“They’ve lost their minds,” Reid said of Republicans, in rejecting the latest proposal.link (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/30/budget-showdown-test-wills-as-shutdown-deadline-comes-into-view/)
“Senate Democrats have made it perfectly clear that they’d rather shut down the federal government than accept even the most reasonable changes to ObamaCare,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell countered.
rayra's 'government shutdown' banner over at GCP.
(http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.org/frontpage/mainbanner.jpg)
Amazingly enough, my life went on this morning, like any other.
They actually did it? I'm gabberflasted.
Leo Shane III @LeoShane
No attempt to stop any WWII visitors right now. Maybe after the congressmen leave ... #shutdown
12:10 PM - 1 Oct 2013
Official word from Park Police on the WWII memorial: "We're seeking guidance on how to respond." No effort to block any vets
Any other day, these five parking places pictured below are available for use on the George Washington Parkway near Washington D.C. The GW Parkway is a national park. There is no fee to park in them. There are no National Park Service employees who do anything at all with them. But not today. Shutdown Theatre is playing nationwide, and the barricades are props.
Today the barricades went up. Unlike any other day, today National Park Service employees had to go to these parking places and erect barricades. More time, energy and money was spent erecting barricades to create phony drama surrounding the shutdown than is spent on a normal day. Without such theatre, most Americans might not even notice that the federal government has shut down.
FLOTUS ? @FLOTUS
Due to Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government, updates to this account will be limited. #Shutdown
12:55 PM - 1 Oct 2013
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FLOTUS ? @FLOTUS
Due to Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government, updates to this account will be limited. #Shutdown
12:55 PM - 1 Oct 2013
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Okay, now laughably ridiculous .......Her Highness can't be expected to update her own twitter feed with bullying threats about our diet, now can she?
"Will the government shutdown parade of horribles never end?"QuoteFLOTUS ? @FLOTUS
Due to Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government, updates to this account will be limited. #Shutdown
12:55 PM - 1 Oct 2013
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http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/01/flotus-tweets-shutdown-will-shut-down-her-twitter-feed/ (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/01/flotus-tweets-shutdown-will-shut-down-her-twitter-feed/)
Exactly what is shut down?
Good on and God Bless 'em.QuoteLeo Shane III @LeoShane
No attempt to stop any WWII visitors right now. Maybe after the congressmen leave ... #shutdown
12:10 PM - 1 Oct 2013
Word.
Good on and God Bless 'em.QuoteLeo Shane III @LeoShane
No attempt to stop any WWII visitors right now. Maybe after the congressmen leave ... #shutdown
12:10 PM - 1 Oct 2013
Word.
Well considering these fascist pigs have made a habit lately of killing 90 year old men with tazers and beanbag rounds, they just might like to do some "Show of Force" exercises against these veterans. 'Cause you know how 90 year olds with walkers need to be thrown to the ground and "proned out", to use the parlance of these stormtroopers.
Bunch of roid-raging meathead fascist scumbags.
Kyle Becker · Top Commenter
Do the American people own their own memorials or does the government? That's the fundamental point that needs to be hammered like crazy here. The government claims the right to keep the memorials from the people. But then they're not really the people's memorials, are they?
The nation which had survived Pearl Harbor, the War of 1812 and Jimmy Carter ceased to exist. The victims were many. In Chuckolod County, Colorado, a transgender person was denied access to the Ladies Room. Frantic calls to the Justice Department were forwarded to an answering service in Depar, India, instead of Doneparre City, Indiana. In Brooklyn, New York, an overweight Senegalese woman was unable to obtain a sign language interpreter while waiting on line to collect her free Obamaphone. In Olegon Falls, Florida, the National Museum of Native American Yarn was forced to shut down depriving schoolchildren of an educational experience and three hours throwing bits of yarn at each other. - - Sultan Knish
The United States of America (1787-2013) came to a swift and sudden end last night as the government shut down. (http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/10/government-shuts-down-nation-descends.html)QuoteThe nation which had survived Pearl Harbor, the War of 1812 and Jimmy Carter ceased to exist. The victims were many. In Chuckolod County, Colorado, a transgender person was denied access to the Ladies Room. Frantic calls to the Justice Department were forwarded to an answering service in Depar, India, instead of Doneparre City, Indiana. In Brooklyn, New York, an overweight Senegalese woman was unable to obtain a sign language interpreter while waiting on line to collect her free Obamaphone. In Olegon Falls, Florida, the National Museum of Native American Yarn was forced to shut down depriving schoolchildren of an educational experience and three hours throwing bits of yarn at each other. - - Sultan Knish
H/T American Digest.org
Obama Administration Specifically Denied Exception to Permit Veterans to Attend WWII Memorial (http://ace.mu.nu/archives/343838.php)
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 f**king 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...QuotePalazzo, a Gulf War Marine veteran who has participated in all five of the Honor Flights, blames the White House for making it harder on veterans and playing politics. “At first I thought it was a huge bureaucratic oversight,” Palazzo told The Daily Caller, “but having talked with the officials I can’t help but think this was politically motivated. Honor Flights, which bring WWII veterans to the nation’s memorials, are planned a year in advance and cost anywhere between $80,000 to $100,000. How low can you get with playing politics over our nation’s veterans?”
