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Least we forget and to remind all of you that voted for this fraud and continue to turn a blind eye to his thuggery, a recap.............

Government Shutdown Thuggery by Obama NPS Gestapo

Thu, 10/17/2013 - 12:22pm | posted by Louis DeBroux

With the government shutdown apparently coming to a close (and too bad…the longer it stayed shuttered, the more Americans could see how easy it is to get by with less government), it is important to take a look at the tactics used by the Obama administration to force Republicans, and the American people, into submission.

Fearful that the two week shutdown was landing with the same thud that his predictions of a sequester-driven disaster had been met with, Obama had to make sure that the American people felt as much pain as possible so that they would demand more and more government intrusion in our lives, and ignore the crushing debt that grows unabated by billions of dollars every single day.

Obama, channeling his inner tin-pot dictator, sent out an army of bureaucrats and executive branch agents to bring life in America to as much of a halt as possible. Threatening WWII vets with arrest, throwing the elderly out of their homes, closing private businesses…nothing was beneath these jackbooted thugs. Here, in no particular order, is a partial list of the many stories of Obama administration thuggery during the shutdown:

— Families of fallen soldiers denied death benefits, which were funded by defense appropriations bill Republicans in House passed over the summer (Democrats refused to vote on the bill)

— Obama tries to shut down Navy-Air Force football game before discovering it is privately funded

— Grocery stores on military bases closed, but Obama’s golf course at Camp David remains open

— Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets $445 million despite shutdown, funding cut for NIH and cancer treatment (Democrats refused to vote on “mini-CR” that would have funded it)

— Obama’s tyrannical administration forbids Catholic chaplains from performing Mass on military installations, ostensibly because of the shutdown, and have threatened to arrest priests that perform Mass, even when they have volunteered to do so for free.

— Park Service police try to shut down Mount Vernon but told it is privately funded, so they shut down the parking lot instead, which is jointly owned by the feds

— National Park Service shuts down national parks and monuments, even open-air memorials where there is usually no, or part-time, patrols and then when people just walked around the barricades, Obama had the Park Service REMOVE THE HANDLES from all of the drinking fountains

— The world-famous Miranmar Air Show was cancelled, despite the fact that is turns a large profit each year -

— Obama has the Grand Canyon, Statue of Liberty, Yosemite National Park, and the Smithsonian Institute closed to visitors

— Elderly couple, Joyce (77 years old) and Ralph Spencer (80 years old), were forced out of their home by armed park rangers supposedly because of the shutdown, even though they own their cabin, which sits on federal land. Park Rangers came and told them they must leave their home within 24 hours, and could not go back until the shutdown ended

— The traditional Air Force Academy graduation flyover by the Thunderbirds close-formation, precision flying team was cancelled by Obama; luckily, private pilots flying WWII-ear planes stepped in and performed the flights

— National Park Rangers were told to keep visitors out of private businesses during shutdown

— Obama tells the Social Security Administration to scare the elderly into thinking they won’t get their Social Security checks

— Obama closes the Grand Canyon, refuses Arizona’s offer to pay to keep it open

— Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refuses GOP offer to fund NIH to help kids with cancer

— Senior Obama staffer admits they don’t care how long the shutdown lasts because “we’re winning”

— Obama administration shuts down the Amber Alert website, which helps locate missing children -

— The federal government forces a private inn on federal land to close, even though the road it sits on is open for traffic; when the innkeeper defied them and reopened, park rangers were there in less than two hours with flashing lights, blocking the entrance with their cars and turning patrons away. Normal operations of the inn require nothing from the government, so sending rangers out to force the business to shut down actually COSTS the government money and manpower -

— Elderly tourists to Yellowstone National Park were met by the National Park Service GESTAPO and were locked in their hotel under ARMED GUARD! Foreign tourists who spoke little or no English were terrified, thinking that they were under arrest. When they were finally released, they were not allowed to stop at PRIVATE bathrooms during the 2.5 hour drive out of the park (the owner of the private ranch had already agreed to allow the tourists to use his bathrooms, but he was told that his BUSINESS LICENSE WOULD BE REVOKED if he allowed them to stop)!

