Posted on 10/05/2013 4:25:17 AM PDT by DEPcom
The Pisgah Inn is closed compliments of the federal government. It's a private business that is located on government property. One of many businesses that are shutdown across the country. Some totally privately owned and operated. This will not stand.
The order to close came from US Park Service National Director, Mr. John Jarvis. He has been contacted. As citizens of these United States, we will exercise our freedom to assemble. We are assembling at noon Saturday, 10/4. Please be at Pisgah Inn.
Get this. The Navy/AF game is being played. But Navy was told they couldn’t take their trainers. However, the had the money to hire local high school trainers. Where did that money come from?
Or just show up with a fleet of tow trucks and start carting them off, no questions asked.
Just do it.
Worth the visit. Restaurant maybe not five star, but the views out the giant windows make up for it. We’ll spend the night there again soon.
(CNSNews.com) - On the first day of the “shutdown” of the federal government, when members of the U.S. Senate were going to the well of their house to point out that the shutdown would prevent the National Institutes of Health from starting clinical trials for cancer patients and others facing possibly terminal illnesses, the administration was giving $445,000,000 to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to the Daily Treasury Statement.
So the Pisgah Inn, in North Carolina, is blocked from lawful commerce and trade by President Obama's Blockade, but PBS, which has much closer financial ties to the government, to the Congress, to the liberals ... gets a windfall and is still ON THE AIR!
If she made it up, I'll post her report.
Cell service can be spotty. Hope all turns out OK in the emergency.
Cell service? I wonder if they’ll find a way to shut that down too.
It’s a good point - Lots of cell towers on fed land, there are.
Shh! Let’s keep this quiet, mm-Kay?
There is wifi service at Pisgah, but the cell service (at least for AT&T) is not good.
Mum’s the word about them cell towers out there.
Rangers enforce shutdown of private hotel on Blue Ridge Parkway that rents federal property
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2:27 PM
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — Conservative activists protested Saturday outside a private hotel and restaurant forced to close during the partial federal government shutdown because it leases a federal government building on federally owned land.
About 100 protesters gathered on the shoulder of the Blue Ridge Parkway to protest Friday’s forced closure of the Pisgah Inn, owner Bruce O’Connell said in an interview. One of the demonstrators handed him a card claiming membership in a tea party group based in Asheville, about 30 miles east, O’Connell said.
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The rangers including Stinnett need to start asking themselves some searching questions about who and what they work for and what price their jobs and if they are patriotic Americans.
She arrived at the Pisgah Inn around 12:30, after the demonstration had started. There were around 40-50 protesters, and people were coming and going in the protest group all the time she was there.
The rangers had the parking lots barricaded and were letting nobody through to the Inn, which is what they said their orders were. She said most of the protesters were older than she (she is 40). Some of them were quite vocal (she is new at this) and had signs.
Overall, everyone was friendly to each other except for one Subaru which showed up to jeer at the protesters. They were 4 lesbians (she thought - and she's seen enough of them around to know) likely from Asheville because of the plates, who were screaming something like "It's all YOUR fault!" and blaming the Republican right-wingers and Tea Party for the closure. When it was explained to them (rather forcefully by one of the Tea Party protesters) what the situation really was about, it sort of shut them up and they seemed a bit embarrassed and they then drove off. She said most other drivers and passersby were either cheering them on or were quietly neutral. She felt they had a lot of support from the public.
She talked with a couple of the rangers, including the supervisor. They were all highly sympathetic to the protesters and the Inn and didn't want to close the Inn down or the other Park areas. She was told by them they didn't want to be there doing this but they were told in no uncertain terms if they didn't they were going to lose their jobs! They insisted their pictures be taken with the protesters so they could show they were "for" them, not "against" them. The Asheville press was there and probably some TV people.
She was glad she went, even though she has never been to a demonstration.
We'll see tonight how this plays out in the media.
Can this dictator be stopped using legal means?
By definition, that's a true statement.
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