They’re pissed off the cops didn’t pick her off with a rifle.
Come on, admit it. You were thinking she should have painted the statue’s toenails as long as she was up there, weren’t you? 
Yes, yes I was. I thought of that years ago during my train tagging days. Alas, never got close enough to the great lady.
:dubious:
The right is having a real hissyfit over what is really a relatively minor incident. I suspect that they’re more concerned about the message than about any violation of government property.
Regarding the evacuation of the island; one reason for doing it may be concern over the possibility that there might be more protestors in the crowd preparing to do who knows what.
To the folks whining about being inconvenienced… it’s not much of a protest if it’s easily ignored.
I’ve also gone from amused to alarmed regarding the way the Right is pearl-clutching and hyperventilating over this incident.
According to the link, there were forty-some other members of a group calling itself Rise and Resist, but she climbed the statue on her own. Apparently the protester is an immigrant from the Congo who complains a lot.
I suppose it is unworthy of me to suggest leaving her up there next time, and selling water balloons to the spectators.
Regards,
Shodan
Details for a confused furriner, please? 
it’s also not much of a protest if all you do is piss off the people whose minds you want to change and make them despise you more.
doesn’t help that most “protesters” are young people who haven’t learned that it takes a lot more than loud chants or just being a pain in the ass to effect change.
Maybe they were thinking it was the opening salvo of Alex Jones’ Liberal Civil War that was supposed to begin July 4. :dubious:
Haters gonna hate regardless.
Maybe all those people back in the 50’s and 60’s shouldn’t have had bus boycotts and sat in the “wrong” seats and go to lunch counters and march because all it did was piss some people off and make them despite the protesters more?
A protest that isn’t heard or seen is useless.
Yeah, but I think the chanting and pain-in-ass aspects are part of the whole.
Would it be unworthy of you to read your own cites? That article mentions exactly one complaint.
It depends on what you consider “complaining”, and “a lot”.
I would consider this “a lot”. YMMV.
Regards,
Shodan
See, this proves that life is not a video game. If it were, she’d have climbed all the way to the top of the torch and then made a leap of faith into New York Harbor.
Still seeing just the one complaint there.
Yeah; I’m not really saying they’re wrong, just a pain in the ass.
It’s easy to say “oh, we’re just closing the museum for a while, no big deal.” For me it was a big deal. I went to a fair bit of trouble and expense to be there. That’s probably even more true for the Statue of Liberty. For how many people was this their dream trip, their one chance to visit this famous landmark?
In my case, they announced that the museum was closing for the rest of the day. I had several hours until my flight and no place else to go, so I hung around the museum. A few other people must have had the same idea, and also stayed. They did reopen after a couple hours, and I saw most of what I wanted to, but not quite all. I haven’t been back, but I will someday.
Wait a few more years and you’ll be able to take Metro.
An excellent protest to refocus attention on the plight of the asylum seekers and others having their families separated at the border, delivered in precisely the right place to have the symbolic impact.
Over thirty years ago one of my mother’s co-workers, a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, hid inside the arm of the statue. On the day after Christmas, 1971, they came out, chained the doors shut, and said they wouldn’t come out until Nixon ended the war. This obviously didn’t happen, but they made their point and made the news.
Why, she’s a fucking asshole that ruined the day of how many people for what? A stupid and feeble protest that did nothing.
There were better ways to protest than screwing around with stupidly like this.
Yeah, some tourists in NYC had to reschedule their day plans, because this selfish asshole thinks kidnapping children and locking them in cages is, like, wrong or something. You’ve really nailed the true tragedy in this story, What Exit?!
And there’s the stock answer to literally any act of protest, anywhere, in any context, over any subject. Because it’s only a “proper” protest if nobody sees you do it, apparently.