from there.

Maybe if they didn't send missionaries into troubled hotspots, they wouldn't have to worry about that.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
4. If someone pulled this crap on my kid, they would have some explaining to do.
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 02:00 PM
Mar 2012

Are these people fucking crazy or what?

mainer

(12,029 posts)
5. Methinks these guys get a sexual thrill out of this
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 02:07 PM
Mar 2012

getting to pretend to kidnap nubile girls, tying up their wrists, shoving them to the ground. I bet these bozos got hard-ons while doing it.

MineralMan

(146,333 posts)
6. The appropriate charge is kidnapping.
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 02:08 PM
Mar 2012

Coercing these kids at gunpoint, with threats, to go with someone to another place, with their heads in bags is kidnapping, pure and simple. It's a serious felony, and everyone involved in this should be charged with kidnapping. If I were one of the parents, I'd see that exactly that happened.

It's that simple.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
9. Sounds like a delusional dress rehersal
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 02:52 PM
Mar 2012

for when the Muslim president takes their guns away, confiscates their gold, burns their bibles and sends them off to fema detention camps.

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