Well now, for a few bucks, she’ll let you look up her skirt.
Like burning jet fuel?
I hardly think getting down the stairs would be a concern at that point.
Are the people running the national park that is Liberty Island corrupt?
[magic 8 ball] All indications point towards yes[/magic 8 ball]
These are the people who HAVEN’T HAD TO DO ANYTHING for 3 years, they’ve got a multi-million endowment, and they claimed they needed to raise another few million before they could re-open, and now you can’t even enter the Statue? Hell, you can’t even enter the BUILDING the statue stands on unless you’ve been through two severe security checks, and made fucking reservations for the privilege!
The entire board running Lady Liberty needs to be thrown out on their porsche-driven ass and replaced.
I heard one of the major reasons they are no longer having tourists go all the way up to the top is because its a closed structure with horrible ventiliation (although I didn’t hear how easy this would be to fix). One small canister of sarin and everyone is fucked.
I also think that they should look at it just as any other structure and grade its safetly the same. Not enough exits? Ok, make some or its closed. Yes tradition is all well and good but I don’t like death.
and ftr I’m very anti-Bush but I don’t think this really has too much to do with his administration.
Well, Lady Liberty’s been needlessly carrying the torch for such a long, long time, maybe it’s she who needs to retire. I hear there’s a nice spot near Lake Havasu. Great views, too.
As for a replacement, I’m thinking a gigantic Heisman would do nicely.
Send that stupid statute of “liberty” back to the French and erect in its place big dollar sign.
I’m sure that Mike and the Bots would love to be inside a 50 foot tall green woman.
How many deaths have resulted from the tens of thousands of people that have gone to the corwn over the past 100 years?
So, don’t go up the top. I myself am not to concerned about the ever so slim chance of meeting my demise up there, and would like to be able to.
For the record, Bush was never mentioned, this is about us becoming a nation of scared little rabbits.
Which brings us full circle around to the point of the OP. Just what the hell are the extreme security restrictions around the statue and closing of the stairwell supposed to accomplish? Does one really think that this is now a deterrance to a suicide jet airplane attack? Or are we simply resigned to our fate and merely enacting all of these restrictions just to minimize body count if something bad happens?
GargoyleWB, there also exists the possibility that if we run like scared geese whenever there’s a perceived threat, some targets won’t be as enticing to terrorists. “Sure, we could blow up the Statue of Liberty, but if there’s nobody in it, it’s not worth it.”
Well then Osama should blow up the undersides of our beds, because that’s where he’ll get the highest corpse count.
Wait! Wait! If you get rid of the Stature of Liberty, who’s going to protect New York against the depredations of Vigo the Carpathian?