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'All about power and leverage' -- feds shut down major roadway, block access to graveyard (TN)
FoxNews.com ^ | October 7, 2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 10/07/2013 1:29:20 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

Folks who live in the Great Smoky Mountains have just about reached their breaking point with the federal government.

“It’s almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough,” said Ed Mitchell, the mayor of Blount County, Tenn. “We were founded on a declaration of independence. And they are about to push the people to the line again.”

Nearly a third of Blount County is inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. So when the federal government shut down the park, it also shut down one of the area’s chief sources of revenue.

The National Park Service also closed the Foothills Parkway, a major thoroughfare in the county. The closure came without warning and left the local school district scrambling to get children back to their homes.

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Even more insulting is the National Park Service won’t allow family members to visit old grave sites.

“Some of them have family members buried there,” the mayor said. “And they go and visit every week at the churches still in the cove. They are not able to do that.”

It’s gotten to the point where Mayor Mitchell said Americans are ready to start fighting back. “It’s almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough,” he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: blointcounty; blountcounty; govtshutdown; graveyard; greatsmokeymtns; greatsmokymtns; nationalparks; nps; obama; shutdown; tyranny
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Near the breaking point...
1 posted on 10/07/2013 1:29:20 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

“Near the breaking point...”

That’s what the WON wants—can you say Marshall Law?


2 posted on 10/07/2013 1:32:15 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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Near the breaking point...

That's what the billions of rounds of ammunition are for. USFS and Park Service probably have hundreds of millions themselves.

3 posted on 10/07/2013 1:32:25 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Timber Rattler

They’re trying.


4 posted on 10/07/2013 1:32:39 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: freeangel

Maybe martial law.


5 posted on 10/07/2013 1:32:44 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Timber Rattler

That’s the idea.


6 posted on 10/07/2013 1:32:50 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Timber Rattler; zot

I wonder when they will shut down all of the TVA dam power plants and any other government owned plants, such as the Hoover Dam?

By golly, that would teach those tea partiers to mess with the monarch Obama (thissentence sarcasm)


7 posted on 10/07/2013 1:32:54 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Timber Rattler

I think I would PUSH and see how far the NO CROSS OVER ZONE really works. If 100,000 Americans rose up to take back what is THEIRS..... maybe Washington would get the message.


8 posted on 10/07/2013 1:33:16 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Timber Rattler

“It’s almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough,”

No, they are pushing to see if they can get the American people to react and give them an excuse for a crackdown.


9 posted on 10/07/2013 1:33:28 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Timber Rattler

Elections...consequences.


10 posted on 10/07/2013 1:34:04 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: freeangel

no but i can say Martial Law.


11 posted on 10/07/2013 1:34:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Timber Rattler
It’s almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough, said Ed Mitchell, the mayor of Blount County, Tenn. We were founded on a declaration of independence. And they are about to push the people to the line again.

A lot of folks are noticing this.

12 posted on 10/07/2013 1:34:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Timber Rattler

Unfortunately for us and fortunately for the federal enemy within, we tend to be too law abiding.

The government sees no reason to stay within its constitutional bounds so why are we “Near the breaking point” and not beyond it?

Does it take them shooting at us before we begin to fight?

The progressives are at war with us but they are the only ones fighting.


13 posted on 10/07/2013 1:34:54 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: freeangel
can you say Marshall Law?

Yes, I can say it and I can also spell it. Martial Law.

14 posted on 10/07/2013 1:35:04 PM PDT by don-o (Hit the FReepathon hard and fast! Nail this one for the Jimmer. Do it now!)
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To: MrB

And suspend all elections.


15 posted on 10/07/2013 1:35:11 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: MrB

And suspend all elections.


16 posted on 10/07/2013 1:35:12 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: freeangel

I can say “Martial Law.”.............


17 posted on 10/07/2013 1:36:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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To: MrB
Tracers work both ways. A crackdown would strengthen resolve. They don't want to go there.

/johnny

18 posted on 10/07/2013 1:36:33 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Timber Rattler

Too bad the FEDs have to drive on county roads to get to the park. I wonder what would happen if those county roads were closed to federal agents?


19 posted on 10/07/2013 1:36:34 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Timber Rattler

Too bad the FEDs have to drive on county roads to get to the park. I wonder what would happen if those county roads were closed to federal agents?


20 posted on 10/07/2013 1:36:35 PM PDT by Lockbox
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