Why don't the people of new york give the statue of liberty back to England?

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David C

I think I smell a wind-up

falcon8765

It was a GIFT from FRANCE.

Idiot.

PHIL P

The statue came from France and has nothing to do with the UK

Eddie

Because it didn't come from the English. It was a GIFT from the French.

JeepDiva

One reason they don't is that the statue was a GIFT from FRANCE in 1886.

Anything else, Mr. Knowledge?

burning brightly

the Statue of Liberty was given to America by the French and it was designed and made by the same Frenchman an engineer by the name of Eiffel who also made the Eiffel Tower .

Micky Bananas

Idiot! As stated, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French government to the USA.

Get down off of your high horse you fool! If we are talking "theft" then why not ask when the UK is going to give the Elgin Marbles back to the Greeks, or all the other historical artifacts at the British Museum back to the countries from whence they came.

I do sometimes wonder about the mentality of people from this country!

myhoagie02

It was a gift. No one is ever obligated to return a gift. Also, it came from France, not England.

vincent

It was France (N) Oh Dear... Learn your history

antwan1357

its french dude

LAN

i live in a australia, but i no this:
the france gave it as a gift from their help from the war. or sumin like that.. (:

prelude_miseria_cantare

I thought the Statue of Liberty was given as a gift to the USA from the French? There's a mini one at the River Seine in Paris.
I could be wrong however, but that's what I was told on a trip to France
Hope this was in some way informative :)

Deliciousonionsoup

Because neither England nor Britain have any legal claim to the statue of liberty. It was a gift from the French state. Are you thinking about some other piece of infrastructure?

First of all, no it is not on loan. It was a gift to the United States in presented 100 years after the founding of our country.

Second of all, it did NOT come from England, but from France.

It was a gift from the people of France to honor the historically close relationship between the two countries, both founded on revolution and the notion of the rights of man. Hence, the name - the statue of "liberty".

Obzi

Phil is right, and if everything went back to it's place of origin every museum in the UK would be two thirds empty.

tham153

The statue was a GIFT of the People of FRANCE in 1884, with the pedestal paid for by public donations of Americans. The Brits had nothing to do with it, except for their having gained control of the island it stands on when they tossed the Dutch out of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1624--and they lost the island in 1783 under the Treaty of Paris.
And the Cuban government in 1906 rented Guantanamo to the USA.
Your question smells like so much from Britain--we own everything.
Try getting out of Ireland.

The Cult of Spaghetti Cat

When England loans a Statue of Liberty to the state of New York, I will personally insist that the governor return the statue when he is done.

Until then.

mariodark

why have people kept answering this, youre all saying the same things lol..il try and be different... ya you should give it back to the uk!it was a gift from france, but give it to us anyway (londons getting boring lol)

themasterphantom

It was build by French a given to the American as like a gift, it was to sybolize the friendship n the support the American gave to Europe. The statue of liberty have nothing to do with England. It represent freedom n much more.

kuhnem

Because it came from France.

DLS

first of all, it belongs to the US, not just New York, and second, it was a gift from the French, not the English....

The Statue of Liberty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

* here is an article to read .... click on the line in blue letters just above here to open up the direct link with the page

xxx

Native New Yorker

My friend, I think you better get your facts straight, because you provably fell a sleep in history class. First of all, the Statue of Liberty was not loan to us. It was given to us as a gift.

Second, it was not the English who have given us the Statue of Liberty as a gift. It was the French. When the statue arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885 on board the French frigate IsÃ¨re, it was packed in 214 crates. It took more than a year for the entire statue to be build.

Good luck
Native New Yorker