Liberty Minute for October 9 2013

The so-called shutdown of the federal government is an exercise in political theater, in which staged suffering plays the central role.

One US Park Service Ranger, disgusted by the orders he had been given, told the Washington Times that ?We?ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can.? This explains why World War II vets were banished from the National Mall ? but immigration reform activists allied with the administration were permitted to hold a large demonstration.

Tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park were detained and mistreated by armed Park Rangers after the so-called shutdown began. One of the visitors, Pat Vaillancourt, used the expression ?Gestapo tactics? to describe the incident.

As if determined not to neglect the other half of its totalitarian heritage, the Obama Regime ordered the US Park Service to evict citizens from private homes located on federal lands.  Those homes are private property, and the Americans who lived there were driven out as if they were Ukrainian ?Kulaks? resisting Josef Stalin?s collectivized agriculture.

 The chief benefit of the shutdown is that it reveals the federal government?s essential nature: It is a vicious criminal syndicate run by people who despise the American public.

 Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.