In a statement, Palazzo noted that he is introducing legislation to ensure that all Honor Flights are granted access this week. “This is an open-air memorial that the public has 24/7 access to under normal circumstances — even when Park Service personnel aren’t present,” Palazzo said in the statement. “It actually requires more effort and expense to shut out these veterans from their Memorial than it would to simply let them through. My office has been in touch with NPS officials and the Administration to try to resolve this issue.”
There are no "schedule hours" for scenery. The monument does not close on weekends, or at night.
Because it's scenery.
It is a feature of the landscape.
And yet these See You Next Tuesdays attempted to create a fake "entryway" into a landscape feature so they could block it off and say "the Building is closed."
And then they doubled down.
As I said elsewhere, the Pubbies have a winning hand with this 'shutdown' if they knew how to play their cards right, hell, if they even knew what game they were playing. But they don't.
With the fall of the government, citizen activists took it upon themselves to chronicle the culture of lawlessness. Men played Gibson guitars made of wood imported from India, but not finished by Indian workers. Women bought cold medicine without a photo ID. Children went hours without hearing lectures about the environment.
We've never had a more cynically spiteful president than our current one. This closing of memorials that are public scenery is him having a temper tantrum at being told 'no' by some Republicans. Even Carter, for all the misery he's engendered, never did shyt like this.
As I said elsewhere, the Pubbies have a winning hand with this 'shutdown' if they knew how to play their cards right, hell, if they even knew what game they were playing. But they don't.
Obama's America, summed up in one photo (https://twitter.com/morgenr/status/385244217011761152/photo/1)
Two Freedom Flights of veterans, one from Iowa and another from Mississippi, arrived in D.C. today to visit their war memorials, but were halted by barricades. Many of the veterans served in World War II and in Korea. As Bryan Preston noted in an earlier post, several House GOP members intervened to make sure those vets could visit the World War II Memorial.
I happened to be driving by, and received a phone call from a congressional staffer telling me what was going on. I caught some of the scene on video just as several busloads of Freedom Flight vets were about to leave.
In this first video, Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN-6) describes the sequence of events leading to the members of Congress intervening:
... Here, Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-1) explains why he and his colleagues crashed the Park Service barricades:
... Needless to say, the Park Service was not happy. This spokeswoman, who didn’t explain why she hadn’t been furloughed, tried her best to castigate the members of Congress without appearing cold-hearted:
(http://cdn.pjmedia.com/tatler/files/2013/10/IMG_5772-1024x682.jpg)
She explained that any enforcement action taken against the congressmen will have to be decided by her political-appointee bosses.
NextGenerationTV’s Michelle Fields tweets that Park Police have shown up on the scene to expel any remaining vets.
NextGenerationTV’s Michelle Fields tweets that Park Police have shown up on the scene to expel any remaining vets.
New Park Service Statement: "All Honor Flights are being granted access to the #WWIIMemorial to conduct 1st Amendment activities
This shutdown crap isn't Kabuki Theater, it's Noh Theater, starring Owebama's huge narcissistic ego.
There’s only one problem: the Claude Moore Colonial Farm isn’t supported by taxes. It’s privately funded and is staffed by volunteers ...
. The Washington Free Beacon reports:
According to Anna Eberly, managing director of the farm, NPS sent law enforcement agents to the park on Tuesday evening to remove staff and volunteers from the property.
“You do have to wonder about the wisdom of an organization that would use staff they don’t have the money to pay to evict visitors from a park site that operates without costing them any money,” she said.
The park withstood prior government shutdowns, noting in a news release that the farm will be closed to the public for the first time in 40 years.
“In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm,” Eberly explained in an emailed statement.
“In all the years I have worked with the National Park Service … I have never worked with a more arrogant, arbitrary and vindictive group representing the NPS,” Eberly said . . .
Arrogant. Arbitrary. Vindictive.
Stephen Hayes ? @stephenfhayes
At the WWII Memorial, Carol Johnson w/the Park Service says they were told to close the site by White House's Office of Management & Budget.
10:44 AM - 2 Oct 2013
Park Police news only pertained to the Honor Flights. Any group (less than 25) has the right to peaceably assemble.
Me too.
But I'd end up arrested .... for being lippy. Or something. ::saywhat::
Reading more and more of this BS today has left me rip yer face off growly. Can ya tell?
The Republican National Committee plans to score political points by funding the World War II memorial in Washington, DC in order to keep it open during the government shutdown. The move is a reaction to WWII veterans forcing open the memorial on the first day of the shutdown.
Wednesday afternoon, Preibus announced the RNC will fund the WWII memorial for the next 30 days. He blamed the Obama administration for making the shutdown as painful as possible. A protester reportedly interrupted Preibus, saying “Go do your job, idiot!”
The NPS has barricaded the memorial and on Tuesday tried to prevent veterans from visiting the memorial, which has no amenities and is normally open to the public at all times.
The National Park service has closed facilities that are either unmanned or take no federal funding, and says that the Obama administration ordered the shutdown. Anna Eberly, managing director of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Virginia, told Tatler that the NPS is renting the barricades that it is using to enforce the closures, an increase in the service’s operating costs at a time that the government is partially shut down.
