I WILL NEVER VISIT FRANCE AGAIN!

Public Enquiry Project ^ | 10/5/04 | Adrian Spidle

[AdrianSpidle]

This is very hard for me to say. My beloved Canadian Mom grew up speaking French as her first language. I studied French for three years in high school, read Proust, de St. Exupery and Baudelaire in French in College; and admired Voltaire, Rousseau, Gide, and other great French thinkers.

I’ve visited that lovely land three times and loved speaking that magnificent language while exploring its superb train system. Notre Dame, Versailles, the Louvre, the Musee D’Orse, the Pompidou Center, the Place de la Concord, etc are all incomparable. I thoroughly enjoyed riding the Bateau Mouche up and down the Seine and conversing in French with artists in a Left Bank Café. My family thoroughly enjoyed the ice cream at Berthillon on the Isle.

I loved a Tale of Two Cities and studied the life of Napoleon extensively. We’ve had perhaps a dozen young French exchange students live with my family. My wife and I actually knew more about French history than most of them. I once owned a Peugeot 505. I’ve been a lifelong and unabashed Francophile in the truest sense of the word.

I’ve decided, at the age of sixty, that while almost half of all French people are actually pretty nice, almost all of them hate America.

The betrayal Of Jacques Chirac in not supporting the War on Terror together with his sneaky arming of Saddam Hussein and the French larceny of the Oil for Food Program ARE THE LAST STRAW.

FRANCE IS OBVIOUSLY OUR ENEMY and though I may be half French; I’M ALL AMERICAN. Not only won’t I visit there, but I won’t buy anything made there. For my sixtieth birthday a week ago, I celebrated with a Massachusetts “Champaign” instead of my usual Perrier Jouet flower Bottle.

John Kerry claims he can get help from the French. In that claim he shows that he is either the worst of all liars or the dumbest of all politicians. KERRY AND FRANCE CAN GO TO HELL!

by Adrian Spidle

http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/10/i_will_never_vi.html

[Heff]

I will visit France again...when we have to go back in and defend them, most likely from a country the size of Brussels...the French are cowardly girlie men.

[Marine_Uncle]

Appreciate your statements. France is in for a bitter awakening as other EU countries are. Just the Islamic issue is going to haunt them for many years to come. As usual the world is quite a mess. People in the USA aught to start becoming better educated as just how good they still have it here. Of course that to a large degree is just a pipe dream.

[DJ Taylor]

Americans should only return to France if our reason for going there is to remove our fallen heroes from that tainted soil and inter them where they belong, here in the land of the free.