Trump news the third

[robkelk]

%[link=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-park-service-twitter-account-operating-again/]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-pa ... ing-again/]

From that article:

“Two retweets from the National Park Service’s (NPS) main Twitter account Friday were inconsistent with the agency’s approach to engaging the public through social media,” Tom Crosson, National Park Service spokesman, said in a statement to CBS News’ Arden Farhi. “Out of an abundance of caution, while we investigated the situation involving these tweets, the Department of Interior’s communications team determined that it was important to stand down Twitter activity across the Department temporarily, except in the case of public safety.”

Translation:  "We now have a minder to keep us from posting anything that the White House does not approve of."

And now there's an unofficial Twitter account. "Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS. You can take our official twitter, but you'll never take our free time!"

Article here (hosted outside the USA): %[link=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/25/trump_taken_on_by_park_rangers/]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/25 ... k_rangers/]

A personal comment: What took the Canadian Conservatives months to do after being elected - stifling the voices of government employees - Trump has done in hours. If the pattern holds, the next step will be to divest government reference libraries of their scholarly peer-reviewed references that don't agree with the party line. Stand vigilant and exercise your First Amendment rights, or you'll go down the same path we did (and are still trying to recover from, over a year after voting the Conservatives out).

Further to this:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... unterparts]You stood by us and helped when we went through a similar situation last decade. We are ready to stand by you and help now.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012