Posted on 10/09/2013 4:49:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Could this be the end of Monument Syndrome? Across the country, ordinary Americans are rising up in revolt against the old Washington tactic of closing public parks and memorials during selective government "shutdowns" to score political points. Tax-paying tourists are tossing off the orange traffic cones and "Barrycades." Enough is enough.
The movement started with waves of World War II veterans who flew to D.C. last week as part of the Honor Flight Network. (The nonprofit group brings our surviving heroes to visit the memorials that honor their service and sacrifice.) The vets and volunteers breached the fences last week, exposing the tone-deaf tactics of President Obama's Spite House. Honor Flight visits continue this week, and more vets vowed to defy the cynical closures.
They are not alone. At Gettysburg National Military Park, tourists broke through barriers and posed for pictures on the battlefields with notes reading, "Catch us if you can." One visitor reported that motorists formed impromptu caravans as rangers chased them. "Strength in numbers," they tweeted.
At Mount Rushmore and in the Badlands of South Dakota, families barreled over hazard cones. Their photos went viral on Facebook. In Wisconsin, GOP Gov. Scott Walker defied the National Park Service and opened state parks that Obama-crats wanted closed because they receive some federal dollars. At the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Missouri, a group of 20 protesters defied threats of arrest to enter the park.
"This is to get some knowledge out there that the federal government has its fingers in everything, including our own land in our own states, and, out of spite, they'll shut it all down," Jackson resident Brian Bollmann told the local press.
In Michigan, tourists crossed police-style yellow tape and construction barrels to get to Munising Falls in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Twitter users posted photos of the broken barriers over the weekend. The Mining Journal reported on one visitor who simply stepped over the tape: "'Well, that worked, huh?' she asked rhetorically." Take that, manipulative federal overlords.
At Zion National Park in Utah, hikers scaled the fences and wondered why so many supposedly furloughed workers were working to keep them out. One visitor, highlighted at my Twitter aggregator Twitchy.com, described her experience to me last week at the scenic tourist spot:
"(W)e were advised by the park ranger at the gate that we couldn't stop our car at any time in the next 12 miles. To ensure that we didn't pull over at any of the scenic viewpoints, cones were placed at every turnoff. That didn't stop people, however, as many were getting out, moving cones and quickly taking pictures. People were incredulous at that restriction, as if they could somehow shut down our ability to enjoy our surroundings. ... I did enjoy seeing an elderly couple, in a display of civil disobedience, leave their car and walk hand in hand on the red rock."
Welcome to Occupy America. It's a protest movement for all ages against Washington business as usual. Thanks to social media, citizens outside the Beltway are now able to voice their disgust in an unprecedented way. Through Twitter, Facebook and blogs, they are directly disrupting the well-worn politics of government parks-and-wreck extortion.
From closing down parts of the ocean around Florida to booting elderly citizens from their private homes on Lake Mead to shutting down private restaurants and farms that just happen to sit on federal land, the Democrats' overreach has finally backfired.
The explanation for this ridiculous Obama obstructionism can be summed up in one word: Control. Control of the people. Control of the partisan narrative. Monument Syndrome, perfected under the Clinton administration, is about inflicting the most visible pain on citizens to demonize political opponents. Big-government advocates in the media enabled the manipulators.
For decades, taxpayers were passive pawns in this gamesmanship. No more. Monument Syndrome, R.I.P.
Hitler couldn’t stop them with machine guns at Normandy, does Obambi think he can stop them with Barrycades?
Actually I think a great endeavor would be for protesters to put orange cones all around the Spite House.
“Occupy America”; using their own tactics against them. C’mon you Democrats join us in this movement and stop being the lapdog of the elites who are just using you like a sideline mistress always promising to but never leaving his wife. Washington is just using you. Abondon the ship.
He’ll probably get the machine guns out next.
When is someone finally going to drop a dime on this guy? We’ve waited long enough.
Damn the Barrycades, full steam ahead.
Sorry, but I don’t want the rats joining us. They voted for that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. They can kiss my behind
EXCELLENT
What a great idea!!!!!
Any new updates re: the WWII vets at their memorial?
Still open?
The vets & supporters still pushing past the Barrycades?
Illegals were teeming all over the mall yesterday - welcomed with open arms to sites that were closed to U.S. citizens.
I wonder if they will try to stop helicopter flights over Volcanoes National Park.
Wonder why you don’t see this reported on NBCCBSABCCNNMSNBC????
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
Inform the NPS and USFS “workers” that if they don’t stand down, the NPS and USFS will be shut down and the properties returned to the People and run by the States.
Park your car, pocket the keys, get out and enjoy the scenery. Challenge any responding uniform to go ahead and tow it. By the time the tow truck arrives, the car can easily be driven away. Think they’ll shoot you for moving your car? Fine. I remember an incident in Boston 243 years ago where citizens were shot. It sparked a revolution.
Government Shutdown?
Toss the whole tribe of useless, parasitic scumbags out of the White House.
King and Queen Obama - Living Large On The Backs Of Taxpayers
- Mother-In-Law lives Free In The White House
- Obama Gets Monthly Government Check
- Housing Paid For
- Meals Paid For
- First Class Medical Care Paid For
- Parties and Entertainment Paid For
- Transportation Paid For
- Separate Boeing 747s at their disposal to fly anywhere in the world
This would backfire on the toddler in chief and the Democrats if anyone knew about it, but unless you come to websites such as this, you would have no idea that this was happening. This is a NEWS story, but there not a single news service, not even FOX, that is covering this (even if FOX did cover it, most wouldn’t believe it if CNN did not also cover it). You could fill entire news programs with example after example of the petulance of the toddler in chief. This is a war against patriotic Americans while invaders get a pass. This is on top of his war against the Catholic church. Don’t forget that civilian Catholic priests at our military bases are FORBIDEN from performing any sacrament on government land, even if they do it for free (ya know, voluntarily).
You are wasting your breath and time there. To a Democrat, the Democrat party is their god, lord, savior and messiah. I understand that some call themselves Christians, even attend Church Services faithfully, however, each election they vote for candidates of a Party that practices everything that is forbidden in the Holy Bible. That support a Party that booed the mention of God on National television numerous times.
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