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One of our greatest landmarks is the Statue of Liberty.  As a youngster, I was already upset when I found out that you could no longer go up to the torch, because I really wanted to, and saw some fake 80s movie where they did go up there, though you’ve not actually been able to go up to the torch since 1916 So, I was pretty disappointed about that, but at least I got to go up to the crown.

I didn’t find out until only a couple years ago that you can NO LONGER EVEN GO UP TO THE CROWN.  It’s been closed ever since, ready for this one?: 9/11.  That’s right, you cannot go inside of the Statue of Liberty at all anymore.  You can go inside the base, and look up into it, but you don’t get to go up it anymore.  The level of aggrivation this causes me is fairly high.  It’s like going from being in jail, to being in jail and not having enough room to sit down.  Ok, that’s a pretty ridiculous analogy, but you catch my drift.  It’s aggrivating especially because this is the Statue of Liberty, Liberty!.. and we let the actions of some terrorists on 9/11 take away our liberty with lady liberty.  It doesn’t get much more wrong than that.

On top of all that, the level of security is very high just to get into the base now, which is fine and great, but then let us go up the statue like we used to do!  There’s an awesome congressman from New York named Anthony Weiner who is trying to get the statue re-opened.  He has a great video of him talking about the situation and getting to go up to closed crown:

There’s also this video which shows more of the spectacular view from the crown.