Beyond Opinion

I heard today that the Statue of Liberty has been reopened. It took nearly three years to do it ever since they closed it after 9/11. The statue does nothing practical, so its only value is symbolic, and boy did the Powers that Be tell a rude message when they closed it! They were saying that Liberty and Freedom themselves will be shut down the next few years. In other words, the US will become a dictatorship. That is not the message we want to send to the world. I am glad to see it open now; they should open it all the way to the torch. But it never should have been closed to begin with. It should have opened a few days after 9/11 to tell the world that the mean action of a few hijackers will never take away our liberty and freedom.