WWII Veterans Plan To Storm Lincoln Memorial Today, Closed Due To Obama Admin Pettine

[Busybody]

WWII Veterans Plan To Storm Lincoln Memorial Today, Closed Due To Obama Admin Pettiness

The same veterans group that managed to storm the gates at the WWII memorial yesterday is planning taking on the fences at the Lincoln Memorial today. This sounds like a capitol idea, pun intended.

Both memorials are open air memorials. The Lincoln Memorial is open 24 hours a day, normally. If you’ll recall, it was wide open to having someone throw green paint on it in the evening a few months ago.

So that means the Obama administration is making a conscious effort to spend more in time and money to shut off something which is normally open.

How ridiculous is this effort by President Obama to make the people “hurt” so he can blame it on Republicans, just as he did with the sequester, which was also his idea?

We still don’t have access to the White House, the people’s house, allegedly because of the sequester, although Obama has spent countless of our millions since then on vacations, parties and golf.

When you have the opportunity to pass bills for veterans and national parks, unconnected to Obamacare, and then don’t pass them, or spend more to close spaces then to keep them open, the reason is simply you want to continue to have people feel the pain.

And that, Mr. President, is sick

 

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[miles]

These guys helped save the world. If there is a confrontation it's going to be just more bad PR for the imperial government.

 

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[miles]

If they try and arrest these vets, maybe a million of us ought to show up and dare them to try it, isn't that what they did for us in WWII? just askin'.

I can see them arresting a bunch of old men...HA!

 

[Busybody]

SHUTDOWN THEATER BACKFIRES (CONT’D): WWII veterans storm DC memorial closed by government shutdown. What kind of schmuck puts barricades around an open-air park that’s normally open 24/7/365? First class.

UPDATE: Rand Paul: Some government idiot sent goons to barricade the memorial.

 

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[Busybody]

DISGRACE!

 

[Busybody]

petty

piece

of

shit

 

[Busybody]

Think about THIS


What kind of schmuck puts barricades around an open-air park that’s normally open 24/7/365? First class.

 

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PETTY PIG


Horror! Obama To Have Only 15 White House Servants Because of Shutdown, Down From 90…


Or as Obama would call it, “shared sacrifice.”

Via WaPo:

 

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spending THOUSANDS

to keep VETS out

 

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[Busybody]

D.C. Park Police Threaten To Arrest WWII Vets…




Unreal.


TOLEDO – In and around the Glass City, affects of the government shutdown can be seen at our museums, monuments, and national parks. The gates are closed and locked, denying access completely to the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.

Transportation Safety Administration employees were still working at Toledo Express Airport on Monday, but when WNWO called the TSA to find out if they would be affected, there was a message that said the public relations representative did not have access to her voicemail or email due to the government shutdown.

A letter from Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s (D-OH 9) office reads,”…only services deemed essential for the safety of human life and protection of property will be continued.”

Yet, for a group of World War II veterans visiting the national memorial in Washington D.C., an all expense paid trip which is called an ”Honor Flight,” the shutdown was not stopping them from seeing the tribute that was inspired by them.

“It just goes to show you why we won World War II,” says Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio President Lee Armstrong.

Many elderly veterans, some in wheelchairs, broke through the barriers set up around the memorial, as police, park service employees, and tourists looked on. “The Germans and the Japanese couldn’t contain us. They weren’t going to let barriers contain them today. They wanted to see their memorial,” says Armstrong.

Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio has a trip scheduled to depart from Toledo next Wednesday, October 9.

“We will make the call this Friday to determine if the flight is still a go, or if we will have to re-schedule,” Armstrong explains.

He says they are considering going ahead with the trip even if the government is still on shutdown, but when he called the parks service, he was told they would face arrest. “I said, are you kidding me? You’re going to arrest a 90/91-year-old veteran from seeing his memorial? If it wasn’t for them it wouldn’t be there. She said, ‘That’s correct sir.’”

 

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He has a PIC on TWITTER

With his family

I TWEETED to him

I HOPE HIS FAMILY IS DECAPITAED


NY Mag Writer Mocks WWII Veterans Barred From D.C. Memorial…




I have more respect for a two day old pile of dog sh*t than I do this jackass.

