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On the other hand
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 Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:07 am Post subject: Someone throws a shoe at the Chinese PM |
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MSNBC has this as a headline, no article as of yet...
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| BREAKING NEWS: Witnesses say shoe thrown at Chinese premier Wen Jiabao during U.K. visit |
Stay tuned. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: |
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From MSNBC...
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CAMBRIDGE, England - A protester threw a shoe toward Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao while he was speaking at Britain's Cambridge University on Monday.
The protester was sitting in the crowd and threw the shoe after standing and shouting: "How can you listen to this unchallenged?"
The shoe missed the leader by a large margin and he was unhurt.
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mises
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| I guess this shoe throwing thing is going to become a thing now. |
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it's full of stars
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| I think it's great, don't like a politician-hurl a shoe. Maybe the next one will do it with his eyes open. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| Who woulda thought shoe-throwing was contagious? |
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mises
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:22 am Post subject: |
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How long until college kids start wearing shirts with a pic of Che throwing a shoe on it.
Wait.. I bet there is money to be made in that little idea. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: |
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How long until college kids start wearing shirts with a pic of Che throwing a shoe on it.
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Which reminds me...
http://tinyurl.com/avgyzo
Funny how Che has been around as an iconic image since at least the early 70s, and yet people still talk about the image today, for or against, as if it were the most au courant thing happening. |
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mises
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess the obnoxiousness of it does not depreciate, even over decades. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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More details, from Yahoo...
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In a clear echo of the Iraqi journalist who threw his footwear at then US president George W. Bush in Baghdad in December, the Western-looking man shouted "This is a scandal" as he interrupted Wen from the back of the auditorium.
"This dictator here, how can you listen to the lies he's telling? You are not challenging him," he said before blowing a whistle and hurling the sports trainer at Wen, who had been discussing China's role in the globalised world.
The shoe landed about a yard from the Chinese premier, who glanced sharply to one side to watch it hit the stage, but did not appear frightened. A security man moved across and kicked the shoe off the stage.
As the protester was bundled out, he shouted to audience members: "Stand up and protest," to which some of the spectators -- most of whom appeared to be Chinese students -- retorted: "Shame on you, shame on you."
After the interruption, Wen reproached the demonstrator.
"This despicable behaviour cannot stand in the way of friendship between China and the UK," he said, receiving a round of applause from the audience.
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In Cambridge, police said the man -- who appeared to have a non-English, European accent -- had surrendered peacefully after the protest.
"He didn't resist at all. We ushered him out and he went peacefully," said one of the constables, or university police, who escorted the young man out of the hall.
A proctor -- an official responsible for university discipline -- added: "When he stood up and started making his protest, the proctors asked him to stop shouting and sit down.
"He continued, took off a shoe and then threw it towards the stage. The constables got to him and took him out. The shouting was legitimate protest but throwing a shoe is something different," the proctor told AFP.
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Juregen
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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We ushered him out and he went peacefully," said one of the constables, or university police, who escorted the young man out of the hall.
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I seem to have missed the part where he was beaten unconscious, arm broken, tortured and being held for trial. |
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Elric222
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Hahaa.. what size was it this time? |
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