What Price Liberty?

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Hey you never know? All you need is a dollar and a dream. You’ve got to be in it to win it. And now, you could win a life changing jackpot and then buy various New York City landmarks. Perhaps you’ve seen some of the executions around town from this new campaign for Mega Millions? God, they’re depressing. Read more »

A Vox Pop regular hits the panic button after video surfaced showing the Brooklyn coffee shop’s kidnapped Lady Liberty statue beheaded: “The people who did this are deranged and need to be taken off the street. If this isn’t hate speech, I don’t know what it is. They destroyed an important symbol of freedom with the intent of intimidating us. This is terror.” |NBC|

Kidnapped Lady Liberty Beheaded

Last month, an 8-foot Statue of Liberty replica was stolen from Vox Pop, a radical lefty coffee shop in Brooklyn. The good news? It turned up. The bad news? It turned up on YouTube where it was beheaded and smashed to bits. The “chilling” video, as 1010Wins describes it, was posted on July 4. Phrases like “We Don’t Want Your Freedom” and “Death to America” flash across the screen prompting virtually everyone to overreact to what is likely an art school student’s prank. Warning: you may want to affix an American flag pin and chant “USA” before watching the video below. Read more »

On July 4th, the public can once again visit the Statue of Liberty’s crown, the last National Parks site still closed after 9/11 and the closest to the World Trade Center. Visitors just have to climb the “very narrow, 12-story-high spiral staircase with a low guardrail” while ignoring the Parks director who dangerously compared the crowded situation to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. |NYT|

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After claiming photographs of Air Force One’s $328,000 terror-inducing flight over Manhattan wouldn’t be released, the White House has changed its course, saying the publicity shots will be published in a report this week. |CNN|

White House Shoots Down ‘Air Force One’

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After squandering hundreds of thousands of dollars to terrorize New Yorkers with a low-flying photo shoot over Manhattan, the White House isn’t even going to use the new photos of Air Force One. So nobody is stuck using outdated publicity shots, we went ahead and Photoshopped a scene with the Statue of Liberty, as well as a handful of other patriotic or otherwise notable American landscapes in the gallery below. Read more »