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Time to remove socialist ‘huddled masses’ plaque from Statue of Liberty

Saturday, 3 February 2018, 9:00 MJA Uncategorized 20

American Thinker-

With storied statues having come down from sea to shining sea the past year, it’s time for the same to happen with something somewhat newer: the socialist-born plaque in the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal.

Yeah, it’s the one with the “huddled masses” bit. There are good reasons for it to be removed, too — above and beyond the fact that our whole nation is being turned into a huddled mass.

The plaque contains the poem “The New Colossus,” written by socialist writer Emma Lazarus. It didn’t come with the statue, a gift from France unveiled in 1886, but was slapped on smack dab in the middle of the “Progressive Era” (in 1903). This was also the period that gave us other things as American as Lazarus’ poem, such as entry into World War I, the income tax, and the notion that the Constitution could be considered a “living document” (Woodrow Wilson loved to bloviate about this).

The poem remained relatively obscure for decades, and we’d be well served if it stayed that way. Alas, though, it’s now well known. What’s not so well known is that the Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with immigration. That the poem helps create the confusion that it does is enough of a reason to remove it, but there are others as well: MORE

20 Comments on Time to remove socialist ‘huddled masses’ plaque from Statue of Liberty

  7. A few decades ago, when it was being refurbished, I suggested that the Goddamned thing be scrapped. I was already sick and tired of Marxists pointing to the piece of crap and using it as pretext to flood the country with parasitic Democrat constituencies.

  11. Times change, things that were, pass away and things that are new become fixtures of our time.
    When the statue was built continent was ’empty’ and there was a perceived vast expanse of territory for all who wanted a few acres of land to farm and growing cities that needed workers.
    Times are different. This is now.
    Huddled masses are not required here anymore.

  14. I’ve never liked this drivel written by a progressive, on a French statue hijacking the meaning of the United States. It tells only a small portion of what the country is about.

    A better plaque would read: Send us Your Best. . . and They will Become Better

  16. It’s not the plaque that is the problem, it’s the handouts. Historically immigrants came with nothing and were given nothing, save the potential of a plot of land out west, where they had to sink or swim on their own. Many sank. Stop the free stuff to anybody and everybody who shows up, and the vast majority will stop showing up.

  19. That line takes on a different meaning when coupled with the preceding line, “keep ancient lands your storied pomp cries she with silent lips, give us your…”

    I think Emma was telling the elites of Europe to go to hell… that’s always been my take.

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