Done at the orders of the toady Director of the National Park Service, Jonathan Jarvis. Why?
Posted on 10/07/2013 5:24:27 AM PDT by markomalley
National Park Rangers shut down a family-owned and fully-booked inn along a lonely North Carolina highway on Saturday, driving customers away during the peak tourist season.
Bruce O’Connell, the owner of the Blue Ridge Inn, provoked the park rangers when he reopened his lodge after the Park Service demanded he close his business by Thursday due to the partial government shutdown. The World War II veterans who stormed their barricaded memorial inspired him to take a stand against the federal government, he said.
“It’s conscience and conviction that have taken over me, and I just can’t roll over any more,” he said. (RELATED: WWII vets storm closed memorial as GOP congressman reportedly distracts cops)
In response, the rangers blocked the inn with patrol cars and told customers and told customers who had booked reservations months in advance that the “government was closed,” according to USAToday. They also forced 35 of O’Connell’s 100 employees out of their homes and off the federally-leased lands.
“It’s about the visitors. It’s about the staff and employees who are now having to move off the mountain — they live here — with no notice. They have no jobs. That’s the concern,” said O’Connell of his newly homeless, jobless workers.
Another North Carolina outpost, the Peaks of Otter Lodge, folded without a fight after receiving a similar Park Service order.
Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett plans to enforce the directives issued from National Park Service Rangers in Washington, D.C. to keep rangers holding customers and homeowners at bay “as long as they are needed” — in other words, until the government resumes the recently shuttered 17 percent of its functions.
Keeping the rangers ringed around the inn will, according to Stinnet, ensure that “people don’t utilize a business that, according to the federal government, is closed.”
The Obama administration’s decision to deploy federal agents to wall off private businesses costs the tourism industry $76 million per day.
North Carolina’s unemployment rate currently stands at 8.7 percent.
NC Authorities, take some advice from Yogi Bear: “Hey, Boo Boo, what Mr Ranger doesn’t know won’t hurt him..”
Gee, I think it’s time to start asking the shut down victims what political party they have supported in the past. This is beginning to look a lot like IRS targeting.
This abuse of power is clear evidence why the government should be shutdown and not reopened.
The GOP should demand that this business and all the others be reopened before they are willing to sit down and negotiate with Obumby.
This is easy. All you there have to do if you really want to stand up against this bastard is get about 200 people together, go out there and open the god dam place back up. If they pull their guns, you pull yours. End of story.
I am about sick and tired of hearing the whine that comes out of all this. Until something happens, this will keep going on. Here we got 90 year old vets defying the park service and they cant get 200 people to do it there?
That’s a good slogan: “I won’t roll over any more.”
Why should the GOP do anything? It is up to the people around there. You want to wait for some politician to do everything for you? If so, we all will be waiting a long time.
There was a comedian back in the 80’s that did a bit with Yogi and Booboo that is fitting here...
Booboo: “But Yogi, Mister Ranger isn’t going to like...”
Yogi: “Ah, well, F’ the ranger, Booboo!”
“Who is HEAD of the NPS???? Does HE live on GOVT> PROPERTY??? KICK HIM OUT if he does!!”
Start at the top: Close the White House!
200 people with Gadsden flags walking past the rangers ought to send a message.
Done at the orders of the toady Director of the National Park Service, Jonathan Jarvis. Why?
We have a government with no shame - like our pretender president.
A name to keep in mind
BTW I notice that government supported PBS is still on the air.
aren’t the obamas living on federal property?
Nothing is stopping the people from doing that either.
Get lawyers sue the sox off the illegal government for its unconstitutional deprivation of property rights.
Sure would be nice to see the White House and Capital closed.
Obama is playing end game politics here. They are going to crush all opposition or take all the Democrats down with them. Hard to see how this ends peacefully from where we are right now.
forget the tyrant in DC and his legion of list-makers targeting an obvioulys planned list of every “federal”or what they think they can call federal park (aka looking at the Potomac River, the forests, the sea shores)
the fact that these middle class men are following orders to inflict “pain” on American citizens....is DEEPLY disturbing
“I vas only doink my job”
He’s not black, he’s an Arab
You are absolutely correct. If they submit, they are slaves to the system. It is entirely up to them to stand their ground.
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