Topic: Merged: Shutdown Theater

[Glock32]

Especially enraging is the fact that these WWII vets are all near the end of their lives. Denying any of them the opportunity to visit the memorial today is pretty much the same thing as denying them the opportunity to ever see it at all.

What a petty, vindictive little bitch this president is. But really there's nothing new about this mindset. This is the stock and trade of Democrats at every level. Notice how any time there is a budget battle at the municipal level, the Democrats always go to their standard tactic of bemoaning the cuts to police, firefighters, and teachers? Because naturally you start there, right? It's never useless sinecured functionaries at some meddling agency of busybodies, always the high profile ones that people more readily identify as useful to the public.

Yes, this is one of those situations where it really sucks that there is no opposition party, because a competent opposition could make this backfire on the Democrats spectacularly.

[RickZ]

You don't even have to force a confrontation.  Just stand outside the barricades with signs and invite the media.  Do it everyday.

Get arrested.  Show civil disobedience to an out of control government, as opposed to the sloppy and violent Occutard movement.  Barry must be challenged at every turn to turn up the heat, so to speak.  His oversized and supercilious ego cannot stand being told no, and we all knew that.  This is the chance to really hammer him with a massive 'no' from the People by taking over OUR monuments, not his as he deigns to think.  No matter what he does, in his terms, the optics would suck, but he'll do a sucky thing anyway, doubling down with venomous arrogance.  It's this scorpion's nature.

[warpmine]

Let me know when they're gone to storm the gates fo the WH. I'll be there. machinegun

[RickZ]

Let me know when they're gone to storm the gates fo the WH. I'll be there.

A TEA Party/motorcycle protest that would take a detour to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would be a great start.  Hand out plastic pitchforks, too.  Make it street theater, as the left always does.  But use our street theater drama to teach a lesson about the origins of our country, to be truly radical in the face of an overbearing government.  To put them on notice.  In their words, to speak Truth to Power.  And Power always hates when that happens.

[warpmine]

I don't know about that lame effort. I would be interested to see if the secret service has enough balls to use shoot to kill against a crowd of 100k that's willing to shoot back.

"American Spring"

Drag this asshat and conspirators out by their ears.

[Libertas]

Tea Party Caucus should be front and center, forming a human barricade to shield these men from statist tools!

[Libertas]

If we are going to DC then we need to get our hands on all the dump trucks and fresh manure we can get our hands on and return to the Fedcoats what they've been dumping on us for years...decades...

 

[RickZ]

Tea Party Caucus should be front and center, forming a human barricade to shield these men from statist tools!

Exactly.  Street theater.  Libbies do this shyt all the time with reps getting arrested for some liberal cause, like Planned Parenthood and other garbage.  Turn the tables around.  Watch how they react to our criticism, to our protests, to our calls for an end to this arbitrary and totalitarian regime.  Let the Dems let their inner Bull Connor out, which is always festering just below the surface.  Let them make the constitutional rights photo op of this new century by their heavy-handedness, and you know it will be; President Thin Skinned cannot be mocked.  Arresting a vet in a wheelchair at the Memorial dedicated to his service will not go over very well, at the very least.  Historically, littler things have set off rebellions.

[Libertas]

Tea Party Caucus should be front and center, forming a human barricade to shield these men from statist tools!

Exactly.  Street theater.  Libbies do this shyt all the time with reps getting arrested for some liberal cause, like Planned Parenthood and other garbage.  Turn the tables around.  Watch how they react to our criticism, to our protests, to our calls for an end to this arbitrary and totalitarian regime.  Let the Dems let their inner Bull Connor out, which is always festering just below the surface.  Let them make the constitutional rights photo op of this new century by their heavy-handedness, and you know it will be; President Thin Skinned cannot be mocked.  Arresting a vet in a wheelchair at the Memorial dedicated to his service will not go over very well, at the very least.  Historically, littler things have set off rebellions.

Yup.  We see it, why can't they?  Too many prime opportunities pass by unchallenged...drives...me...crazy!  The insidious rot of pc/diversity/multi-cultism must be at work, nothing else makes sense.  People have to become bold, put pc crap aside and DO WHAT IS RIGHT, DO WHAT IS NECESSARY!

Please, God, make it so!!!

[IronDioPriest]

Michele Bachmann and a couple other congressmen (Steve King?) were out there, tearing down the barricades, standing in solidarity with the veterans. But yeah, this would have been a great opportunity for the Tea Party caucus to make a stand.

After all, they know this fight isn't just about Obamacare, the debt ceiling, the government shutdown, etc. They know it's about liberty.

[Pandora]

Michele Bachmann and a couple other congressmen (Steve King?) were out there, tearing down the barricades, standing in solidarity with the veterans. But yeah, this would have been a great opportunity for the Tea Party caucus to make a stand.

After all, they know this fight isn't just about Obamacare, the debt ceiling, the government shutdown, etc. They know it's about liberty.

Yes, Steve King ... and Louie Gohmert.

For what it's worth, Mark Levin issued a promise last night, that if one hair on the head of one Vet is disturbed, he will bring a world of hurt down on them.

