{"article":{"id":34917,"heading":"THANK FRANCE.. ...**SAY IT WITH FLOWERS***","author":"K","created":"2003-03-11 23:07:00","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:00","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:49:00","article":"<br>  <br> .....................THANK FRANCE.......................  <br>  <br> . <br><br>  <br>  <br> Taking or sending flowers to the French Consulate is an effective way to say MERCI. It will be seen  <br>  <br> by the entire staff for days; Thank our  <br>  <br> oldest ally.  <br>  <br> .  <br><br> .  <br>  <br> (if they&rsquo;re closed, just leave them at the door for everyone to see)  <br>  <br> .  <br>  <br> .  <br>  <br> CONSULATE OF FRANCE IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA <br>  <br> 10990 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300 <br>  <br> Los Angeles, CA 90024 <br>  <br> Tel : (310) 235-3200 <br>  <br> Fax : (310) 312-0704 <br><br> .  <br>  <br> .  <br>  <br> ..................SAY IT WITH FLOWERS.....................***** <br>  <br> .  <br>  <br> . <br><br> \n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"THANK FRANCE.....SAY IT WITH FLOWERS Taking or sending flowers to the French Consulate is a nice way to thank FRANCE, our oldest ally. \r\n.","numcomment":22,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/34917.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":34951,"heading":"Yes Thank France","article":"I think we should thank France by leaving them alone(totally)\r\nThe next time they need our help let us do for them what thaey are doing for us.\r\nWe should have let the Germans kick the shit out of them.\r\nMaybe next time.\r\nI can not believe  some of the people in this country, they have forgotten everything and their brain has gone to mush.\r\nI believe France and Iraq have open borders, I think you should go.","author":"Jeff","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 02:47:38","modified":"2003-03-12 02:47:38","fileurl":""},{"id":34954,"heading":"The enemy is here.","article":"Why go anywhere when I can disassemble some\r\nbrownshirts right here?  Waiting for an excuse\r\nto vent some physical stress on the first dickweed\r\nwho tries to interfere with my constitutional rights\r\nto voice my opposition to the scum occupying the \r\nwhite house.\r\nOh PLEASE let it be someone like you.\r\nHave a nice day.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 02:59:45","modified":"2003-03-12 02:59:45","fileurl":""},{"id":34961,"heading":"French links with Saddam","article":"See this SHORT piece form the BBC about the real reason for Chirac's so-called principled stance.  \r\n\r\nThey've been selling stuff to Iraq all the time and a lot of money to lose when Saddam loses power.\r\n\r\nSo wake up, you silly persons.\r\n\r\nRussia also has a lot of money to lose after the war. ","author":"Barney","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 03:23:09","modified":"2003-03-12 03:23:09","fileurl":""},{"id":34965,"heading":"Oops, sorry.  This piece.","article":"Chirac is a rotten fraud.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/2721963.stm","author":"Barney","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 03:36:11","modified":"2003-03-12 03:36:11","fileurl":""},{"id":34966,"heading":"This piece","article":"Why Chircac is a fraud.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/2721963.stm","author":"Barney","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 03:37:29","modified":"2003-03-12 03:37:29","fileurl":""},{"id":34977,"heading":"SA","article":"Actually not only has France been supplying Iraq with arms but so has America (at least 20 American countries were listed on the UN list), along with Germany and Japan...\r\nYes France have some sort of agreement with Iraq it seems with TotalFinaElf but I think their main concern is to prevent the spread of American Hegemony,\r\nI do not want to persuade anyone but only to inform.\r\n\r\nSee: http:\/\/globalresearch.ca\/articles\/SAN303A.html\r\n\r\nGet informed and not through watching CNN or BBC!\r\n\r\n","author":"Sonia","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 05:04:17","modified":"2003-03-12 05:04:17","fileurl":""},{"id":34983,"heading":"Not a bad thing","article":"I don't think US hegemony is really such a bad thing.  