Senior Citizens Treated Like Terrorists During National Park Shutdown

NEWBURYPORT — Pat Vaillancourt went on a trip last week that was intended to showcase some of America’s greatest treasures.

Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country.

Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard.

The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest.

When finally allowed to leave, the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route.

“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like — ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her forearm.

Vaillancourt took part in a nine-day tour of western parks and sites along with about four dozen senior citizen tourists. One of the highlights of the tour was to be Yellowstone, where they arrived just as the shutdown went into effect.

Rangers systematically sent visitors out of the park, though some groups that had hotel reservations — such as Vaillancourt’s — were allowed to stay for two days. Those two days started out on a sour note, she said.

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Comment by w wolf on October 9, 2013 at 11:29pm: The NPS has been *politically corrected* for years now. I tried to get a job as a park ranger but was passed up on the list and no one would tell me why until one disgruntled employee told me that white men went to the bottom of the list because they were *ordered to diversify".

Comment by apeman2502 on October 8, 2013 at 5:21pm: If a Park Ranger is stupid enough to piss on humanity to keep his job, he needs to reconsider the possibility that his boss is a God damned pig who should be chloroformed, tied up, and left in a basket on the steps of the Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane. or simply bitch-slapped into reality. Or fed to the bears.

Comment by Christopher on October 8, 2013 at 11:31am: "not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route."

Too much!

What I keep asking is; what gives 'them' (elected government) the right to confiscate and or assume, sole ownership of these so-called parks?

These parks should be no more theirs, than it should belong, to any one person in particular.

If anything, this land should be returned to the American (First Nations) Indians - that's who it was stolen from in the first place.

The confiscation of these lands, under the guise of national parks, is simply an integral part of the NWO plan to confine the greater populations, or the 99%ers, into the urban areas for easy and accessible targets for later on - and its something that is spear headed (AGENDA 21) by the CFR and the Rockefeller family, to say the least.