Posted on 10/08/2013 6:15:58 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
With the US government shutdown well into its second week, growing numbers of Americans are gleefully engaging in what they call “civil disobedience” by tossing aside cones or jumping over government shutdown-inspired barricades around national monuments, malls, and park entrances.
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Yet the barricaded federal lands issue has particularly focused on whether it’s really necessary to close off public lands that aren’t regularly patrolled, that are leased to private entities, or are simply open-air monuments without pay gates. For some areas, millions of dollars in tourism revenue is at stake.
“We’ve gone from ‘this land is your land, this land is my land,’ to the government saying this land is its land,” writes University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds in an e-mail. “President Obama said that government is just a word for the things we do together. Apparently that includes kicking WWII veterans off their memorial.”
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One area where the government seems to have the clear right to put up barricades or “closed” signs is where there are pay gates to enter an area. But for parks and monuments where people can simply wander onto federal lands, blocking access touches on a “a huge [legal] gray area,” says Dale Goble, a land policy expert who specializes in the sagebrush rebellions of the West.
One issue that remains unclear is the legal foundation for those closure protocols, including what authority rangers have to either remove “trespassers” or even ticket and arrest them. If the rangers don’t have that power, then many of the barricaded areas are, by default, still open to the public.
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what we need to do is toss out the head conehead in the WH
The National Parks belong to the American people. Not some dumbass from Kenya sitting in the White Hut.
I can imagine what the MSM would be saying if Bush did the same thing.
“The National Parks belong to the American people.”
You’re right. And like any property we own, we should visit it and make sure it’s being taken care of properly. Especially during these difficult times.
“....Americans are gleefully engaging in what they call “civil disobedience”
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Until one of the federal agents loses his temper and pulls a gun....
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the Indonesian-in-Chief issued a “shoot on sight” order.
There’s no one as dangerous as an ego-challenged psychopath with power.
Only one way to respond to Obama’s goons:
Massive civil disobedience.
Surely the authorities will protect us as they did the OWS punks? Oh, wait. It’s those same authorities doing this to us.
That works both ways.
/johnny
undocumented visitors.
No American is ILLEGAL in a park...
Yobama’s Barrycades are as useless as Yobama’s promises.
Actually, we need to move into the public lands in the thousands and thousands. Too many to be fined or jailed.
And that will be the shot heard around the world in the 21st century.
And that will be the shot heard around the world in the 21st century.
Until you confront an eco-fascist NPS agent in a dark parking lot with nobody around, you have no idea what a bunch of bed-wetters these gutless pricks are.
Bambi may have bitten off more than he can chew. Americans are very dedicated to their parks and monuments.
Not being an American, he wouldn’t understand.
As the Gorge has a sizable black bear population (one of my sister's coworkers was mauled a few years back), I always carry my 1911 with me. A .45ACP is questionable against a grizz, but it will do a blackie just fine.
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