You need to pick out the words to really see the metaphor.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
The collossus at rhodes was a monument constructed to ward of invaders and barbarians, but think about that for a moment. Isnt a monument like that actually going to serve as a landmark for potential invaders? Invaders or terrorists?
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.
"Mother of Exiles." The american people were slaves and pilgrim tax cheat fugitives. The other immigrants sought out asylum for many reasons but the meaning is clear. America is a land of outcast people that the other nations wanted to either kill or get rid of. Thjis is further evidenced in the last few lines...
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"World-wide welcome" Again this further evidences the true nature of our new collossus. The torch of illumination and the symbolism of columba remains prevalent. Of course the neo-pagan symbolism is obvious but how many know about its link to another statue?
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France, Built on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. The statue was officially dedicated in 1886 and made a national monument in 1924.
Three years later in 1889, the United States presented France with a replica of the statue, one quarter of the American statue's size, which now stands on an island in the Seine River in Paris.
"The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame." The route between France and the Americas was a famous trade route. The mother of exiles is little more than a gate keeper of that golden gate, which incidentally was built. The golden gate bridge. Why is it that we find more symbollism when the other coast is reached? Its simple geography when you realize the proximity to Mexico. Especially since it was built in San Fransisco, saint of the Fransiscan monks.
The bridge is not symbollic of the beauty of our nation, it is simply a symbol for the other end being closed after the great work of 1776 was completed. The real "Golden Gate" is the strait that the bridge spans. It was first named "Chrysopylae," meaning "golden gate," by Captain John C. Fremont in 1846. 70 years later.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Again, the "wretched refuse of your teeming shore" alludes to the obvious. They are herded to the golden door. This is classical conditioning and bait and switch tactics. The american colonists were not free, they were exiled. It was arranged to conquer the Americas and it worked. The american people were allways pawns in a hidden military campaign to create an off shore base for the queen mum that operated outside of her laws. Why do you think Clinton and Blair were so buddy buddy. Why do you think we allied with them in the world war? Why do you think we powered the industrial age? Slaves do the work, peasants do the work, America was the origional sweat shop.
We are made to think of the american dream as freedom granted by the constitution. We are always free people, this is our inalienable right that we give through induction.
Another example if I may:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
The current version of the Pledge of Allegiance reads:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
According to the United States Flag Code, the Pledge "should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform men should remove any non-religious headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should remain silent, face the flag, and render the military salute."
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PAY TAXES SLAVE!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance
Origin of the word
Mid. English ligeaunce; med. Latin ligeantia("a liegance"); the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the French allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from "liege," of which the derivation is given under that heading; the connection with Latin ligare, to bind, is erroneous.
Usage
The term allegiance is often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live; but it is in its proper sense. In which it indicates national character and the subjection due to that character, that the word is important.
In that sense it represents the feudal liege homage, which could be due only to one lord, while simple homage might be due to every lord under, whom the person in question held land.
United Kingdom
The English doctrine, which was at one time adopted in the United States, asserted that allegiance was indelible: "Nemo potest exuere patriam". Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalization satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.
Allegiance is the tie which binds the subject to the Sovereign in return for that protection which the Sovereign affords the subject. It was the mutual bond and obligation between monarch and subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them (Ex parte Anderson (1861) 3 El & El 487; 121 ER 525; China Navigation Co v Attorney-General (1932) 48 TLR 375; Attorney-General v Nissan [1969] 1 All ER 629; Oppenheimer v Cattermole [1972] 3 All ER 1106). The duty of the Crown towards its subjects is to govern and protect. The reciprocal duty of the subject towards the Crown is that of allegiance.
At common law allegiance is a true and faithful obedience of the subject due to his Sovereign. As the subject owes to his king his true and faithful allegiance and obedience, so the Sovereign is to govern and protect his subjects, regere et protegere subdititos suos, so as between the Sovereign and subject there is:
duplex et reciprocum ligamen; quia sicut subditus regi tenetur ad obedientiam, ita rex subdito tenetur ad protectionem; merito igitur ligeantia dicitur a ligando, quia continet in se duplex ligamen (Calvin's Case (1608) 7 Co Rep 1a; Jenk 306; 2 State Tr 559; 77 ER 377).
If the constitution (supposedly) protects soveriegnty the pledge to the flag erodes it. They just keep waving it in our faces.
Again, more history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic
Republic
A republic is a form of government in which the head of state is not a monarch [1] and the people (or at least a part of its people)[2] have an impact on its government.[3][4] The word 'republic' is derived from the Latin phrase res publica which can be translated as "public affairs".
Both modern and ancient republics vary widely in their ideology and composition. The most common definition of a republic is a state without a monarch.[5] In republics such as the US and France the executive is legitimated both by a constitution and by popular suffrage. In the United States Founding Fathers like James Madison defined republic in terms of representative democracy as opposed to only having direct democracy[6], and this usage is still employed by many viewing themselves as "republicans".[7] In modern political science, republicanism refers to a specific ideology that is based on civic virtue and is considered distinct from ideologies such as liberalism.[8]
Most often a republic is a sovereign country, but there are also subnational entities that are referred to as republics. For instance, Article IV of the Constitution of the United States "guarantee[s] to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government."[9] The Soviet Union was a single nation composed of distinct and legally sovereign Soviet Socialist Republics.
Niccolò Machiavelli described the governance and foundation of the ideal republic in his work Discourses on Livy. These writings, as well as those of his contemporaries such as Leonardo Bruni, are the foundation of the ideology political scientists call republicanism.[10][11]
The idea of a republic first appeared in the writings of Italian scholars of the Renaissance, most importantly Niccolo Machiavelli.[10][12] Machiavelli divided governments into two types, principalities ruled by a monarch and republics ruled by the people.[13][14]
Quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli:
"He who has the gold makes the rules."
"All cities that ever, at any time, have been ruled by an absolute prince, by aristocrats, or by the people, have had for their protection force combined with prudence, because the latter is not enough alone, and the first either does not produce things, or when they are produced, does not maintain them. Force and prudence, then, are the might of all the governments that ever have been or will be in the world."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccolo_Machiavelli
The reliance on the protection of the state is evidenced in the words of the true forefathers of this country. Rome. We are all a party to their ideals and their history. Government is still rule. You cannot have freedom with limitation. We depend on their protection perpetuating their lies at the tablecloth. America is not paved with gold, rather a trail of blood sweat and tears. We refused to remain self reliant as individual states and failed in our only attempt at a revolution during the civil war. We have been willingly duped into a lie since our education by our lack of legal and historical understanding. The language is straightforward and the truth is hidden in plain sight for anyone smart enough to look for it.
-Dedicated to George Carlin
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