Government watchdog Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get to the bottom of the National Park Service’s actions at the World War II Memorial in Washington this week. (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/exclusive-judicial-watch-files-foia-for-information-related-to-closing-of-wwii-memorial/)QuoteThe NPS has barricaded the memorial and on Tuesday tried to prevent veterans from visiting the memorial, which has no amenities and is normally open to the public at all times.
The National Park service has closed facilities that are either unmanned or take no federal funding, and says that the Obama administration ordered the shutdown. Anna Eberly, managing director of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Virginia, told Tatler that the NPS is renting the barricades that it is using to enforce the closures, an increase in the service’s operating costs at a time that the government is partially shut down.
I'm really close to wanting somebody made ... inert.
The reason this is evoking such a visceral reaction is because it is so obviously inexplicable outside of pure vindictive spite. They know going after 90 year old WWII vets will outrage US, so they are going after them. Pure and simple.
Now, dammit.This might be the best time to start one with most of them on furlow and all.
WAR.
Now, dammit.
WAR.
I pray the house doesn't yield to the pressure. And stays shutdown without apology.
More and more is getting out on how much obamacare will actually cost. Just look at THIS (http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/01/affordable-care-not-so-affordable-or-adorable/) (and the comments) as one small example as to the potential cost.
"The silver plan also includes a 30% co-pay on most procedures! The cap on that for a family of 4 is $12,500. Therefore, Amy is set up to pay $24,464 before full coverage kicks in. In other words, she will be paying $24,464 for the equivalent of a catastrophic plan.
But it gets better. Under the CA Covered (CACA) silver plan, you will not be covered if you go to Stanford Medical Center or UCLA Medical Center."
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Yup.
Traitors within and within within.
::gaah::
ETA - Harry Reid blames Republicans of course for shutdown and Vet's being blocked, and that is what the MFM will parrot...but they are all wrong -
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/01/obama-admin-knew-about-wwii-veterans-request-and-rejected-it/ (http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/01/obama-admin-knew-about-wwii-veterans-request-and-rejected-it/)
More Fedcoats blocking off people from their memorials...
(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-10-02-at-6.43.26-AM-550x375.png)
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/02/wwii-veterans-plan-to-storm-lincoln-memorial-today-closed-due-to-obama-admin-pettiness/ (http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/02/wwii-veterans-plan-to-storm-lincoln-memorial-today-closed-due-to-obama-admin-pettiness/)
Thugs!
::gaah::
Reid is such a douche...and true to form he resorts to attacking republicans without ever denying he said what he said...
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326219-reid-clarifies-exchange-with-reporter-after-conservatives-pounce (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326219-reid-clarifies-exchange-with-reporter-after-conservatives-pounce)
He can try to walk this back and he'll have the lapdog media cover his sorry ass, but we all know what he means...and Obama actions to make the shutdown as painful as possible to suit their meme of blaming republicans at all costs is laid bare for all to see.
Keep talkin' Harry!
Then, the dipsh*t tries the old head-fake of a disingenuous promise to be kept later ploy if only the House plays ball with Dem demands...Boehner in a rare moment of clarity sensing weakness in Dingy and the Dem strategy wisely turns it down.
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/326137-reid-offers-to-talk-tax-reform-if-gop-funds-government (http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/326137-reid-offers-to-talk-tax-reform-if-gop-funds-government)
On a personal note I was asked today by a co-worker why I am so happy, when I said "because the government is mostly shut down" they chuckled. Many are so conditioned by MFM bullsplatter right out of DemonRat caves that they mutter the typical brainless blather "I am so sick of this, they are both so stupid, always pointing fingers!"...I roll my eyes and just smile.
::popcorn::
Danny Danon / AP
BY: Lachlan Markay
October 2, 2013 12:15 pm
The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land, even though the government provides no resources for its maintenance or operation.
The Claude Moore Colonial Farm announced on Wednesday that NPS has ordered it to suspend operations until Congress agrees to a deal to fund the federal government.
According to Anna Eberly, managing director of the farm, NPS sent law enforcement agents to the park on Tuesday evening to remove staff and volunteers from the property.
“You do have to wonder about the wisdom of an organization that would use staff they don’t have the money to pay to evict visitors from a park site that operates without costing them any money,” she said.
The park withstood prior government shutdowns, noting in a news release that the farm will be closed to the public for the first time in 40 years.
“In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm,” Eberly explained in an emailed statement.
they really do think we're stupid
You don't even have to force a confrontation. Just stand outside the barricades with signs and invite the media. Do it everyday.
Let me know when they're gone to storm the gates fo the WH. I'll be there.
Tea Party Caucus should be front and center, forming a human barricade to shield these men from statist tools!
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.
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.
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.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Famous-City-Tavern-Closed-by-Government-Shutdown-226198441.html (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Famous-City-Tavern-Closed-by-Government-Shutdown-226198441.html)QuoteCity 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.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Famous-City-Tavern-Closed-by-Government-Shutdown-226198441.html (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Famous-City-Tavern-Closed-by-Government-Shutdown-226198441.html)QuoteCity 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.
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.
... 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.
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."link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_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.
