Day 4 of shutdown: Vets are going to need wire cutters to visit WWII memorial. pic.twitter.com/Cyrm7OnLAp
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) October 4, 2013
◼ On Tuesday morning, seven National Park Service employees were seen erecting and tending to a barricade around the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. One NPS employee was operating a forklift. There usually aren't any NPS employees working at the World War II memorial.
A couple hours later, when an Honor Flight of World War II veterans arrived, accompanied by Democratic and Republican members of Congress, the fences blocking the memorial were easily moved away, allowing the veterans to enter.
But the barriers are still at the memorial, and they've been reinforced. This morning, I walked by the memorial and noticed that wires had been used to tie the fences together...
Who is ordering the National Park Service to go to such great lengths to shut down the open-air World War II memorial that is usually unguarded?
◼ BarryCade Smoking Gun - AJStrata
◼ Twist ties we can believe in: WWII Memorial barricade strengthened - Doug Powers/Michelle Malkin
If veterans show up again, that reinforcement probably wouldn’t prove too difficult for men who made it through German fortifications on D-Day and Japanese defenses on Iwo Jima.
◼ Barry-cades wired shut: Rep. Stockman slams ‘double down on curb-stomping elderly veterans’ - Twitchy
◼ Obama Illegally Shuts Down Hundreds of PRIVATELY FUNDED Parks - capitalisminstitute.org
◼ Democrats’s Shutdown Is Refusal To Face The American People - Dana Loesch/Red State
Even previous presidents Clinton and Carter once in awhile emerged from their echo chambers to negotiate. Obama won’t because to do so is to face the American people.
