Posted by Ronald Seguin on January 8, 2011 at 1:30pm
This year the Statue of Liberty will celebrate 125 years in America. Perhaps this is good time for Americans to contemplate Liberty! She was not created to celebrate a great victory nor was she intended to be dedicated soley to the plight of immigrants. And she most certainly was not intended to be frozen at a single moment in time in the 19th century. No, she was intended to be the embodiment of an ideal. An ideal which is still best represented in this world by America. The ideal? Its individual freedom under the law. Not individual freedom akin to the wild horses that ran wild on the American plains; but rather individual freedom with individual responsibilities. We should invite and welcome our wonderful colossus to the Tea Party. I feel certain she would be pleased to join. Just like the recent experiences of the Tea Party, Liberty was, at first rejected by America's politicians. But the American people rallied to her support and on the day of her unveiling in 1886 there were a million people in the streets of New York City!Liberty's history is overflowing with even more motivating experiences. Open and common embrace of Liberty could become a uniting force in our great country. Just a thought.
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