... one of the more appalling casualties of the government shutdown has been funding for the National Institutes for Health, which has had to start turning away the roughly 200 patients, including children with cancer, who come to it each week for treatment in clinical trials. This is obviously a PR problem for the Republican Party. So as part of its strategy of pushing bills that would selectively fund discrete, visible, and popular pieces of the government, such as the District of Columbia and the National Park Service, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has also proposed restoring the NIH budget.
This is not sitting well with the Democrats. Per The Wall Street Journal today:
"I would like to guarantee that the people who are suffering, not getting treatment at the NIH could be answered tomorrow," Mr. Cantor said in a statement. "For the Democrats to say we're going to play a political game and we're not going to help those kids — we're really tired of playing games."
Democrats rejected the approach.
"It's time for Republicans to stop throwing one crazy idea after another at the wall, in hopes that something will stick," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said when the Senate opened on Wednesday. "Nothing is stuck. There's been a sensible plan to reopen the government right in front of House Republicans all along."
Meanwhile, Cantor tweeted out the president's official veto threat:
Gov’t shutdown spreads to beaches of Normandy
By Associated Press October 2, 2013 | 9:02am
Modal Trigger
Gov’t shutdown spreads to beaches of Normandy
The D-Day invasion is remembered at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial which has been closed because of the government shutdown./quote]
http://nypost.com/2013/10/02/govt-shutdown-spreads-to-beaches-of-normandy/ (http://nypost.com/2013/10/02/govt-shutdown-spreads-to-beaches-of-normandy/)
(The AP has cracked down on copying and pasting things from their articles.)
UPDATE 10/2/13 @ 7:27 pm Central: I just heard from Mr. Meyer. He emails:
It’s official. They are shutting all of us down ASAP. Marching orders straight from the White House.
Update: Mr. Meyer emails to add that not only is his business being forced to take losses for the closures, but in some cases the government is making him and the other park management companies buy the barricades that will be used to shut the parks. He says:
We are like prisoners of war who have to pay for our prison.
Original Story:
Warren Meyer {http://www.coyoteblog.com/} of Phoenix, AZ, is owner and president of Recreation Resource Management, Inc. RRM employs about 400-500 camp workers and managers across about a dozen states. It is one of a handful of companies that have been managing national parks and campgrounds as tenants for years, through previous government shutdowns including the last one in 1995-1996. Those previous shutdowns never closed any of the parks managed in this way, but the current shutdown threatens closure.
The campgrounds are self-sufficient and receive no federal funding. No government employees staff or manage the parks. The management companies pay the National Park Service out of the funds they generate from operating the thousands of campgrounds. So the reason for the shutdown is puzzling to Meyer.
Today, he sent a letter to both of his senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, asking for help to keep his parks open.
“My company, based in North Phoenix, operates nearly over 100 US Forest Service campgrounds and day use areas under concession contract. Yesterday, as in all past government shutdowns, the Department of Agriculture and US Forest Service confirmed we would stay open during the government shutdown. This makes total sense, since our operations are self-sufficient (we are fully funded by user fees at the gate), we get no federal funds, we employ no government workers on these sites, and we actually pay rent into the Treasury.”
Notice that last part. The parks not only do not cost the taxpayers any money, they pay funds into the Treasury out of the fees park users pay. Shutting them down will cost the taxpayers money.
How much? Meyer told the Tatler that his parks generate hundreds of thousands of dollars per week. Multiply that across his competitors and the Treasury could lose a few million dollars, in what is essentially free money to the government, over the course of the shutdown.
Which, as Meyer points out, is unnecessary, as these management companies are not revenue losers, but revenue generators for the Treasury.
He writes
However, today, we have been told by senior member of the US Forest Service and Department of Agriculture that people “above the department”, which I presume means the White House, plan to order the Forest Service to needlessly and illegally close all private operations. I can only assume their intention is to artificially increase the cost of the shutdown as some sort of political ploy.
The point of the shutdown is to close non-essential operations that require Federal money and manpower to stay open. So why is the White House closing private operations that require no government money to keep open and actually pay a percentage of their gate revenues back to the Treasury? We are a tenant of the US Forest Service, and a tenant does not have to close his business just because his landlord goes on a vacation.
The US Department of Agriculture is an executive branch agency, and answers to the White House. Another Judicial Watch FOIA may be in order to get to the bottom of this.
Meyer says he has sought clarification from the US Department of Agriculture about the shutdown. Officials are saying that they are shutting down the privately run, revenue-generating parks “to be consistent with the National Park Service.”
That would be the National Park Service which has barricaded the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., and closed a self-sufficient living history farm in Virginia.
Meyer says that the situation could cost jobs and is leaving him stranded, not knowing what to tell groups that are planning to use the parks his company manages.
The site overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches is one of 24 US military cemeteries overseas that have closed to visitors since Monday. Ten more cemeteries in in France, as well as others in various European countries as well as Mexico, Panama, Tunisia and the Philippines, will remain closed for the duration of the shutdown.http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/us-budget-battle-shuts-war-graves-29628631.html (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/us-budget-battle-shuts-war-graves-29628631.html)
The cemeteries are maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, set up after the First World War. Nearly 125,000 US servicemen and women are buried at its cemeteries, and an additional 94,000 are commemorated on tablets of the missing.