— Park Cops barricaded Old Faithful before each eruption to keep people from watching

— Illegal immigration rally okayed on the National Mall during shutdown, after WWII veterans threatened with arrest for trying to visit their memorial

There can no longer be any doubt whatsoever of what Obama’s vision for America is…a socialist welfare state where government is king, citizens are serfs, and dissent is crushed in its infancy.

Obama despises the Constitution, rejects the separation of powers that bind a president’s actions, and challenge Republicans to stop his unconstitutional actions (which they have largely failed to do). May God help us all if we do not rise up against these thuggish tactics and unconstitutional usurpation of power, and may we once again awaken to the danger facing us, and take up the mantel of liberty bequeathed by our Founding Fathers.

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Did you ever think that you would see the day when the US government acted against their own people is such a dastardly way? Unbelievable!!

One of the things that amazes me most is that American Jews don't see the similarity between pre-WW2 Germany and the USA now under Obama. I have a Jewish woman on my email list and if I send anything to my list that is anti-Obama, she gets really upset. She even made up the excuse that her computer was down and asked me not to send emails for a while. That was a year ago. She has never asked to be re-instated in my list. I know it has only to do with her dye-in-the-wool Democratic views. I understand that most of the Jews in the USA are Democrats and they act the same way. So sad to let a political party be your god. Thankfully, Peter, you are not in that group.

We need to pray for them that their eyes be opened to the truth whatever it might be according to God.

Helen

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Least we forget and to remind all of you that voted for this fraud and continue to turn a blind eye to his thuggery, a recap.............

Government Shutdown Thuggery by Obama NPS Gestapo

Thu, 10/17/2013 - 12:22pm | posted by Louis DeBroux

With the government shutdown apparently coming to a close (and too bad…the longer it stayed shuttered, the more Americans could see how easy it is to get by with less government), it is important to take a look at the tactics used by the Obama administration to force Republicans, and the American people, into submission.

Fearful that the two week shutdown was landing with the same thud that his predictions of a sequester-driven disaster had been met with, Obama had to make sure that the American people felt as much pain as possible so that they would demand more and more government intrusion in our lives, and ignore the crushing debt that grows unabated by billions of dollars every single day.

Obama, channeling his inner tin-pot dictator, sent out an army of bureaucrats and executive branch agents to bring life in America to as much of a halt as possible. Threatening WWII vets with arrest, throwing the elderly out of their homes, closing private businesses…nothing was beneath these jackbooted thugs. Here, in no particular order, is a partial list of the many stories of Obama administration thuggery during the shutdown:

— Families of fallen soldiers denied death benefits, which were funded by defense appropriations bill Republicans in House passed over the summer (Democrats refused to vote on the bill)

— Obama tries to shut down Navy-Air Force football game before discovering it is privately funded

— Grocery stores on military bases closed, but Obama’s golf course at Camp David remains open

— Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets $445 million despite shutdown, funding cut for NIH and cancer treatment (Democrats refused to vote on “mini-CR” that would have funded it)

— Obama’s tyrannical administration forbids Catholic chaplains from performing Mass on military installations, ostensibly because of the shutdown, and have threatened to arrest priests that perform Mass, even when they have volunteered to do so for free.

— Park Service police try to shut down Mount Vernon but told it is privately funded, so they shut down the parking lot instead, which is jointly owned by the feds

— National Park Service shuts down national parks and monuments, even open-air memorials where there is usually no, or part-time, patrols and then when people just walked around the barricades, Obama had the Park Service REMOVE THE HANDLES from all of the drinking fountains

— The world-famous Miranmar Air Show was cancelled, despite the fact that is turns a large profit each year -

— Obama has the Grand Canyon, Statue of Liberty, Yosemite National Park, and the Smithsonian Institute closed to visitors

— Elderly couple, Joyce (77 years old) and Ralph Spencer (80 years old), were forced out of their home by armed park rangers supposedly because of the shutdown, even though they own their cabin, which sits on federal land. Park Rangers came and told them they must leave their home within 24 hours, and could not go back until the shutdown ended

— The traditional Air Force Academy graduation flyover by the Thunderbirds close-formation, precision flying team was cancelled by Obama; luckily, private pilots flying WWII-ear planes stepped in and performed the flights

— National Park Rangers were told to keep visitors out of private businesses during shutdown

