Above, Lower Yellowstone Falls closeup. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Photo by Scott Catron. |
The latest comes from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
From WND.com:
A guide leading a tour group caught inside Yellowstone National Park when Senate President Harry Reid rejected compromise efforts from the U.S. House on a funding plan and the parts of the federal government closed down a week ago said the National Park Service used “Gestapo tactics” on the visitors.
Gordon Hodgson spoke in a telephone interview with the Livinston, Mont., Enterprise about the 41 tourists he took into the nation’s first national park, in the northwest corner of Wyoming, on a trip scheduled before the shutdown.
Park officials told him they were allowed to stay their scheduled two nights at the historic Old Faithful Inn, but they could not do anything, Hodgson said.
Even so, he said he took the group out for a drive in the park and he pulled over to let passengers take photos of the park’s native bison.
A ranger showed up immediately.
“She told me you need to return to your hotel and stay there,” Hodgson told the Enterprise.”This is just Gestapo tactics. We paid a lot to get in. All these people wanted to do was take some pictures.”
He said the group then was threatened with trespassing charges.
“The national parks belong to the people,” he said. “This isn’t right.”Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/gestapo-tactics-used-on-americans-at-yellowstone/#JTtZ64Ql07DkJeaQ.99
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