See my post 29 above -- I should have pinged you to it.
At this point, pistol packin' Nat'l Park Rangers are as much the bad guys as Obama, and should be held accountable. They could call in sick or do any of a number of things to see that Obama's flawed and destructive orders are ignored, but they care about their paychecks and pensions, apparently, more than they care about the USA. What they are doing is wrong and deliberately destructive to local economies and personal freedoms, they know it, yet they're doing it anyway.
The "I was only following orders" defense holds as much water as a tennis racquet. These park service personnel should be firmly rounded up and handcuffed to their vehicles, park benches, or trees while real Americans go about enjoying their rights to enjoying their parks.
On the coast of California here, it has recently become such a common sight that is is very worrisome, to see armed groups of fish 'n game thugs patrolling recreational areas such as "protected" sand dunes and fishing areas. It's as if they're prepared to shoot-to-kill anyone fishing without a license or who perhaps has the nerve to poach on King Obama's land.
Sure, there have always been power-trippin' pisol packin' fisn'n'game officials around and wily REAL folks (hunters, fishermen) knew how to circumvent and outsmart them. But in the past 10 years, the pistol packin' power-trippin' "parks officials" have become younger, thuggier, and a whole lot more numerous.
They are bad boys.
It's not the NPS rangers that chafe me as much as the fact that our mayor isn't raising heck about it. We do have a governor in CO (in spite of appearances) and our mayor should be raising hell with him to get that state highway open. Where is our media pointing out that flood victims in a nationally declared disaster area are just pawns to 0bamugabe?
Personally I am fine, Finny. My basement apt. flooded and we (and 2,000 neighbors) are on a "no flush" order until three miles of sewer line can be temp. replaced. But there are lots of people with nothing left or no way to get to their homes other than hike after being evaced by the Nat. Guard. More importantly supplies coming in and garbage going out have only one route and it's about 70 miles longer than the normal three routes that were destroyed.