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.
“Generally, dereliction of duty refers to failure through negligence or obstinacy to perform one’s legal or moral duty to a reasonable expectation. In other words, it means willful or negligent failure to perform assigned duties or performing them in a culpably inefficient manner. Dereliction of duty is a specific offense in military law. “ (Quote from USLegal.com).
Dereliction of duty is an Impeachable Offense, as stipulated in the US Constitution. Dereliction of duty is also a US Military offense subject to a Courts Martial.
Will our sorry Congressional RINOs do their usual kid gloves, “boys will be boys” approach to Obama’s numerous violations of the US Constitution, or will they FINALLY draw up The Articles of Impeachment for B. Hussein Obama?
Sure wish we had a REAL conservative news outlet on TV. Fox has gone squishy so we really don’t have a certified fire-breathing news source ... just imagine a conservative version of PMSNBC.
Until we have such an outlet, people will never hear about the atrocities that we Internet weenies know all about. Low-information voters got that way from hearing about “current events” only from the slanted likes of ABC/NBC/CBS and the dead-tree liberal rags.
Think we can get the Koch brothers to spring for such a cable station?
It will never be allowed. If some billionaire went out and launched one, you can bet they would act against it every step of the way. Plus you can't force cable-satellite companies to carry it when they get threatened from the powers that be.
I’m tempted to drive around Mt Rushmore and pick up the cones and just put them in the back of my truck.
I’ve been wondering about that too. Ping me if you find out please.
ALL JOURNALISTS SEEM TO LIKE TO LIE.”””
99% of journalists are totally in the tank for Obama.
When the REVOLUTION starts, they won’t have anywhere to hide.
Thank you
The Pt. Reyes visitor center is closed in Marin..
the Pt. would be if they could close it.
AMEN to that!
When are people going to get this right and place the blame where it belongs? It belongs to Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Jarrett, Moochie, Axlerod and the rest of the gang of Chicago welfare pimp thugs.
I think I know who they descended from.
Just a minute, let me think. Hold on, it’ll come to me soon.
That remains to be seen, Michelle. In the end, it will be a smashing success for the forces of evil if the public doesn't blame Obastard for this. If they blame "Congress," Republicans or the TEA Party, then it will be for naught and Obastard will have won.
I suuppose they could be, but I was thinking of using them to block of the NPS offices or driving them to the Capitol and dropping them off in the parking lot of the DOI offices.
I am open to other suggestions...
Good job. Much better than Woodie Guthrie’s commie version.
Very good, but there should be a title under 'the won' - "obama The Petulant" (small 'o' intentional).
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