The History of the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was designed and built by a French Freemason named Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, with the internal iron framework engineered by Gustave Eiffel (yes, the same guy who later built the Eiffel Tower in Paris).
Bartholdi
Laboulaye
Eiffel
In 1865, right after the Civil War, a group of French liberals, republicans, and high-degree Masons led by Édouard de Laboulaye gathered at Versailles. These were the same crowd that hated Catholic monarchy and admired the American Republic, but only the post-1865 version under Radical Republican rule, not the original constitutional republic of Washington and Jefferson. Laboulaye explicitly said the statue would celebrate the Union victory, the end of slavery, and the new centralized empire Lincoln had forged. It was France’s gift to the new America, not the old one.
Bartholdi modeled the face after his mother. The seven rays on the crown represent the seven continents and seven seas, pure masonic universalism. The broken chains at her feet were originally symbolized as breaking the chains of monarchy, but in America they got rebranded as “breaking the chains of slavery.” The torch was always meant to represent the “light” of Enlightenment reason spreading over the word. Lucifer means “light-bearer,” and the Masons have never been shy about that symbolism.
France paid for the statue itself. America was supposed to pay for the pedestal but almost didn’t because the project ran out of money until Joseph Pulitzer, an immigrant, ran a fundraising campaign in his New York World newspaper and shamed rich Protestants into coughing up the cash.
The whole thing was cooked up by French Freemasons celebrating the destruction of the old Christian confederation of sovereign states and the birth of the new proposed nation empire, then funded by a Jewish media mogul, and plastered with a Jewish poet’s universalist plaque thirty years later.
The Statue has always been a Trojan horse. It was never about “liberty” as our Founders understood it with limited government, blood, soil, and Christian order. It was about new liberty from borders, race, creed, and tradition. Liberty, to dissolve the people and elect a new one.
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was a Sephardic Jewish poet from a wealthy New York family with roots going back to the first Jews who landed in New Amsterdam in 1654. She wrote it as part of a fundraiser to build the pedestal for the Statue, which France was gifting to America.
Emma Lazarus
Those famous lines “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” have been weaponized ever since by open-borders globalists and anti-white activists to guilt-trip our people into accepting endless third-world migration. Lazarus herself was an early Zionist and a passionate advocate for Jewish refugees fleeing Russian pogroms. She saw the Statue as a beacon for her own tribe first and foremost. What started as a Jewish fundraising sonnet got turned into the founding scripture of modern America’s demographic replacement project.
From a traditional Christian American viewpoint, the Statue of Liberty was meant to symbolize the light of ordered liberty under God’s law, not an invitation to flood a once-90%+ European Christian nation with peoples who do not share our faith, blood, or founding stock. The 1790 Naturalization Act, written by the Founders themselves, restricted citizenship to “free white persons” of good character. That was the real American policy for over a century, and it built the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
Today, the same people who quote Emma Lazarus are the ones pushing to tear down our borders, silence our churches, and replace our posterity. They celebrate “diversity” while our small towns turn into colonies of the third world and our children become minorities in the land their forefathers conquered and settled.