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A Barrycade too far?Regime over reach on national parks stirs hornet`s nest.
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Posted on 10/09/2013 12:09:31 PM PDT by nomad

A number of us freepers have been posting stories about the over reach by the regime on the National Parks closures. This is a populist issue that along with all the others associated with this shutdown has, according to a recent poll, driven O`Bozo`s approval ratings down to 37%. I believe we need to jump on this and hammer it home to the "low info voters". A simple and petty example of the vindictiveness of the "Spite House" such as this parks issue illustrates it for even the blind.


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Let me relay a story associated with a trip and hike at the Cuyahoga Valley Ohio and Erie Canal Tow-Path bike trail. The other day I went for a hike and was able to talk with a couple of millenial twenty somethings on the trail to Szalay`s farm from Peninsula, OH. The Obozo bots were dismayed and personally offended by the closing of "their trail" by the NPS. One even questioned dear leader and actually admitted that this was going too far, this hurt the people in a personal way. I questioned, listened, and refrained from much negative comment as I wanted an honest response. I concluded that this issue has some legs even with the latte sipping, Birkenstock crowd. Opinions freepers?
1 posted on 10/09/2013 12:09:31 PM PDT by nomad
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This is a similar posting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3076557/posts
2 posted on 10/09/2013 12:12:16 PM PDT by nomad
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And this is a random listing of various articles on the issue presented with no comment http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075809/posts


3 posted on 10/09/2013 12:14:40 PM PDT by nomad
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And this is my original posting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075009/posts


4 posted on 10/09/2013 12:16:21 PM PDT by nomad
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http://youtu.be/N078jMaPA5M


5 posted on 10/09/2013 12:24:11 PM PDT by Waywardson (I did not vote for that pro-abortionist candidate!)
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After this fiasco, I hope the House passes a bill to disarm the Park rangers. They should not be armed, period.


6 posted on 10/09/2013 12:25:28 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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My family owns vacation property (cabin) that requires use of a Forest Service road to access it. The property is not on federal land though. There are ~20 property owners up there, many of them liberal, a few of them conservative, most of them low information voters.

This past weekend I sent an email to all of the other property owners asking them if anyone had been up there to make sure the road had not been blocked. I got a couple snarky responses, but I sent them the article about cabin owners on Lake Mead being kicked out.

I explained that if the FS could do that to the people at Lake Mead, the equivalent would be them gating our road and putting a sign on it saying we couldn't even walk in to our properties. I think I got my point across.

So far, the FS has done nothing, but I wouldn't put it past them. We're just keeping our heads down hoping they don't remember us....

7 posted on 10/09/2013 12:26:23 PM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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Not just National Parks but National Forest which is a big part of the west (among other areas).


8 posted on 10/09/2013 12:26:25 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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You done good. If you start lecturing them, they’re going to stop up their ears. But if they start thinking - and I think a lot of millenials (and even a lot of park rangers charged with enforcing this horrible stuff) are beginning to think - who knows what will happen?

They were a thoroughly politically indoctrinated generation, but enough of the American spirit somehow crept in that they’re a little annoyed by this overreach. That is, they never thought before that this country is not about the success of “the government,” it’s about the freedom and happiness and success of its citizens - such as them.


9 posted on 10/09/2013 12:27:12 PM PDT by livius
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/09/poll-dems-lose-lead-in-congressional-generic-ballot WOW! You see, THIS is what I`m talking about! THANK YOU!
We need to keep up the pressure on the Spite House.


10 posted on 10/09/2013 12:30:10 PM PDT by nomad
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re: “Barrycade”

I love it! Akin to “hoovervilles” only in this case it truly fits.


11 posted on 10/09/2013 12:30:40 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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Oh I have been a part time student at a local community college and have dealt with these types before. Their self absorption can be an Achilles`s heel.
What I heard was “my trail”, “my time to commune with mother nature”, but at least they seemed to sympathize with the perception that others were like them, being denied “their park time”.


12 posted on 10/09/2013 12:39:04 PM PDT by nomad
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Try going to the social media sites and search the term, its catching on. So is the term, “The Spite House”.


13 posted on 10/09/2013 12:40:51 PM PDT by nomad
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We are a nation of non-creative wusses.

We can’t have 500-20,000 people doing flash mobs on the barrycades, picking them up, and delivering them to a location on federal land where they are CONSIDERABLY out of the way?

I cannot believe that people are just standing and looking at the barrycades like cattle at a gate. Pulling my hair out.


14 posted on 10/09/2013 12:42:46 PM PDT by lurk
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Well I can only speak for the Tow Path National Park. Its been “guerrilla opened”! Amazing what pocket knives and multitools can do with that orange plastic snow fencing.
15 posted on 10/09/2013 12:46:11 PM PDT by nomad
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Amen lurk. NPS employees “following orders” should be shamed and shunned by their communities.


16 posted on 10/09/2013 12:50:41 PM PDT by Fledermaus (OMG! The Federal Government is Shut Down. World To End: Film At Eleven.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3076806/posts Are there cracks forming in our armor? We need to keep up the pressure on the usual RINO suspect.


17 posted on 10/09/2013 12:51:29 PM PDT by nomad
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don’t have enough cash to open it,but they have enough to hire mercs to guard it.
makes sense to me.


18 posted on 10/09/2013 12:53:59 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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My cabin is over 100 miles away, but if I hear that the FS has blocked access, I plan to head up there with a battery operated Sawzall....


19 posted on 10/09/2013 12:55:13 PM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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I had nothing against them before. I am an avid bicycler and occasional hiker on the region`s metro and the canal tow path trails. This has changed my opinion of the goons forever.

Do you remember when O`Bozo said: “...we need a domestic force as well armed and funded as the military...”? Well are these part of the brown shirt army he was talking about?

20 posted on 10/09/2013 12:57:03 PM PDT by nomad
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