In a post on her Facebook page, titled “My Call For Civil Disobedience Around The ‘Barrycades,’” Palin blamed President Barack Obama for shutting down the memorial and others as a publicity stunt.

“It’s beyond shameful to see Barack Obama disrespect and mistreat our World War II veterans so blatantly. Obama’s political stunt to ‘shut down’ their memorial by barricade is to elicit an angry response to generate bad publicity for people the president uses in his continual blame game,” Palin wrote on Wednesday.

Palin posted a link to a picture on Twitter of a single piece of fencing around the World War I memorial in contrast.

“The difference is obvious. There aren’t any World War I veterans alive today to mistreat in a shameful political stunt. He’s deployed more guards to bar our World War II heroes from their memorial than he sent to Benghazi when our consulate was under attack,” Palin said.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, groups of veterans in Washington as part of the Honor Flight program came to visit the WWII monument to find it barricaded. With a number of lawmakers from their own states and others joining them, they went past the barricades in an act that drew a large amount of media attention and triggered political maneuvers by both sides.

Wednesday, the House GOP asked for a probe into why the monument was closed, and the Republican National Committee held a press conference at the memorial on Wednesday afternoon saying the RNC would pay to have it kept open for 30 days, which the Democratic National Committee dismissed as a “silly stunt.”

The White House said the closure was a consequence of the shutdown but said veterans would be accommodated and allowed to visit as a First Amendment activity.

The former Alaska governor and one-time vice presidential candidate said the president was taking out the shutdown on veterans, and Republicans in Congress were working to fund the Veterans Administration and essential government functions but were being stymied by Obama and the Democrats for their own gain.

“Democrats are blocking them because they want to make any slim down look as awful as possible in order to deflect from what this whole slim down thing is about, which is their Obamacare train wreck,” Palin wrote.

Palin, who later posted a picture of herself meeting with a veteran at the memorial, called on any guards to look the other way and let the vets into the open-air monument in an “act of civil disobedience.”

“Obama employees who know in your hearts and souls that punishing our veterans is wrong, know that we have your backs when you say ‘enough is enough’ and then allow our vets to gaze upon our memorials that honor America’s finest. This simple act of civil disobedience will galvanize our nation against atrocious political games, and I promise you’ll sleep well tonight,” she said.

The National Park Service closed all the monuments on the National Mall as part of a the government shutdown, which began Tuesday when the House and Senate failed to reach an agreement on a government funding bill. As of Thursday, Democrats continued to insist on a clean continuing resolution that would fund the whole government temporarily, while the Republican House was trying to attach provisions gutting Obamacare and to pass individual bills funding specific parts of government. No agreement was in sight, even after a meeting between the president and four leaders of Congress on Wednesday night.