Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was "closed" due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban... of access to an ocean. The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business.
This is governing by temper-tantrum. It is on par with the government's ham-fisted attempts to close the DC WWII Memorial, an open-air public monument that is normally accessible 24 hours a day. By accessible I mean, you walk up to it. When you have finished reflecting, you then walk away from it.
At least that Memorial is an actual structure, with some kind of perimeter that can be fenced off. Florida Bay is the ocean. How, pray tell, do you "close" 1,100 square miles of ocean? Why would one even need to do so?
Apparently, according to an anonymous Park Service ranger, “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”
Centuries ago, King Canute famously failed to command the ocean tide to stop. His display was actually a means to educate his subjects on the limits of royal power. Today, however, our President actually believes he has the power to control the oceans.
2 comments:
I am starting to think some one is trying to start a civil war in the country. I am not joking. You take the Obamacare care crap and the so called government shut down then added them up. It really looks like that someone is trying very hard to push people over the edge. Is this all part of a bigger plain to push people too far until they do fight back so the government can then say it is justified in putting armed soldiers on every street corner and declaring martial law for the whole US? Maybe the 'tin foil hats' were right all the long.
I am starting to think some one is trying to start a civil war in the country. I am not joking. You take the Obamacare care crap and the so called government shut down then added them up. It really looks like that someone is trying very hard to push people over the edge. Is this all part of a bigger plain to push people too far until they do fight back so the government can then say it is justified in putting armed soldiers on every street corner and declaring martial law for the whole US? Maybe the 'tin foil hats' were right all the long.
NOTE=This may have gotten post twice as the light went out just as I hit send.
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