-AP
I'm on twitter right now
@LadyVirginia
Until I have to go out after lunch I will be tweeting using their hashtag #BoehnerShutdown
On somewhat of a side note, but related because it ties into this petty and vindictive triumphalism that characterizes these....people, but has anyone else noticed that the Obama 2012 stickers seem to have become more common on cars?
San Francisco’s Cliff House, a privately owned and very profitable restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was suddenly and unexpectedly ordered closed today, “because” the building sits on federal land. This, despite the fact that the Cliff House racks up $11.5 million in annual sales and is one of the most profitable independent restaurants in the nation.
How does the government save money by shuttering a profitable business? And a private one at that?
There are no federal employees at the Cliff House restaurant; a receptionist still manning the phones there today confirmed that all employees are paid by the restaurant’s owners, not by the government. As the Cliff House’s own Web site notes today, the restaurant is a “concessionaire” operating a business on Federal land — in this case, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which encompasses much of the Pacific shoreline along San Francisco and Marin counties — which means it is a private business which pays a fee to operate on government property ...
But there is no federally staffed “admission office” to access Cliff House, nor are there park rangers nor any other government employees involved in the Cliff House restaurant’s operation — it sits directly on a city street, accessible to all, as this photo reveals:
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http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/03/sf-shutdown-theater/ (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/03/sf-shutdown-theater/)QuoteSan Francisco’s Cliff House, a privately owned and very profitable restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was suddenly and unexpectedly ordered closed today, “because” the building sits on federal land. This, despite the fact that the Cliff House racks up $11.5 million in annual sales and is one of the most profitable independent restaurants in the nation.
How does the government save money by shuttering a profitable business? And a private one at that?
There are no federal employees at the Cliff House restaurant; a receptionist still manning the phones there today confirmed that all employees are paid by the restaurant’s owners, not by the government. As the Cliff House’s own Web site notes today, the restaurant is a “concessionaire” operating a business on Federal land — in this case, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which encompasses much of the Pacific shoreline along San Francisco and Marin counties — which means it is a private business which pays a fee to operate on government property ...
But there is no federally staffed “admission office” to access Cliff House, nor are there park rangers nor any other government employees involved in the Cliff House restaurant’s operation — it sits directly on a city street, accessible to all, as this photo reveals:
(http://cdn.pjmedia.com/tatler/files/2013/10/cliff_house.jpg)
They have a lawsuit - lost business because of the violation of a lease. I very much doubt their lease with the govt to operate on Federal land includes a "federal govt shutdown clause" Seriously. You go out, you open up and you do business as usual. And you show any fed that comes by your lease and ask them what in that document gives them the authority to close a private establishment with a valid and paid lease to operate. Or better yet, just shoot the goon in the head for being a willing paid lackey of a corrupt and illegitimate tyrant, and throw his body over the cliff.
The government owns the building and the land. The National Park Service had given him until 6 p.m. Thursday to shut down and kick out his 78 guests.
He called owner Bruce O'Connell of Pisgah Inn Inc., who was in Mexico. O'Connell had seen the same report about the veterans. They came up with a plan.
"We thought if those guys can do it, we can make a stand," O'Connell said. "We just decided that it is in the visitors' best interest that we remain open."
... Miller told his guests Wednesday that the inn would not be closing — even though another Blue Ridge Parkway lodge on Park Service land in Virginia, the 68-room Peaks of Otter Lodge, says on its website that it is bowing to the government's wishes and closing completely at 6 p.m. Thursday.
What will happen after the deadline passes Thursday is unclear.
“We thought if those guys can do it, we can make a stand.”
— Rob Miller, Pisgah Inn about WWII vets keeping their memorial open
Parkway Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett said Wednesday that Washington was aware of the problem. He could not immediately say what steps the government might take to close the 51-room inn.
"We are in discussions at this time," Stinnett said.
The O'Connell family has operated the inn since 1977. It's one of the few remaining mom-and-pop concessionaires in the National Park Service.
Park concessionaires have been told to close, and lodges have been given the 6 p.m. Thursday deadline to allow them time to get guests out.
Miller called around on Wednesday trying to find other concessionaires who would stand with him but had no luck.
He posted the plan on the inn's Facebook page, which garnered nearly 190 likes by late afternoon.
People applauded the decision.
"Glad to see that you will stay open," Mike Stinneford commented. "I can't imagine an October without the Inn."
If the feds roll in, people need to form an unbreakable ring around this lodge.
Military may be getting paid but their commissaries are closed. They must shop at regular stores which will cost them money.
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... 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:
Meanwhile, the barricade in front of a memorial to World War I veterans a couple blocks away still looks like this:
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Quote... 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:
Meanwhile, the barricade in front of a memorial to World War I veterans a couple blocks away still looks like this.
Okay, now just bring a pair of dikes with ya.
Okay, now just bring a pair of dikes with ya.
"Without the federal government, I can't have unprotected sex."
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My daughter was telling me a story this morning that Catholic priests who are contract employees providing services as chaplains to the military have been told that if they attempt to provide said services they will be arrested. I said they need to get arrested.
This is ridiculous.
I said they need to get arrested.
