From the Burlington County Times...

The purpose of the drill was to test the reactions of police, faculty and administration....

The mock terror attack involved two irate men armed with handguns who invaded the high school through the front door. They pretended to shoot several students in the hallway and then barricaded themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.

Two Burlington Township police detectives portrayed the gunmen. Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.

This just two and a half years after this incident...

Muskegon County emergency officials, along with school and hospital personnel, learned a lot from a mock terrorist exercise Tuesday, but the incident also became a lesson in sensitivity for one of the event organizers. 

In the exercise, a domestic terrorist group -- dubbed Wackos Against Schools and Education -- plants a bomb on a public school bus loaded with students. According to materials handed out to explain the fake scenario, the "Wackos" believe everyone should be home-schooled.

But the name and scenario used in the exercise "bombed out" with home-schoolers across the nation.

The Chronicle and local officials were deluged with phone calls and e-mails from across the nation, complaining about the choice of words.

Lifesite reports...

While county officials praised the drill saying that it was the first live test of its sort [Bob] Pawson [,National Coordinator of the Scriptures in School Project] explained that he thought the drill was a test of another sort.  “This denigrating drill is also a test of the reactions and responses of New Jersey 's Christians, along with all other fair-minded citizens of any faith, to such a blatant example of anti-Christian animosity.”

"A public apology is in order. The citizens of Burlington County could rightly demand the resignation or termination of school officials who dreamed up and approved this reprehensible scenario."

The school's response?...

Concerns have been shared regarding the emergency management exercise conducted at Burlington Township High School on March 22, 2007, in conjunction with the Burlington Township Police and Fire departments. The main goal of the exercise was to practice our lockdown and evacuation procedures, and test our abilities to respond to an emergency situation.

Any perceived insensitivities to our religious community as a result of the emergency exercise are regrettable. It was certainly not the intent to portray any group in a negative manner. We cherish, respect, and celebrate the diversity of cultures and faith that exist within our community. [emphasis added]

...in other words, if we were insulted at being called terrorists, we Christians are just imagining things. Not a real apology, and LifeSite is right, someone need to be fired.

LifeSite also supplies the following useful information...

Mayor Steven M. George
Burlington Township
851 Old York Road,
Burlington Township, NJ 08016
609-386-4444

Education superintendents, supervisors
http://www.burltwpsch.org/
Board of Education Member names also listed above but no email. Address would be same as mayor.

Mrs. Marie Phillips
Principal
Burlington Township High School
610 Fountain Avenue
Burlington,  NJ   08016
609-387-1713

I also found this info...

Christopher Manno
Superintendent, Springside
cmanno@burltwpsch.org
Phone: 609-387-3955 Extension: 4157

George Bogda
Resource Officer
High School
gbogda@burltwpsch.org
Phone: 609-387-1713 Extension: 1140

Revisionist history stripping all mention of America's Christian heritage, now repeated, mock "drills" obviously designed to demonize Christians in the eyes of impressionable students. How long until we Christians wake up to find all the windows in our homes and shops shattered through the night?

Crossposted at JackLewis.net