Some pay price for entering closed Acadia ( Maine )

pph ^ | October 8, 2013 | Tom Bell

[george76]

Rangers issue a handful of citations over the weekend for alleged trespassing. The government shutdown closed the national park Oct. 1.

For months, Julie and Eugene Gillies of South Portland planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Bar Harbor.

They weren’t about to let a political fight in Congress get in the way of their plans to see Acadia National Park, which they visited on their honeymoon 34 years ago.

Riding on small motor scooters beneath a bright blue sky Sunday morning, the couple went around the barricades and past the sign declaring the park closed and joined what they estimated to be 1,000 other hikers and bicyclists heading out on the Park Loop Road toward Thunder Hole. Another couple from South Portland rode with them on scooters.

Their idyllic morning came to an abrupt end when they were surrounded by park rangers. The price for violating the park’s closure order: a $100 fine for each member of the party.

“I thought they were going to drive all of us to jail,” said Julie Gillies, a mental health therapist. She said the rangers got angry when she asked them why her group was singled out.

“It was the most embarrassing, intimidating thing ever,” she said. “I thought I was in a foreign country.”

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Acadia, which typically gets about 285,000 visitors in October, is closed to the public just as the fall foliage season begins, potentially hurting the economy in Bar Harbor and the rest of Mount Desert Island.

More cruise ship visitors visit the park in October than in any other month

[Paine in the Neck]

A few of these Ranger Ricks need to experience a Thomas Jefferson moment.

A John Malcom moment a la 1774 Boston. I'd give you the histry but every time I post it the mods pull it down. Too incendiary for thier tastes, I guess.

[xrmusn]

So if you’re not carrying ID,
= = = = = = = = = = =
Then you will GO TO JAIL.

The ONLY place in this country where an ID is NOT mandatory is while VOTING...

Of course, it is RACIST if you are asked for one at the polls.

[ryan71]

What's Obama’s specific reason for shutting down the parks? That rangers needed to safeguard them will not be available to do so? The same rangers who are scouring the parks giving people a hard time?

[who knows what evil?]

It’s obviously an unscientific poll, but hard to believe that so many people think that ticketing is proper.

Most visitors to Acadia this time of year come from other parts of Red England and New York...fascism and the power of the state arouses them.

[mistfree]

Take pictures of the thugs and post them everywhere you can. Demand a jury trial and laugh when the jury finds you innocent.

[Charles Henrickson]

Woody Guthrie better come back and update “This Land is Your Land” because, apparently, it ain’t.

DUmmie FUnnies 10-07-13 ("This Land's Not Your Land": DUmmies down with Obama's park shutdown)

THIS LAND'S NOT YOUR LAND
Tune: "This Land Is Your Land"
As sung by King Obama

This land's not your land, this land is my land
Shut down or open, it comes from my hand
From Barack Obama to the bitter clingers:
This land's not made for you to see

If you go driving an interstate highway
And see an orange cone, you'll do it my way
You will obey me and not go forward
This land's not made for you to see

This land's not your land, this land is my land
Shut down or open, it comes from my hand
From Barack Obama to the bitter clingers:
This land's not made for you to see

You'll want to travel and go to Mount Rushmore
But at Rapid City, you won't go much more
Guards will surround you, their voices sounding:
This land's not made for you to see

This land's not your land, this land is my land
Shut down or open, it comes from my hand
From Barack Obama to the bitter clingers:
This land's not made for you to see

If you oppose me, I'll make you suffer
Come near memorials, I'll put up a buffer
I am Obama, I am your land lord
This land's not made for you to see

This land's not your land, this land is my land
Shut down or open, it comes from my hand
From Barack Obama to the bitter clingers:
This land's not made for you to see

If you go looking, you'll see a sign there
And on the sign it says: "There's No Trespassing"
And on the other side: "No Looking or Nothing!"
Both sides were made for you to see

This land's not your land, this land is my land
Shut down or open, it comes from my hand
From Barack Obama to the bitter clingers:
This land's not made for you to see

At the Redwood Forest, in the land of the Canyons
By the Gulfstream Waters, you'll see my minions
As they stand there guarding, you'll stand there wond'ring:
Is this land safe for me to see?

This land's not your land, this land is my land
Shut down or open, it comes from my hand
From Barack Obama to the bitter clingers:
This land's not made for you to see

No one can stop me, my mind is made up
As I go putting my Barrycades up
Nobody living can make me give your land back
This land's not made for you to see

New voices:

But King Obama, this land is our land
So shut your piehole, you can go pound sand
From the bitter clingers to Barack Obama:
This land was founded to be free

This land ain't your land, this land is our land
So shut your piehole, you can go pound sand
From the bitter clingers to Barack Obama:
This land was founded to be free

[from occupied ga]

34% agree with it. It’s obviously an unscientific poll, but hard to believe that so many people think that ticketing is proper.

0bama core supporters - no surprise there. He could be caught bbqing babies and his core supporters wouldn't abandon their worship of the narcissistic incompetent jerk

[bgill]

It won’t let me vote. Guess the results weren’t to their liking.

[justa-hairyape]

So if you’re not carrying ID, can you just tell them your name is Barry Soetero and send the ticket to the White Hut?

If you are on a mountain bike or walking, no ID required. Tell them you cannot identify yourself due to the government shutdown.

[Paine in the Neck]

+1. Take pictures of the thugs and post them everywhere you can.

[AD from SpringBay]

Is it tar & feather o’clock yet?

[LambSlave]

I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure you can’t demand a jury trial for a citation. Any lawyers care to comment?

[bgill]

Que? No habla ingles.

[Adder]

2 arguments you can try: violation of the 14th: equal protection since some groups get to use public space while others do not and hey...the land belongs to the people.

awful hard to trespass on your own land.

[might even try to say that because of the shut down, the tickets are invalid.]

[Vigilanteman]

A John Malcom moment?

You could post a link, couldn't you?

[Billthedrill]

When 0bama was re-elected I recall a triumphant, hate-filled voice yelling “It isn’t your country anymore!” I didn’t believe her then but I believe her now.

[vette6387]

“If I were one of these employees, I would be unable to see ANY “trespassers”.”

Trust me, you could not be one of “these employees.” They are merely gov’t. union goons who have been issued a gun and told to go make trouble with their “fellow citizens.”

[Paine in the Neck]

A John Malcom moment?

You could post a link, couldn't you?

No link because I have no place to post it on line. But I've FReepmailed it to you.

[Orangedog]

Okay, so if the government is shut down due to lack of funds, where are they getting the money to pay for all the manpower to harass people at the closed parks and monuments?

[george76]

They lie.

83 percent is funded