Posted on 10/08/2013 10:23:45 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Thousands of people found themselves inside a national park when the government shutdown went into effect. Pat Vaillancourt and her tour group "which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard."
The seniors were treated harshly by armed park employees until they were able to leave according to Vaillancourt. Once they began the journey out of the park, "the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route."
“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like — ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her forearm.
Vaillancourt was on a nine day tour of western parks "with about four dozen senior citizen tourists." As her bus stopped to take a picture of some bison, "an armed ranger came by and ordered them to get back in, saying they couldn’t 'recreate.' The tour guide, who had paid a $300 fee the day before to bring the group into the park, argued that the seniors weren’t 'recreating,' just taking photos."
As they approached the Old Faithful Inn located next to the famous Old Faithful geyser, she could see barricades around the geyser and the seniors were locked inside the Inn with armed guards.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The forest belongs to the King.
Any relation to Vicky Vallencourt?
Somebody just doing their job again...I am really loosing any sympathy for any of these federal pukes.
Poachers. String them up!
Might stop the Fourth Reich come coming soon enough for the National SOCIALIST Workers Party of America.
I have a nomination for the first fed agency to be defunded after next year’s elections .......
I am shocked at how fast this country has fallen..........
Yet another example of an out of control government....
The public schools have succeeded beyond their wildest imagination...
I think it only took Hitler 6 years to go from virtually unknown to putting people in ovens. Were on year 5...
"Just Following Orders" was the Nuremberg Defense.It was the excuse used by the NAZIs
someone needs to film this.. this is democrat america!
People, do not ever wonder how or who will fire upon you or your neighbors in the name of the state...................
I’m beginning to think obama would do it too. I think repubs should allow for a broader gov shutdown.
The shame of it is we allowed it to happen.......
Indeed...
CA....
The Interior Department is infested with liberal, environmental whack-jobs. They are doing this with zeal, throwing humans out of their kingdom.....................
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