I think that this is a joke, but you can never be too sure these days - a small but vocal number of Americans seem to have gone insane recently.
Via Pensieri di un minore lunatic.
Posted to Funny by Simon Brunning at March 19, 2003 04:56 PMThe French have a scaled-down replica of the statue - it can be found by the Seine in central Paris, as far as I remember.
Posted by: Paul Boddie on March 19, 2003 05:50 PM