Fri morn, 3 days after WWII vets banned from Memorial...now barricades are WIRED SHUT

[Little-Acorn]

I thought I had heard that the government, after their embarrassment at being caught kicking 90-year-old WWII veterans out of a WWII Memorial in a public area that cost the govt nothing to keep open, had relented and opened the memorial up again.

Turns out it's not so.

The government has now REINFORCED the barricades, tying them together with wire so the WWII vets who pushed them aside a few days ago, can't do it now.

This Obama administration isn't just vain and mean-spirited. They're STUPID.

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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wired-shut-barricade-wwii-memorial-reinforced_759193.html

WWII Memorial Barricade Wired Shut

10:22 AM, Friday Oct 4, 2013
by JOHN MCCORMACK

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:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVvCkmPCIAIunjR.jpg

[Thunderknuckles]

So embarrassing...

[Abbey Marie]

Wire cutters?

[Arbo]

Don't know where to put this as there are so many 'shut down' threads... but it is related to all of them.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/pruden-the-cheap-tricks-of-the-game/

Much we already knew... of interest is a park ranger who said he was 'told' to make things as inconvenient for people as possible.

So where are the old school, real, journalists to investigate this crap further and get a Pulitzer for breaking this story with facts, thus helping to shame this administration and make it lose support?

[Larrymc]

I thought I had heard that the government, after their embarrassment at being caught kicking 90-year-old WWII veterans out of a WWII Memorial in a public area that cost the govt nothing to keep open, had relented and opened the memorial up again.

Turns out it's not so.

The government has now REINFORCED the barricades, tying them together with wire so the WWII vets who pushed them aside a few days ago, can't do it now.

This Obama administration isn't just vain and mean-spirited. They're STUPID.

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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wired-shut-barricade-wwii-memorial-reinforced_759193.html

WWII Memorial Barricade Wired Shut

10:22 AM, Friday Oct 4, 2013
by JOHN MCCORMACK

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:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVvCkmPCIAIunjR.jpgI understand the Bikers our on there way back, so they need wire cutters, instead of Scissors, i don't see a problem?