Saturday, January 03, 2009

Enough With the Shoes, Already!


Shoes
Originally uploaded by Foto71
Reuters on anti-Israel protests around the world:

In many cities people waved shoes - recalling the action of an Iraqi journalist who hurled footwear at US President George W Bush in Baghdad last month in a symbolic insult.

British demonstrators threw dozens of shoes into the street as they passed the gated entrance to Downing Street, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown lives, and shouted angrily at a line of 40 police officers on guard there.

"Come to get your shoes Gordon," one woman shouted as other marchers directed chants of "Shame on you" at Mr Brown.


I am not the first person, and won't be the last, to note the discomfiting resemblance between this and this.