Shapiro Host: I Don’t Love The “Pagan, Liberal” Statue Of Liberty, Remove That “Stupid Poem Off The Bottom”

“I don’t love the Statue of Liberty. Can I say that? I like liberty. I like true liberty. I love America. I have a cigar company called Mayflower Cigars, which is, you know, about the founding of America. What does the Statue Of Liberty symbolize? What was it intended to symbolize? The Statue Of Liberty is a liberal enlightenment symbol. That’s what it is. What does the Statue Of Liberty symbolize? Statue of Liberty symbolizes Enlightenment, liberal ideas.

“And on top of all that, the Statue of Liberty was given to us by the post-revolution French. Not even the good French regime, the old regime, good old King Louis who helped us win the American revolution, but by those crazy bloodthirsty Jacobin radicals who were lopping off people’s heads. It was that that post-revolution French. So if even if they took it back, it wouldn’t bother me too much.

“What do you do with things that were intended for one purpose that you don’t support, namely the promotion of liberalism, French Enlightenment values, you know, kinds of all wacky modern ideas. What do you do with something that is intended to represent something you don’t support, but which has come to represent something you do support? Because now the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of America.

“The Statue of Liberty is literally a pagan symbol. It’s the goddess Libertas, though it’s the pagan symbol understood in the revival of classical paganism that came up in the Enlightenment, so it’s got all these liberal Enlightenment ideas associated with it.

“We should just rededicate it. Let’s take it take that stupid poem off the bottom of it that the libs always used to justify mass migration. Ignore the Constitution, ignore federal statute. There’s that stupid poem on the bottom that says, give me your poor unwashed masses. That means that the entire world can come into America regardless of the law.

“I sometimes refer to the Statue of Liberty as the Statue of Lib Mary. It’s like in Christendom, we had statues of Mary, the holy mother, all over the place, and then now it’s like pagan goddesses and Enlightenment symbols.” – Christian nationalist Daily Wire host Michael Knowles.