Posted on 10/13/2013 11:06:07 AM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON - Thousands of people converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday morning and tore down the barricades blocking it off, protesting the closure of the memorial during the federal government shutdown.
Beginning at about 9:30 a.m., Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, were among the luminaries in a crowd that chanted "Tear down these walls!" and sang "God Bless America" as well as other patriotic songs as they entered the memorial, which has been closed since the government shutdown that began Oct. 1.
Tractor-trailers headed down 17th Street toward the Mall, blaring their horns. The Metropolitan Police Department blocked off the street, prompting the crowd to head up the street, shouting at the police to move their vehicles.
Palin said that closing the memorials was disgraceful, and that President Obama "could be here today, saying 'Yes, we can tear down these barricades."
Cruz said that President Obama was using veterans as political pawns in the shutdown. Lee shouted, "The sons and daughters of the United States of America are meant to live in liberty."
By 11 a.m., the group had headed back to the memorial, and dozens congregated around World War II veterans, shaking their hands and thanking them for their service.
Later in the morning, veteran Mike Lauriente was accepting handshakes from demonstrators. He served in Sicily and French Morocco, and declared the memorial, which he was seeing for the first time, beautiful. "The spirit that I see here is overwhelming."
Roger that. Still have not figured out why some of these gov-mint departments need all that hollow point ammo.
Well played, sir.
Scott walker doesn’t have to reopen the parks in Ws. He told Barry to go to hell when he was ordered to shut them.
And we all need to remember is that there are a lot more of us than there are of them. Solzhenitzyn tried to tell us that. The hour draws nigh.
Or how much coverage this will get in the media.
Even Drudge is running a top story about some bull shite movie
Man that image straight brings tears to my eyes.
Thank you!
You’re welcome.
All this for a flag?
You’re damright!
And he has a gestapo that will kill on his command. America has no organization or armed group to destroy this communists leader and his communist empire. America is just about finished.
And he has a gestapo that will kill on his command. America has no organization or armed group to destroy this communists leader and his communist empire. America is just about finished.
Storm the MSM offices. They are not reporting the protests, so bring the protests to them.
Cruz, Lee, and Palin will be on Greta @ 7:00 on Monday. !
I read on another thread that the DC cops saluted the protesters, and that it was the National Park Service who were 'just following orders' today.
On another note - Were you watching the news just before that? The news caster reprimand one of his interviewees (democrat strategist) for using the metaphor “gun to the head” when talking about why the obama “won’t negotiate”, saying “the president has asked us not to use those references after the Gifford shooting”. But then, the same news guy sets the story for after the commercial, and uses a similar metaphor...”caught in the cross-hairs”. They put the 2nd rate news guys in on the weekend, don’t they? I wonder if, during the commercial, his guests or producer caught him on that?
And - it appears Fox is not living up the the liberal’s expectations, lately. Ha. I don’t watch often - I get my news from FR, but he almost sounded like MSNBC.
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"I'm Barack Obama, and I approve that message!"
There are approximately 100,000,000 armed American citizens who possess an estimated 300,000,000 firearms. They outnumber the military forces of the world, combined.
That fact is the ONLY thing that has stayed the hand of our tyrannical government. It will continue to do so.
'Fraidy monkeys are always trying to convince stalwart patriots that the gubmint has us surrounded.
watch Greta on Fox Monday at 7. She supports us—so does Glen Beck (when he’s not promoing a book) —the Tea Party should rally and start a wave of demonstrations at as many War Memorials, national cemeteries, Forts, and bastions of Liberty as possible. Let the foes know—they are not unapossed. Let them know that Obama faces more than a handfull of Senators and Sarah Palin. CNN focused on only one guy at the White House gate—why? he had a Confederate battle flag! You know how they will spin this! We must break the back of the MSM!
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