I’m not sure which part of the Department of Homeland Security’s “zombie apocalypse” training is worst. There’s the waste of it all — it cost taxpayers $1000 per government trainee. There’s the location of it — they held it at a posh resort that most Americans can’t afford, and will be less able to afford once we go over the fiscal cliff. There’s the pandering unseriousness of it — there is no zombie menace outside movies, TV and video games.
Then there’s the disturbing fact that the training had uniformed US officers shooting dehumanized fellow Americans.
According to the report, Strategic Operations, a tactical training firm, was hired to produce a “zombie-driven show” that provided two Halloween shows that had 40 actors dressed as zombies as they were being gunned down by a military tactical unit. The purpose of the demonstration was to highlight how medical units would respond to such “extreme medical situations where people become crazed and violent, creating widespread fear and disorder.”
“Should we be training our government agents to gun down people when they’re “crazed and violent?”
Well, there is Netroots Nation.
I don’t mind taking a humorous approach to disaster preparedness. The zombie theme is fine by me.
Training federal agents to gun down Americans after a disaster? That is frightening.
And yet again, the only place they can find to cut spending is defense and social security.
At a time when we are borrowing 4 billion dollars a day, are zombies really our biggest concern?
Yes! — The zombified minions in Congress and the WH who think they have a “mandate” to outspend our printing presses as long as “it’s bi-partisan” — these Zombies are our greatest problem. Unfortunately, for *them* Homeland Security has yet to come up with a plan!
Please do not discourage them from this type of training.
After all, shooting unarmed crazed zombies should be a relatively easy task.
Now if the “zombies” started actually shooting back while screaming about preserving their God given constitutional rights….weeeeeelllllll, that’s a whole different ball game and probably best to leave the paramilitary units unprepared for such a possibility….
It certainly does make the valid point that without the right to keep and bear arms we are, in final analysis, little more than zombies.
Need to get used to shooting real moving people. The better to use all of the pistol bullets DHS has purchased in the last year.
There are issues(mostly the cost and location), but imagine the uproar if they’d used any other scenario. No matter what, somebody would have a paranoid tizzy. Zombies are as close to neutral as we’re going to get. Why else do we join zombie apocalypse forums? It’s a way to talk preparedness without Nat Geo making you look like a loon and a fool.
I don’t usually say this, but, please, let’s not clutch our pearls!
So we have a new preparedness obsession for the government to slaughter dehumanized hordes of mind-numbed, scary and hungry half-dead humans “to protect us.”
Was such generic preparedness a big defense priority in Libya with plans to wipe out terrorist hordes? Hell no. How about for FEMA in the northeast before or after Sandy? Any serious plans for fresh water and fuel distribution or real assistance? Not really. Does the government care about total economic disaster? Obviously not. So why all the concern about a mystery scenario and why mask it with Hollywood humor as if our real world is just a movie script where death is the punchline?
Clue #1: This appears to be an event the government actually *is* very concerned about prepping for the *aftermath* of, but clearly not Interested in preventing the scenario to begin with. Otherwise it would be fact-based and straightforward so we could use our brains to, you know, ACTUALLY PREVENT OR PREPARE FOR IT PROPERLY.
Government tactical units gunning down Zombies. I guess Obama doesn’t need them anymore since he won the election.
It figures since the only people who would vote for that guy would be brainless half dead dolts who have no idea about whats going on right in front of them.