Feds Hold Seniors at Gunpoint During Yellowstone National Park Shutdown

Tourists would be well-advised to avoid the
U.S., alright. They could get caught up in something really nasty, right
along with the gestapo agents. I believe it is coming.

~Basil

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Feds Hold Seniors at Gunpoint During National
Park Shutdown

“Gestapo tactics” used to detain tourists in
locked hotel

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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.
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The bus stopped along a road when a large herd
of bison passed nearby, and seniors filed out to take photos. Almost
immediately, an armed ranger came by and ordered them to get back in, saying
they couldn’t “recreate.” The tour guide, who had paid a $300 fee the day
before to bring the group into the park, argued that the seniors weren’t
“recreating,” just taking photos.

“She responded and said, ‘Sir, you are
recreating,’ and her tone became very aggressive,” Vaillancourt said.

The seniors quickly filed back onboard and the
bus went to the Old Faithful Inn, the park’s premier lodge located adjacent
to the park’s most famous site, Old Faithful geyser. That was as close as
they could get to the famous site — barricades were erected around Old
Faithful, and the seniors were locked inside the hotel, where armed rangers
stayed at the door.

“They looked like Hulk Hogans, armed. They
told us you can’t go outside,” she said. “Some of the Asians who were on the
tour said, ‘Oh my God, are we under arrest?’ They felt like they were
criminals.”

By Oct. 3 the park, which sees an average of
4,500 visitors a day, was nearly empty. The remaining hotel visitors were
required to leave.

As the bus made its 2.5-hour journey out of
Yellowstone, the tour guide made arrangements to stop at a full-service
bathroom at an in-park dude ranch he had done business with in the past.
Though the bus had its own small bathroom, Vaillancourt said seniors were
looking for a more comfortable place to stop. But no stop was made —
Vaillancourt said the dude ranch had been warned that its license to operate would
be revoked if it allowed the bus to stop. So the bus continued on to
Livingston, Mont., a gateway city to the park.

The bus trip made headlines in Livingston,
where the local newspaper Livingston Enterprise interviewed the tour guide,
Gordon Hodgson, who accused the park service of “Gestapo tactics.”

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