Posted on 10/02/2013 8:40:41 AM PDT by montag813
Above: National Park Service workers setting up new barricades this morning, around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Yesterday, the Obama Administration got real petty over the partial government shutdown, sending employees to barricade memorial sites around Washington that are normally open 24/7.
Thankfully, one group of WWII vets wasn't having ANY of it - removing barricades, with the help of fantastic GOP Reps. like Steve King (R-IA) and others - and refusing to be denied access to THEIR World War II Memorial.
Well today, another group of WWII vets plan to do the same thing at the Lincoln Memorial, as Weasel Zippers reports...
The same veterans group that managed to storm the gates at the WWII memorial yesterday is planning taking on the fences at the Lincoln Memorial today. This sounds like a capitol idea, pun intended.Members of Congress are reaming Obama over the disgraceful barricading of these open-air public memorials.Both memorials are open air memorials. The Lincoln Memorial is open 24 hours a day, normally. If you’ll recall, it was wide open to having someone throw green paint on it in the evening a few months ago.
So that means the Obama administration is making a conscious effort to spend more in time and money to shut off something which is normally open.
How ridiculous is this effort by President Obama to make the people “hurt” so he can blame it on Republicans, just as he did with the sequester, which was also his idea?
We still don’t have access to the White House, the people’s house, allegedly because of the sequester, although Obama has spent countless of our millions since then on vacations, parties and golf.
When you have the opportunity to pass bills for veterans and national parks,unconnected to Obamacare, and then don’t pass them, or spend more to close spaces then to keep them open, the reason is simply you want to continue to have people feel the pain.
And that, Mr. President, is sick.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted the administration for trying to block the World War II vets yesterday, saying “some idiot in government sent goons out there to set up barricades.”
This morning those same "goons" - who somehow are on the job despite most certainly being "non-essential" - were setting up fresh barricades around major open-air memorial sites around D.C. (see photo below of their activities at the WWII Memorial around 9am).
As with his absurdly shutting off the "Panda Cam" at the National Zoo - which is already fully-funded by the Ford Motor Company Fund - Obama is using the shutdown as a political tool, just as he disgracefully did with the Sequestration.
Remember, during the sequestration - in fact, before it even took effect - Obama's DHS insanely , citing non-existent budget cuts. Those released aliens contained dozens of violent criminals, most of whom are still at large.
SWA salutes the "Greatest Generation" vets who stormed the beaches, for taking on Obama's goons by storming the memorials this week. We urge anyone in the D.C. Metro area to JOIN THEM, and refuse to be barred from the People's Memorials by political games.
I'm doing OK with bourbon. For now anyway.
This needs to get broad play. Put it on your email lists, twitter it, FB it. Let’s get it out there.
Our country needs us.
It’s common knowledge, most of the executive branch agencies are jobs programs for them. VA and TSA are the biggest examples.
46 posted on 10/2/2013 11:10:40 AM by cripplecreek: “I agree, these rangers don’t appear to be trying very hard.”
54 posted on 10/2/2013 11:26:14 AM by laplata: “Many of the NPS Rangers are Vets. Yes, they’re looking the other way.”
Thank you.
Blame the guy who gave the orders, not the government employees who are following orders.
I'd say something different if this were an illegal order (i.e., shoot the veterans), but so far, the orders are legal and we need to hold accountable the elected officials and senior appointed officials who gave those bad orders, not the worker bees. Some orders need to be obeyed, others need to be reported, and in this case, "reporting the orders" means telling the American citizens so we can get rid of bad elected officials.
42 posted on 10/2/2013 11:07:15 AM by RadiationRomeo: “What we need is a Tiananmen square tank standoff type situation with a vet in a weelchair in front of a government vehicle. A little old guy blocking a huge military transport vehicle would make a great picture.”
That sort of tactic, i.e., having a sympathetic victim who tugs the heartstrings on both sides of the issue, was used by the leftists with groups like Vietnam Veterans Against the War. There is no reason conservatives can't use it, too.
Think like a community organizer. The other side does... and some of their tactics not only work, but are entirely appropriate to use. I really like this comment, which is spot on:
50 posted on 10/2/2013 11:16:08 AM by grania: “The irony of our first “black” president’s actions seems to be missing from the discussion. The protest the WW2 vets are having is exactly what MLK advocated.”
Absolutely agree.
I tell you I despise this man so much that I am ashamed to share the same species designation as him.
But at the same time, I am also of the same species as our WWII vets, and I am proud.
Those are heroes. True honest to God heroes.
And to see them disrespected by this ******* piece of **** Obama makes me want to projectile vomit.
I wonder if the guy driving that front loader is a Vet? Or just another Obama slider?
Thanks, darrellmaurina.
A sobering thought:
What if the Barry-cades are only the first step?
Anyone remember the Bonus Army?
Normandy, was also closed we when got there!!!...Hussein Obama...tear down theses BARRYcades!!!
The thought crossed my mind that every Republican senator and congressman should be outside clearing the way for those vets. News reports state a few have been there but where are the rest? MIA, that’s where.
RE Bonus Army:
I remember reading about it, yes... not a sterling moment in our history.
I agree.
Your pic of a sign saying Mr President. This ass King Obama is not my president and he is a communists black Muslim and the filth of the earth. He is an insult to the title Mr.
Amen to that.
There are no adequate words to describe the filthy, evil scum.
Someone at the WW II Memorial barrycades beat you to it—check out the photos here:
My favorite slogan from that site: “Normandy was closed when we got there too!” God bless these guys.
A sobering thought:
What if the Barry-cades are only the first step?
Obama is moving into the same league as Stalin and Hitler. He’ll do what ever he can get away with.
He’s filthy and evil.
Yup, I know about the bonus army.
But it’s a different era and a different situation. I can’t imagine the outrage - physically violent outrage - that would erupt if this administration decided to employ police state tactics against geriatric veterans looking for nothing more than to honor old comrades.
I’ve seen the Patriot Guard in action. Also been to several Memorial Day “Rolling Thunders” (as a spectator) in DC. From the looks of this the Administration has figured out that having vets defy their petty, spiteful edicts isn’t creating the visuals or narrative they were looking for ... and have officially reopened the WWII memorial to them.
Just as they are on everything MIA.
Or worse, working with the enemy.
But there are a handful of good ones who were with the vets, and I very much appreciate those efforts.
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