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The Statue of Liberty went dark overnight and the timing was just ‘too perfect’

The Statue of Liberty went dark overnight and the timing was just ‘too perfect’
N&V Staff
March 10, 2017

(Samantha Schmidt & Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post) – For more than an hour Tuesday night, a cloak of darkness covered Lady Liberty. Some of the lights that normally illuminate the statue went off before 11 p.m., leaving only her still-lit torch and crown visible to most around New York Harbor.

As one Twitter user opined, the timing was “just too perfect.” Definitely, tweeted another, “an ominous sign of the times.”

Lady Liberty was either protesting President Trump generally and, more specifically, his travel ban just a day after he signed the revised executive order limiting entry to the United States from six Muslim-majority countries.

Or she was signaling her solidarity with #DayWithoutWomen, a strike scheduled for Wednesday that asks women to skip work to show the world what life would be like without them.

“Give me your tired your poor your huddled masses but later. We’re closed,” one tweet said. Her lights were out because “Trump has plunged our country into darkness,” said another.

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