[Attillathehon]

May I suggest you dump tinted water as a "symbolic" gesture against the purchase of French products. To actually buy the wine, defeats your purpose.

[Young Americans for Freedom]

Many have noted that it is self-defeating to buy wine for dumping.

However, buying wine will not help the French, unless we import it from France. American retailers have already purchased French wine, and the French have already been paid. The wine cannot be returned.

Initially a boycott will hurt only the American retailer because the retailer will be stuck with unsellable wine. If we buy the wine on sale (probably at cost), the American merchange can recover some of the cost.

It is then up to the merchant NOT to order more wine to replenish its stock. French companies will begin to feel the sting when in the coming weeks and months, American stores do not purchase more wine.

Chad Morgan
Cal-YAF Chair