Posted on 02/21/2017 3:18:14 PM PST by ColdOne
LIBERTY ISLAND (WABC) -- A banner reading "Refugees Welcome" was unfurled on the Statue of Liberty Tuesday afternoon.
The banner, approximately 20 feet by 3 feet, was spotted on the pedestal just before 1 p.m., affixed by nylon rope to the wall of the public observation deck at the base of the statue.
Rangers, alerted to its presence, immediately made their way to the location and conducted an assessment of the banner and how it was attached to the monument.
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I recommend that countries that are sources of terrorism be told to keep their own huddled masses instead of sending them to the USA.
Rangers, alerted to its presence, immediately made their way to the location and conducted an assessment of the banner and how it was attached to the monument.
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What ??? They didn’t take it down ???
I thought I was reading “Rangers, alerted to its presence, immediately made their way to the location and removed the banner” but I wasn’t...
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>>I thought I was reading “Rangers, alerted to its presence, immediately made their way to the location and removed the banner” but I wasn’t...
I think its time we face facts. ALL government apparatchiks are the enemy of the American people, until they are individually proven to be friendly. That ranger would tear down a TEA Party banner in a second and there would be arrests.
Yeah just standing there admiring how the stupid thing was put up there doesn’t help us...
Yes ....”conducted an assessment “ LOL
Liberals seem to forget that they screened the shit out of immigrants at ellis island...
Look for more and more Enemedia sites to eliminate comment sections as Trump support continues to grow and grow.
You mean that statue that was originally designed as a muslim woman?
I not only think that the banner should be removed, but that the dumb poem at the statue’s base should be sandblasted away.
We have the right to determine who gets into our country.
PING!
>>>What ??? They didn’t take it down ???<<<
Juan took the day off and he has the Ladder.
The ALWAYS forget that one word...
LEGAL
Read the article.
> “I not only think that the banner should be removed, but that the dumb poem at the statue’s base should be sandblasted away.”
No, that would be Taliban-like. It’s a good poem, and for many years this country proudly served as a place of refuge for people “yearning to breathe free” (and with the proper oversight it still can, on a lesser scale). That was an 1883 poem, though, not an immigration policy.
In the decades following its composition a still sparsely populated United States benefited from the arrival of millions of immigrants (the vast majority from Europe). Most were strongly motivated to assimilate, and subjected to pressure to assimilate from the outside as well.
Conditions have changed greatly since then, though. If we wish to preserve this country as a place where its people can “breathe free”, we can’t afford to accept — indiscriminately — large waves of immigrants, not when many of the current ones have no intention of assimilating, and harbor world views to a great degree inconsistent and even hostile to American traditions. A refuge can no longer serve as a refuge when doing so threatens the very characteristics that led to it being a refuge.
..."Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Beautiful lines, but not a practical immigration policy under current conditions (when it's not easy to distinguish which ones really yearn to breathe free).
Could have easily been symtex. Fire everyone!
Then perhaps we could add a line to the poem: “subject to language, borders and culture.”
> “Then perhaps we could add a line to the poem: ‘subject to language, borders and culture.’”
Maybe a footnote (in fine print at the bottom). :-)
[I wouldn’t really want it with the poem, but it’s something to be considered in the policy. If the Constitution itself doesn’t bind us to a suicide pact, then neither does a poem on the Statue of Liberty.]
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