Via Breitbart:


New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait spent his government shutdown day mocking WWII veterans who were shut out by the National Park Service (NPS) when they came to visit the National WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C.

On Tuesday morning, Representative Michelle Bachman (R-MN) and several Republican members of Congress helped tear down the barricades shutting the elderly veterans out of the WWII memorial. After the barricades were removed, dozens of veterans flooded in to conduct their often emotional visits.

But, thinking he was being funny, Chait took to Twitter to poke fun at the veterans, joking that the NPS should barricade the memorial with old Nazi soldiers.

 

[Busybody]

they did the same with the WH tours

closed em for KIDS

left em open for GALA PARTIES


PETTY ASSHOLES



The Last Battle of America's World War II Vets

If you get a chance to visit the World War II Memorial someday, do so. I'll bet many of you have already. If you have, you'll probably recall . . . it has no walls. It has no "inside." It's a collection of columns and fountains.


So it's rather hard to "close." But the National Park Service tried anyway.

On Tuesday, when veterans came to the World War II Memorial only to discover it had been barricaded because of the shutdown, they moved the blockade, then continued on to pay their respects.

But the memorial is a federal site in a public space. According to the National World War II Memorial website, "The memorial is operated by the National Park Service and is open to visitors 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

Why was there a need for barricades in the first place?

"Park Service did not want to barricade these, but unfortunately we have been directed, because of the lack of appropriations, to close all facilities and grounds," said National Mall and Memorial parks spokeswoman Carol Johnson.

"I know that this is an open-air memorial, but we have people on staff who are CPR trained, (and) we want to make sure that we have maintenance crew to take care of any problems. What we're trying to do is protect this resource for future generations," said Johnson.

Ace:

Before we go any further, let us note once again how contrived it is to shut down entryways to a wide open space out in the middle of a park.

This is not a building, like a museum, that has doors and staffers and guides. This is [bleeping] scenery.


And yet the erected artificial barriers to block people from walking through outdoor scenery.

Voila! Now we can pretend a memorial standing unsupervised out in the open is a "National Park" or "Open Air Museum" and close it to pedestrian traffic (and people can in fact just walk through this thing in their normal transversing of the city).

Now, that out of the way: They then took the next step.

When they were informed that the Honor Flight was on the way, and that they should make one exception for the veterans of WWII and open up the artificial barriers they had erected to make a political point, they refused.

Expect to see this scene over and over again in the coming days:

"It just goes to show you why we won World War II," says Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio President Lee Armstrong.

Many elderly veterans, some in wheelchairs, broke through the barriers set up around the memorial, as police, park service employees, and tourists looked on.

"The Germans and the Japanese couldn't contain us. They weren't going to let barriers contain them today. They wanted to see their memorial," says Armstrong.

Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio has a trip scheduled to depart from Toledo next Wednesday, October 9.


"We will make the call this Friday to determine if the flight is still a go, or if we will have to re-schedule," Armstrong explains.

He says they are considering going ahead with the trip even if the government is still on shutdown, but when he called the parks service, he was told they would face arrest.

Armstrong says, "I said, are you kidding me? You're going to arrest a 90/91-year-old veteran from seeing his memorial? If it wasn't for them it wouldn't be there. She said, 'That's correct sir.'"

When he asked for her name, he says she did not give it to him and then promptly hung up the phone.

99% of veterans on Honor Flights have never had the opportunity to see the memorial that is devoted to their service.

Through October, there are over 35,000 veterans scheduled to visit the site, more than 900 in the next five days alone.

 

[phrodeau]

The vets didn't break through the barricades at the WWII Memorial. They were let in after Republican Congressmen took down the barricades. Look it up.

But then, they're above the law, right?

 

[Busybody]

STFU

 

[koalabear]

Who's paying the park service to put up the barricades, Russia.

 

[Busybody]

Who's paying the park service to put up the barricades, Russia.

COLOREDCUNT,

saved $$$ fro not tweeting

used it to HARASS VETS

 

[koalabear]

 

[Busybody]

Tee Hee

 

[koalabear]

Thread closed!!