Here are a few of the places our government has identified as terrorist targets: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade and the Sweetwater Flea Market.
The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security released a report this week showing that as of January, Indiana (with 8,591 potential terrorist targets) had 50 percent more listed sites than New York (5,687) and more than twice as many as California (3,212), ranking the state the most target-rich place in the nation, The New York Times reported.
I agree with the organizer of one of the events on the list — the Apple and Pork Festival in Clinton, Ill. (see photo) — who told the Times, “Seems like someone has gone overboard. Their time could be spent better doing other things, like providing security for the country.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley
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Where’s Cowtown? Or is it not there because of all of the cowboys with guns?
We all know our boarder with Mexico is a sieve, and the boarder with Canada they loose boats at either coast and across the lakes. I have broached this subject with our law makers with little or no responce, my concern is about a type of low tech attack one or two men with suitcases of A72 plastic land mines randomly placed in parks, beaches, game fields this would cause more fear than one big attack, its the little attacks that wear out an enemy.
http://www.stoplandmines.org/slm/index.html
This site has a ( See the video) on the left side watch it, understand my worry.
Typo …. just( Type 72) where I got the A designation not sure .
Something not right!
“Seems like someone has gone overboard. Their time could be spent better doing other things, like providing security for the country.”Maybe we should invade fewer foreign countries……hey what about that middle east looks ww3 or is ww4 is just around the corner.
What not the Wichita River fest? Gander Mountain?
Sigh…….
JR,
I was thinking RiverFest, too. Lots of people, easy to blend in.
Are malls still considered a target? Big events like Superbowl?
But I don’t think they’d go for many of those things or places. For one thing, security is usually a little higher. If it were me, I’d pick a normal day to reign terror.
At any festival (BOOM) concusionrocks the area … 3 or more people on the ground the smell of cordite one person in shock on their back a leg missing from the knee down panic ensues people running (BOOM) another hock-puck nearly all plastic land mine takes another ….. but hey let worry about a big item strike instead of a very plausable insident …..Think of it you don’t dare walk in the grass anywhere !
It could be that the government lists everything as a terrorist plot because they want its citzens to cower in fear and not question its leaders and those that do get labeled as traitors and terrorists
check out whats going on with canfield now….
http://www.kcbuzzblog.typepad.com/
Could someone please explain how an insect zoo would be a terrorist target but the Statue of Liberty isn’t? Sounds like DHS was playing politics with the lives of (potentially) millions of Americans.
Each state was asked to submit a list of possible terrorists targets in their state. The more targets the more money to the state to beef up their homeland defense.
But I have to agree with the point that Mr. Turner keeps trying to make. It is not only the large targets that could be hit. Locally it would shake us up pretty good for some smaller town or attraction to be hit. That is the real value of terrorism, to make your enemies not feel safe no matter where they are.
Hahaha! Hahaha!What a ridiculously paranoid article! Terrorists aren’t gonna go for small-town Kansas. They want publicity and notoriety, they want big cities where the potential casualty rate will be much higher. When people all around the world think 9/11, they think WTC. They don’t think (and some even forget) the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.
Here’s a good one (well, it’s not good at all). It is common that I give failing grades to students from the types of nations that comprised the 9/11 terrorists. This happens year after year. Why do I fail them? Because they are enrolled and never show up for class. Who knows what the hell these folks have been up to in the U.S. I have made my concern known but no one cares, because it’s there’s actually no established means to do this. They just show up as a grade of F in my classes. Maybe they are just here somewhere working illegally, or perhaps they are planning the next attack. Our system doesn’t seem to care, despite all that we hear otherwise. Who does care? I wish I were making all of this up, but I’m certainly not. I’ve given up on complaining about this ongoing observation at work. Maybe some people elsewhere will care and might take my concern to a higher level.
Meanwhile, I will visit Yoder, even if Yoder actually does get listed as a potential terrrorist target point.
Ah… Yoder,The paradise of Kansas…
KABOOM!!! – was that a bomb, or a mule expelling flatus?
Call Homeland Security and we shall soon find out!!!
yea, we will find out but it will cost us billions of dollars and months and months of finger pointing before anyone will actually tells us anything!
Speaking of YODER, it must be about time for the YODER DAYS weekend.
Its really enjoyable — the real thing — with breakfast or lunch available in their outdoor shelter house in the middle of town for a modest price. Lots of people, horses, wagons, music in their Saturday morning parade.
However, I can’t remember which weekend in July or August it will take place.
Wow, I clicked on the canfield link but had to scroll a ways to get to the canfield blurb.
Woof.
I especially liked this quote from Russ Jones “”Not to recommend Ken Canfield would be rebelling against God himself.”
Well, I guess THAT settles it!
Oh please!!! Terrorists are not gonna target hick events or hick towns or even hick states like KS. They are gonna target major national, well-known landmarks such as the Washington monument, Hollywood, etc. How many people know of Wichita other than a little spot that their flight from New York to L.A. passes over at 35000 ft. Please, you Wichitans are not important or significant enough to be targets.