But almost a century later, people were asking, "What have the French done for us LATELY?"

Enter the Statue of Liberty.

The genesis of "Lady Liberty" came at a dinner party in France hosted by Edouard Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a scholar and jurist, shortly after the end of the US Civil War.

Attending that evening was sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi

After quite a few bottles of fine French wine, Laboulaye noted there was "a genuine flow of sympathy" between France and America, and called the nations "the two sisters."

Typical drunk talk, in other words, from a typically pretentious Frenchman.

As he continued speaking, reflecting on the centennial of American independence only 11 years in the future, Laboulaye commented, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if people in France gave the United States a great monument as a lasting memorial to independence and thereby showed that the French government was also dedicated to the idea of human liberty?"

Bartholdi replied, "I will try to glorify the Republic and Liberty over there, in the hope that someday I will find it again here."

After visiting the U.S., the idea of the Statue of Liberty came to fruition.

And now, just over a century later, we Americans are again asking, "What have the French done for us LATELY?"

Not much, apparently.

So to hell with their fries, their toast, and their overpriced wine!

And to hell with that lousy statue they foisted on us over a century ago!

I say, "Tear it down and ship it back!" to those pathetic 'surrender monkeys'. Return it C.O.D. to boot, just to show 'em who's in charge.

Or, we could simplify things: Just remove any security around the Statue. Maybe some forward-thinking foreign malcontent-types will see an opening, and blow the damn thing up in an act of terrorism.

Sadly, in the present climate, they wouldn't even be considered "Terrorists".

In the eyes of the American people, they'd be "Heroes".

For sticking it to those no-good French.

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