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Park Service ranger: “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can.
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Posted on 10/04/2013 6:50:53 PM PDT by chessplayer

When and how did the National Park Service become “the shock troops of the punitive bureaucracy”?

The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II Memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon; it is privately owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. The ladies bought it years ago to preserve it as a national memorial. The feds closed access to the parking lots this week, even though the lots are jointly owned with the Mount Vernon ladies. The rangers are from the government, and they’re only here to help.

“It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”

Sad to say, but there’s precedent here. The extent of the barricade mentality may have deepened over time, with some memorials being shuttered now that stayed open in ’95, but the NPS has apparently always been a lead actor in shutdown-theater pageantry. Andrew Stiles interviewed former Bush Interior Secretary Gale Norton about it, and she said it’s nothing new:

“The National Parks Service has a long history of dramatizing budget issues by inconveniencing the public,” she says. ”They often choose the most dramatic type of action in order to get their message across. It’s something I had to guard against when I was secretary — not letting them play budget games.“

NPS has engaged in such behavior for decades, Nortons says, recalling at least one occassion during the Reagan administraiton, in which she worked as an attorney for the parks service, when NPS decided to close Skyline Drive, a scenic highway running through Shenandoah National Park, in order to make a statement during an appropriations fight on Capitol Hill…

“Given the fact that they have closed so much, and acted so broadly, I imagine that decision was made at the highest levels of park service leadership, in cooperation with department leadership and the White House,” she says.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barrycades; govtshutdown; nationalparks; obama; openairmemorials; operationwhipcracker
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41 posted on 10/04/2013 8:55:40 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: chessplayer

Is the entertainment branch the only Federal branch that is closed?


42 posted on 10/04/2013 8:56:30 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: chessplayer

Is the entertainment branch the only Federal branch that is closed?


43 posted on 10/04/2013 8:56:31 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: chessplayer
a friend of mine and his friend went to Lake mead on Monday from So. Calif. and at 10;00AM Wednesday morning they were told to get off the lake.

Before they could get to the beach they had pulled the docks and locked up the porta potties.

There is a mobile home park on leased land from the federal government there and they were told to get out of their homes and go find a motel!!!

44 posted on 10/04/2013 9:03:30 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: chessplayer

Barrycades have only been used, so far, in outdoor Park, outdoor Monuments, and outdoor Mall settings.

Construction of larger Barrycades to be used on the US Mexican Border had to be canceled when the income from the Fast and Furious uncontrolled gun control “investment” went the way of all other Obamanation investments.

Potential construction of Barrycades to be placed on Obama’s Red Line in Syria is being jointly studied by the US Military, and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Vladamir Putin.

Ambassador Dennis Rodman, no relation to Mrs. Bill Clinton, is rumored to be trying to put together a syndicate of his best friends to provide funding for the construction of these Red Line Barrycades.

North Korea spokesmen would not confirm or deny this rumor.


45 posted on 10/04/2013 9:33:47 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: chessplayer
Park Service ranger: “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can...exactly - instead of an administration intent on making peoples' lives as productive and comfortable as possible, the Obama Administration intends to turn every government power and advantage against the people as needed to perpetuate itself and its henchmen - shameful......
46 posted on 10/04/2013 9:36:56 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: chessplayer

a president who orders federal agencies and employees to cause pain to the American a public should be IMPEACHED

what say you Congress?

how low do we have to fall as sovereign citizens to tolerate this BS as just another obama stunt

when was the last time we had a president who used the feral govt as his personal staff to punish ordinary citizens, even to the point of causing the possible deaths of some of those citizens (as in the NIH cancer drug cut off)


47 posted on 10/04/2013 9:42:33 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: dalereed

In that case, why aren’t the obamas being evicted from the White House? They are only renting


48 posted on 10/04/2013 9:45:17 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Park Service ranger: “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can...exactly - instead of an administration intent on making peoples' lives as productive and comfortable as possible...

It is not the responsibility of the Federal government to do either. How people live their lives be they 'difficult' or 'comfortable' is not a Federal responsibility and none of their damn business.

49 posted on 10/04/2013 9:45:44 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: combat_boots

creepy

do you wonder what was the last thing he said to his grandmother?

very odd situation that was


50 posted on 10/04/2013 9:46:47 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: combat_boots

oh and some stories about the drone attacks indicate Obama selects the targets and takes way too much pleasure in the details of the kill, so maybe you are on to something

a kid raised as he was is a candidate for sociopathy


51 posted on 10/04/2013 9:49:04 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

“Stay under the damned pillow!!!”


52 posted on 10/04/2013 9:54:56 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: Ken522

“.....resignation of Mary A. Bomar on January 20, 2009, the day of President Obama’s inauguration.” Was she the last person with dignity? Will there be no one who will resign in protest? Will there not be one Ranger who will go on TV incognito and tell the truth?


53 posted on 10/04/2013 9:59:37 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: silverleaf

they aren’t renting, they are squatting since they pay nothing!!


54 posted on 10/04/2013 10:08:15 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: chessplayer
Obama is going nutso. Time to get the impeachment papers ready.
55 posted on 10/04/2013 10:10:07 PM PDT by yellowhammer
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To: dalereed
There is a mobile home park on leased land from the federal government there and they were told to get out of their homes and go find a motel!!!

If that is true, they have truly lost their minds. You can't kick someone out of their home. Where is ABC/CBS/NBC?
56 posted on 10/04/2013 10:22:38 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: Girlene

They turned off the water and power and condemed them as unsafe with no water or power!


57 posted on 10/04/2013 10:28:49 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: chessplayer

bookmark


58 posted on 10/04/2013 11:34:20 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: chessplayer
Remember to spit on the next NPS ranger you see if you visit D.C.

I can only respond to that one with a most abused and misused phrase, but which is proper and fitting in this case:"That would lower us to their pathetic level."

In their case, they are "just following orders," which has a most evil connotation, and illustrates perfectly the age old admonition that "the only thing necessary for evil governance to exist, is an endless supply of evil administrators."

I would simply look them in the eye, and ask respectfully, "Does it really feel that good to be 'following orders?' Is any job worth that?"
And watch them blush if they have even an inkling of morals and ethics.

No way to tell if it would affect them, but it would sure make me feel better!

59 posted on 10/04/2013 11:37:25 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Billthedrill
They are not 0bama’s employees, they are ours.

What a meaningless useless phrase, because if anywhere near reality, "we" could instantly fire them.

The best we can do is show our justified contempt.

60 posted on 10/04/2013 11:41:30 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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