NBC: Police Remove Vietnam War Veterans at Memorial Wall

[miles]

Via William Jacobson, NBC's affiliate in Washington, D.C. reports that police ordered tourists and Vietnam war veterans who were visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to leave the memorial at one point on Friday.

After one group of veterans went around the barricade, "the park ranger told them the wall was closed," NBC's Mark Seagraves reported. "Later another group of vets showed up and moved the barricades. At that point, the memorial filled with vets and tourists. That's when police came and moved everyone out."

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is a black granite outdoor wall on which the names of the 58,272 service members who died or were unaccounted for during the Vietnam war are inscribed.

It takes more manpower and costs the government more money to close down an outdoor wall than to let people walk past it and pay their respects.

The Obama administration has been very selective in devoting resources to shutting down memorials.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Lest we forget!

Thank a Republican for shuttin' down the government!

 

[Saint Peter]

Closed means closed.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

We don't own our own country anymore.

 

[Busybody]

Closed means closed.

stfu, LOSER

 

[phrodeau]

Wasn't that memorial derided by the Republicans as being totally unnecessary and a big waste of taxpayer's money?

I guess they found a reason to change their minds about it.

 

[Sean]

The Obama administration has been very selective in devoting resources to shutting down memorials.

No, the media, especially Faux News, has been very selective in covering war memorials being shut down.

 

[Busybody]

No, the media, especially Faux News, has been very selective in covering war memorials being shut down.

an asshole from DAY 1


LOSER

 

[Saint Peter]

stfu, LOSER

 

[rosco rathbone]

It's a madhouse! A madhouse!

 

[miles]

Originally Posted by Sean View Post
No, the media, especially Faux News, has been very selective in covering war memorials being shut down.

You're a fucking idiot. Climb back into your bottle.

 

[Busybody]

STFU, LOSER

 

[Saint Peter]

STFU, LOSER

 

[Busybody]

Originally Posted by Sean View Post
No, the media, especially Faux News, has been very selective in covering war memorials being shut down.

You're a fucking idiot. Climb back into your bottle.

Im sure you notice

How no one can ever defend what is going on

So they just SCREAM

LIES

FAUX "NEWS"

I QUESTION TEH SOURCE

etc

FUCKING LOSERS

 

[landslider2000]

Nov 11th is coming up.

The Wall was not built with public money, and spending to attempt to close it just makes the Administration look incredibly bad.

 

[miles]

Im sure you notice

How no one can ever defend what is going on

So they just SCREAM

LIES

FAUX "NEWS"

I QUESTION TEH SOURCE

etc

FUCKING LOSERS

If Sean had been sober he might have noticed the story was from NBC.

 

[Busybody]

Nov 11th is coming up.

The Wall was not built with public money, and spending to attempt to close it just makes the Administration look incredibly bad.

Naïve fool

 

[RobDownSouth]

Wasn't that memorial derided by the Republicans as being totally unnecessary and a big waste of taxpayer's money?

I guess they found a reason to change their minds about it.

That's right, back in the day it was the "black gash of shame".

Now, of course, it's all about teh "optics".

Symbolism uber alles!

 

[Saint Peter]

Closed means closed. Don't like it? Call your favorite tea bagger and tell him to stop the bullshit and pass a budget.

Move the barricade and you are trespassing. Consider yourself warned if the cops just ask you to leave.

Next time you will get a ride to the pokey.

 

[rosco rathbone]

That's right, back in the day it was the "black gash of shame".

Now, of course, it's all about teh "optics".

Symbolism uber alles!

ailes uber alles

 

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Sean View Post
No, the media, especially Faux News, has been very selective in covering war memorials being shut down.

You're a fucking idiot. Climb back into your bottle.

Ah, so the media haven't been concentrating more on war memorials than any other aspect of the government shutdown?

 

[landslider2000]

It is naive and foolish for Obama to spend money in an attempt to close open memorials.

Those who support Obama should be urging him to halt such quixotic behavior.

 

[phrodeau]

Nov 11th is coming up.

The Wall was not built with public money, and spending to attempt to close it just makes the Administration look incredibly bad.

Public money pays for its maintenance. People tend to leave things behind at memorials.

 

[miles]

Closed means closed. Don't like it? Call your favorite tea bagger and tell him to stop the bullshit and pass a budget.

Move the barricade and you are trespassing. Consider yourself warned if the cops just ask you to leave.

Next time you will get a ride to the pokey.

Obama is being a spiteful prick who is deliberately pissing on the memory of dead servicemen. There are countless ways the government can cut back without doing despicable things like this.

 

[Sean]

If Sean had been sober he might have noticed the story was from NBC.

I noticed where it was from. It doesn't negate the point. And let's not forget that the shutdown is because YOUR side can't win a vote on the issue so decided to throw the toys out of the pram. But you can't admit that, you have to parrot what your handlers tell you to.