SF *Freeping the French ~ Bastille Day* Sat. July 12th (Urgent)

French-American Chamber of Commerce ^ | 7/10/03 | Drango

[Drango]

Attention San Francisco FReepers, FREEP ON

The French and their enablers, 1,500 of them, will be having a party celebrating being frogs and Bastille Day. Two other FReepers and I have just decided to stage a FReep of the event! This Saturday night July 12th, 8:00pm, Regency Center, 1300 Van Ness at Sutter San Francisco . All are welcome to join us....info below and at this link

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Fundraising Dance Party
Rave'olution

The French-American Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with Bleu Blanc Rouge, the Alliance Française of San Francisco and French Consulate of San Francisco is pleased to announce...

Rave'olution
On July 12th at the Regency Center from 8pm to 1am.

[Drango]

Please ping all the San Francisco Freepers on any list you may have. Thanks.

[CaptRon]

Isn't Bastille Day July 14th?

[areafiftyone]

Wear gas masks the smell will be very bad!

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[JimVT]

The Bastille was a prison in France that the kings and queens often used to lock up the people that did not agree with their decisions. To many, it was a symbol of all the bad things done by the kings and queens. So, on July 14, 1789, a large number of French citizens gathered together and stormed the Bastille.

But..what the heck....it's SFO...they're always a day late and a foot short.

[Drango]

Isn't Bastille Day July 14th?

Yes, but you know the French...their event is the 12th.

[B-Chan]

Baise la Revolution! Vive le Roi!

[Drango]

Spread the word please ping....

[Southack]

Bastille Day is the most **conservative** of French holidays. It celebrates the sacrifices of their dead WW1 soldiers (in addition, of course, to the storming of the Bastille Prison that started the french Revolution).

Freeping Bastille Day would like FReeping the out-of-power American conservatives when Clinton was in office - over a Clintonian policy.

That being said, if you want to get their goat, it was Chirac who used his Bastille Day speech to chide former President Clinton about not already going to war against Serbia. That speech led to France and the U.S. going to war in Serbia without the UN, something that the French later claimed to have a problem with when Bush was doing the same thing vis-a-vis Iraq.

[Cachelot]

The French and their enablers, 1,500 of them, will be having a party celebrating being frogs and Bastille Day

Bastille Day used to be good. It used to be a day where a French building was hammered by artillery....

[Drango]

PING!

[gov_bean_ counter]

So, on July 14, 1789, a large number of French citizens gathered together and stormed the Bastille.

Which according to my college history prof was mostly empty and being protected by a handfull of drunk guards...

Well, I guess you gotta start somewhere.

[Drango]

It's wrong to be French ping!

[schaketo]

Dang it! Stuck on the East Coast. However, for those that can’t make it, you can send your sentiments to arrive on that wonderful day to:

French President Jacques Chirac
Monsieur Le President de la Republique
Palais de l'Elysee
55, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore
75008 Paris
FRANCE

Or:

http://www.info-france-usa.org/

Email: President of the Republic of France Jacques Chirac:
http://www.elysee.fr/ang/ecrire/mail.htm

Email: French Embassy:
http://www.info-france-usa.org/contactus.asp

If you would like to remind them of why we think they are such frog ba$tards, you might bring to their attention:

1. french President Jacques Chirac, personally helped Iraq begin its nuclear program.
2. france assisted China in shipping raw materials for chemical weapons to Iraq through Syria.
3. french security services helped suppress opposition groups seeking to depose Saddam Hussein.
4. The french had supplied Iraq with precision switches for nuclear weapons.
5. french companies had resupplied Iraq with spare parts for fighter jets on the eve of the March 2003 invasion. Intelligence reports indicated that Iraq was able to obtain French military spare parts for its Mirage jets and Gazelle attack helicopters in violation of U.N. sanctions.
6. The french helped Iraqi officials escape U.S. capture by issuing them EU passports. The passports allowed the Iraqis to evade detection by U.S. military and intelligence agencies because they were EU travel documents.
7. Intelligence officials said France attempted to conclude an oil deal with Saddam's government days before U.S. military action began March 19.
8. french anti-aircraft weapons smuggled into Iraq prior to the war, the Roland 3 batteries, and Roland 5 shoulder-fired anti-air missiles. Reports have still not been denied that these systems were stamped '2002 date of manufacture.' 9. The french peddled disinformation against the Americans before the war -- this is a war for oil, Resolution 1441 does not authorize military action, George Bush is "cowboy," etc. -- at the very least, they now deserve some of their own.

Those countries who stood against us before the Iraq War are responsible for EVERY life lost in Iraq -- whether the lives be coalition lives or Iraqi lives. france, more than any other country, is responsible for all the deaths of our warriors.

It was the best of times and the worst of times.

[DrewsDad]

It appears that there is an event in D.C. as well.

Maybe you can enlarge a picture of one of Saddam's atrocities(mass grave sites/gassed Kurds) with Chirac saying, "Let them eat cake"

[Drango]

*Bush*, it would be an honor for the SF Chapter to share a bi-costal FReep with the awesome DC chapter! It's rather last minuet notice, but what the heck, it's been a slow summer and I need a good FReep.

[DrewsDad]

I'm not from D.C. but noticed the event doing a quick google search. Here's a few pics from some FR threads:

LET THEN EAT CAKE

Poison Gas was used by Saddam in this Kurdish Village. Mothers with their dead children - guilty under Saddam of playing in Halabja [March 1988].

[SwinneySwitch]

Les batards!

[Norse]

Vive, L'Empereur, my friend.