Barrycades set up at privately-operated Moore Colonial Farm

[XNavyNuke]

National Park Service Closes Self-Sustaining Colonial Farm It Hasn’t Supported Since 1980 (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/shutdown-national-park-service-closes-self-sustaining-colonial-farm-it-hasnt-supported-since-1980/)


Eberly says that individuals and families saved the farm when the NPS zeroed its budget in 1980, so there is no need for the service now to shut it down or barricade its facilities, as it is doing. The NPS claims, in its actions at the World War II Memorial in Washington this week, that it doesn’t want to go around closing monuments and parks, but it is taking these actions because it is worried about staffing and security.

Eberly’s response is as clear as can be. “What 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. And if you were to park on the grass and visit on your own, you run the risk of being arrested. Of course, that will cost the NPS staff salaries to police the Farm against intruders while leaving it open will cost them nothing.”

Barrycades are about producing a national case of beaten-wife syndrome. Make it hurt bad enough, leave bruises, and promise that if you don't press charges it will never happen again. Uncle sugar is the only one that loves you and will take care of you.

XNN

[Lucille]

I was reading Coyote Blog, and he thought they might shut his operations down illegally too. I checked back after I read your post and it looks like they are doing just that.

Government Closing Parks It Does Not Fund or Operate
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2013/10/government-closing-parks-it-does-not-fund-or-operate.html


I mentioned in an earlier article that the Administration is threatening to close US Forest Service parks it does not even fund or run, privately operated parks that happen to have the Federal government as a landlord. In fact, in our case, we pay the US Forest Service between 8 and 22 percent of revenues as a concession fee, so by threatening to close us it is costing them, not saving them extra money.

Apparently, the NPS is already doing this:


National Park Officials closed down the educational Claude Moore Colonial Farm near the CIA in McLean, Va., even though the federal government doesn't fund or staff the park popular with children and schools. Just because the privately-operated park is on Park Service land, making the federal government simply its landlord, the agency decided to close it.

A Claude Moore Colonial Farm official said that the privately-funded staff is on the job Wednesday, but barred from letting anybody visit the historically accurate buildings or animals. Anna Eberly, the managing director, sent out an email decrying the decision and rude National Park Service staff handling the closure.

Pointing to Park Service claims that parks have to be closed because the agency can’t afford staff during the government closure, Eberly wrote: “What 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. And if you were to park on the grass and visit on your own, you run the risk of being arrested. Of course, that will cost the NPS staff salaries to police the Farm against intruders while leaving it open will cost them nothing.”

She added: “In all the years I have worked with the National Park Service, first as a volunteer for six years in Richmond where I grew up, then as an NPS employee at the for eight very long years and now enjoyably as managing director for the last 32 years — I have never worked with a more arrogant, arbitrary and vindictive group representing the NPS. I deeply apologize that we have to disappoint you today by being closed but know that we are working while the National Park Service is not — as usual.”

This is purely political -- it costs rather than saves the government money.

My Plea to Stop the White House From Closing Privately-Funded, Privately-Operated Parks
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2013/10/my-plea-to-stop-the-white-house-from-closing-privately-funded-privately-operated-parks.html


Help! Administration Orders Shut Down of Privately-Operated Parks in National Forest

Parks that require no Federal money, and actually pay rent to the Treasury, are being required to close

Sirs:

My company, based in North Phoenix, operates 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.

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.

I urge you to help stop the Administration from lawlessly taking arbitrary and illegal actions to artificially worsen the shutdown by hurting innocent hikers and campers. I am not asking you to restore any funding, because no funding is required to keep these operations open. I am asking that the Administration be required to only close government services that actually require budget resources.

PJ Tatler Interviews Me on Government Closure of Privately-Funded Parks
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2013/10/pj-tatler-interviews-me-on-government-closure-of-privately-funded-parks.html

[VBRonPaulFan]

If Obama and the Dems were looking to make friends out of this whole ordeal, they sure picked one strange way to try to do it.

