Pot growers portrayed as terror threat

[n2doc]

By Jeff Stein
What were they smoking?

Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a scenario in which local marijuana growers set off bombs and took over the Shasta Dam, the nation’s second largest, to free an imprisoned comrade.

According to an account in the Redding (Calif.) Record Searchlight, the 12-hour drill was part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Critical Infrastructure Crisis Response Exercise Program, begun in 2003.

“More than 250 people from more than 20 agencies took part,” said Sheri Harral, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Reclamation, according to the paper.

Harral said the drill took 18 months to plan and cost the bureau alone $500,000. The other agencies covered their own costs.

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[bluedigger]

1. I wonder if they ever considered releasing their hostage, er, prisoner?

:shrug:

[RKP5637]

2. What an act of stupidity and a F'en waste of money. This is all

getting really out of control.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

3. Here we go again.

[Sonoman]

4. There's $500K up in smoke.

What a crock.

Everyone up here knows that this is propaganda. All this Mexican boogah-boogah is aimed at a clueless public. The day pot is legal in California will be the day the Mexicans pack it in.

And it took them 18 months to plan this?

Goodness...

Sonoman

[benld74]

5. DDDDDUUUUUUUDDDDDDEEEEE! NNNNOOOWWWAAAYYY!

[annabanana]

6. Oh Puh-LEEZE

That is damn near the dumbest thing I ever heard of... What the hell would they DO with the Shasta Dam?

[asdjrocky]

7. Homes saved, people fed, shelter given.

Just imagine what 500,000 could do.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Local growers, yet.

Dude, trust me. That is way too ambitious of a plan to carry out.
Or even to remember the next day.

[bemildred]

9. And people wonder where to cut government expenditures. nt