Thread: Obama Orders Closure of Colonial Farm That Receives No Federal Funding, Sends POLICE

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10/02/2013

Obama Admin Orders Closure of Colonial Farm That Receives No Federal Funding, Sends Police To Remove All Staff And Volunteers From Property…



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.

“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.

The farm is an historical reenactment site, which “authentically portrays the life of an 18th Century American family building a life on the nearer edges of civilized society,” according to its website.

Farm staff repeatedly asked the NPS to allow the farm to remain open. “Every appeal our Board of Directors made to the NPS administration was denied,” Eberly said.

She called the decision “utter crap.”

“We have operated the Farm successfully for 32 years after the NPS cut the Farm from its budget in 1980 and are fully staffed and prepared to open today. But there are barricades at the Pavilions and entrance to the Farm,” Eberly explained.

Previous federal funding battles have threatened the farm’s operations. A group of citizens in 1980 formed the Friends of Turkey Run Farm, established a $500,000 endowment for the farm, and negotiated a 30-year no-fee lease.

According to Eberly’s statement, farm staff have been in contact with Reps. Frank Wolf (R., Va.) and Jim Moran (D., Va.) in an attempt to reverse NPS’ decision. Neither congressman returned a request for comment.

News of the farm closure comes as controversy rages over the closure of the World War II memorial on the National Mall.

WWII veterans in Washington as part of the Honor Flight Network stormed the memorial on Tuesday, defying NPS, which insisted that the memorial was legally closed.

More Honor Flight veterans showed up on Wendesday, flanked by members of Congress from both parties. Republican members blamed Democrats for the memorial’s closure, and vice versa.

Some speculated that the decision to close the memorial was part of a concerted effort by the administration to play up the consequences of the shutdown in an effort to convince congressional Republicans to agree to a funding bill without preconditions.

That tactic is known as the Washington Monument Strategy, in reference to efforts by Nixon administration officials to inflate the consequences of budget cuts at the time.

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Did The New Republic call for Obama to dissolve Congress?


By Eric Boehm / October 2, 2013 / 4 Comments






Part 24 of 28 in the series Shutdown 2013
By Eric Boehm | Watchdog.org
Apparently, this is what The New Republic thinks about our old republic.
In a post Wednesday afternoon, Julia Ioffe made a not-so-subtle suggestion about how she thinks chief executives should handle opposition from democratically-elected legislators.
“What is a president in a presidential constitutional republic to do when faced with an intransigent, bull-headed faction among his people’s representatives?” she asks, rhetorically.
The answer, of course, is to do exactly what Boris Yeltsin did in Russia in 1993: dissolve the parliament — known at the time as the “Supreme Soviet” — and do what you want.
But Yeltsin didn’t just shut down the Russian parliament in 1993. No, he literally ordered tanks to shell the building, while some of the leaders of the parliament were still inside because they refused to let the chief executive act in such a dictatorial manner.
COMPROMISE, RUSSIAN-STYLE: At least one writer at The New Republic thinks this is the best way to solve a governmental crisis.

More than 100 people died in the riots that ensued during the 10-day siege of the parliament building, ironically called “The White House.”
According to an account from The Guardian on the 10-year anniversary of Yeltsin’s aggressive negotiations, he didn’t just sack the parliament, but “also scrapped the constitution, replacing it with another that gave him near-monarchic executive powers.”
No wonder Russia has such a highly-functioning democracy two decades later.
Thankfully, it’s nearly impossible to imagine President Obama ordering the military to shell the U.S. House of Representatives because he blames them for shutting down the government.
But imperialists on the left can dream.
Boehm can be reached at EBoehm@Watchdog.org.
Part of 28 in the series Shutdown 2013

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• Shutdown sparks New Jersey confusion about Obamacare
• Biggest education impact from shutdown? Furloughed bureaucrats
• Federal shutdown could furlough 57,000 Virginians
• ‘Business as usual’ for PA state government as feds prepare for shutdown
• Union plans rally as MN braces for federal shutdown
• Only government you don’t know about could go away in Illinois
• Shutdown? NM seems OK on the state level, but federal workers will feel the pinch
• WI congressional delegation soldiers on in Obamacare-shutdown battle
• Shutdown? What shutdown? States will carry on despite impasse in Washington
• McAuliffe tries to ride shutdown to victory in November
• NM delegation on gov’t shutdown: It’s the other side’s fault
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• U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin: I’m shutting down, too
• Missouri’s Wagner declines congressional pay during shutdown
• GIs take first battle of government shutdown
• The horror: Shutdown delays pro-Obamacare video contest
• Obamacare device tax ‘devastating’ to TN manufacturers
• Did The New Republic call for Obama to dissolve Congress?
• 4 reasons to cross the Potomac during the shutdown
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• Shutdown is ‘boom time’ for political fundraising
• Sorry Yogi: Reid calls move to open parks a ‘wacky idea’

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Originally Posted by kathyet2

The answer, of course, is to do exactly what Boris Yeltsin did in Russia in 1993: dissolve the parliament — known at the time as the “Supreme Soviet” — and do what you want.

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This is the complete opposite of the outcome of what Yeltsin did. His actions resulted in the end of the Communist (Soviet) USSR.

Obama's actions (if not reversed) will result in EXACTLY what Yeltsin's actions ultimately destroyed (e.g., a communist dictatorship).