Posted by Christina on July 13, 2001 at 10:17:14:
Gnomedome --
one of my spies in the mountains of Northern Georgia, sent news of your Frankish brethren who have been liberated by this shadowy liberation organization. Perhaps you may want to lend your support...I hear you're a durned good shot...
French Gnomes Helped on Way to Spiritual Freedom
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - More than 70 garden gnomes were found on the steps of a cathedral in northeastern
France after an undercover operation by the shadowy Garden Gnome Liberation Front, a regional newspaper said on
Thursday.
The kitsch creatures had been abducted from their green, floral homes and assembled on the steps of the cathedral in the
town of Saint-Die, La Liberte de l'Est reported.
A banner of the Gnome Liberation Front, which aims to ''free'' gnomes and ``return them to the wild,'' was found at the
scene.
Local police who gathered the little statues declined to comment to journalists in an effort to contain what appeared to be a
spiraling of gnome abductions in the area.
This is the second covert operation by the Front in as many days. Motorists in eastern France were surprised to find more
than 100 gnomes, snow whites and other gaudy garden statues on a roundabout on Wednesday. Some were arranged to
spell out ''Free the Gnomes.''