Last Sunday two California teenagers, who are marching cross country from their home state to Washington, D.C. with the message “March 4 Peace” on their t-shirts, were stopped from entering Rocky Mountain National Park by Park Rangers. It seems that Ashley Casale (19) and Mike Israel (18) were detained for over three -hours by Park Officials, who said that they were just enforcing policy, because the two were making a political statement without a permit. National Park rules require permits for “public assemblies, meetings, gatherings, demonstrations, parades and other public expressions of views.”
Apparently it is easier for illegal immigrants to backstroke across the Rio Grande and leapfrog across our Southern Border, and terrorists to cross our Northern Border from Canada undetected, then it is for a couple of teenagers carrying a message of “peace” to cross our National Park borders. And we thought the Bush Administration wasn’t securing our borders or enforcing border policies. I feel much safer already!
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I caught the back end of a conversation this morning that mentioned something about this, but didn’t understand just what had happened.
Remind me to wear the most provocative political T-shirt I own the next time I visit the park (and I do so quite often…). I could use the legal settlement.
These two kids were not holding a rally or any other type of political event, they weren’t accosting people in order to be heard, they were just passing through while having their journey documented. Stopping these two was a waste of time and resources.