[Aratus]

i just had the thought that our poor veep joe biden is going to have a much harder
time than lil ole ms. semi-retired hillary C in 2015's string of early on POTUS debates
as he tries to explain the actions by our sitting president at each step of the crisis

[Aratus]

methinks at this point, if joe biden wants to do another POTUS run,
expect a very very very crowded field on the Democratic side of things

[Anti Federalist]

+rep for BarryCades

[WM_in_MO]

i just had the thought that our poor veep joe biden is going to have a much harder
time than lil ole ms. semi-retired hillary C in 2015's string of early on POTUS debates
as he tries to explain the actions by our sitting president at each step of the crisis

Uh, Hilary already has 2016 locked up. She's the pick, and probably the next president.

You must be new here.

[Lucille]

Privately Run Park Director Again Calls Out Feds Over "Illegal" Closure
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/04/privately-run-park-director-again-calls


Anna Eberly, Managing Director of the privately run, funded and staffed Claude Moore Colonial Farm is taking no prisoners in her war with the National Park Service over the politicized closure of a park on which the federal government spends not a penny and with which it is involved in no way other than the ownership of the land. Eberly's first email on the subject referred to the NPS's position as "utter crap." Her latest elaborates. It reads, in part:
[...]
That's right. This is a "living history farm" located on public land, but taken over by private parties decades ago, and staffed, managed and funded with no reference to federal agencies or resources. But it was closed under the government shutdown, and its private staff threatened with arrest for continuing to work, because...

You do the math.

[Cleaner44]

Expose the bullshit!

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[XNavyNuke]

Seems a little old fashioned civil disobedience is coming out. This should be making our Glorious Community Organizer proud. I wonder why it isn't.

More shutdown shenanigans (http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20131004/PC1002/131009771/1021/more-shutdown-shenanigans&source=RSS)


But there are signs of resistance as well. In addition to the civil disobedience by World War II veterans in Washington this week, the NPS concessionaire that operates the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville, N.C., announced he would defy a government order to shut down.

XNN

[HOLLYWOOD]

Like many have posted... Barrycades are being done on purpose to inflict as much pain on the innocent citizens. It's also costing MORE to block all the parks, farms, monuments, than it is to just 'leaving them be to America. Disgusting childish and thuggery dictatorship of the Barry Obama administration. Like I've said a thousand times... all Washington DC is are the home of the 2 Mafioso Crime Families shaking the people down for whatever reason... mostly power, gain, and/or control.

Washington hoards government jobs to maximize pain of ‘shutdown’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/04/washington-hoards-government-jobs-to-maximize-pain-of-shutdown/

Email tells FEDS to make sequester as painful as promised
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/5/email-tells-feds-make-sequester-painful-promised/?page=all

RANGER: 'We've Been Told To Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can. It's Disgusting'... (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/pruden-the-cheap-tricks-of-the-game/)

Feds Lock Normandy Cemetery Despite Having $85 Million On Hand For Monuments (http://washingtonexaminer.com/feds-lock-normandy-cemetery-despite-having-85-million-on-hand-for-monuments/article/2536824)


REMEMBER the Sequester & So-Called Cuts? Same Game, Different Time
Park Ranger: Supervisors pushed Sequester Cuts that visitors would see Pain






Claude Moore Colonial Farm, originally Turkey Run Farm, is a U.S. park in Virginia recreating and reenacting life on a tenant farm circa 1771. Turkey Run is the only privately run park in the U.S. National Park Service. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Moore_Colonial_Farm)


Address (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&hs=ObB&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&q=claude+moore+colonial+farm+address&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgw4HnxCnfq6-QUqlYZKplmx2spV-Tn5yYklmfh6cYZWYklKUWlwsFnJg_dn1ep1_togybNiUfrG4ef VVAOGlU-pJAAAA&sa=X&ei=ywdPUoGRIYe9igK45oC4Bg&ved=0CKYBEOgTKAEwEQ): 6310 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101

