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The men burst into the church classroom and ordered the 15 teens in the youth group to the floor.
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They covered the teens heads with pillow cases and bound their hands. One man waved an unloaded gun, while another yelled, his face daubed with camouflage paint.
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Instead, they found themselves face down, hugging the linoleum floor, said the Rev. John Lanza, who described what happened. If they listened, they wouldnt get hurt, their assailants said.
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After bursting in on the youth group without warning, the raiders prodded the hooded kids into a church van and drove across the parking lot to the pastors house.
They led the teens through the garage, past the pastors motorcycle with crucifixes painted on its gas tank to an interrogation room in a dark corner of the musty basement.
Dust and loose insulation covered the floor beneath a single-bulb painters light suspended from the ceiling. It illuminated a lone chair.
The men questioned each teen for 30 seconds in the room, raising their voices to invoke fear, before releasing them, Lanza said.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/lower_swatara_township_churchs.html
They can try to justify this with whatever excuse they can dream up. They only wanted to play soldier or cop or something.
DUMBASSES!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition"
It's all about fear. "BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID"
Starting with fear of god and going downhill from there.
Maybe if they didn't send missionaries into troubled hotspots, they wouldn't have to worry about that.
onethatcares
(16,206 posts)I needagetoutahere.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Are these people fucking crazy or what?
mainer
(12,037 posts)getting to pretend to kidnap nubile girls, tying up their wrists, shoving them to the ground. I bet these bozos got hard-ons while doing it.
MineralMan
(146,350 posts)Coercing these kids at gunpoint, with threats, to go with someone to another place, with their heads in bags is kidnapping, pure and simple. It's a serious felony, and everyone involved in this should be charged with kidnapping. If I were one of the parents, I'd see that exactly that happened.
It's that simple.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)The kids didn't give their permission to be abducted.
MineralMan
(146,350 posts)Very clear.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)for when the Muslim president takes their guns away, confiscates their gold, burns their bibles and sends them off to fema detention camps.