Protest is mounting around Potrero, CA and the proposed training ground for Blackwater USA. Strangely, the size of the proposed facility appears to have shrunk from 324 acres, as quoted in Raw Story (see previous post), to 220 acres, as quoted in today’s story. From Fox News in San Diego:
Dozens of people protested a private military and law enforcement training facility that’s being proposed in the east San Diego county. Blackwater USA, the company that wants to build the facility, has been accused of training mercenaries for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now the military contractor wants to construct firing ranges on 220 acres of farmland in the tiny community of Potrero.
Potrero is about 45 miles east of San Diego. Some residents are worried about increased traffic and noise.
“They’re talking 300 students, 500 to 550 pieces of ammunition per student, shooting from nine o’clock until maybe until six or seven or maybe later,” said Jan Hedlun. Hedlun is a member of the Potrero planning group. [full text]
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If one takes a close look at the docs they filed with the county, instead of just relying on internet myth and rumor, one sees that the size of the project has not changed. The Raw Story thing was just so full of tin-foil hat conspiracy and hate speech that it got half the facts wrong. That doesn’t help efforts to get the general public aware of this thing.