Friday, October 04, 2013

Civil disobedience in Washington D.C.

The barricades and the signs were hastily put up. Signs saying "No Stopping or Standing." A group of World War II veterans from Mississippi and Iowa in their 80s and 90s removed the barricades put up by the Obama administration, and visited memorials we the people built to honor them.

"These men and women didn't cower to the Japanese and Germans," Palazzo said. "I don't think they're about to let a few National Park Police stand in their way."
That would be Mississippi Congressman Palazzo, who said,
"It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission," Palazzo said. “We lined the veterans up along the blockade, we saw an opening and we took it."

With bagpipers playing "Amazing Grace," nearly 200 veterans from Mississippi and Iowa swept past barricades/trackback and security guards at the World War II Memorial in Washington in order to keep a commitment to visit the site, which was closed today due to the partial government shutdown. The veterans, in their 80s and 90s, were accompanied by Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., a former Marine who earlier vowed not to let the National Park Police keep them from a planned visit to the open-air monument.

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