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"Documents from an Ohio National Guard (ONG) training drill conducted last January reveal the details of a mock disaster where Second Amendment supporters with anti-government opinions were portrayed as domestic terrorists.
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The Ohio National Guards Civil Support Team practices in a May 2013 drill at Put-in-Bay
The ONG 52nd Civil Support Team training scenario involved a plot from local school district employees to use biological weapons in order to advance their beliefs about protecting Gun Rights and Second Amendment rights.
Portsmouth Chief of Police Bill Raisin told NBC 3 WSAZ-TV in Huntington, West Virginia that the drill accurately represented the reality of the world we live in, adding that such training helps us all be prepared.
Internal ONG documents provided to Media Trackers after repeated delays provide further context to what WSAZ-TV reported last winter.
In the disaster-preparedness scenario, two Portsmouth Junior High School employees poisoned school lunches with mustard gas, acting on orders from white-nationalist leader William Pierce.
The ONG team discovered biological weapons being produced in the school, requiring activation of containment and decontamination procedures.
Participants in the disaster drill located documents expressing the school employees anti-government sentiments, as well as a note identifying Pierce as the fictional right-wing terrorists leader.
ONGs 52nd Civil Support Unit participated in a similar drill involving left-wing terrorists with Athens County first responders last year; public officials apologized for that training the next day in response to complaints from local environmentalist groups.
No apology to Ohioans who support limited government and the Second Amendment appears to be forthcoming.
Scioto County Emergency Management Agency director Kim Carver refused to comment, telling Media Trackers she was not going to get into an Ohio Army National Guard issue that you have with them.
Ohio National Guard Communications Director James Sims II suggested Media Trackers was inferring from the ONG documents contents as opposed to whats actually in the report.
After excerpts of the report were read to him, Sims said it was not relevant to understand why conservatives may feel unduly targeted by ONGs training scenario.
Okay, Im gonna stop ya there. Im going to quit this conversation, Sims concluded. You have a good day.
Buckeye Firearms Association spokesman Chad Baus told Media Trackers that it is a scary day indeed when law enforcement are being trained that Second Amendment advocates are the enemy,
Ohio National Guard Training Envisions Right-Wing Terrorism
From Druge report.