Park Service threatens Honor Flight with arrest

Will members of Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio face down the National Park Service and will they be jailed? Readers will remember that the Park Service obdurately refused to evict Occupy DC from McPherson Square in Washington until the park became a public health menace but yet it has the unmitigated temerity to threaten World War Two veterans with arrest if they dare visit the memorial built in their honor.
Yesterday an Honor Flight group took down barricades and visited the monument built to honor them as Park Police looked on. Question. If the National Park Service has personnel available to make arrests why can't they keep the parks open?
Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio has a trip scheduled to depart from Toledo next Wednesday, October 9 but will decide by Friday whether or not to postpone the visit. Today Speaker John Boehner will serve up three mini continuing resolutions aimed at funding the city of DC, Veterans Affairs, and the Park Service. Obama has threatened to veto these resolutions if they should make through the Senate. He may damn well be overplaying his hand but nevertheless yesterday the Park Service was still threatening to jail members of Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio should they visit the war memorial. According to Honor Flight of Northwest Ohio President Lee Armstrong when he called the parks service, he was told they would face arrest.
Armstrong says, "I said, are you kidding me? You're going to arrest a 90/91-year-old veteran from seeing his memorial? If it wasn't for them it wouldn't be there. She said, 'That's correct sir.'"
When he asked for her name, he says she did not give it to him and then promptly hung up the phone.
That's the sort of arrogance and rudeness the public has come to expect from its government. Keep it shut down!
Update: The National Park service has closed facilities that are either unmanned or take no federal funding, and says that the Obama administration ordered the shutdown and Judicial Watch wants to know why. It has filed a FOIA request.

Update: Fox news reports that a park ranger who did not want to be identified said Park Service supervisors wanted the public to feel the pain of the shutdown.
A U.S. park ranger, who did not wish to be identified, told FoxNews.com that supervisors within the National Park Service overruled plans to deal with the budget cuts in a way that would have had minimal impact on the public. Instead, the source said, park staff were told to cancel special events and cut "interpretation services" -- the talks, tours and other education services provided by local park rangers.
"Apparently, they want the public to feel the pain," the ranger said.