AgreedMy daughter was telling me a story this morning that Catholic priests who are contract employees providing services as chaplains to the military have been told that if they attempt to provide said services they will be arrested. I said they need to get arrested.
This is ridiculous.
I agree. It is time for principled resistance from the men of the cloth, Catholic and Protestant alike. The clergy have become dangerously close, in my opinion, to violating the Commandment "Thou shalt have no other God before Me". Maybe that sounds like hyperbole, but when you have men who purport to be pastors of the flock who seem to be state-fearing more than god-fearing, I'm not sure what else you can conclude.
At last, testicles in evidence ......
The National Park Service has told 2 lodges along the Blue Ridge Parkway that they must close Thursday and lodgers must be out by 6 p.m. One says it won't. (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/02/blue-ridge-lodge-to-defy-shutdown-order/2911875/)QuoteThe government owns the building and the land. The National Park Service had given him until 6 p.m. Thursday to shut down and kick out his 78 guests.
He called owner Bruce O'Connell of Pisgah Inn Inc., who was in Mexico. O'Connell had seen the same report about the veterans. They came up with a plan.
"We thought if those guys can do it, we can make a stand," O'Connell said. "We just decided that it is in the visitors' best interest that we remain open."
... Miller told his guests Wednesday that the inn would not be closing — even though another Blue Ridge Parkway lodge on Park Service land in Virginia, the 68-room Peaks of Otter Lodge, says on its website that it is bowing to the government's wishes and closing completely at 6 p.m. Thursday.
What will happen after the deadline passes Thursday is unclear.
“We thought if those guys can do it, we can make a stand.”
— Rob Miller, Pisgah Inn about WWII vets keeping their memorial open
Parkway Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett said Wednesday that Washington was aware of the problem. He could not immediately say what steps the government might take to close the 51-room inn.
"We are in discussions at this time," Stinnett said.
The O'Connell family has operated the inn since 1977. It's one of the few remaining mom-and-pop concessionaires in the National Park Service.
Park concessionaires have been told to close, and lodges have been given the 6 p.m. Thursday deadline to allow them time to get guests out.
Miller called around on Wednesday trying to find other concessionaires who would stand with him but had no luck.
He posted the plan on the inn's Facebook page, which garnered nearly 190 likes by late afternoon.
People applauded the decision.
"Glad to see that you will stay open," Mike Stinneford commented. "I can't imagine an October without the Inn."
The fall is when these inns in western NC make their money.
My daughter was telling me a story this morning that Catholic priests who are contract employees providing services as chaplains to the military have been told that if they attempt to provide said services they will be arrested. I said they need to get arrested.
This is ridiculous.
I agree. It is time for principled resistance from the men of the cloth, Catholic and Protestant alike. The clergy have become dangerously close, in my opinion, to violating the Commandment "Thou shalt have no other God before Me". Maybe that sounds like hyperbole, but when you have men who purport to be pastors of the flock who seem to be state-fearing more than god-fearing, I'm not sure what else you can conclude.
UPDATE: O'Connell was on with Hannity this afternoon. He said after his Facebook post, stating he would remain open, the Park Police showed up and have barricaded entry to his parking lot with their cars, red lights on and all.
Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban. Of access to an ocean. The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business.
“With the government shutdown, many [government service] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer,” wrote John Schlageter, the general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, in an op-ed this week. “During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so.”
Because of the lack of active-duty Catholic chaplains, the military relies on hiring civilian priests to serve as government service and contract ministers. Those civilian priests are not allowed on the bases during a shutdown, Schlageter wrote.
One Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee told The Daily Caller on Friday that this “crosses a constitutional line.”
“The constitutional rights of those who put their lives on the line for this nation do not end with a government slowdown,” Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, a graduate of West Point and an Army veteran, said in a Friday statement. ”It is completely irresponsible for the president to turn his back on every American’s First Amendment rights by furloughing military contract clergy.”
Added Pompeo: “The President’s strategy during the slowdown, just as during the sequestration, is to create as much pain as possible. However, this action crosses a constitutional line of obstructing every U.S. service member’s ability to practice his or her religion.”
BREAKING: House approves resolution to allow chaplains to minister during shut down
N.B.: This post has been updated since the initial posting.
The United States House of Representatives voted today to allow military chaplains to minister to the members of the armed forces on military during the government "shut down."
Representative Doug Collins (R-George) introduced the resolution which was approved by a vote of 400-1, with 30 no votes; Representative Bill Enyart (D-Illinois) - a retired General - was the only member to vote against the resolution. Of those not voting, 16 are Republicans and 14 are Democrats.
If your Representative voted in favor of the resolution, please be certain to thank him or her and be sure to encourage your Senators to also vote in favor of it!
Now we will see what the United States Senate will do with the legislation.
A priest at the Naval Amphibious Base in Little Creek, Va., was told he could not celebrate Mass on base because of the government shutdown. So he discovered a way to circumvent the ban.http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/04/catholic-priests-in-military-face-arrest-for-celebrating-mass/?intcmp=latestnews (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/04/catholic-priests-in-military-face-arrest-for-celebrating-mass/?intcmp=latestnews)
“He’s having Mass in a local park off base,” the archbishop said.