— Obama tells the Social Security Administration to scare the elderly into thinking they won’t get their Social Security checks

— Obama closes the Grand Canyon, refuses Arizona’s offer to pay to keep it open

— Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refuses GOP offer to fund NIH to help kids with cancer

— Senior Obama staffer admits they don’t care how long the shutdown lasts because “we’re winning”

— Obama administration shuts down the Amber Alert website, which helps locate missing children -

— The federal government forces a private inn on federal land to close, even though the road it sits on is open for traffic; when the innkeeper defied them and reopened, park rangers were there in less than two hours with flashing lights, blocking the entrance with their cars and turning patrons away. Normal operations of the inn require nothing from the government, so sending rangers out to force the business to shut down actually COSTS the government money and manpower -

— Elderly tourists to Yellowstone National Park were met by the National Park Service GESTAPO and were locked in their hotel under ARMED GUARD! Foreign tourists who spoke little or no English were terrified, thinking that they were under arrest. When they were finally released, they were not allowed to stop at PRIVATE bathrooms during the 2.5 hour drive out of the park (the owner of the private ranch had already agreed to allow the tourists to use his bathrooms, but he was told that his BUSINESS LICENSE WOULD BE REVOKED if he allowed them to stop)!

— Park Cops barricaded Old Faithful before each eruption to keep people from watching

— Illegal immigration rally okayed on the National Mall during shutdown, after WWII veterans threatened with arrest for trying to visit their memorial

There can no longer be any doubt whatsoever of what Obama’s vision for America is…a socialist welfare state where government is king, citizens are serfs, and dissent is crushed in its infancy.

Obama despises the Constitution, rejects the separation of powers that bind a president’s actions, and challenge Republicans to stop his unconstitutional actions (which they have largely failed to do). May God help us all if we do not rise up against these thuggish tactics and unconstitutional usurpation of power, and may we once again awaken to the danger facing us, and take up the mantel of liberty bequeathed by our Founding Fathers.

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Hello Helen and Peter, as more and more come to light of what is hidden in Obamacare it only shows just how evil it really is. I saw this article yesterday and the first thing that came to mind was St Jude's Hospital in Memphis Tennessee that treats children with cancer who have no insurance.

Obamacare levies fines on non-profit hospitals that offer free healthcare to the poor

It’s one of the lesser-known provisions in the so-called “Affordable” Care Act, but it’s having a major impact on charitable hospitals. Obamacare actually fines hospitals that provide free health services to the poor.

from Daily Caller:

Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare.

A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit.

Charity for the uninsured is one of the factors that could discourage enrollment in Obamacare, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance or else face new taxes themselves from the IRS.

“It requires tax-exempt hospitals to do a community needs survey and file additional paperwork with the IRS every three years. This is to prove that the charitable hospital is still needed in their geographical area — ‘needed’ as defined by Obamacare and overseen by IRS bureaucrats,” said John Kartch, spokesman for Americans for Tax Reform.

“Failure to comply, or to prove this continuing need, could result in the loss of the hospital’s tax-exempt status. The hospital would then become a for-profit venture, paying income tax — hence the positive revenue score” for the federal government, Kartch said. “Obamacare advocates turned over every rock to find as much tax money as possible.”

Additionally, the rise in the number of insured Americans under Obamacare will make it more difficult for tax-exempt hospitals to continue meeting required thresholds for treating the uninsured, driving more hospitals into the for-profit category and yielding more taxable money for the federal government.

“The requirements generally apply to any section 501(c)(3) organization that operates at least one hospital facility,” according to a “Technical Explanation” report of new Obamacare provisions prepared by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) on March 21, 2010, the day Obamacare passed.

Obamacare’s new requirements could slam hospitals with massive $50,000 fines if they fail to meet bureaucrats’ standards.

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It’s ironic isn’t it? The left’s chief complaint about the American healthcare system is that it’s “for profit,” but Obamacare will end up forcing non-profit hospitals to either go under or become for-profit institutions themselves.

From day 1, Obamacare has not been about improving healthcare or making it more affordable. It’s been about government control. Sadly, the American people are only now beginning to find out the truth about how devastatingly unaffordable the Affordable Care Act really is.