Jim Kouri
Law Enforcement Examiner
7/1/2012
In what they termed “another nauseating series of Virtual Learning Center brainwashing courses that Border Patrol agents are forced to sit behind a computer for hours and endure,” officials at the Border Patrol union reported their members are taught in an “Active Shooter” course that if agents encounter a shooter in a public place they are to “run away” and “hide.” But on Saturday, while visiting Texas, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had a different message, according to a government report.
“If we are cornered by such a shooter we are to (only as a last resort) become ‘aggressive’ and ‘throw things’ at him or her. We are then advised to ‘call [local] law enforcement’ and wait for their arrival ,presumably, while more innocent victims are slaughtered,” states the Arizona (Local 2544) Border Patrol web site…
…“It is always comforting to know that for those of us who carry a weapon when we are off-duty, if we should encounter such a situation, stop a shooter and save countless lives, we can look forward to being disciplined or fired by the Border Patrol because we should have run away to hide and then maybe thrown objects at the deranged killer instead of taking action and stopping him with a firearm,” the Local 2544 web site states…
…”This administration is not serious about illegal immigration, drug enforcement or homeland security. It’s just one ‘dog and pony show’ after another. Napolitano’s visit to Texas was just more pandering and empty promises to the Latino voters,” said Aquino, herself a Latino law enforcement veteran…
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