Now they're preventing Vietnam Vets from visiting the Vietnam Memorial Wall. (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/05/more-veterans-removed-at-vietnam-war-memorial/)
These sons of bitches should be dragged from their hallowed halls and dealt with commensurate with their offense. This is intolerable.
A rejection letter written by a National Park Service official to one of the event [9/11 biker rally] organizers said that many area roads would have had to be closed in order to grant a no-stop permit, resulting “in severe disruption of traffic.”link (http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/09/11/thousands-of-motorcyclists-ride-to-remember-911-in-d-c/)
Now they're preventing Vietnam Vets from visiting the Vietnam Memorial Wall. (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/05/more-veterans-removed-at-vietnam-war-memorial/)
These sons of bitches should be dragged from their hallowed halls and dealt with commensurate with their offense. This is intolerable.
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- The government shutdown is being felt close to home for some locals. They say they're being forced out of private homes on Lake Mead because they sit on federal land.
Joyce Spencer is 77-years-old and her husband Ralph is 80. They've been spending most of their time in the family ice cream store since going home isn't an option.
The Spencers never expected to be forced out of their Lake Mead home, which they've owned since the 70s, but on Thursday, a park ranger said they had 24 hours to get out.
"I had to go to town today and buy Ralph undershirts and jeans because I forgot his pants," Joyce Spencer told Action News.
The Stewart's Point home sits on federal land, so even though the Spencers own their cabin outright, they're not allowed in until the government reopens
How can this be viewed as anything other than an act of war?
If I was their County Sheriff I would be escorting them back to their home with a shouldered rifle, and I would arrest any federal agent who dared to interfere.
How can this be viewed as anything other than an act of war?
It CAN'T.QuoteIf I was their County Sheriff I would be escorting them back to their home with a shouldered rifle, and I would arrest any federal agent who dared to interfere.
Yes. And I was thinking the same thought about the Inn in western NC.
Noelle Bruno tweets that she and her family made it through Mount Rushmore despite the White House obstacle. Read more...http://twitchy.com/2013/10/06/families-throw-off-the-cones-at-badlands-national-park-in-south-dakota/ (http://twitchy.com/2013/10/06/families-throw-off-the-cones-at-badlands-national-park-in-south-dakota/)
Noelle Bruno tweets that she and her family made it through Mount Rushmore despite the White House obstacle. Read more...http://twitchy.com/2013/10/06/families-throw-off-the-cones-at-badlands-national-park-in-south-dakota/ (http://twitchy.com/2013/10/06/families-throw-off-the-cones-at-badlands-national-park-in-south-dakota/)
This what it takes.
Get his attention<CLOSE THE GOLF COURSES HE SO DEARLY LOVES.
Get his attention<CLOSE THE GOLF COURSES HE SO DEARLY LOVES.
Heard his favorite course at the air force base is open. I wouldn't be surprised if he is still golfing regularly. Of course the lamestream wouldn't report it anyway.
If it was so horrible for Bush to golf, why is ok for Barry?
BO is sostupidarrogant he thinks he can close the outdoors!
WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (BAY-nur) says President Barack Obama has called the speaker to say he still won't negotiate on ending the partial government shutdown or raising the nation's debt limit.link (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-calls-boehner-says-he-still-wont-negotiate)
Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck says the call took place Tuesday morning.
QuoteWASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (BAY-nur) says President Barack Obama has called the speaker to say he still won't negotiate on ending the partial government shutdown or raising the nation's debt limit.link (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-calls-boehner-says-he-still-wont-negotiate)
Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck says the call took place Tuesday morning.
If I may add a little more of this to the tread...
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Gestapo' tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone (http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x1442580353/Gestapo-tactics-meet-senior-citizens-at-Yellowstone)
It takes a while to load (as it's probably going viral) but worth it.
If there is any justice left to be had in this world an epic amount of pain should befall this SCoaMF and everyone in his lawless Regime!!!My thoughts as well. ::praying::
Hey look, lo and behold the "closed" National Mall will be open for this group's rally.
Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on 'closed' National Mall (http://washingtonexaminer.com/park-service-oks-immigration-reform-rally-on-closed-national-mall/article/2536908)
But the thing with the seniors on the bus @ Yellowstone was truly despicable. Someone needs to be held accountable for this stuff. Someone gave the order for this to happen and they need to be held accountable. Several someones followed those orders, orders which should have been disregarded by anyone with even a shred of decency, and they need to be held accountable. If I knew someone personally who was involved with this situation I would not be able to associate with them ever again. They would be unfriended for realsies.
Oh and by the way, is it starting to make a little more sense now why all these unlikely government agencies have been buying up millions of rounds of ammo?
But the thing with the seniors on the bus @ Yellowstone was truly despicable. Someone needs to be held accountable for this stuff. Someone gave the order for this to happen and they need to be held accountable. Several someones followed those orders, orders which should have been disregarded by anyone with even a shred of decency, and they need to be held accountable. If I knew someone personally who was involved with this situation I would not be able to associate with them ever again. They would be unfriended for realsies.
Willing to take my whoopin' from the group....But, I think GOP strategy ok.
The debt limit is really meaningless. The real fight and focus needs to STAY on the effort to defund Obamacare. The enstupidification of America is too far along for most voters, let alone most citizens, to focus on all of it. This one line can be drawn and it can be one. Ted Cruz has done a masterful job of articulating the issue.
