By Kenneth Lipp
A recent visitor to Philly from upstate New York posted a review to TripAdvisor about her group’s tour of the Liberty Bell, saying her trip to the historic artifact (which she found generally unimpressive) was seriously marred by overzealous scolding from Park security. “Gina D”‘s review is pretty funny, if poor tidings for the visitor’s bureau. She wrote:
Our visit to the Liberty Bell was colored by the fact that we were very nearly assaulted when we tried to enter the building by several “security” people who screamed at us to “GET BACK” and “TWO AT A TIME” etc. There were exactly seven of us, and we were the ONLY people in the place, being the day before Thanksgiving. Apparently the Liberty Bell is a very high value target. I guess if it gets blown up we’ll all have to go back to England.
While trying to take a picture we were further scolded by a librarian-esque guard who told us to “keep our voices down.” Apparently the bell is disturbed by loud noises, which is maybe why it cracked in the first place.
At any rate, there are a ton of boring and repetitive displays that tell the “tale” of the Liberty Bell, which was very poorly made and so disastrously repaired it was pretty useless for anything but displaying in its very own, tax-payer funded building guarded by hordes of overzealous government employees. Such is the fate of “liberty” in this country, apparently.
The Philly Declaration 
I call it the Liberty Bell Prison. Designed with raw exposed steel beams, right after 9/11. When I was a kid we walked up to it and knocked.
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