Signs We’re Overgoverned

Vacationing senior citizens kept under armed guard in a hotel…

…to keep them from seeing all that shut-down federal land:

Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard.

The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest.

When finally allowed to leave, the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route.

“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like — ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her forearm.

It’s time for Real Americans to get out and fight this banana-republic tyranny with the only weapon that matters (until November of 2014); mockery.

Which brings us to a question: I’ve been looking for a federal monument in the Twin Cities area that’s been closed by the Feds, with an aim toward getting the biggest group of people I can, with the most cameras possible, to do some “civil disobedience”.

This weekend turned bad, naturally.

But I’m looking for a federal installation. Ideally a monument, but a recreational area will also work.

Ideas?

Posted

October 10, 2013

Liberty, Progressive Tyranny

Mitch Berg

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Shutdownpocalypse 2013

Comments

4 responses to “Signs We’re Overgoverned”

Night Writer

October 10, 2013

You know, there are folks who say that the police and military are our friends and neighbors and share our values, and that if the government ordered them to confiscate weapons, or round up people for detention, these officers would refuse. You know, I just don’t know where they get that idea – certainly not from anything we’ve seen in the last week.
angryclown

October 10, 2013

Hmmm…major attractions in Minnesota. Maybe the world’s biggest ball of twine is federal? The Museum of Animal Feed?
Seflores

October 10, 2013

Don’t know if this counts but how about the Reservations? The Feds have been running those into the ground for a century or more. Thank goodness the Tribes discovered their rights to have casinos and sell tax free cigarettes & gasoline or the Feds might have made Wounded Knee look like it was just a good start.
PS – The return of Angryclown must be noted. No internet in the halfway house, eh, Mr. Gacy?
Joe

October 10, 2013

Fort Snelling National Cemetery?

Should be able to handle widows and orphans using small-arms and contact weapons … especially those of the WWII era.