Here I was thinking they'd buy 4 billion tarps to throw over the mountain. Boy was I off.

The drone-like mentality of the police is disgusting, frightening & mind-boggling. Got intelligence? Civil disobedience by the police is key to the tyrant losing their ability to absolute rule. If there is any member of the Gulch who's a police officer reading this, can you please somehow, find a way to pass this onto other officers. Stop supporting tyranny.

the comments are very interesting. The discussion which ensues following this comment "they are just doing what they are told" is quite interesting

I fail to see how pulling off to the side of the road to view a monument in anyway requires the feds. Are all these closings of open air monuments, the ocean etc. a test to see just how compliant the public will be?

This should be the wake-up call as to how entrenched this administration is in regards to our local communities, and law enforcement.

We are witnessing the trial balloon for a national application of martial law. If we just go "cluck, cluck", and drive on by, then we should not be surprised when this becomes the norm.

Every one of these absurd barriers needs to be taken down by true blooded American citizens.

And if they show up again...they need to disappear just as quickly.

Robert Thoreau had it right: "“every man make known what kind of government would command his respect [as] one step toward obtaining it” ( ). Civil disobedience is the strategy for articulating one’s beliefs."

This worked for Civil Rights...it will work for the rest of our rights.

I wonder if the local authorities would actually ticket someone for peacefully moving a cone out of the way and stopping to look.

The action seems so foolish that wise local authorities would just ignore it. I believe in rule of law, but if I were in local gov't/ police I would ignore violators who moved one or two cones..

Keep this up, AJ, and we'll never hear from you again.

The only reason I'm reluctant to say local police should completely ignore this rule is that giving individuals in gov't power to decide which rules to enforce is really bad. If they look the other way on something illegal and everyone starts doing it, now they have a reason to bother anyone they want. It's a bad-door way to increase gov't power radically.

Still, the cones are so stupid I can't see a reasonable officer wanting to enforce them.