Gestapo Republicans Want to Militarize National Parks

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The Democrats legislate to designate America a battlefield, where citizens deemed "enemy combatants" by the President and/or his minions may be denied all Constitutional due process; indeed, the President has been given the authority to assassinate American citizens on simply his call...and he's already employed that arbitrary death sentence more than once...

...meanwhile, not to be outgunned so-to-speak, the Republicans are doing their best to flaunt their "conservatisim" in regards to the infamous "war on terrorism" by proposing The National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, which:

...would give Border Patrol and Customs agents and other federal officials the right to suspend any federal law, including environmental laws, on land managed by the departments of Interior and Agriculture. It would give Homeland Security the right to conduct any activity or construct any facility required to secure the border.

This legislation gives...

...the Department of Homeland Security control of more than 50 national parks and forests within 100 miles of the U.S. borders...

Park advocates say the legislation overreaches, calling it unnecessary because Homeland Security already has the power to suspend laws that inhibit its operations. They say the bill will override 36 federal laws that protect cultural and historic sites, wildlife and valued landscapes.

"As American families head to their national parks, we want to sound the alarm about this shocking legislation," said Joan Anzelmo, a board member for the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees. "We think the legislative proposal is a direct assault on our national parks. It would affect every aspect of the day-to-day park operations. It's unprecedented in the history of the agency."

Ever the partisan puppet only stroking statist legislation of her own Party's making...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified before Congress last month, saying the bill "is unnecessary, and it's bad policy."

See the entire LA Times piece here:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2018020435_webborderparks19.html

This battlefield crap is entirely the making of the statist government of the United Socialist State of America...

...what American citizens need to ask themselves is Why?.

Friggin' Yogi Bear in full battle array...

 

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I think the reason why the Dems don't like it is because they want to keep the power to deny federal lands to hunters and sportsmen. I believe this law takes that authority away from them.

You're suggesting this Republican bill's intent is to actually protect the individual liberties of "hunters and sportsmen" by militarizing some of our most pristine National Parks?

 

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I think the reason why the Dems don't like it is because they want to keep the power to deny federal lands to hunters and sportsmen.

Where are you getting this?

From the looks of Eyer's article, the bill is unnecessary. The powers in the bill already exist. Republicans are trying to give HL Security something they say they don't need or want.

It has nothing at all to do with your paranoid "Dems don't want us to hunt" story.

 

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Derp derp derp!

 

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[mercury14]

You should have made yourself available to the House of Representatives to offer your testimony and valued judgement about why they and their staffs are all fucked up in their legislative efforts, and shared with them your complete and thorough understanding of all of the problems along the border and within the National Parks.

Why? It's just another one of a long list of partisan bills Republicans are passing that they know are going nowhere. Kind of like how you attack Obamacare for not having any Republican support. Funny how when a Republicans pass bills with no Democratic support it's not a problem with you.

Ryan plan?