Arizona Republicans Seek To Tear Down Statue of Liberty

In a shocking move (well from Arizona these days, maybe not so shocking), the same Arizona Republicans that want to further enslave Mexicans and deny person born on United States soil (despite this being the law of the United States for 150 years) have asked that the Statue of Liberty be torn down.  Announcing that they detest the pagan symbol of a Roman goddess and detest freedom, the Arizonians want to have a  "pure" race so we need to rid the US of unwanteds.

Are you shocked?  You ask why?  Where to begin ...

The Statue of Liberty is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who strides forward, trampling a broken chain, and bearing a torch and a tabula ansata, a tablet evoking the law, upon which is inscribed the date of American independence. Designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, the statue was a gift of the people of France. It has become an iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States.

The seven rays, which are a halo or aureole, evoke the sun, the seven seas, and the seven continents, and represent another means, besides the torch, whereby Liberty enlightens the world.

I don't think the Arizonians appreciate the "enlightenment" part.

But the part that is really causing so much trouble is the inscription of the Statue by Emma Lazarus.  She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1912. The sonnet was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal.

And what blasphemous words does this sonnet contain??

"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-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

The Arizona Republicans want that damn Golden Door closed!!  Now please.  We are behind the door and we don't want others in.

So they want that damn Statue of Liberty - showcasing a heathen Roman goddess - bombed - removed, well, because, WE HAVE TO CLOSE THE GOLDEN DOOR!

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Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., said today that Congress should hold hearings to look into denying citizenship to illegal aliens' children born in the United States, as the fight over immigration widens into the explosive "birthright" issue.

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