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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Not even popcorn safe from terrorists
2006-07-14
About three miles from the nearest town, Brian Lehman's popcorn factory near Berne has somehow ended up on the federal government's list of potential terrorist targets. "I don't have a clue why we're on the list. We're on a gravel road, not even blacktop. We're nowhere," said Lehman, owner of Amish Country Popcorn, which employs five people.

Nevertheless, Amish Country Popcorn is one of 8,591 places or events in Indiana that the Department of Homeland Security regards as serious potential terrorist targets, according to an inspector general's report that raised questions about the accuracy and relevance of what's known as the National Asset Database.
Obviously, someone at Homeland Security reads Rantburg and understands popcorn is a critical asset in the War on Terror.
Posted by:Steve

#8  Looks like DeaconMan got it figured out.
Posted by: 6   2006-07-14 21:17  

#7  I think it was on Instapundit where I read that Indiana has submitted more site for protection under the Homeland security program than any other State. The ammount of money a State receives is directly proportional to the number of sites. A really good scam.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-07-14 20:01  

#6  There are many places on the list that don't make sense at first, because they seem to be small backwaters doing unimportant things. But either they have some hidden value, such as being near the headwaters that flow into a major reservoir, for example, or they have been identified already as of being of some interest to bad guyz. Maybe some al-Qaeda operative thought working in a popcorn plant was a great cover.

Some might be targets like in the movie Telefon, that were targets many years before but are now unimportant.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-07-14 19:07  

#5  Ah yes.... Bastille Day.... the day the french people stormed the Bastille Prison and freed all the prisoners (see I was paying attention in European History class!). Isn't this kind of a french Independance day?

Wasn't this yesterday or Wednesday?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-07-14 16:37  

#4  The enemy positively hates the RB popcorn graphic.
Posted by: Sid 6.7   2006-07-14 16:09  

#3  To the barricades! To the barricades! We must defend the Strategic Popcorn Reserve at all costs!

/Happy Bastille Day?
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-07-14 15:03  

#2  The Amish are stuck in the middle. We're in the 21st century, The Amish are fixed in the 15th century, and al-Q is fixed in the 7th. Note how the Amish woman's outfit is nearly a burka. All they are missing is the hajib. All the Amish men have beards, even if they do shave their moustaches. And those black hats are pretty close to turbans. And the horse drawn carriages are perfect for smuggling WMD through the US. I think it's pretty clear what happens when these fundamentalist, word of the book types get together.

Continue the surveillance.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-07-14 14:55  

#1  That's because each little kernel is like a tiny little bomb that explodes. What if one of those kernels found it's way onto a tiny little train or a tiny little airplane. Oh the humanity!
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-07-14 14:39  

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