Thursday, October 10, 2013
RESTAURANT OWNER TAKES SERIOUSLY BOLD STAND AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOV’T: ‘IF THAT GETS ME PUT IN JAIL, I’M GOING TO JAIL’
Restaurant owner Glenn Helseth has been ordered by the National Park Service to close his establishment in Yorktown, Va., due to the government shutdown.
He tells Fox News’ Todd Starnes he has no intention to comply. “I am now occupying the building at this time,” he said.
Helseth and his wife have operated the Carrot Tree Kitchens Restaurant inside the historic Cole Digges House in Yorktown for the last 11 years. The Park Service apparently owns the building and ordered the couple to get out within 48 hours after the government shutdown went into effect.
“The couple also owns a restaurant on Jamestown Island. They had to close that restaurant after the National Park Service blocked access to the island,” Starnes reports.
With at least 20 of his employees facing unemployment, Helseth made the decision to intentionally defy the federal government and open his restaurant 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Plus, the building may be closed, but he still has to pay insurance, utilities, rent and the building’s security system.
“I’m serving Brunswick stew, ham biscuits and carrot cake,” he said. “If that gets me put in jail, I’m going to jail,” he said.
Full article: http://www.theblaze. … il-im-going-to-jail/
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