How long before the RW has the poem removed? (Photo-rich warning.)

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

I really enjoyed Sharing the World Together's awesome photo blog-post about the history of the Statue of Liberty, and I thought it was worth sharing here. I knew a lot of the story, though I was unaware of the various protests documented. I have added the photos of the disembodied arm and torch as displayed in Philadelphia and New York from other sources.

I don't know of any actual plans by the RW to remove the "give me you tired, your poor" poem, thinking about it being "engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty" did make me wonder how it's escaped the wrath of the GOP.





In this photo released by Agence Papyrus the head of the Statue of Liberty designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is seen inside a Paris studio around 1880. (AP Photo/Agence Papyrus)


This is a photo showing the head of the Statue of Liberty on display in France early in 1884 prior to being shipped to the United States. (Photo from the Library of Congress)

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-276531/cache/liberty101.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1320096066The moon rises near the Statue of Liberty as seen from Liberty State Park, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) #


The torch was sent to the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876 and then was exhibited in Madison Square Garden. New York, before being returned to France. Notice the tent at the base. This photo is often misidentified as being of Madison Square Park, shown below.


In 1876, in an effort to raise funds for its transport and display, the Statue of Liberty was displayed in Madison Square Park. Or rather, just her hand and right forearm with torch. The phantom appendage stood watch over the west side of the park for nearly six years.


Beginning in 1876, the arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty were displayed in Madison Square Park for six years to raise funds for construction of the statue and base.


Helen Foster and George Clancy perch on a rail on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor on July 2, 1949. July 4, 1949 marked the 65th anniversary of the presentation of the statue to the United States by the people of France. (AP Photo/Jacob Harris)


100 women from various women's liberation groups demonstrated on Liberty Island, August 10, 1970. The demonstration was to show support for the proposed equal rights amendment which is currently before the Congress. Shortly after noon, park rangers made the women remove the banner from the base of the statue. (AP Photo/stf) #


A helicopter hovers over the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1977 after about two Dozen Demonstrators occupied the Statue and draped its forehead with a Puerto Rican flag. The group, who were calling for Puerto Rican independence and for release of four Puerto Rican nationalists serving terms for the 1954 shooting of five congressmen, held the Statue for nine hours before being rounded up. (AP Photo/JR)


Police officer on parapet at base of the Statue of Liberty, bottom left, attempts to talk down climbers on Liberty Island in New York Harbor on May 10, 1980. The men, using rubber suction cups and spikes clambered up the statue to protest what they termed the "framing" of Elmer Geronimo Pratt, serving time for the 1969 slaying of a school teacher. Banner at top right reads: "Liberty was framed -- Free Geronimo Pratt." (AP Photo/David Karp)


President Franklin Roosevelt, speaks on the 50th anniversary of the erection of the State of Liberty in New York, on Oct. 28, 1936. He declared that, "To the message of Liberty which America sends to all the world must be added her message of peace." (AP Photo/Preston Stroup)


The Statue of Liberty is framed in the window of Ellis Island's boarded up hospital contagious disease ward, Friday May 8, 2009. The ward opened in 1909 as part of Ellis Island's main hospital complex in order to keep ill immigrants out of the United States. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Again, her is the Sharing the World Together's original photo blog extravaganza.

[Journeyman]

1. Why would they want to take that away? It feeds the fantasy, the myth of who we are . . .

and they are the last ones who wish to see "useful idiots" deprived of their imaginings. Indeed, it sometimes seems the myths and imaginings are the strongest bonds remaining.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. I get your point, certainly, But, it kind of seems they don't need to rely on fantasy any more.

They can just be outright racist, bigoted, misogynist, reactionary, and generally mean. They can lie and cheat. And they still get elected.

Sure, a few of the worst lose the elections, but they get a hell of a lot more votes than I want to believe. It seems we're going backwards, on our way to the bad old days of robber barons and the KKK.

Anyway, I guess I took the focus from the photos with my pessimism, which is sad, since there are some pretty darn cool ones there, if you like the Statue of Liberty--and I do think it's quite wonderful.