NBC: Police Remove Vietnam War Veterans at Memorial Wall

weeklystandard.com ^ | 10-5-2013 | JOHN MCCORMACK

[servo1969]

Via William Jacobson, NBC's affiliate in Washington, D.C. reports that police ordered tourists and Vietnam war veterans who were visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to leave the memorial at one point on Friday.

After one group of veterans went around the barricade, "the park ranger told them the wall was closed," NBC's Mark Seagraves reported. "Later another group of vets showed up and moved the barricades. At that point, the memorial filled with vets and tourists. That's when police came and moved everyone out."

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is a black granite outdoor wall on which the names of the 58,272 service members who died or were unaccounted for during the Vietnam war are inscribed.

It takes more manpower and costs the government more money to close down an outdoor wall than to let people walk past it and pay their respects.

The Obama administration has been very selective in devoting resources to shutting down memorials.

[sickoflibs]

Dont worry, after the GOP caves like they did in 1996 they (IRS employeees) will get paid overtime (more of our $$$) to catch up their work, just like they did in 1996, and Rush will spin it as a big GOP victory, just like he did the past almost 20 years

[Stormdog]

“We need about 20,000 to show up all at once”

Armed to the teeth and willing to bite.

[Gator113]

Well done....

[meyer]

Because if they resist, there will be violence, and that’s what Obastard wants. He’s pushing for a “Reichstag moment.”

Well, maybe, just maybe, it's time for some flippin' violence. If not now, when?

I say resist, fight, make them use violence. It'll be on TV in 10 minutes if they do. And then they will need to prepare because there are millions of us here in flyover country that are tired of this intimidation and unconstitutional government tyranny. I'm willing to take it to the next level.

[1st Division guy]

Because if they resist, there will be violence, and that’s what Obastard wants. He’s pushing for a “Reichstag moment.”

totally agree

[GeronL]

They should have built that as the memorial!

[penelopesire]

Brought the attack dogs out today:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/10/outrage-obama-brings-out-german-shepherds-to-threaten-us-veterans/

Picture at link.

[Cyber Liberty]

It's a SIDEWALK on a public street! How is closing this saving one dime?

Obastard has been using the past five days to prove it's not about the money. We've paid out far more money to lock up the Monuments than it costs to leave them open. It's about Obastard exercising his power...And he's doing it all over the country. There's an 1,100 square mile area of ocean in Florida they say is "closed."

The regime is escalating the outrage. This is not going to end well.

[onyx]

BTTT

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Because if they resist, there will be violence, and that’s what Obastard wants. He’s pushing for a “Reichstag moment.”

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I don’t think that would end the way the progressives expect. Unlike 1930s Germany, they never actually disarmed us.

[CodeToad]

Proof the police will do whatever is ordered of them.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I’m beyond being annoyed by this bullshit! I’m pissed off at the MF’s Demoncrats and THE MUSLIM BOWBAMA for selectively closing monuments that are dear to the American veterans! That no good son-of-a-bitch in White Hut can go f*ck himself and Harry Reid also!!! FUBB! (F*ck You Barackade Bowbama!) Rant off...

[sten]

they want to trigger a revolt

you don’t think DHS bought all those bullets for nothing, did ya?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

They should have chanted the Obamacare telephone number,
1-800-F1UCK-YO !

[Gay State Conservative]

I can just see a Vietnam vet saying “hey,Buster...I fought the North Vietnamese 18th Brigade.Do you *really* think that *you* can scare me?”

[fr_freak]

Because if they resist, there will be violence, and that’s what Obastard wants. He’s pushing for a “Reichstag moment.”

I've seen this said many times here, but I don't think it is true. I think it is just an excuse not to act. The truth is that the leftwing nutbags who run this country are having a grand old time doing whatever they want right now. They have NOTHING to gain by having us rebel. They are COUNTING on us being too wussified to do anything about their transgressions even while they laugh at us. An outbreak of resistance, violent or not, armed or not, would be their worst nightmare, whether they realize that or not.

[meyer]

they want to trigger a revolt

They shouldn't pick a fight that they cannot win.

[lilypad]

Calling Mark Levin!!!

[dforest]

I think you are right. Sorry to say.

[RedMDer]

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