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Popcorn target
Christian Century, August 8, 2006
POPCORN TARGET: You have to wonder what those Amish are up to. The Amish Country Popcorn factory in rural Indiana appears on a Homeland Security list of possible terrorist targets, along with Old MacDonald's Petting Zoo in Woodville, Alabama, and the Mule Day Parade in Columbia, Tennessee. The Homeland Security database is used to disburse antiterrorism grants to states and municipalities.
"We are nothing but a bunch of Amish buggies and tractors out here. No one would care," said Brian Lehman at the popcorn factory. His only explanation for why terrorists might care: "Maybe because popcorn explodes?" (New York Times, July 12).
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