WTF - Barrycades: Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon

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Barrycades: Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon

Infowars.com
Paul Joseph Watson
10/3/2013

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The National Park Service erected barricades to shut down parking lots surrounding Mount Vernon despite the fact that the tourist destination is privately owned, another example of how the feds are deliberately worsening the government shut down.

Mount Vernon is the former plantation of George Washington and is owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which doesn’t receive any government funding. The attraction’s official website reads, “NO SHUTDOWN HERE – The Federal government may be shut down, but Washington’s home remains open. Mount Vernon has remained a private non-profit for more than 150 years.”

However, a dispute began when the National Park Service began putting up barricades to block off the facility’s car park, blockading the entrance as well as a spot where tour buses turn around.

The parking lots are co-owned by Mount Vernon and the NPS, but require no immediate maintenance at all, meaning the decision to close them down was completely unnecessary.

The feds even blocked off a small area consisting of just three parking spaces.

After blogger Stephen Gutowski exposed the situation, Newt Gingrich got in on the act, tweeting, “The tour bus turnaround at Mount Vernon has been closed by federal police. This is deliberate effort by Obama to hurt the public. Disgusting.”

Numerous other sites around DC have been unnecessarily closed by the NPS and other federal agencies in what critics are labeling a cynical political stunt which only serves to punish the American people.

In some cases, efforts to shut down these sites actually require more manpower and resources than if they had been left open, highlighting the fact that this is an act of partisan theater by the Obama administration to pin the blame for the government shutdown on Republicans and opponents of Obamacare.

- Numerous hiking and biking trails throughout the greater DC region, despite requiring zero immediate maintenance or patrols, have been closed down. Irate citizens are merely flouting the law and using them anyway.

- The NPS has stationed officers along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal that runs 184 miles from Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland to make sure nobody uses the bike paths. It would have required less manpower to keep this trail open. The handles on all the well pumps have also been removed.

- The feds also shut down a tiny park in which children play on fake turtles, prompting angry mothers to remove the barriers, only to see them put back up. “The park is extremely small and sort of seems pointless to block off,” reports the Daily Caller.

- Lincoln Park in DC, which is known to be used by several Democratic Senators, was not shut down, but numerous national parks across Montana were closed.

- The most widely reported case occurred at the World War II memorial in DC, where the NPS tried to prevent veterans from seeing the monument by erecting barriers and even threatening vets with arrest. The veterans stormed through the barricades anyway. “People had to spend hours setting up barricades where there are never barricades to prevent people from seeing the World War II monument because they’re trying to play a charade,” Senator Rand Paul told Fox News.
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War Vets show the world true face behind Obama mask

Canada Free Press
Judi McLeod
10/3/2013

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In the end history will remember that it was the league of grandfathers and great grandfathers with time-creased faces—35,000 World War II veterans who dropped the mask on a cruel, self-centered and cold-hearted president, showing the world for once and for all who President Barack Obama really is.

Not only did Obama personally have barricaded the War Memorial the vets came to Washington, D.C. to honour, his government shutdown closed the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial where tourists travelling to Omaha Beach come to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead.

“The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.” (AP, Oct. 2, 2013)

Honouring the war dead is anathema to Marxists on the rise.

And what Obama is doing to the Walking Wounded is just as painful. Many of the 35,000 Second World War vets in their 80s and 90s are making their visit to the memorial in wheel chairs. It is the trip of a lifetime for 99% of them, who have never seen their memorial. Internet pictures show how these up-in-age heroes are sporting the new clothes provided by loving relatives.

Why would that matter to a president who allowed grocery stores on Army bases in the U.S. to close while the golf course at Andrews Air Force base remains open?

The reign of hate-filled spite, media-dubbed as ‘Barrycades’ even includes George Washington’s beloved Mount Vernon, which happens to be privately run.

The iconic Philadelphia restaurant, City Tavern, which opened for the first time in 1773 and was frequented by the nation’s founding fathers, has been forced to close its doors and turn away booked parties. (nbcphiladelphia.com, Oct. 3, 2013)

Even in their golden years, the vets of World War II, who sacrificed life and limb for liberty and freedom, have left younger generations a real parting gift.

It is the veterans who showed the world what is behind the mask of President Barack Obama: cruelty towards the aging soldiers of the greatest generation of our time and blatant anti-Americanism.

Of all the punishment Obama has cavalierly meted out since his November 4, 2008 election, this is the one that will leave him most reviled.

Americans are fighting angry, not the least of them popular radio talk show patriot Mark Levin.

“I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration,” Levin said on his radio show last night. “You lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial and I’ll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that?!

“I’m sitting here stewing thinking about this – playing these damn games? You’ll ignite a movement in this country like you’ve never seen before! The biker patriot army – veterans from all over the country, every single war and battle in this country, Republican, Democrat, Independent, whatever!

“I’ll be damned if one president, with his feet up on the desk in the oval office, with a smirk on his face, looking at his golf card…I’ll be damned if this president or anybody else is going to shut down that WWII memorial. Period! These men are in their 80s and 90s.

“So let me repeat! You lay one hand on one of those men and arrest them for going to their memorial, which they fought for, which was not paid by you dammit, it was paid by the American people – we will come out of every town and city in this nation! We will come out of every county. And both coasts! Both borders! And we will march on Washington against your tyranny!”

Patriots, fighting Obama in his arrogant Fundamental Transformation of America, (read the deliberate and crazed Takedown of America), know they stand at least a fighting chance to return their country to the status it earned long before Obama came along to topple the U.S.
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