Families throw off the cones at Badlands National Park in South Dakota

Twitchy ^ | 10/06/13 | Twitchy Staff

[Winstons Julia]

Tax-paying, hard-working families aren’t letting White House shutdown politics stop them from enjoying America’s beauty. They’re defying the orange cones at Mount Rushmore. They’re breaching the barrycades at Zion National Park. And now, the Badlands of South Dakota.

Noelle Bruno tweets that she and her family made it through Mount Rushmore despite the White House obstacles:

[Yorlik803]

How can a park like that be closed?
Its amazing how they can have guards at parks and memorials but the border between the USA and mexico is wide open.

[cripplecreek]

As part owner I give my permission to visit national parks, forests, and monuments.

Just clean up after yourselves.

[Travis McGee]

People should print out little signs saying,

“Ordered Shut by President Obama to Punish the American People.”

Then tape or glue them to the Barrycades.

[McGavin999]

As part owner I give my permission to visit national parks, forests, and monuments.

Just clean up after yourselves.

They have my permission to visit my part too.

[Libloather]

[SunkenCiv]

thanks Winstons Julia.

Meet Sylvia Burwell, the woman who ordered the government shutdown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3075546/posts

[BarnacleCenturion]

Well, if they get lost or injured hiking around mount Rushmore they shouldn’t call the government for help. Some folks don’t seem to understand that the federal government is shutdown. I’m sure they’ll have a chance to visit the federal parks and monuments in the near future. But they shouldn’t insist in visiting right now.

[knarf]

WOLVERINES !!!

[Paine in the Neck]

She may have directed that a shutdown occur but the fashion of its implementation, its cruelty, comes from elsewhere.

[cripplecreek]

“I’m sure the King will allow us to cross the mountains in the future but his subjects shouldn’t do it right now.”

Overheard in the colonies upon the issuance of the royal proclamation of 1763

[ExpatGator]

That is much more polite than what I was gonna say.

[yldstrk]

I have never seen a single government thug the times I was n the Badlands

[no-to-illegals]

Don’t know how much longer can contain my JOY!

[yldstrk]

“But they shouldn’t insist in visiting right now.”

It’s mine, I will visit it whenever it suits me

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Obama has done us a favor here, in that he's giving people the confidence to take on their oppressors.

Thanks, Zero!™

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Just clean up after yourselves.”

These aren’t liberals. They know to clean up after themselves.

[Henry Hnyellar]

The government is not shut down. Something like half of all gov employees are still on the job. Saturday, SECDEF Hagel announced may DoD civilians will go back to work (active duty military have been working all along).

Don’t buy into the lie of a government shut down.

[2111USMC]

“May your chains set lightly upon you, ...”

[Balding_Eagle]

I’m not sure where your screen name came from, but if it is a referrence to the great ship the Barnacle, you’re not representing it very well, to state it kindly.