Posted on 10/05/2013 9:28:18 AM PDT by Innovative
"I’m proud of you," VP called to tell the Park Ranger who was chastised by a GOP Rep today at the WWII Memorial.
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I personally don't blame the ranger, but those who gave the orders.
>>I personally don’t blame the ranger, but those who gave the orders.
“I was just following orders” is NOT an excuse. If those who “give the orders” learns that those orders will not be obeyed, they will stop or at the very least be rendered impotent because Obama and Pelosi and Reid can’t man every Barrycade. They need myrmidons to do that for them. I do blame the myrmidons.
The quickest way to know that you are involved in anti-American activities is for Barry or Rimshot Joe Biden to call and say that they are “proud” of you. Hitler used to do this a lot to his gestapo guys.
My thoughts exactly. I do blame the minions who *follow orders* . Maybe scorn displayed by the general populace will help the minions rethink things. Maybe SHAME will be relevant again. One can hope.
All solders of the fascist dictator say “I was just following orders”
Reminds me of a book I read long ago
NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON
Where are the impeachment papers????
>>My thoughts exactly. I do blame the minions who *follow orders* . Maybe scorn displayed by the general populace will help the minions rethink things. Maybe SHAME will be relevant again. One can hope.
There’s an Alexander Solzhenitsyn quote where he says that if the people who enforce the regime’s policies were afraid that they’d be attacked in every house they entered, perhaps they wouldn’t enforce the policies with such zeal. I forget the exact quote, but that’s the basic idea.
We don’t have to kill them (yet), but ignoring them, scorning them, and shunning them as enemies is a good start. Excusing them for their support of tyranny is not a good idea because that only emboldens them.
“I am proud of you! You could have been Erwin Rommel, Gerd von Rundstedt or Friedrich Dollmann!”
Too bad they lost.
i notice the article doesn't give it's name... nothing to be proud of
How about they post signs that read:
“Due to lack of funding, this location is not currently monitored and NO services will be provided. Enter at your own risk.”
The spaces belong to the people. They are not “owned” by the govt or nps. Step aside and let the people in.
Sometimes lately, I've been wondering if they really did.
Blame?
I personally am amazed that any normal civil servant would allow themselves to be tasked with such a blatant abuse of position as erecting false barricades and fences around and open air monument that people visit on a daily basis with no oversight or staffing from the parks service.
This is intimidation, pure and simple, by people who are civil SERVANTS.
Seems Obama has shown these civil servants a world where the servant is now the master - and they like it that way
NOT proud of those damn law-breaker veterans, though, right Joe? Imagine them walking on CLOSED grass and pavement!
If the roles were reversed does anyone doubt
we would be on the doorstep of civil disobedience?
The government pays rangers and law enforcement
more money to prevent private concessionaires from
operating their businesses in federal parks than they
spend without a government shutdown. Anybody
besides me think a little civil disobedience is in order?
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Solzhenitsyn
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