"The 2,000-acre site is essentially surplus property, Solomon said. The prison farm consists of 760 acres, and a broker is currently meeting with property owners adjacent to the prison farm to see whether they’d be willing to sell their property in order for the proposed infrastructure to expand beyond the 760-acre footprint."
I wonder how the private property owners, many of them active farmers, who own the majority of that property, feel about Solomon calling their property, "surplus." Or the hunters who hunt the State Game Lands included in that 2000 acres? I grew up in East Greensboro but I was born on County Farm Road. Solomon continues:
"He pulled up a map of the fiber optic system that spans the state and pointed to the site just north of Gibsonville.
Solomon said, “The major trunk line for the state of North Carolina” is about 100 yards from the site, and has access to carriers including DukeNet, Time Warner, Level 3, CenturyLink, Verizon and AT&T — which Solomon said makes it prime real estate."
Trunk lines are very important military targets. Problem is: they are underground and very hard to hit. An enemy isn't likely to waste much time and ammunition trying to hit an underground trunk line. Let that sink in while I continue with more of what Solomon presented to the Burlington City Council on Thursday:
" He added, “The great thing about this site is that it’s secure,” being so far from the highway.
WHAT ALSO MAKES the site attractive, Solomon said, is the low risk for natural disasters, including hurricanes and tornadoes, and its proximity to a 24-inch water line running from Burlington to Greensboro.
If Burlington were to invest in the project, its role could be to provide the prison farm area with 7 million gallons of water per day.
Burlington Water Resource Director Bob Patterson said if the city were to connect the site to Burlington’s nearest water line, which runs along U.S. 70, it would require installing an elevated booster tank and cost approximately $14 million."
Secure? Really? Trunk lines are hard to hit but you know what is easy to hit even from 30,000 feet? Bright and shiny new data centers. Bombing a data center takes down communications just as well as cutting the trunk line to which the data center is connected. And with the bulk of the US Military still in foreign lands its only a matter of time before the US government rightly or wrongly pisses off some group of terrorists or some foreign government to the point that attacks on US soil begin.
To my friends and family in Burlington, Gibsonville and Elon: do you want the first strike to be in your own back yard? Or would you prefer to live to tell your grandchildren about the war and the lessons learned?
Nuke Project Haystack before Project Haystack nukes you. Send this post to your friends, family, local and state represenatives and everyone you know, tell then no to Project Haystack. Tell them to protect our food supply and tell Greensboro to invest its money in Greensboro and Burlington to invest its money in Burlington, not outside their corporate limits.
