The Statue of Liberty is about breaking the law?
The Statue of Liberty is about hospitals closing because of the burden of free medical care for illegals?
The Statue of Liberty is about meatpacker wages going from $19 per hour to $10 per hour in 25 years?
The Statue of Liberty is about using false Social Security numbers?
The Statue of Liberty is about penalizing businesses that follow the law?
The Statue of Liberty is about protecting Mexican fatcats?
The Statue of Liberty is about people coming into our country and refusing to assimilate?
The Statue of Liberty is about "Press 1 for English" and Mexican flags flying over our schools?
Let me tell you what the The Statue of Liberty is about, sparky. She's about Hyman Rickover.
You see, Hyman Rickover was born in 1900 in Poland and came to the U.S. with his parents in 1905. In 1918 he was the valedictorian at his high school and gave a commencement speech (in ENGLISH) that was well-regarded. He graduated from the Naval Academy in '22 as an engineer. After a engineering postings in the destroyer USS La Vallette (including, IIRC, chief engineer) and the battleship USS Nevada. Then he went to Columbia and got his masters (I suspect he wrote his papers for this degree in ENGLISH) and went on to spend four years in submarines, where he qualified for command. Insiders report he realized he was serving in the United States Navy, and that he communicated with the crew in ENGLISH, rather than Polish.
Further down the road, after WWII, Rickover was the father of the nuclear submarine and the architect of the Navy's entire nuclear program. He served as the head of nuclear reactors until retirement in 1982. Yes, that's right, he served as naval officer until he was 82 years old when he could have retired on a Vice Admiral's pension thirty years or more earlier. How's that for dedication to one's country.
Hyman G. Rickover was a kid who came through Ellis Island, and became a Chicagoan, an officer in the United States Navy, a respected engineer and one of the most powerful military men in our history. He was an American, not a Pole living in America, and he is what the Statue of Liberty is all about. Not amnesty, not welfare handouts, not broken schools, but assimilation, hard work, and dedication to American ideals.
If you think any activity involving a coyote and stolen SSN's has anything to do with the Staute of Liberty or any form of "welcoming," you are sadly mistaken.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I was replying to the vanity poster concerning his claim that NYC is not an American City. All those points you made to me are a waste of bandwidth, because I never mentioned anything about any of them.
I was merely stating that the idea NYC is not an American City is ridiculous. NYC has always welcomed immigrants, including all of my ancestors.
Great post, Mr. Silverback.