"La promesse et la promesse cassée"

[Horse with no Name]

The Promise and the Broken Promise.

In June 1885, The Statue of Liberty arrived from France on board the French frigate "Isere" which transported the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States.
On October 28th, 1886, President Grover Cleveland accepted the Statue on behalf of the United States and said in part: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected."
In August 2005, that promise was broken to the people of this country.
Liberty's altar was neglected by government bureaucracy at best, by criminal negligence at worse.
The Superdome is the antithesis of the Statue of Liberty. It is OUR Auschwitz. It is OUR Coliseum. It is the reminder that we forgot our promise to uphold our brother.
The "Ruins of the Superdome" need to remain so that nobody forgets what happened there and how our society broke down and left the poorest of poor in this country to fend for themselves without any resources.
If we are to remain a democracy, levelling that particular playing field is paramountto tearing down the Statue of Liberty. We can't see good in one without seeing the shame in the other.
The sight of the Superdome SHOULD make everyone in this country uncomfortable. That is the point. That is why it should stay.

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Considering that the roots of New Orleans are French, I wondered if

the neocon scum would look on this as God's punishment to francophiles.

[Horse with no Name]

2. One would think they would

Perhaps we could re-name the Statue of Liberty--using only the initials--S.O.L.
Shit out of Luck.