As if more proof was needed, that this administration is crazy: Obama's Department of Homeland Security, tell Border Patrol if confronted by an *ACTIVE SHOOTER*, to "run away" and "hide", and as a last resort: *THROW THINGS* like books!

By Perry
Chiaramonte

Published June 29, 2012

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  A pocket card handed out to Homeland Security employees in April
  detailing how they should handle an "active shooter"
  situation.

  
  

Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for
telling them, along with all other Department of Homeland Security
employees, to run and hide if they encounter an "active
shooter."

It's one thing to tell civilian employees to cower under a desk if
a gunman starts spraying fire in a confined area, say members of
Tucson Local 2544/National Border Patrol Council, but to give armed
law enforcement professionals the same advice is downright insulting.
The instructions from DHS come in the form of pamphlets and a
mandatory computer tutorial.

“We are now taught in an ‘Active Shooter’ course that if we
encounter a shooter in a public place we are to ‘run away’ and
‘hide’" union leader Brandon Judd wrote on the website of
3,300-member union local. “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 law
enforcement’ and wait for their arrival (presumably, while more
innocent victims are slaughtered)."

The FEMA-administered computer course, entitled “IS-907- Active
Shooter: What You Can Do,” is a 45-minute tutorial that provides
guidance to all employees on how to recognize indicators of possible
workplace violence and what to do should their office be invaded by
gunmen and focuses around three main options; either evacuate, hide
out, or in dire circumstances, take action.

Main Points of the "Active
Shooter" training course

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  Evacuate: If there is an accessible escape path, attempt to
  evacuate the premises.
  

  
  

• Hide out: If evacuation is
  not possible, find a place to hide where the active shooter is less
  likely to find
  you.
  

  
  

• Take action: As a last resort, and only when your life
  is in imminent danger, attempt to disrupt and/or
  incapacitate the
  active shooter.
  

  
  

Once the course is completed, employees are urged to download
additional materials including a summary booklet and pocket-sized
card outlining protocol, which was also handed out to employees two
months ago.

One DHS employee told FoxNews.com the instruction cards were
handed out to employees six weeks ago. At the time, he assumed they
were only for civilian employees, not armed law enforcement officers
within the department, which oversees the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection.

"Requiring BP agents to follow the same steps is egregious,”
he said.

DHS officials maintain that the Active Shooter course was designed
for all employees—civilian and law-enforcement officers-- and no
one should rush into a situation where they, or others around them,
could get hurt.

“The Department of Homeland Security takes very seriously its
responsibility to protect all of its employees from threats that may
surface in the workplace,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection
spokesman Michael Friel said in a written statement to FoxNews.com

“CBP workforce training is designed to prepare all employees,
including leaders, managers, supervisors, law enforcement personnel
and non-law enforcement personnel, to understand their own roles and
the roles of their fellow employees in responding to threats. In an
active shooter scenario, employees are taught to take actions that
keep them alive.”

But members of Local 2544 say they are obligated to protect the
public in such a situation, whether they are on duty or not. Given
the instructions, some wonder if they would be disciplined for taking
down a gunman in a situation like the Fort Hood shooting or the
January, 2011 case in Casa Adobes, in which a deranged gunmen shot 19
people, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Six people were
killed.

“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 union local's website says.