Posted on 10/08/2013 10:53:29 AM PDT by george76
Rangers issue a handful of citations over the weekend for alleged trespassing. The government shutdown closed the national park Oct. 1.
For months, Julie and Eugene Gillies of South Portland planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Bar Harbor.
They weren’t about to let a political fight in Congress get in the way of their plans to see Acadia National Park, which they visited on their honeymoon 34 years ago.
Riding on small motor scooters beneath a bright blue sky Sunday morning, the couple went around the barricades and past the sign declaring the park closed and joined what they estimated to be 1,000 other hikers and bicyclists heading out on the Park Loop Road toward Thunder Hole. Another couple from South Portland rode with them on scooters.
Their idyllic morning came to an abrupt end when they were surrounded by park rangers. The price for violating the park’s closure order: a $100 fine for each member of the party.
“I thought they were going to drive all of us to jail,” said Julie Gillies, a mental health therapist. She said the rangers got angry when she asked them why her group was singled out.
“It was the most embarrassing, intimidating thing ever,” she said. “I thought I was in a foreign country.”
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Acadia, which typically gets about 285,000 visitors in October, is closed to the public just as the fall foliage season begins, potentially hurting the economy in Bar Harbor and the rest of Mount Desert Island.
More cruise ship visitors visit the park in October than in any other month
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I think that is exactly what it is. See how much resistance and who resists. Gauge your enemy.
Refuse to pay, and ask for a jury trial.
I suggest photographs; lots of photographs... And web site Gallery of Obamagoons.
My version has been FReepmailed to you.
What's it like in the White House basement, doofus?
The Boston Tea Party created destruction and mayhem.
The Patriots at Lexington created destruction and mayhem.
Nothing.
They are living the Life of Riley on welfare.
Or the other welfare, gummint work.
Thank You.
Thanks. We are there in #51.
Do you agree with the National Park Service’s decision to ticket people for entering Acadia National
Park during the federal shutdown?
Yes I’m a control freak and O’bozo lover, so people should OBEY him!!!
30%
No This is our land. We paid for it, and it is ours. The shutdown ramifications are a stupid political trick
purposely to harm the American people and steal our land from us.
70%
Total Votes: 1117
Didn’t take the Park Rangers long at all to become the Park Stasi.
Some of these goons need to start being shunned. Refuse them service in local restaraunts. Refuse to work on their cars. Lose their dry cleaning. Protest in front of their homes. Deny them any service in any establishment at all.
Kick them out of bars. TP their homes.
See how they like it.
FReep the poll at the link. 30% agree with the Park Service’s ticketing.
Today’s poll: Ticketing at Acadia
Do you agree with the National Park Service’s decision to ticket people for entering Acadia National Park during the federal shutdown?
Yes 30%
No 70%
Total Votes: 1127
They love totalitarianism.
I had graffiti and young urban ferals in mind, ruining it for normal people, not patriots taking a stand. Your “doofus” comment was rude and unnecessary. Save it for Democratic Underground.
Who owns the parks?
“Chastisement of John Malcom”
I had to know what that was, so I found out. One article I read had this at the end:
“Malcolm got off relatively easy in this attack, since the tar and feathers were applied while he was still fully clothed.”
Dang.
Well, yes and no. That was only his first tarring and feathering. He didn't make out so well the second time. I've FReepmailed you my (forbidden) writeup.
Who owns the parks?
The King thinks they are his ?
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