Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, recently said we should return the Statue of Liberty to France: “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home.”

Glucksmann has since said he wasn’t serious — this was just a “wake up call.” He adds that “the statue is yours. But what it embodies belongs to everyone. And if the free world no longer interests your government, then we will take up the torch, here in Europe.”

Actually, the Frenchmen who conceived the statue, raised the money to build it, and presented it to the people of the United States in 1886 hoped that Europeans, and ultimately everyone in the world, would “take up the torch.”

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