Business groups in Ohio are organizing a two-day course on managing “Activist/Terrorist Threats.” It’s a fine line between activism and terrorism in this political climate — apparently only the width of a forward slash.
Check out the scare-mongering for yourself:
To help farmers and agribusinesses become more aware of the threats from activists and international terrorists, a Midwest anti-terrorism course will be held in Columbus on Oct. 17 and 18. The Ohio Livestock Coalition (OLC), of which Ohio Farm Bureau is a member, and partnered with the Animal Agriculture Alliance and Law Enforcement Academic Research Network, Inc. to host the two-day course, “Managing Activist/Terrorist Threats to the Food, Agricultural and Animal Industries: A Common Sense Approach.”
OLC Director David White said the course is hands-on and will teach participants how to determine credible threats to staff facilities and the public; collect intelligence on those threats, and develop practical threat management plants to prevent violence.
If anyone is in the area and has $450, it would be great to check this out. I’m particularly interested in their methods to “collect intelligence” on activists. For their sake I hope their “threat management plants” [sic] are better than their proofreading skills.