Archive for Angola

School Safety Drill Features Social Conservative Terrorists

Posted by: Ion | April 2nd, 2007 · 6:52 AM

Here’s your head shaker for the day. A school in New Jersey has decided it’s important to illustrate the grave dangers of right-wing “Christian terrorism” to their students. It’s sort of the end run of the liberal predilection for equilibrating American social conservatism, with salafist jihad.

A local paper reports that a drill at Burlington Township High School in New Jersey involved police portraying mock gunmen, described as “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the ‘New Crusaders’ who don’t believe in the separation of church and state.” The fake gunmen were said to have been “seeking justice because the daughter of one [member] had been expelled for praying before class.”
(ONN)

Burlington Twp’s students will doubtlessly be well prepared to confront a world where we’re menaced daily by terrorist attacks from fanatical Methodists. Now, if we could just find some…

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Fred Reed’s Angolan retrospective

Posted by: Ion | February 18th, 2007 · 1:45 PM

Fred Reed recounts the amusing story of his adventures with UNITA and Jonas Savimbi in 1980s Angola. Excerpt:

We swaggered out of the bush with the slight cockiness that marks men who have been months in combat in places not even on the maps, men for whom life with guerrilla bands is everyday experience. Yes, we implied, things have been a bit rough, screaming hordes of drugged-up communists coming through the wire almost nightly – though, to be honest, we haven’t been shelled for days. Well, not much anyway. Couple of sappers came into my hut last night. Took them out with my knife, you know. The usual. I am a conscienceless fraud.

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