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Posted on 05/14/2025 9:30:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff
In a ceremony held in Paris on July 4, 1884, the completed Statue of Liberty is formally presented to the U.S. ambassador as a commemoration of the friendship between France and the United States.
The idea for the statue was born in 1865, when the French historian and abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye proposed a monument to commemorate the upcoming centennial of U.S. independence (1876), the perseverance of American democracy and the liberation of the nation’s slaves. By 1870, sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi had come up with sketches of a giant figure of a robed woman holding a torch—possibly based on a statue he had previously proposed for the opening of the Suez Canal.
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I know there will be critics of the Qatar gift, flame away.
I was in the sixth grade when I got to visit The Statue.
I still remember it well. We were allowed into the crown but not the torch.
Then in 1903, they added Emma Lazarus's poem to the statue, and it became a symbol of Immigration.
I can live okay with a reasonable number of the “tired, poor, and huddled masses”
provided that we select the ones who will be compatible with, or at least adapt to and support, our nation’s basic moral values — and are not dangerous young men preaching hatred for America, Christians, Jews, Hindus, you name it. And who aren’t entering to run drugs on our streets and into our children’s schools. We’ve allowed millions of “tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free” over the years and MOST of them have worked out very positively for America and themselves.
We know which groups, societies have a high incidence of dangerous people. We should demand that our government screen any prospective immigrants carefully and especially so when they come from those places which experience teaches produce large numbers of problematical people.
The statue was conceptualized in 1865 at the end of the U.S. civil war. It was an abolitionist statement (basically a statement for France to truly abolish slavery, not pretend to). A look at the statue should remind us to be glad that the Christian abolitionist movement won ... over the so-called enlightenment movement (which was more pro-slavery than anti-slavery until the Christians changed the culture, largely with people like Pastor Theodore Weld).
Today it should remind us that the mantra "It's not a person, it's a clump of cells" is just as wrong and dehumanizing as "It's not a person, it's just property."
And in 1903 the little communists poem was added to the base.
I get so tired of reading the incorrect birth date of the United States of America. It was NOT July 4, 1776 when the individual Colonies declared their independence from Britain. The United States became a sovereign Nation once all the Colonies (some called States) signed the Constitution in 1787, through long drawn out debates.
June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789.
I think that would be cool.
Time for Kruegers Smoothing and Grinding.
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