Free Lady Liberty - most idiotic petition of the year???

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[EveningStar]

I don't care how you feel about illegal immigration. This has got to be one of the stupidest, most embarrassing petitions in a long time! :(

[EveningStar]

The New Colossus
by Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "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!"

[EveningStar]

You're not going to believe this one!

[xcamel]

ACPOTI.

[FReepapalooza]

I beg to disagree. I think it's overdue.

[EveningStar]

I know. But I'll bet many people have already signed it.

[fanfan]

The Statue of Liberty's intent to inspire people to build their own democratic societies is even more important now that the planet is home to over six billion persons. The huddled masses cannot all be saved by immigration to America. The rescue paradigm of immigration is clearly no longer appropriate, if it ever was. In fact, the "wretched refuse of your teeming shore" threatens to become a permanent underclass.

The problem is that those outside America see her as a shining light, a beacon.
Immigrants have told many stories of seeing the Statue of Liberty, and then accomplishing great and wonderful things, in America.

Why did the French give you that statue, anyway?

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[PatrickF4]

Why do some people want to make an issue where there is none? Rhetorical question.

[South40]

I beg to disagree. I think it's overdue.

Ditto.

[Greystoke]

LOL, I signed it!

[dynachrome]

Hmmmm. What is the process to get a petition published at petitiononlene.com? Looks like maybe Cartman is around there.

[EveningStar]

Why did the French give you that statue, anyway?

It was a gift commemorating our Centennial in 1876.

[EveningStar]

There are over 600 signatories so far. Just for fun, take a look at the comment and name of one of the most recent ones. :)

[abishai]

"I come from India bringing the science of poop transplants, and this is the welcome I get?!"

From a "doctor" on line 73.

[fanfan]

It was a gift commemorating our Centennial in 1876.

What did they say it represented, at the time?

I don't trust their intentions.

;-)

[dynachrome]

hehe. Mr. Cartman is signed up now.

[EveningStar]

"French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design a sculpture with the year 1876 in mind for completion. The idea for the commemorative gift then grew out of the political turmoil which was shaking France at the time. The French Third Republic was still considered as a "temporary" arrangement by many, who wished a return to Monarchism, or to some form of constitutional authoritarianism which they had known under Napoleon. The idea of giving a colossal representation of republican virtues to a "sister" republic across the sea served as a focus for the republican cause against other politicians."

Link

[fanfan]

LOL!

He should have tried being Irish or Jewish in Montreal Canada, in the 30's.

[EveningStar]

LOL!

[abishai]

Read some of them. They're hilarious.

[fanfan]

The idea of giving a colossal representation of republican virtues to a "sister" republic across the sea served as a focus for the republican cause against other politicians.

LOL! The Reagan's of their time?

Good for them!

Thank you for going to the trouble of explaining it to me.

:-D