S.C.'s lawn mower man: A cut above the bickering

[Stephanie]

what a great example of a patriotic Amercian...Obama AND his sheep followers should take notes...Instead we get 1005 threads on here and why they hate the people in the tea Party

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William M. Welch, USA TODAY 10:20 p.m. EDT October 10, 2013



Chris Cox has taken cleanup around Washington's memorials into his own hands.



Lincoln man

(Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP)


'These are our memorials. Do they think that we're just going to let them go to hell?' he asks
Posts on social media are cheering him on
One Facebook comment: 'Lawn mower man is the epitome of what it means to be a proud American!!!'


Most everybody complains about the government shutdown, but Chris Cox is actually doing something about it.

With many government operations shuttered by the political standoff in Washington, Cox took a lawn mower to the National Mall this week and began cutting grass areas between the Lincoln and World War II memorials.

"These are our memorials. Do they think that we're just going to let them go to hell?'' Cox told A Washington radio station, "All News 99.1 WNEW,' in a story recounted by Columbia, S.C., TV station WIS.

Cox carried a blue South Carolina state flag as he pushed a standard gasoline-powered mower. He is a native of Mount Pleasant, S.C., living just outside Washington in Alexandria, Va.

He calls his one-citizen effort the Memorial Militia, aiming to keep things tidy and trim the grass that failed to halt its growth when the U.S. government issued furloughs and suspended many official functions last week.

"If they shut down our memorials, we're still going to take the trash out, we're going to clean the windows, we're going to cut the grass, we're going to pull the weeds, we're going to do the tree work,'' he said.

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S.C.'s lawn mower man: A cut above the bickering

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The question comes down to "who owns public lands"...government's role in public parks is supposed to be there to enforce general rules of public safety. You can't have a situation in which a few morons are doing stupid things endangering other people. As years went by, park officials assumed other roles, like closing parts of a park because of danger to people - where used to - they put up signs "enter at your own risk"
So the real question is - does the government have the LEGAL RIGHT to close public lands??
I say, no, they do not. The government does not OWN the land.

 

[martybegan]

The question comes down to "who owns public lands"...government's role in public parks is supposed to be there to enforce general rules of public safety. You can't have a situation in which a few morons are doing stupid things endangering other people. As years went by, park officials assumed other roles, like closing parts of a park because of danger to people - where used to - they put up signs "enter at your own risk"
So the real question is - does the government have the LEGAL RIGHT to close public lands??
I say, no, they do not. The government does not OWN the land.

The government is the custodian of public land, held in trust by the People of the United States of America as a whole. However the progressive statist mindset has always been that the government IS the people, and thus they are the owners of said land.

Its the old question of where power flows from. For people who follow the conistution power flows from the people to thier state governments, then from the people and the state governments to the federal government. To progressive statists power flows from the government to lower forms of government, then to the people.