Posted on 10/10/2013 5:41:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Taking their lead from the veterans who first pushed through the barricades to visit the World War II Memorial, Americans nationwide are defying the federal government shutdown, tossing aside traffic cones and toppling wooden fences to get to national parks and other federal lands that the administration has deemed out of bounds.
As the shutdown hits the middle of its second week, civil disobedience has become a sensation. Some proudly post online photos of themselves overcoming the government’s obstacles, and others use more subtle ways to make their point.
In Arizona, one road-stop inn is quietly giving visitors directions on how to use Forest Service roads to get a glimpse of the Grand Canyon, a national park that has been shut down. [SNIP].......So when we make them aware there are other views they can see from Forest Service land, they come back and hug us because we saved their vacation,” Mr. Rich said.
...................One woman jumped the front fence to get inside just around the corner from the area where barricades had been opened. Renee Younk, visiting from Wisconsin on a work trip, said she probably wouldn’t have gone into the monument based on the sign that read, “Due to the Federal government shutdown, this National Park Service area is closed, except for 1st Amendment activities.”
Donna Chapman, another out-of-town visitor, said she felt like she was exercising her First Amendment right just by visiting the memorial.
“I don’t think they should have gates up at all. It’s open air,” she said. “It’s ridiculous.”
But the service had to relent Tuesday after it allowed a major pro-immigration rally on the otherwise closed Mall, drawing rebukes from rally participants and from others who said the administration shouldn’t be able to choose who is and who is not allowed to exercise rights.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
That 17 million is in addition to the 15 million already built in from existing immigration levels through 2036, the researchers said. By comparison, the last four presidential elections were decided by an average of 4.5 million voters......."
His Royal Highness, King Hussein the First, is gonna be p*ssed.
Here’s an idea. Let’s all plan peaceful rallies in shut down parks. Advertise that we are going to have a public reading and discussion of oh, I dont know, the Bill of Rights maybe? Then let the NPS goons try to stop us, dare to deny us our BOR protected rights. Bring your video cameras, GoPros, cell phones etc and record everything that is said and done by the goons. Get their full names on record as soon as they say or do anything. Lets take back our parks America!
Its time to take our country back from the criminal in the White House. He has armed ordinary civil servants and placed them in a position where there is an expectation they will use those arms against fellow civilians exercizing their constitutional rights.
This is no longer about Obamacare or the debt ceiling
Its about s.monster a tyrant who needs to be impeached and imprisoned for high crimes and misdeanors
Massive civil disobedience is the way to go. Look what the brave people of Cairo achieved — getting rid of a dictator, Morsi.
ok , so everyone make a small handbill, tape it to your ass and walk around the barriers
some boldly lettered thoughts regarding Obama would be fitting
Emperor 0bama is apparently trying to see just how far he can push us and get away with it. How can he deny The American People access to things that belong to THEM; they do not belong to the kenyan illegal alien, but to US!
Our Forefathers founded this Country because they were unwilling to go along with the tyrannical rule of a foreign monarch. It may be time for us to reassert that!
He was emboldened when he closed our house to us—he’s just the latest tenant—and we didn’t toss *his* a** out!
MEXICANS, GO HOME !
Y’all are nothing more than ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS FROM MEXICO !
Promote fracking for oil in Mexico and hope they go back south.
I always thought he floated in on a tide of sewage.
Take trash bags to clean up and lawn mowers to neaten.
Hang a sign around you neck that reads: "King Obama Sucks" and then dare the park police to arrest you for exercising your First Amendment right to exercise political speech.
For true civil disobedience, look up stories about the “Sons of Liberty” some time.
Those boys were downright scary at times. For a very good cause, of course!
Maybe it’s time for their return. We’ll see how the truckers’ protest turns out.
It's almost dead, but perhaps there's a breath of life left before we sputter into ignominy.
1st Amendment protects not only freedom of speech, but freedom of peaceable assembly.
>> “Some proudly post online photos of themselves overcoming the government’s obstacles” <<
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Serious mistake!
>> “Emperor 0bama is apparently trying to see just how far he can push us and get away with it.” <<
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And then when the time comes, he’ll push twice as hard.
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