France Demands America: ‘Give Us Back
the Statue of Liberty!’
PJ Media,
by
Scott Pinsker
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
3/17/2025 10:32:42 AM
Sacré bleu! Talk about a Napoleon complex.
Some stories don’t require a lengthy set-up. They speak for themselves (and today, they’re parlez-vous-ing exclusively in French):
France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French Euro-deputy said Sunday.
"Give us back the Statue of Liberty", centre-left politician Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique centre-left movement.
"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" he told cheering supporters.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
FJB 3/17/2025 10:35:45 AM (No. 1915899)
Mais oui keep it?
11 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 3/17/2025 10:40:31 AM (No. 1915903)
Keep the statue... rip that stupid plaque off of it that was added in 1903.
No nation can take on the world's poor and huddled masses without succumbing to the very things that made those masses exist in the first place.
The plaque is an ode to enabling on a planetary scale.
27 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Historybuff 3/17/2025 10:41:46 AM (No. 1915904)
Send him a picture of the headstones of Americans in Normandy.
And tell him to go to he --
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 3/17/2025 10:45:00 AM (No. 1915905)
Molon labe....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 3/17/2025 10:50:04 AM (No. 1915908)
We shoulda let the Kaiser win. Filthy, cheese eating hypocrites. Makes me want to root for their moslem invaders.
12 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
texaspast 3/17/2025 10:51:49 AM (No. 1915909)
As #3 said, send a picture of those grave markers with the notation 'we have paid for it. You have the freedom to say such stupid carp in French (rather than German) because our young men paid the price - TWICE - to keep France free.'
40 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 3/17/2025 10:53:23 AM (No. 1915910)
Come and take it!
26 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
DougTN 3/17/2025 10:53:47 AM (No. 1915911)
Another day another French whine.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 3/17/2025 10:55:13 AM (No. 1915912)
Says the French who are rapidly losing Paris to Muslims. They need to worry about that I should think.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Californian 3/17/2025 11:01:06 AM (No. 1915917)
Just some random French being French. There is no news here. They've always hated us. Don't care.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
franco 3/17/2025 11:02:42 AM (No. 1915918)
No problem. You can have it in exchange for the Eiffel Tower, which was built by Americans. Stuff it, France!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
privateer 3/17/2025 11:04:24 AM (No. 1915919)
Only if you agree to repay us the hundreds of billions we spent to ensure that you could continue to speak French well, not German poorly.
25 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Quigley 3/17/2025 11:04:26 AM (No. 1915920)
As usual, left-wing politicians, never take care of their citizens. They are always involved in some obfuscation. Trying to change the subject from their poor performance to something idiotic.
11 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/17/2025 11:17:15 AM (No. 1915923)
Fool. I'm of a mind to give it back, and then the US can build their own symbol to freedom and liberty. Btw, the person demanding the statue back doesn't represent freedom or liberty. Just look at France today.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/17/2025 11:19:30 AM (No. 1915926)
They'll give up.
6 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 3/17/2025 11:25:05 AM (No. 1915936)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha....the Frenchies never fail to amuse me...lets rename french fries again..seems like we did that awhile back..call them 'freedom fries'...because the frenchies would be speaking German without us...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
franco 3/17/2025 11:43:25 AM (No. 1915956)
Monsieur Glucksmann would do well to recall a bit of histoire concerning Charles De Gaulle: In 1966, De Gaulle pulled France *out* of NATO -- which was based in Paris at the time -- thus causing its move to Brussels. In a press conference that occurred after France became an "independent" player on the world stage, De Gaulle said that France's land-based nuclear arsenal, called the Force de Frappe, could be just as easily pointed to the west, if necessary, as it was pointed to the east. American veterans who helped liberate France were outraged. De Gaulle didn't care. Guess how much Americans today care what France thinks, Monsieur Glucksmann?
10 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 3/17/2025 11:51:00 AM (No. 1915962)
Eau Contraire! It's the French and other Europeans who no longer represent the values for which the statue was presented. Their problem is that after 4 years of oppressive socialist government domination, the US is moving back toward individual liberty, and our "betters" on The Continent can't have that.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 3/17/2025 12:01:14 PM (No. 1915969)
Give it back and put up a statue to true freedom lovers - Ronaldus Magnus and PDJT.
7 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/17/2025 12:03:29 PM (No. 1915974)
Sure. Then replace it with a giant statue of Trump replicating his "Fight. Fight. Fight!" pose after he was shot.
6 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
kono 3/17/2025 12:26:58 PM (No. 1916004)
"France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue"
So, what? France renounced those values a long time ago. Ditto to #s 2 and 3 here.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/17/2025 12:29:04 PM (No. 1916006)
Knowing the French, they would demand that the US taxpayer pay for the dismantling and shipment to France.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
broken01 3/17/2025 12:53:34 PM (No. 1916036)
What #3 and #6 said!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Buzzman 3/17/2025 12:54:34 PM (No. 1916037)
Will do. Then we're going to give you back to Germany.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/17/2025 1:37:02 PM (No. 1916067)
Sorry. We blew it up in Planet of the Apes
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/17/2025 1:56:24 PM (No. 1916084)
France gave us the statue in honor of Freedom. Now they want to take it back while they are wallowing in self-imposed tyranny.
They don't deserve it back.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/17/2025 1:58:02 PM (No. 1916086)
I agree with reply #2: Remove the plaque. In fact send that to the French.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
upstater 3/17/2025 2:57:23 PM (No. 1916137)
Truth is they’ll scrap it for the copper, they need the cash.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
franco 3/17/2025 3:16:04 PM (No. 1916148)
One more swipe at Monsieur Glucksmann: The only Americans I recall who were fired for demanding scientific freedom were physicians and others who demanded the freedom to decline being administered mRNA shots after FJB signed an EO *mandating* it. Anybody know who the hell this jerk is referring to?
Credit where it's due: A *French* medical doctor -- Dr. Raoult -- was among the first to discover and publish peer-reviewed articles (in early 2020) showing that hyroxychloriquine was effective against Covid. His reward for such ground-breaking scientific work benefitting humanity was to be muzzled by the French government after it made a deal with big pharma to mandate the mRNA shots in France. So much for scientific integrity on the part of French politicians!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
deauxrite 3/17/2025 3:57:27 PM (No. 1916168)
As some good people in Texas said long ago…”Come and take it”.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/17/2025 4:07:18 PM (No. 1916172)
I'm with posters 7 & 30. I'll add, I'd like to see them try to come and take it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
JackBurton 3/17/2025 4:31:18 PM (No. 1916186)
Which values would those be?
Liberte, egalite, et Guillotine?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/17/2025 5:13:17 PM (No. 1916220)
Well if it were not for the UK and the USA the French would be speaking German today'
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JackWriter123 3/17/2025 7:19:42 PM (No. 1916289)
Hey Frenchy, I think Germany should demand back the control of France which the United States, Britain and Canada put an end to, starting on D-Day 1944.
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