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."
Oh for f*** sake, enough already. Any of you here complaining about fox, CNN, MSNBC or any network and haven't canceled your cable or satellite are bunch of flaming hypocrites. Quit feeding these beasts that hate you or just shut the f*** up about it. I tire of the crying while you hand them your money every month.
Chris Wallace is NOT a sell-out.....he’s a NEVER WAS!! He’s a MEAN DEMOCRAT just like his dad. He’s UNWATCHABLE.
What an AWESOME PICTURE!
July 4 is a good choice.
FILED UNDER:
“News You Won’t Be Seeing On The Network News Shows”
On the other hand, if 6 N.O.W. sows, or a dozen Occutards had shown up, they would have been surrounded by a hundred TV cameras, and the lead on every Network News Show.
Abject lesson in the minimum effort it’s going take to extricate ourselves from this tyranny.
I'm as patriotic as the next guy, but until the conservative movement starts to label the Democrats as racists at literally every opportunity, we will continue to get our asses kicked.
How about singing "God Bless America" and then chanting "Nancy Pelosi is a racist!"
We need to fight the Liberals using their tactics.
Obama and his death panels have met and decided to terminate the life support on America.
What? The hour draws nigh for what?
The IRS assault on the Tea Parties is a direct result of Obama’s fear and panic resulting from the march to protect the Vietnam Memorial from vandalism in 2010
LOL! What’s with the hissy fit? You always this cranky? I don’t have satellite or cable, but I do have the internet, and this protest is not being reported by MSM on their websites. The MSM is more than what you watch on a tv.
Did that almost 3 years ago...tv is an open sewer pipe in the home. I rent what I want to watch and get ALL news right here on FR.
Public streets? On what authority?
Is DC now a closed city, accessible only to the politically connected elites?
-PJ
Yeah, that was why I also addressed it to “All”. I’ve run into more than a couple posters here who say they aren’t sending money to them because they don’t watch those channels...they just watch fox news and the history channel. Those are the ones who will keep paying the companies that want to destroy them.
It might be an over the air sewer pipe, but at least you’re not paying to have it piped into your home anymore.
Do they have the SOLDIERS to fire it? people in fact willing to kill and die for...what?
Just got this quote off of Ann Barnhardt’s website - it’s close to what I mean about the hour drawing nigh...
The person who does not become irate when he has cause to be sins. For an unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices. It fosters negligence, and stimulates not only the wicked, but above all, the good to do wrong.
St. John Chrysostom
c. ARSH 347-407
Bump for later
Of course now the IRS will audit Mike Lauriente, but it will have been worth it for him to have seen the monument and to have people thank him and shake his hand.
They didn't mention any arrests - no RATs showed up. Besides - there is no such thing as a "RAT leader", they are called "instigators".
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