NO Camping in NJ State Parks This Weekend

[georgecarr]

Is that now a police state?

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Has been for years

[Ratdog]

Yeah but racetracks and casinos are still open. /sigh

[silentorpheus]

State government shuts down but has resources to kick people out and probably write citations to collect fines. Is that now a police state?

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Lack of signed budget means shut down of all "non-essential" services, which includes state park services, etc.

A few years ago NJ switched over from park rangers to having a division/branch of the NJ State Police (State Park Police) handle patrolling and enforcement in the state parks. Since the State Police are considered "essential" services, they are not furloughed and are therefore still patrolling the parks (and by extension enforcing the closures).

[SilvrSurfr]

While Christie has the lowest approval rating of any governor, in any state, in history (15%), I think this move will get him down into the single digits. It will be hard to touch that record!

[The Tree Frog]

While Christie has the lowest approval rating of any governor, in any state, in history (15%), I think this move will get him down into the single digits. It will be hard to touch that record!

Congrats to Christie. Continuing to leave his mark on history! Determined to be remembered.

[lighteffect95]

You bet he's gonna spend this weekend down in the governors mansion at island beach state park.


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[Slack Packhiker]

Report suspicious activity?! American citizens, AMERICAN CITIZENS ought to storm NJ parks and demand the hostage taking stop.

I'm tempted to hitch to NJ and do it my dang self.

[mrcheviot]

Bleh, had reservations for 3 days @ a Stokes. What an asshat CC is.


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[FJRpilot]

As a former NJ citizen, this kinda feels like another "BridgeGate" to me... Christy didn't get the budget he wanted passed, he closes all of the state parks, heritage sites, beaches, etc. to punish the legislators that refused to vote for what he wanted. Thinking he's going to turn the kind folks of NJ against their elected reps...

Just be glad he didn't end up in a National Office, his style of governing could have been enjoyed by the entire country...

Sorry "Garden State", lots of great places to visit in the greater metropolitan area...

[sqidmark]

I have a single word that describes government at any and all levels - theft.

Regardless of how noble the intentions may have been while creating a new government, the USA for a perfect example, I hate what they inevitably always become - havens for socio/psychopaths to control the sheeple for grand theft.

BTW, Maine, Connecticut and at least Illinois are all shutting down, if not today then very very shortly. It's merely a race to the bottom that's been in progress for many many years. Some are only just now beginning to see a tiny fraction of the symptoms. This isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

That said, while no fan of the gov of NJ, isn't it the legislature who ultimately control the purse strings? Why single out one lonely shmuck who makes little to no difference?

If you really want someone to blame, you need only to point the finger in the mirror. We the idiots are solely to blame for our own servitude. We collectively ALLOW these psychos to enslave us, primarily because we are too lazy to accept FULL responsibility for our own lives. We always want SOMEONE ELSE to keep us "safe".

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." --Frederick Douglass

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

"What, then, is the law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. ... since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force -- for the same reason -- cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individual groups. ... But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense." --Frederick Bastiat

"Don't let me get started..." --sqidmark