Local Chicken Houses Vulnerable To Terror Threat

NBC4.com ^ | August 20, 2007 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the nation's chicken houses could be added to the list of potential terrorism targets.

Under the department's chemical security standards, facilities with more than 1,785 gallons of propane gas could be considered high-risk. Nearly every poultry grower on the Delmarva peninsula would be affected beacause most chicken houses use propane for heat.

If designated a security risk, chicken house owners would be required to complete vulnerability assessments and develop site security plans.

Senators Mikulski and Cardin from Maryland and Carper from Delaware have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff calling the possible crackdown on chicken houses a waste of government time and money.

[Daffynition]

Our overlords hard at work.

[bamahead]

If you’ve ever been around chicken houses, the smell alone is pretty much a terror threat...

[rfp1234]

[this is my name not yours]

The sky is falling, Chicken Little!

[digger48]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883873/posts

[silentreignofheroes]

Come on cuz,,you know the smell grows on you..

[reagan_fanatic]

I wonder if chicken ranches are next.

[Shermy]

Jus’ lobbying for the counter-terrorism slush fund largesse.

[tumblindice]

Herr Michael Chertoff! (horses whinny)

[doc30]

DHS has listed 300 chemicals for a ‘watch list’ where any busienss that uses them has to report the usage and their security plasn to the government.

[bill1952]

Oh Jesus. Now they want to rise the price of poultry.

Chickens! LOL!!

[lesser_satan]

More proof (as if we needed any more) that Micheal Jerkoff is and incompetent baboon.

[xcamel]

[at bay]

That’s not the big threat, not according to m local egg ranch. The big threat is transmitting viruses (virii?) capable of infecting humans.

[JenBrower]

[HockeyPop]

It won’t take much. A muslim working in dairy, slaughter house, food packaging, beverage bottling, pharmaceuticals, water plant, etc. Right now most of them are in the grip of the spectacular with guns and bombs. But its just a matter of time and I suspect it has already happened but the dots have yet to be connected or, if they have, then our government has not seen fit to publish it because the deaths of few justifies not panicing the many.

[dirtboy]

Seems to me the illegals working at chicken farms are more of a threat to local safety than the propane tanks there.

But Chertoff want to give THEM amnesty...

[pompelmous]

What are these guys thinking? Homeland security should publish all their warnings in a book entitled 1001 Ways To Jihad. They could then have those clueless Thousands Standing Around agents at airports sell them to Arab looking males between the ages of 16 and 45 while they are waiting to get through security, which is backed up because Grandma is getting strip searched.

[PAR35]

So terrorists are free to use up to 1,784 gallons of propane without any questions or problems?

[theBuckwheat]

What can be done can be undone, when risk-adverse, compliance-oriented bureaucrats are sufficiently motivated. An exemption is just as easy to create as the original rule.