Yesterday, we reported on the new Prince William Co. school system’s visitor I.D. system to help safeguard our children against possible violent attacks and sexual predators. Now we hear, via Greg L. over at BVBL, that there is a huge loophole in this system rendering the expensive equipment being installed essentially useless.
From the Manassas Journal:
Visitors can show any government-issued identification card, school division spokesperson Irene Cromer said. The ID card could be issued by the United States government or the government of another country, she said.
That is simply unacceptible.
As Greg correctly points out, forms of I.D. from other countries do little good here when you’re trying to compare against criminal databases.
One of the potential identification documents that would be accepted, as this article suggests, is the notorious “Matricula Consular” card. The FBI says this documement is untrustworthy. It’s very easy to purchase fake identification documents of this sort, and fraud with these is legendary. CIS notes that even hard-core criminals can easily obtain them. We’ve seen these same weaknesses with the identity documents provided by other foreign nations, such as El Salvador, as well. To allow foreign identification documents as identification is utter madness.
In a day and age where there are reported plans for terrorists to attack our schools, known as “The Perfect Day” scenario, and they have become so bold as to plan an attack against a U.S. Army base in Arizona, can we really afford for the PWC school system to play these kind of cute little games with our children’s safety? The terrorists planning the attack on Fort Huachuca received assistance from Mexican drug cartels:
“A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States,” according to one of the documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. “The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners.”
According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 “or the equivalent in weapons” for the cartel’s assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later.
A number of the Afghans and Iraqis are already in a safe house in Texas, the FBI advisory said.
. . .
The connections between criminal enterprises, such as powerful drug cartels, and terrorist organizations have become a serious concern for intelligence agencies monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border.
You can’t convince me that these terrorists or others like them would not be provided with some form of I.D. that PWC schools would accept under this policy.
DEMAND that PWC ONLY accept valid U.S.-issued I.D. for entering our schools — NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
Contact PWC Schools Superintendent Dr. Steven Walts
703.791.8712 or Email Dr. Walts
Email the PWC supervisors at bocs@pwcgov.org or contact them by phone and let them know you will not accept this policy!
Corey Stewart: 703-792-4640
Wally Covington: 703-792-6190
Marty Nohe: 703-792-4620
Maureen Caddigan: 703-792-4645
John Stirrup: 703-792-6195
John Jenkins: 703-792-4668
Mike May: 703-792-4643
Hilda Barg: 703-792-4646
Also, contact the PWC school board:
Lucy S. Beauchamp, Chairman – At-Large
703.330.4846
Email
Betty D. Covington – Dumfries District
703.221.0883
Email
Julie C. Lucas – Neabsco District
703.490.2338
Email
Milton C. Johns – Brentsville District
571.261.2157
Email
Grant Lattin – Occoquan District
703.491.1780
Email
Michael Otaigbe, Ph.D. – Coles District
703-791-2475
Email
Denita S. Ramirez – Woodbridge District
703.490.0528
Email
Donald P. Richardson – Gainesville District
703.753.6551
Email
Filed under: Education, Prince William County Politics, World War III
Has anyone ever told you you’re seriously paranoid and/or that you don’t know the whole story?
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you…
Seriously, though. Do you recall Beslan? A little more than 3 years ago Chechen separatists took 1200 students and adults hostage in a school there. In the end, 186 children were dead (a total of 334 civilians were killed) and hundreds more were wounded.
Can’t happen here? Well, who thought 9/11 could, either. And before you go jumping on these things as mere conspiracy theories (which I think make fine X-Files episodes, but not much else), check out the links to the articles that are cited here and their sources. FBI, Nat’l Terror Alert Response Center, DHS, etc.
This is relevant:
http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmM0NWI3ZWMzZTc2OTg3ZTI0Y2EzY2YzMzY0OGU4ZmE=