Statue of Liberty reopens today, but not completelyAUG 03 2004
Statue of Liberty reopens today, but not completely. We can't have nice things anymore.
There are 11 reader comments
13 03 200412:13PM
I call it a complete victory for terrorists. It's embarassing for the city, and for the country.
18 03 200412:18PM
Who ever invented vertical blinds should be beaten to a bloody pulp.
34 03 200412:34PM
If the person who invented vertical blinds is beaten to a bloody pulp, that means the terrorists have won.
29 03 2004 2:29PM
The very fact that this involves the statue of liberty speaks volumes. Notice how officials are trying to "persuade" public opinion to the effect that the freedom to explore the monument to freedom, is a freedom nobody should really want?
00 03 2004 5:00PM
I finally tracked the bastard down: Lester S. Simon of Larchmont, New York. He filed patent no. 1,841,065 on January 12, 1932 for an "Adjustable Light and Ventilating Screen" - otherwise known as: the vertical blind. Grrr.
Every damn office I've ever worked in has these godforsaken things in them. Mr. Simon should rot in hell.
01 03 2004 6:01PM
I'm going to ask an obvious question here...what do vertical blinds have to do with the reopening of the Statue of Liberty?
36 03 2004 8:36PM
Sheesh Jason, you're so out of it! Where have you been?!? Vertical blinds man, vertical blinds. Just think about it for a minute.
28 03 2004 9:28PM
They break so easily, too.
21 03 200410:21PM
There are some in the administration blinded by the effects of their decision to close, even partially, the statute.
Alas, hope is on the way, on the vertical horizon.
39 06 2004 1:39AM
People might say that the terrorists have won when freedoms are restricted in so called free countries. But Im not so sure that what they are after
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
jojo17 03 200411:17AM
It's baaaaaack...
'Mr. Weiner called the decision to close off the crown "a partial victory for the terrorists."'