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Is O’s Shutdown War on Private Business Illegal Racketeering?
Jonathon Moseley * American Thinker
Has President Barack Obama violated the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) Act with his hardball tactics over the government shutdown, to extort taxpayer funds?
“We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can,” an angry National Park Service ranger told Washington Times columnist Wesley Pruden. “It’s disgusting” The park ranger indicated that there is a political motive behind the closure of the open-air memorials.
The Park Service went out of its way to prevent tourists from taking photographs of Mt. Rushmore, far beyond any legitimate closure. The Park Service is actively blockading tourists from simply stopping along the public road to take a photograph from afar.
Government websites cost nothing to leave in place. Yet the government spent extra money to turn websites off.
Mt. Vernon is privately funded and operated, on private land, using no federal funds. Yet the Park Service barricaded a nearby stretch of road where buses turn, to maliciously harass and interfere with the public’s use of the 100% privately funded historic plantation.
Only high-profile, familiar, or popular sites are being shut down. Thousands of lesser-known parks, memorials, and sites remain open. A senior administration official coldly told the Wall Street Journal: “We are winning. … It doesn’t really matter to us” how long the shutdown lasts.
Read more at American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/is_obamas_shutdown_war_on_private_business_illegal_racketeering.html#ixzz2hKYeXflt
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The purpose of every government regulation and maneuver is to squelch any and all competition.
If that isn’t racketeering and corruption, I don’t know what is.
…. And here we thought we were getting the American Dream . . . .
You think all the hackers would just leave unattended government websites alone? My god you people are too stupid to breathe on your own!
Who are you calling stupid?