[wrencher]

Is it time to start congregating at park entrances and increasing the enforcement costs yet? When will people resist?

[Dubh_Ghlase]

"I was only following orders," has been unsuccessfully used as a legal defense in hundreds of cases (probably most notably by Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg tribunals following World War II). The defense didn't work for them, nor has it worked in hundreds of cases since.

That is the excuse the park rangers gave when they blockaded the privately run Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway after owner Bruce O'Connell decided to reopen his dining room, gift shop and country store at noon Friday for lunch. The federal government had forced the inn, in a leased building on federal land, to shut down at 6 p.m. ET Thursday at the height of fall foliage — and tourism — season.

A business that actually pays into the federal government is forced to close (obviously under threat of arrest) for no good reason other than a bully-mentality administration says "If I can't get my way, I'll make EVERYBODY hurt!"

. Agreed Wrencher...agreed! Time to be taking names (since they already have ours)...