Better than being trampled by the likes of Saddam.","author":"Barney","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 05:36:56","modified":"2003-03-12 05:36:56","fileurl":""},{"id":34989,"heading":"No right, whatsoever","article":"I was going to go into tirade about the pea-brains who think the choice for the future is either US hegemony or being trammpled by Saddam, but instead,\r\nhow 'bout this:\r\n\r\nIf you're for this war, then enlist\r\nor send your son\r\nor grandson\r\n\r\nand if you're not willing (or able) to do this, then\r\nshut up- you have no right to urging on this war.\r\nno right whatsoever.\r\nand I don't care if you fought in World War I and World War II and Korea, and Vietnam\r\nIf you're not fighting in THIS war, then you have no right to be arguing for it. \r\nperiod.","author":"Jack Delaney","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 05:52:11","modified":"2003-03-12 05:52:11","fileurl":""},{"id":35005,"heading":"Freedom?","article":"Just because I'm a non combatant you think I'm not entitled to speak out if I see an injustice being commited.\r\n\r\nYou anti-war people are doing an injustice to the people of Iraq who face at least another 10-15 years of brutal repression, living in fear day and night.\r\nUN sanctions have killed over 1.000.000 people over there.  Saddam has murdered millions more of his countrymen in futile wars and acts of repression.\r\n\r\nWho gives you the right to speak for the silenced millions in Iraq?  I'm sure their hearts are sinking at the sight of thousands of protesters out in the streets trying to stop their liberation.\r\n\r\nYou have no right to speak on their behalf.\r\n\r\nRead this SHORT article below.","author":"Barney","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 07:07:46","modified":"2003-03-12 07:07:46","fileurl":""},{"id":35038,"heading":"Kriest!","article":"Like we were concerned about human rights when we installed this guy.  Get real, suddenly we care about the poor suffering people now?  This is very tired SPAM used to justify mass slaughter to SAVE these folk?  We'll kill them\r\nto liberate them?  Pure newspeak.  I haven't seen the U.S.\r\nEVER install a just and decent leader.  Give  me one example\r\nand MAYBE this would hold water.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 14:32:53","modified":"2003-03-12 14:32:53","fileurl":""},{"id":35040,"heading":"Sheepshit","article":">I haven't seen the U.S. EVER install a just and decent leader. Give me one example and MAYBE this would hold water.\r\n\r\nName any country that has a &quot;just and decent leader&quot;?  That's pretty subjective.  I guarantee I can find flaws in anyone, including you, ESPECIALLY you.\r\n\r\nDon't become the Don Quixote of LA.  The uniform sux and I WILL make you wear it.\r\n","author":"boink","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 15:24:31","modified":"2003-03-12 15:24:31","fileurl":""},{"id":35041,"heading":"Nonsense","article":"I am dog.  I have no known faults. Some times I leave out a letter or misspell some word just to make you feel better.\r\nCan't come up with even one example huh?","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 15:29:02","modified":"2003-03-12 15:29:02","fileurl":""},{"id":35120,"heading":"Hey Sheepdog","article":"The Kurds in N Iraq are doing fine.  As for the other people the US has backed, don't they have bear 100% of the blame for the havoc they wresked on thier people.\r\nSheesh, the US can't be everywhere.","author":"Barney","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-12 22:11:05","modified":"2003-03-12 22:11:05","fileurl":""},{"id":35152,"heading":"Reply to Bush admirer","article":"Very true, on at least one point.  The past government was shit.\r\nAs for the French, they have dissliked Americans for a long time.  Sure the country is beautiful, but how else do we get their attention? I think we should let them know exactly how much  money and business we send their way. (by cutting it off)\r\nI believe it is about time we take America back.  We need to know exactly who our friends are. I realize that our government has to be diplomatic, but I do not.\r\nBoycott France!\r\n\r\n","author":"Jeff","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-13 02:23:14","modified":"2003-03-13 02:23:14","fileurl":""},{"id":35162,"heading":"Boycott the Earth!!!","article":"Jeez, it's getting more and more embarressing to be an American.