I don't think whats going on is anything darker than, if they don't toe the line they'll get canned.
Remember the whining about snowmobiles at Yellowstone? Then the Algor solar powered bathrooms that they built and/or solar-retrofitted in shady areas?
Thinking the same thing. Scary. Following orders against the moral grain and honor of America.
“Have the Park Rangers always been jerks “
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They might be becoming like many police in the USSA, morphing into jack-booted thugs. I noticed it around 12+ years ago, before I left the country. I have no idea what started the trend. Maybe it is what they see on TV and in the movies, or what low-life types choose for a job. They have gone from “serve and protect” to harass and subject.
I’ve personally known a lot of outstanding NPS rangers in my time. That changed when the environmentalist wackos took over. Now the majority of them are freaks who can’t find a real job with their Environmentalism Degrees. What’s bad is that the global cooling/global warming/”climate change” fiasco didn’t work out for them either.
I believe they got heavy into affirmative action/political persuasion in hiring, starting about 40 years ago so they aren’t the same outdoor types of 50 and 80 years ago.
Give a liberal a badge.
The definitive book on what went seriously wrong with the National Park system is Alston Chase’s book titled Playing God In Yellowstone.
It has dozens of pages of footnotes, yet is so readable I regularly assigned it to bright high school students.
It defines why the environmental movement and Park Service went bad.
The book is a Must Read for anyone wanting to understand what happened and from that determine what must be done.
I’ve never been to a national park in the USA, but overall my experience in state parks and provincial parks is that all of the staff go out of the way to make sure that you enjoy yourself and stay safe. Park ranger is the kind of job that you only do if you love the work; unmotivated drones tend to look for jobs closer to home.
Park rangers are like Nazis, but in shorts.
National Park Service rangers were respected and enjoyed a reputation of being courteous, kind, morally straight and eager to serve the public. Given this reputation, supporters of Bill Park, a Republican wheeler-dealer from Bakersfield, Calif. back in the 1980’s called themselves Park Rangers. There is no way they would choose that nickname today, given the thuggish, cowardly and downright sadistic behavior of today’s NPS rangers.
I think some people get into being a ranger 'cause they are not a people person and they figure they'll be out in the wilderness or something.
I know how I would handle it.
Remember Reagan and the air traffic controllers.
I say fire the whole bunch and replace them.
The message is if you dont stand up for what is right, you definitely will get fired.
Just jerks. They’ve been wanting to do this for some time, but they’ve recently gotten permission from the boss. These people won’t hesitate to start shooting civilians.
I’m beginning to believe that “Brickleberry” is an excellent portrayal of them.
Always been low-grade criminals with mental issues, who managed to land gummint jobs that pay then five times what they're worth.
Their behavior under the current "give the public hell," campaign, simply confirms it.
Example of the typical moron... planted, then "discovered "endangered species" hair in a large portion of a National Forest to close it to public access.
They love their private playgrounds.