U.S. Terror Targets: Petting Zoo and Flea Market?

[IChing]

By ERIC LIPTON
Published: July 12, 2006

It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street.”


But the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, in a report released Tuesday, found that the list was not child’s play: all these “unusual or out-of-place” sites “whose criticality is not readily apparent” are inexplicably included in the federal antiterrorism database.

The National Asset Database, as it is known, is so flawed, the inspector general found, 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 database is used by the Homeland Security Department to help divvy up the hundreds of millions of dollars in antiterrorism grants each year, including the program announced in May that cut money to New York City and Washington by 40 percent, while significantly increasing spending for cities including Louisville, Ky., and Omaha.>>>>snip

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/washington/12assets.html?ex=1310356800&en=cc3091801be419b5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


Among the critical assets in the database are Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, a Kangaroo Conservation Center, Jay’s Sporting Goods, several Wal-Mart stores, Amish Country Popcorn, and the Sweetwater Flea Market.


The DHS Office of Inspector General found the National Asset Database, being compiled to support a variety of infrastructure protection projects, full to overflowing with “poor quality” data, such as 4,055 malls, shopping centers, and retail outlets, 224 racetracks, 539 theme or amusement parks and 163 water parks, 514 religious meeting places and 1,305 casinos.

Casinos and amusement parks are critical infrastructure in the event of a terrorist attack?>>>>>snip

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-inf... /

I need $$$$$$ money to protect my home from a critical attack of stupidity and wastefulness

[rustydog]

1. We haven't heard shit since the last election...NOW

we have two terror arrests, and our children will be murdered by terrorists in a petting zoo?
The Republicans are so scard of the mid-terms they are pulling out all the stops.

Of course, the Republicans MAY have misunderstood the intelligence report;
A Republican petting zoo would be a porno house, not a children's zoo!

[Sadie5]

2. Perhaps bio terr-aists

injected the goats and Llamas with a poison that will wipe out the middle class.

[IChing]

3. Krispy Creme donuts .......mmmm

eaten at a religious meeting place next to a casino....the inescapable Vulcan logic is starting to add up.

Scotty beam me up please from this bizarro world?

:banghead: :rofl:

[B3Nut]

4. TERROR! TERROR! BOOGA-BOOGA!! BOO!!!

Is it just me, or are their "terror" claims getting more and more desperately pathetic and transparently bogus? Or am I just becoming increasingly cynical?

The deadliest clothing in the world is not a turban...it's a suit and tie.

Cogitate on that one for awhile.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[saigon68]

5. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2383346