{"id":20620,"date":"2013-10-06T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T20:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20620"},"modified":"2013-10-06T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T20:39:59","slug":"americans-need-to-be-concerned-about-protecting-their-rights-as-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20620","title":{"rendered":"Americans Need To Be Concerned About Protecting Their Rights As Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of very disturbing stories coming out about the impact of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Government shutdown\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">government shutdown<\/a> on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Private school\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Private_school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">private<\/a> citizens who are in no way involved in this dispute. Private organizations renting government land have been closed by the government, private businesses in national parks have been shut down, and now, private citizens are being evicted from their homes because of the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/obama-s-park-service-kicks-owners-out-of-private-lake-mead-homes-over-shutdown\">The Examiner<\/a> posted a story about 60 families kicked out of their private homes on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lake Mead\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=36.25,-114.39&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=36.25,-114.39 (Lake%20Mead)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Lake Mead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Some 60 families have been kicked out of their privately-owned homes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/topic\/lake-mead\">Lake Mead<\/a> by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Park Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">National Parks Service<\/a> personnel as a result of the partial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/topic\/government-shutdown\">government shutdown<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/US\/lake-mead-shutdown-property\/2013\/10\/06\/id\/529500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Newsmax<\/a> reported Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;They are all <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vacation property\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vacation_property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">vacation homes<\/a> and everybody who lives in them are considered visitors,&#8221; said Lake Mead Recreational Area spokeswoman Christie Vanover.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;If anybody needs to gather their personal belongings, we\u2019re not going to deny them access. They can go do that. They just can\u2019t spend the nights there or have barbecues during the day,&#8221; she added. They need to get in and get out.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>On Friday, we reported that a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Park ranger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Park_ranger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Park Ranger<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/park-ranger-admits-being-told-to-make-life-as-difficult-for-people-as-possible\">admitted being ordered<\/a> to make life as inconvenient as possible in order to punish <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Americans<\/a> during the shutdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can,&#8221; an angry Park Ranger told the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Washington Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Washington Times<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s disgusting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Across the country, Park Rangers have been doing exactly that, closing down parks, roads, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/10\/05\/unbelievable-police-prevent-drivers-from-pulling-over-and-viewing-mt-rushmore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scenic bypasses<\/a> on a whim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Obama, meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/redalertpolitics.com\/2013\/10\/05\/obama-compares-republicans-to-kidnappers-in-weekly-address-says-he-wont-pay-a-ransom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fomented violence against Republicans<\/a> Saturday when he called them kidnappers who \u201cdemand ransom\u201d and \u201chold our democracy or our economy hostage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not acceptable. We need too find out who gave these orders and remove them from power. This is the government fighting the people of America. This is not the way America works.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=d608ebad-6f36-49b8-81fc-d42dec9003c6\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of very disturbing stories coming out about the impact of the government shutdown on private citizens who are in no way involved in this dispute. Private organizations renting government land have been closed by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20620\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5066,6388,6434,407,6435,285,6436,607],"class_list":["post-20620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-examiner","tag-government-shutdown","tag-lake-mead","tag-national-park-service","tag-park-ranger","tag-united-states","tag-vacation-property","tag-washington-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20624,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions\/20624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}