HARRISBURG – Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason released the following statement regarding Congressman Paul Kanjorski’s announcement that Luzerne County may be the new home of a military-style training camp that would result in the detonation of 500 bombs each year in the 11thCongressional District. Gleason also questioned whether or not U.S. Senators Casey and Specter, Governor Ed Rendell, members of the state legislature or the Pennsylvania State Police were aware of the project.
The State Department originally planned to put this center in Ruthsburg, Md., but abandoned the site because of public opposition to the potential noise from bomb blasts and gunfire. A February 23, 2010 article in The Washington Post reports:
The little bombs scheduled to go off nine or 10 times a week in Ruthsburg would be a nuisance, and the bigger ones detonated every few weeks could be more of a headache. But it’s the three-pounders that have residents in a panic. They’re convinced that it’ll amount to mini-earthquakes, shaking pictures off walls and slowly tearing apart a historical landmark — not to mention scaring the bejesus out of their children, chickens and horses.(Aaron C. Davis, “Some In Md. Town Call Anti-Terrorism Training Camp A Dud, The Washington Post, 2/23/10)
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