Park Rangers= Flying Monkeys
Posted on 10/07/2013 5:24:27 AM PDT by markomalley
National Park Rangers shut down a family-owned and fully-booked inn along a lonely North Carolina highway on Saturday, driving customers away during the peak tourist season.
Bruce O’Connell, the owner of the Blue Ridge Inn, provoked the park rangers when he reopened his lodge after the Park Service demanded he close his business by Thursday due to the partial government shutdown. The World War II veterans who stormed their barricaded memorial inspired him to take a stand against the federal government, he said.
“It’s conscience and conviction that have taken over me, and I just can’t roll over any more,” he said. (RELATED: WWII vets storm closed memorial as GOP congressman reportedly distracts cops)
In response, the rangers blocked the inn with patrol cars and told customers and told customers who had booked reservations months in advance that the “government was closed,” according to USAToday. They also forced 35 of O’Connell’s 100 employees out of their homes and off the federally-leased lands.
“It’s about the visitors. It’s about the staff and employees who are now having to move off the mountain — they live here — with no notice. They have no jobs. That’s the concern,” said O’Connell of his newly homeless, jobless workers.
Another North Carolina outpost, the Peaks of Otter Lodge, folded without a fight after receiving a similar Park Service order.
Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett plans to enforce the directives issued from National Park Service Rangers in Washington, D.C. to keep rangers holding customers and homeowners at bay “as long as they are needed” — in other words, until the government resumes the recently shuttered 17 percent of its functions.
Keeping the rangers ringed around the inn will, according to Stinnet, ensure that “people don’t utilize a business that, according to the federal government, is closed.”
The Obama administration’s decision to deploy federal agents to wall off private businesses costs the tourism industry $76 million per day.
North Carolina’s unemployment rate currently stands at 8.7 percent.
People that think that law enforcement would not follow orders to take away citizen’s constitutional rights or their civil liberties are badly mistaken.
LOL! I remember that bit...can’t remember the comedian, though...
Nazi’s
I don’t give a damn who doesn’t like the word Nazi. That is the political situation we are now in.
Obama should grow a little mustache he is Hitler reborn.
How long will we have to put up with this POS before the Congress wakes up and gets rid of this Nazi Dictator.
http://www.pisgahinn.com/history_of_pisgah_inn.htm
It was built in 1974 and the lease is/was apparently up in 2013. I don’t see how that still gives federal authorities the right to shut it down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_LaMarche
Dude got old...
I think he did the Tom Cruise impression, too.
I’m so sick of this stuff-—and BozoCare is still up and running,poorly,but still running.
The most evil administration ever.
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We are all working to pay our taxes :’
Think we got a Congress Critter with enough gumption to cite the 14th Amendment and close the White House?
These Rangers have been told in no uncertain terms they will lose their jobs if They don't obey these orders.
Is that in the lease agreement that the lessor can shut your business down or kick you out of your home for no reason? (rhetorical question) I can’t believe so many people are just taking this. What about those 60 families kicked out of their houses on Lake Mead, NV?
I’m trying to think what I would do if this was happening to me. I’m not good at taking injustice sitting down.
I reluctantly have to agree. It seems that ideology and loyalty to their organization is more powerful than basic decency.
Our country is being has been hijacked, taken over — from within
Thanks! Just found it on YouTube...funny stuff.
“Am just having a hard time wondering why good men don’t stand up and do something.
Our country is being hijacked, taken over — from within.
What are we going to do ...just sit here and let them do this?”
Does anyone remember the old typing exercise? “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.”
It’s past time.
The local Tea Parties did, last Friday. See the report, reply 78.
I've been saying that for years. But the FR cop suckers persist in their delusional state (maybe addicted to the taste of boot polish?)
That these rangers didn’t all call in sick shows they are good little Nazis.
Today’s law enforcement officer is a person who gets off on his (delegated) power to order other people around.Few would ever question any order.They will always say”it’s not my decision”.
But they choose to support evil.
Park Rangers= Flying Monkeys
> These Rangers have been told in no uncertain terms they
> will lose their jobs if They don’t obey these orders.
It’s still an illegal order.
Men serving in the American Armed forces have risked Courts Martial and even execution to defy illegal orders.
I keep saying this is practice for martial law. How many “Chief Ranger Steve Stinnets” were in the German army, or were BROWN shirts. How many? Who said no? The social psychologists in the administration are practicing for marshall law and no one is taking me seriously. If it is my family vs their family, what are you going to do?
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