Those French Bastards

The French national motto:  

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - or Death

Remember when France wouldn't sign on to invading Iraq back in 2003 and all the rednecks and Congress idiots were hurling insults and barbs, including the most immediately ridiculous act of changing the Congressional cafeteria French fries on the menu to Freedom fries?

I bet the same folks are cheering the French these days.

[Cannes] Mayor David Lisnard signed off on the ruling that “access to beaches and for swimming is banned to anyone who does not have [bathing apparel] which respects good customs and secularism,” which is a founding principle of the French republic.

“Beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation, when France and places of worship are currently the target of terrorist attacks, is liable to create risks of disrupting public order (crowds, scuffles etc) which it is necessary to prevent,” it says.

Thierry Migoule, head of municipal services for the town said: “We are not talking about banning the wearing of religious symbols on the beach ... but ostentatious clothing which refers to an allegiance to terrorist movements which are at war with us,.”

  Guardian

Okay, so you can't wear the IS flag?

Migoule said that no burqini had been seen on any beach in Cannes since the ruling was signed into force on July 28 by Lisnard, a member of the centre-right Les Republicains party.

Earlier this week a waterpark in nearby Marseille cancelled plans to host a private event for Muslim women wearing burqinis after they sparked outrage, including from politicians on both the right and left.

Oh. So why didn't you say so? It's Muslim clothing you can't wear to the beach. You can still wear your cross necklace.

And, anyway, if you're not banning religious symbols...but ostentatious clothing, I suspect the real issue here is they don't want fully clothed women messing up the landscape.  Too much of that is going to ruin tourism.

And speaking of remembering when Congress started serving Freedom fries, remember when people were publishing lists of terms that would get the FBI interested in your communications and asking people to put those terms into every email they sent in order to overwhelm the domestic spies?  Little did we know at the time that they were already collecting every single piece of communication we were putting out there, no matter how innocent, whether it had those key terms in it or not.  They were already overwhelmed.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 8/16/16