[blam]

"The first thing we need to do is to chisel off Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Collosus" from the pedestal of Statue of Liberty."

Thank you. It's a damn poem written by a liberal Jewish woman who campaigned for Jewish immigration rights. Some people will tell you that it is contained within the Declaration Of Independence or some such nonsense. Take it off My statue of liberty.

[Yankee]

I don't want to be misconstrued here, okay? This is not about who or why those words are there.

I don't care if it was written by a "liberal Jewish woman" or a Conservative BIC (that's Bronx Irish Catholic for you non-New Yorkers) or a Bible-Belt Baptist from Tennesee.

I don't care what their political or spiritual motivation was.

I just know that liberty has nothing to do with porous borders or answering the door for anyone who knocks, without knowing who they are, and what they want.

Might as well have the lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine" carved in the stone. They have as little relevence to the statue's significance as Emma Lazarus's words.