Goddammit! This is just too much!

I say we dismantle the Statue of Liberty and ship it back!

Let's put up a huge statue of a person selling fries in a fast-food joint.
THAT's a better representation of what the huddled masses have in store for
them by coming to America.

Deb.

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In article , Mr. F. Le Mur
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1379536,00.html
>
> France outlaws sexist and anti-gay insults
>
> Legislation is aimed at curbing rising homophobia, but civil
> liberty groups say threats of imprisonment and heavy fines
> go too far
>
> Jon Henley in Paris
> Friday December 24, 2004
> The Guardian
>
> The French parliament yesterday definitively adopted
> legislation that could lead to year-long jail terms for
> anyone found guilty of insulting homosexuals or women.
>
> The justice minister, Dominique Perben, believes the laws
> are necessary to combat an increase in homophobia[sic],
> but they have been condemned by advocates of free speech
> who say they are too strict and unworkable.
>
> The law puts anti-gay and sexist comments on an equal
> footing with racist or anti-semitic insults, allowing
> French courts to hand down fines of up to €45,000 (£30,000)
> and jail sentences of up to 12 months for "defamation or
> incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence on the
> grounds of a person's sex or sexual orientation".
>
> Proferring an anti-gay insult, including any remark "of a
> more general nature tending to denigrate homosexuals as a
> whole", in public - meaning on air, in print or at a public
> meeting - is also an imprisonable offence, while private
> sexist or homophobic taunts between individuals could incur
> fines of up to €375.
>
> ...more at URL above...
>


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