Hours (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&hs=ObB&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&q=claude+moore+colonial+farm+hours&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgxYHnxCnfq6-QUqlYZKplnR2spV-Tn5yYklmfh6cYZWRX1pULP134hxmBfUrWgmyGs-qnt3Q89_IAgCbUMf2RwAAAA&sa=X&ei=ywdPUoGRIYe9igK45oC4Bg&ved=0CKkBEOgTMBE): Friday 10:00 am – 4:30 pm - See all


Phone (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&hs=ObB&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&q=claude+moore+colonial+farm+phone&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgx0HnxCnfq6-QUqlYZKpln52spV-cn5OTmpySWZ-nn52Xn55TmpKemp8QWJeak6xfkZicXxBRn5eqhWYPOfzlfGe2J Ot_i7Kf66c2NHDsK36DQAj0mdhWwAAAA&sa=X&ei=ywdPUoGRIYe9igK45oC4Bg&ved=0CKwBEOgTMBE): (703) 442-7557

Management (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&hs=ObB&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&q=claude+moore+colonial+farm+management&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgw0HnxCnfq6-QUqlYZKplm52spV-QVF-SWpySWpKfHFmSWoxGt8qNzEvMT01NzWvpK5q-2HJRG4n8_1H7txbbe4iN203PwDDxgemWQAAAA&sa=X&ei=ywdPUoGRIYe9igK45oC4Bg&ved=0CLABEOgTKAEwEQ): U.S. National Park Service

[mczerone]

Private sector budget crisis: evaluate your operations, cut those that are low return on investment, keep those that making the most money

Govt budget crisis: deem all things not associated with your police state as "non-essential", and spread your police state to make sure that they are closed. Police State Uber Alles!

All this crap is completely rational when you remember that this is Leviathan that is acting.

[XNavyNuke]

Greta covers Colonial Farm forced closure.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM9kSDh3Eno

XNN

[XNavyNuke]

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/09/victory-at-the-claude-moore-colonial-farm-national-park-service-allows-the-farm-to-open/


In an update on the plight of Claude Moore Colonial Farm, which has been closed by the partial government shutdown, Managing Director Anna Eberly says that the National Park Service barrycaded her and her staff inside the farm today. But then, suddenly, the rangers relented.

“We have good news for you at last!” Eberly says. “The NPS has reversed their decision to close the Farm and we will be open [Wednesday] as usual. You can now visit the 18th century Farm, come to the Book Shop tomorrow afternoon, participate in Farm Skills on Thursday and have picnics at The Pavilions again. And all of our volunteers are welcome to come back ‘home

XNN

[Lucille]

National Park Service Closes Self-Sustaining Colonial Farm It Hasn’t Supported Since 1980 (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/shutdown-national-park-service-closes-self-sustaining-colonial-farm-it-hasnt-supported-since-1980/)



Barrycades are about producing a national case of beaten-wife syndrome. Make it hurt bad enough, leave bruises, and promise that if you don't press charges it will never happen again. Uncle sugar is the only one that loves you and will take care of you.

XNN

Thanks for the update.

I'm quoting that post because it's the first time I saw "Barrycades." Did you come up with that? If so, Claire Wolfe would like someone to buy the genius a beer, and I would happy to do that.


But bless the b*****d, it’s his name that’s going to be deservedly immortalized in the word “barrycade (http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2013/10/08/the-crass-petty-vindictive-creepy-anti-people-master-of-the-shutdown/).” (I don’t know who coined that term; but if you find out, buy the genius a beer.)

[Philhelm]

Uh, Hilary already has 2016 locked up. She's the pick, and probably the next president.

You must be new here.

I would have a psychotic break.

[XNavyNuke]

I'm quoting that post because it's the first time I saw "Barrycades." Did you come up with that? If so, Claire Wolfe would like someone to buy the genius a beer, and I would happy to do that.

I didn't copy it from anywhere else at the time, though its so simple I can't imagine that it was the first use of the term. I bet a Google analysis could trace back the the first time of the internet usage.

I'm a big follower of Claire's writing back from when she had her own discussion forum. The more writers we have tracking the shutdown shenanigans, the better.

XNN