Lady Oppression

In a graphic example of the American's (and in particular, the New Yorker's) inability to grasp irony today, the statue of Liberty re-opened. You have to go through a security check to get on the ferry. Then you have to go through a body scanner and a bomb-sniffer, and have all your bags checked to get in to the pedestal. There are armed guards on the ferry and at every corner on Liberty Island. Oh, and the statue itself isn't actually open - only the pedestal. Yes sireee. Truly "free".
If there's one bullet-point item that shows that the terrorism tactics have worked, it's that the most icon symbol of freedom and liberty is closed to the public. And the part that is open is equivalent to an Orwellian state.

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