[Weisshaupt]

This one is for you Lady V

Obama attempts to close Mt Vernon, because they co-own parking lots

I would be out there taking them right back down again. Or burning them.  How bad to you petty functionaries want to execute Obama's vindictive and pathetic order? Bad enough to get shot over it?  Yo, MORON LEFTIES! You are perilously close to getting split blood in your temper tantrum. Want that?

[Pandora]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Famous-City-Tavern-Closed-by-Government-Shutdown-226198441.html

City Tavern at 3rd and Walnut Streets in the Old City section of the city has been told it must close until the U.S. Congress passes a spending bill.

The restaurant, which opened for the first time in 1773 and was frequented by the nation's founding fathers, sits inside Independence National Historical Park and the building is owned by the U.S. National Parks Service.

[IronDioPriest]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Famous-City-Tavern-Closed-by-Government-Shutdown-226198441.html

City Tavern at 3rd and Walnut Streets in the Old City section of the city has been told it must close until the U.S. Congress passes a spending bill.

The restaurant, which opened for the first time in 1773 and was frequented by the nation's founding fathers, sits inside Independence National Historical Park and the building is owned by the U.S. National Parks Service.

Somebody, please. Show up with a key, open the doors, and fire up the grill.

[Pandora]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Famous-City-Tavern-Closed-by-Government-Shutdown-226198441.html

City Tavern at 3rd and Walnut Streets in the Old City section of the city has been told it must close until the U.S. Congress passes a spending bill.

The restaurant, which opened for the first time in 1773 and was frequented by the nation's founding fathers, sits inside Independence National Historical Park and the building is owned by the U.S. National Parks Service.

Somebody, please. Show up with a key, open the doors, and fire up the grill.

IDP, I'm surprised and dismayed that no one has done that yet.  Are we, as Americans, so damn cowed that we dast not stand the hell up?  I fully understand not wanting to experience the gentle ministrations *ahem* of the police, but enough already!

[Libertas]

Time to make them club or shoot.  They are calling our bluff, time to man up.

[Libertas]

Damn right!  Get in their grill, arm them aside...make them club you like a baby seal or shoot you...and have all cameras rolling!

[Pandora]

Michele Bachmann and a couple other congressmen (Steve King?) were out there, tearing down the barricades, standing in solidarity with the veterans. But yeah, this would have been a great opportunity for the Tea Party caucus to make a stand.

After all, they know this fight isn't just about Obamacare, the debt ceiling, the government shutdown, etc. They know it's about liberty.

Yes, Steve King ... and Louie Gohmert.

For what it's worth, Mark Levin issued a promise last night, that if one hair on the head of one Vet is disturbed, he will bring a world of hurt down on them.

"I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration. You lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial and I’ll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that?!

I’m sitting here stewing thinking about this – playing these damn games? You’ll ignite a movement in this country like you’ve never seen before! The biker patriot army – veterans from all over the country, every single war and battle in this country, Republican, Democrat, Independent, whatever!

I’ll be damned if one president, with his feet up on the desk in the oval office, with a smirk on his face, looking at his golf card…I’ll be damned if this president or anybody else is going to shut down that WWII memorial. Period! These men are in their 80s and 90s.

So let me repeat! You lay one hand on one of those men and arrest them for going to their memorial, which they fought for, which was not paid by you dammit, it was paid by the American people – we will come out of every town and city in this nation! We will come out of every county. And both coasts! Both borders! And we will march on Washington against your tyranny!

You’ve been warned!"

- See more at: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/#sthash.I7PpfJKg.dpuf

[Pandora]

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131003/NEWS/310030327

... Nauset Knoll Motor Lodge with its unparalleled perch overlooking Nauset Beach.

... Ed Benz has operated the motor lodge since 1964 with a lease from the Cape Cod National Seashore, which owns the property. And since the Seashore had to close like all federal parks on Oct. 1, so do all the folks with concessions within them.

... A government shutdown has never touched the motel in the nearly 50 years Benz has had the concession, he said.

The previous shutdowns were during the winter months, when the place is closed anyway.

So this came as quite a shock and will cut into his profit margins for the year, Benz said.

He canceled the entire month of reservations because a congressional compromise doesn't seem likely, Benz said.

SPITE!!

[LadyVirginia]

You know that hill we've been wondering about?

This is it.

This is our Boston Tea Party. Our Bunker Hill.  Our Alamo.

The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."

On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines across most of the Charlestown Peninsula.

When the British were alerted to the presence of the new position the next day, they mounted an attack against them. After two assaults on the colonial lines were repulsed with significant British casualties, the British finally captured the positions on the third assault, after the defenders in the redoubt ran out of ammunition. The colonial forces retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, suffering their most significant losses on Bunker Hill.

While the result was a victory for the British, they suffered heavy losses: over 800 wounded and 226 killed, including a notably large number of officers. The battle is seen as an example of a Pyrrhic victory, because the immediate gain (the capture of Bunker Hill) was modest and did not significantly change the state of the siege, while the cost (the loss of nearly a third of the deployed forces) was high. Meanwhile, colonial forces were able to retreat and regroup in good order having suffered fewer casualties. Furthermore, the battle demonstrated that relatively inexperienced colonial forces were willing and able to stand up to regular army troops in a pitched battle.

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