Ever since Imperator Obama shut down the government, officially because there wasn’t enough money to keep all the functions running, the fedguv has been spending a *lot* of effort – and money – to annoy the hell out of people. For example: not only have they shut down Mount Rushmore’s facilities and blocked access to the park, they went out of their way to shut down scenic pulloffs on roads well away from the site to prevent people from getting a good if distant look at the monument:

Mount Rushmore blockage stirs anger in South Dakota

More disturbingly, the fedguv has been shutting down *private* *property* as a way to expand the public annoyance:

National Park Police Close Mt. Vernon, Feel Silly When Told It’s Privately Funded

Federal Shutdown Expands To Privately Run Campgrounds In National Forests

And what’s more: not only are they shutting down private property, they are in some cases telling private property owners to spend their own money to buy the Barrycades needed to block public access.

If this was an *actual* shutdown (considering that the furloughed fedguv workers are going to get back pay, it’s clear the fedguv is not actually serious when it pleads poverty), the areas of the government being shut down would simply… shut down. Instead, we’re seeing governmental over-reach. One need not be a tinfoil hat wearing paranoid to wonder if, if this overreach is successful, this will be used as a stepping stone for even more once things get back to normal. Walmart, after all, is involved in interstate commerce, which is the purview of the fedguv; does this open up Walmart to being shut down at the whim of a imperial President? Hmm.