\r\nWhy France,\r\nhey, if you're going to boycott every country that thinks this administration is stupid, reckless, and immoral, don't limit yourself to France\r\nBoycott the Chinese \r\n(just stop buying just about everything)\r\nBoycott the Germans\r\nBoycott the Russians\r\n\r\nAnd if you take public sentiment in account:\r\n\r\nThen just boycott EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY ON EARTH. Because, there's not ONE country on earth that supports us (except, Israel, of course, ha ha)","author":"Earth:&quot;Love It or leave it&quot;","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-13 03:05:51","modified":"2003-03-13 03:05:51","fileurl":""},{"id":35164,"heading":"Don't forget about America","article":"Gotta boycott us too.\r\n\r\nBasically, everyone will need to boycott everyone except bush, his mafia, the press that perpetuates their bullshit, and these asshole rabid talkshow dickheads.\r\n\r\nWho needs food and shelter anyways, we can survive just fine off hotair and beurocracy.","author":"Pissed Off in Ohio","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-13 03:28:10","modified":"2003-03-13 03:28:10","fileurl":""},{"id":35165,"heading":"boink","article":"Your point about no one being perfect is only valid if all these other flawed leaders had a &quot;foriegn policy&quot; as judgemental and stilted towards violence as the &quot;best solution&quot;.\r\n\r\nWe impose our violent, rabid idiocy on the rest of the world, or dubya does anyways, and in that regard our flaws have far exceeded everyone elses.","author":"Pissed Off in Ohio","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-13 03:39:29","modified":"2003-03-13 03:39:29","fileurl":""},{"id":35510,"heading":"have some freedom fries","article":" \r\n\r\n<p><img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/uploads\/freedom_fries.jpg&quot; width=&quot;561&quot; height=&quot;392&quot;><\/p>\r\n\r\n \r\n","author":"ketchup is a vegetable","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2003-03-14 07:59:41","modified":"2003-03-14 07:59:41","fileurl":""},{"id":52031,"heading":"I'm french and then ?","article":"First, I'm french... My english is not so good, but I'm gonna make some efforts to write in your language.\r\n\r\nHere's my profile :\r\n\r\n- I hate 15% of french people who voted for a nazi b*stard last year.\r\n\r\n- I don't want to think an individual is formated according to the country he live in. Many french men and women are bloody stupid and so is a part of american people. If you think someone is a crap  because he's american, french, iraqi, muslim, christian or jew, then you're just a f*ckin' facist.\r\n\r\n- Some want to punish french people boycotting french products. I personally boycott McDonald's, Esso, Nike, Danone... not because they're french or american, but just because I won't give a buck to leading companies that wish to rule the world. Boycott's not a problem to me, so do it, but chose products to boycott. I'll personally keep promoting Rage Against The Machine, AdBusters magazine and Fight Club the movie ;)\r\n\r\n- A lot of you and us are sheeps. You are not your government, not a Pepsi\u2019s leader... G.W. Bush and J.Chirac aren\u2019t gods. They can declare war, but will never fight near the frontline, so they don\u2019t care about guilty or innocent dead people killed \u2018cause of their decisions.\r\n\r\n-  It made me sick to see twin towers collapsed. It made me sick to see iraqi children died \u2018cause of adults\u2019 games. It made me sick to see pictures of my grand father coming back from a concentration camp. It makes me sick to see people suffering \u2018cause the \u00e9lite turns out political status to their own advantage .\r\n\r\nThis is what I am not \u2018cause I\u2019m french but because I\u2019m who I am : an individual from the human beings.\r\n","author":"Phil","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-04-21 14:28:30","modified":"2013-11-10 23:53:26","fileurl":""},{"id":52280,"heading":"Ridiculous","article":"I think that people getting so angry at the people from another country because they excercised their freedom of choice is ridiculous.\r\nAmerica has reasons to be grateful of France as well. Didn't  the founding fathers spend a lot of time in France before creating the Consitution?What about the stutue of Liberty?\r\nWhy should they support a war that they didn't think necessary? It still hasn't been proved that it was necessary to go to war.\r\nI say Vive la France! Vive La Difference!","author":"Jane","parent_id":34917,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-04-22 15:35:29","modified":"2003-04-22 15:35:29","fileurl":""}]}