What must it be like to be one of these people? When you look in the mirror and say "Yep. I earn my living by harassing 90 year old war heroes at open air monuments, and holding foreign tourists at gunpoint as virtual prisoners in a national park lodge."::thumbsup::
Same with the TSA groping people in the airport security theater. At what point is "It's just a job" no longer a mitigating circumstance? I could never treat people the way they do, I have too much of a sense of shame and embarrassment. I can guarantee you the moment the duties of my "job" became "forcefully removing WWII veterans from the memorial" I would quit, or force them to fire me.
SHowdown! (http://www.infowars.com/report-feds-order-national-guard-to-close-i-495-to-derail-trucker-protest/)We should be there running shotgun or in my case BAR gun.
What happens when the wacky little spoiled pot smoker in the Spite house closes I-495 with armed National Guard just as 10,000 Trucks show up to arrest him and every other American People punishing politicians? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
SHowdown! (http://www.infowars.com/report-feds-order-national-guard-to-close-i-495-to-derail-trucker-protest/)
What happens when the wacky little spoiled pot smoker in the Spite house closes I-495 with armed National Guard just as 10,000 Trucks show up to arrest him and every other American People punishing politicians? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
SHowdown! (http://www.infowars.com/report-feds-order-national-guard-to-close-i-495-to-derail-trucker-protest/)
What happens when the wacky little spoiled pot smoker in the Spite house closes I-495 with armed National Guard just as 10,000 Trucks show up to arrest him and every other American People punishing politicians? Tune in tomorrow to find out!
I've read in more than one place that this isn't a legitimate report. There've been a flurry of these lately.
It was cross-posted at RedState and the author freely admits it was intended as satire .... in the comments.
It was cross-posted at RedState and the author freely admits it was intended as satire .... in the comments.
And the problem with Satire and this administration is.. its impossible to do. Its entirely possible that the Boy-King would attempt this. But its probably easier just to record all of the Commercial truck licenses and have them revoked. You can bet the petty tyrant won't let it go.
only a “skeletal crew of National Park Service gardeners..remain on duty,”
Quoteonly a “skeletal crew of National Park Service gardeners..remain on duty,”
After the Obama administration, for the second Sunday in a row, continued to prohibit approximately 50 Catholic priests from saying Mass and administering other sacraments at U.S. military facilities around the world, Father Ray Leonard, who serves as the Catholic chaplain at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia, filed suit Monday against the Department of Defense, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the Department of the Navy, and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.
DOD is prohibiting Father Leonard and the other Catholic priests from administering the sacraments and providing other services to their congregations even though two weeks ago Congress passed, and President Barack Obama signed, a law that instructed DOD to maintain on the job and keep paying contract employees who were supporting the troops.
DOD took this action because Hagel determined--after consulting with Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department--that civilian Catholic priests, working under contract as chaplains, did not, among other things, “contribute to the morale” and “well-being” of service personnel.
... “The doors to the Kings Bay Chapel were locked on October 4, 2013, with the Holy Eucharist, Holy water, Catholic hymn books, and vessels all locked inside,” said Father Leonard’s lawsuit.
... And although DOD locked the chapel against a Catholic priest and his congregation, it opened the chapel to members of other denominations.
"The Kings Bay Chapel remains open to other faiths and is being used for their religious services," says the lawsuit. "The Department of Defense has allowed the Protestant community to continue their services in the chapel during the government shutdown, without threat of penalty."
"On October 7, 2013," says the suit, "Father Leonard was informed that he was not permitted to even visit the chapel or his office on the Naval Base."
And you and I both know the First Wookie, isn't skilled enough to pick up a hoe or for that matter, work gloves. It was all a show for the limited minds of the morons that voted and cheated for these assholes to gain access to the Spite House. If that family had to depend on that garden for sustenance, they'd have already starved. Gardens take determination, hard work and a desire to get something out of it none of which are qualities from the first freeloading family. ::cussing::Quoteonly a “skeletal crew of National Park Service gardeners..remain on duty,”
I wonder what this "garden" costs taxpayers otherwise. Plenty, I am sure. Hope the next president has enough sense to turn that "garden" back into lawn, like it should be. Not that I don't like gardens, but lets be clear, Michele isn't out there pulling weeds and picking vegetables. She doesn't give a d@#n about it, as you can see in the pictures posted on that blog. If she did, she would be out there. When the cameras go off, she isn't "gardening".
These priests NEED TO GO AND GET THEMSELVES ARRESTED!!
While we already knew this applied to politicians, this shut down theater has proven there are no men (or women) of good conscience in government. None. Bloodsuckers all.
How many employees resigned when given such BS orders? I've not heard of one. Men of good conscience, gone. Apparachikville, A-OK.
While we already knew this applied to politicians, this shut down theater has proven there are no men (or women) of good conscience in government. None. Bloodsuckers all.
How many employees resigned when given such BS orders? I've not heard of one. Men of good conscience, gone. Apparachikville, A-OK.
Yup.
Some people will rediscover how easily it is for idiots to hand over complete control of their lives to a dictator..others will be reminding them of the consequences of that at several hundreds of feet per second...