Back
in the time of the founding fathers the Colonists engaged in civil disobedience
against English rule. They dumped tea,
refused to pay taxes and more. They did
this in an effort to become independent from England. Today American citizens are once again
engaging in civil disobedience. Not to
break free from a foreign imperial power.
Americans are fighting to enjoy their national parks.
It
appears this has become necessary because the Obama administration has given
park rangers gestapo authority over the national parks. (Sarcasm Alert) I understand it’s not unusual for park
rangers to now put their arms out toward a picture of Obama and say “Sieg Heil.” I understand their training manuals also now
have the words “Mein Kampf” crossed out and the words “Obama Administration
Government Shutdown Guide” written below it.
That
is the only way the behavior of the park service can best be described. Below is a recent article and my valuable
insights are in italics.
Americans across the country are practicing civil
disobedience by entering closed national parks and federally owned land in
defiance of the government shutdown, some facing citations for their
violations.
Huh? It’s important to realize that since 1977
there have been 17 different U.S. government shutdowns. This is the first time the national parks
have been shut down. That Mein Kampf
park ranger training manual needs to go!
From Arizona to Washington, D.C., Americans —
inspired by veterans who pushed through barricades around the national World
War II Memorial in the nation's capital on the first day of the shutdown — are
moving barricades and orange cones aside in order to see some of the country's
most famous landmarks, The Washington Times reported.
Why
is it that dim wits can occupy Wall Street all over the country and nothing
happens? Where were the park rangers
then? Why is it that dim wits who want
to set up tents on other people’s property are left alone yet tax paying
citizens can’t enjoy the national parks?
(Sarcasm Alert) Maybe Americans should go to national parks and say they’re
actually occupying Wall Street in the wild.
For some, however, their actions have come at a
cost. Nearly two dozen people who decided to go into Grand Canyon National Park
were cited for entering while it was closed.
I
wonder if the park rangers should start wearing the uniform of the Revolutionary
War British soldier or German Gestapo. Either
one would be pretty accurate.
One area hotel is giving sightseers directions on
how to see the Grand Canyon without going into the park.
"We have people that are outraged — people from
other countries who have spent considerable time and money to get here, you
know, the Grand Canyon is one of the wonders of the world," said Matt
Rich, one of the family which owns the nearby Jacob Lake Inn. "When we
make them aware there are other views they can see from Forest Service land,
they come back and hug us because we saved their vacation."
What
makes many people from other countries really happy is how they can go back to
their country and never have to deal with park rangers again. There are many park rangers who hate doing
this. They probably have to resist the
temptation to go back home with the foreign visitors.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has offered to reopen the
Grand Canyon Park with state funds, but was told by the park superintendent
that the government cannot accept her offer.
Sooooooooo
the federal government claims they can’t afford to open the Grand Canyon. A state says they’ll pay to open and run the
park BUT the federal government can’t accept it. (Sarcasm Alert) I think it’s because the
federal government doesn’t enjoy using money they’ve not shaken down from a
corporation or ripped from a private citizen.
It can’t be just money; it has to be special extorted money
Some question the reasoning behind closing off
open-air monuments such as those on the National Mall that have no formal
entrances that need an employee to collect entrance fees and provide other necessary
services.
"We've gone from 'This land is your land, this
land is my land,' to the government saying this land is its land,"
University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds told The Christian Science
Monitor. "President Obama said that
government is just a word for the things we do together. Apparently that
includes kicking WWII veterans off their memorial."
I
think there is one thing that scares park rangers about the government shut
down. The American public won’t see how
necessary the park rangers are, but how necessary they’re not. If they weren’t busy right now controlling the
national parks like we live in a police state would we even notice them?
Citations also have been issued by park rangers at
other national parks, including the Valley Forge National Historical Park in
Pennsylvania and Acadia National Park in Maine. However, according to the
Monitor, several are asking if park rangers have the authority to remove, fine,
or arrest trespassers.
I
don’t know about that, but they are good at handing out pamphlets and giving directions. Can you say “class action lawsuit?”
Some of the efforts to keep people from entering or
even seeing certain landmarks almost seem spiteful, Reynolds said.
(Sarcasm
Alert) Ya think?
At the famous Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg,
pull-off areas along a public road were barricaded, preventing sightseers from
viewing monuments without entering the park. And the decision to close the
World War II Memorial came directly from the White House.
If
you’re not busy handing out pamphlets and giving directions what else is
there? Park rangers can now add
barricading national monuments to their resumes. I understand a North Korean employment agency
is now interested discussing career possibilities with the park rangers.
U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance sent a letter to President
Barack Obama Tuesday protesting the closure of popular hunting grounds and
fisheries just as the hunting season begins. USSA president Nick Pinizzoto said
that these lands were not closed when the government shut in 1995.
"These lands are generally accessible to the
public without special entrance fees, passage through gates, or access via
controlled roads or waterways," Pinnizzoto said in a statement.
That
was BEFORE the Mein Kampf park rangers training manual was put into effect.
"Not only are these closures unnecessary, they
run contrary to law. This is 'political theatre' at its very worst."
This
was nothing more than an unnecessary mean and vindictive act on the part of
president Obama and the Democratic Party.
They didn’t get what they wanted in budget negotiations and the American
public had to pay. They may not be too
happy on the attention it has brought them.
Our new cry for freedom will soon be “Give me life, liberty and a chance to
see national parks, and the war memorials of those who died fighting to prevent this from happening in
our country.”
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